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Draper, Ut, Us

Hyde Park, Utah, Us

• Project manager implemented secretary of state enterprise platform for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.• The Commonwealth’s project went live on 10/24/22, 13 months after it had started. This is the fastest implementation of its kind in Tecuity’s history and the initial quality has surpassed any previous Tecuity projects.• Main point of contact for clients.• Managed a team of remote developers, business analysts, QA engineers, and third party vendors.• Created and implemented a mixed methodology of agile and waterfall.• Acted as administrator for the project in Azure DevOps.• Aided PMO in the development and implementation of industry standard agile practices and process efficiencies. • Managed budget, scope, and resources for the project.• Created and maintain a project plan using MS Project for client visibility.• Created weekly status reports and conducted weekly status meetings for high level state government employees.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

• Scrum Master assigned to run two SAFe agile development teams.• Managed and service remote teams worldwide.• Built a more efficient and methodologically correct agile process upon being hired.• Acted as the primary Azure Devops (ADO) admin for my teams.• Facilitate and service teams through all agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog grooming, scrum of scrums, stand up meetings, and retrospectives).• Facilitated and service teams through the process of program increment planning.• Worked with multiple teams whenever upstream bugs are identified and need to be fixed for the reporting team to complete their sprint deliverables.• Created and maintain reports by querying ADO.• Responsible for getting various access needs for new additions to my teams.• Created and maintained development progress dashboards for executive management.• Reported on sprint status every two weeks to management. This includes statuses of team metrics, PI objectives, and resource allocation.

Newark, Nj, Us

• Managed product development projects for StayWell’s high profile clients• Acted as scrum master for up to four agile development teams at a time.• Produced, organized, and analyzed key team metrics such as velocity, rejection rates, introduction of bugs into code, etc. so the teams were aware of what needs to be focused on and so we could discuss ways in which we can improve.• Created and maintained agile team dashboards so the team can see their metrics at a glance.• Acted as facilitator and participant in several PI planning sessions related to Scaled Agile Framework.• Set up, enabled, and serviced scrum teams which were entirely remote across all time zones, including team members in Bulgaria and South America.• Facilitated and serviced teams through all agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog grooming, scrum of scrums, stand up meetings, and retrospectives).• Enabled and facilitated team introspection resulting in improvement and enabling team maturity.• Set up Jira instance for entire technology organization from scratch including workflows, issue types, screen schemes, etc.• Acted as primary Jira administrator for the company.• Prior to moving to Jira, setup Rally instance for entire tech organization and acted as primary administrator. • Proficient in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) forms of agile development.• Enabled and serviced teams of developers, quality assurance specialists, and tech ops team members through the lifecycle of web development projects• Created and enabled the implementation of a process which resulted in doubling the throughput on projects for StayWell’s largest client at the time• Responsible for managing schedule, budget, and resource allocation for high profile projects• Created and managed “go to market” project plans for new products• Interfaced with product managers, upper management, and clients regarding project statuses.• Wrote User Stories and other requirement documentation.

Riverwoods, Il, Us

Wrote Business Product Specification and Use Case documents.Created and oversaw implementation and risk management plans.Prepared and Maintained Project SchedulesWorked with and motivated many different types of personalities from all aspects of system development (distributed system programmers, mainframe programmers, business sponsors, business customers).Created, maintained, and presented project status reports.Managed small, medium, and large-scale projects throughout the software development lifecycle.

Used MS Project to develop project plans for large, Java based software releases.Tracked and reported progress of over 40 software engineers.Created Use Case documentation process for developers.Wrote Requests for Proposals for potential clients.Worked with Product Management in selecting feature sets for software releases.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Information Technology

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics