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St. Augustine, Fl, Us

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Coached two scrum teams to excellence for highly visible Agent Portal and Load Management initiatives. Team Improvement Highlights:-Vice President of Agile Delivery described team Sprint Review as best she had seen at Landstar and that it had become the model for the company.-Team confidence vote for PI Quarterly Plan was the highest in company's history (4.8).-In 3 months, Team Backlog went from 0 stories ready to +3 sprints worth of stories ready.-Led improvements in the new technical feature intake process.-Teams gained reputation for transparency (coached one team to be transparent in its PI confidence vote despite social pressure not to. Team was the only one to have a below confidence vote and were praised by company leaders for their example).-Coached team on Sprint Planning improvements. During my tenure, team decreased time of planning from 4 hours to under 45 minutes.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Led creation of two new development teams (5-6 team members: QA & Devs) for a new scaling framework ('Tribes' & based upon the Spotify model) for company's highly visible new hiring manager cloud-based application. Tribe was considered the “poster child” for all other development teams. In the CTO's words: “We leave you guys alone because you are doing just fine.” Led all team events and taught and maintained scrum/agile methodology. Was the face and voice for the company's client-facing sprint reviews, facilitating discussion for all company dev team progress and a remote audience of over 200 attendees.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Scrum Master for company's highly visible enrollment application scrum team.Highlights:- Team was considered the bar for other agile teams by business and IT leaders and Agile coaches.- Team velocity increased 300% after my coming on as scrum master.- Taught Agile principles and concepts from the team to domain level.- Cultivated a reputation with leadership, teammates, and peers as trustworthy, transparent, organized, quick to address issues and potential problems, work with others to create solutions, and willingness to help others become better.

This is a temporary job to support my family while searching for a new job opportunity. Provided customer service for nationally-known historic site that receives over 250,000 visitors annually. Gained salesmanship skills and encouraged other employees to continuously improve themselves and their work environment. Extracurricular actives while working at the Lighthouse:Staffed library and coordinated grant application as a volunteer at Sebastian Middle School, brokered a relationship between the North Florida Agile Alliance and Jacksonville Lean Consortium, studied and blogged about project management, and prepared for CompTIA IT Fundamentals exam.

Zurich, Zurich, Ch

Using Kanban, orchestrated a 1 million dollar, highly-visible and mission-critical internet upgrade project for 450 recruitment offices in Canada and United States for a €22 billion company that is the world's largest provider of HR solutions. This successful project was on time and on budget and increased total bandwidth from 1.3 Gbps to 11 Gbps and saves the company over $2 million dollars annually. #1 customer feedback was the project was excellently communicated and exceptionally organized. Collaborated with a team of nine consisting of high-caliber vendors (Bullseye, AT&T, Rogers, HCL) and international partnerships (India and Canada). This was the department's first Agile project (Kanban) and was described by leadership and team members as 'ingenious' and 'innovative'.The project was featured on the W. Edwards Deming Institute: “Implementing Change Using Kanban” in 2016.Taught Kanban to other project managers.Coordinated monthly social gatherings for department project managers in order to build trust, camaraderie, and to share ideas.

Juno Beach, Fl, Us

Using Scrum, led patch roll-outs with an internationally recognized EHR company for two nation-wide software applications for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs: a claims processing systems program with an annual budget of 3 million dollars and a chemotherapy dosage calculator with an annual budget of half million dollars. Teams ranged in size from 10-12 people in various time zones throughout the U.S. Led Agile project composed of Scrummasters to create innovative text-based paging system to prove value of Agile methodology to leadership and management.Taught Agile and Lean concepts to other Scrummasters and team members.Introduced Kanban to team suffering from low productivity. New methodology increased productivity, improved morale, and increased team awareness.Note about job:Commuted weekly to gain more Agile and project management experience while family stayed in St. Augustine.

Worked at Lighthouse in order to support family while I searched for a new career opportunity. Conducted group tours of up to 50 or more people and performed guest services.Extracurricular actives while working at the Lighthouse:Completed PMP certification, volunteered at Flagler Hospital supply room, and enjoyed being the primary caretaker for my elementary school aged daughters.

Orlando, Fl, Us

Formalized start-up company’s first video game deployment for iPhone mainly on 'sweat equity' while searching for new job opportunity. Clarified core gameplay, produced game's budget, recruited artists, and introduced game testing.

Orlando, Fl, Us

Launched three 1 million dollar video games for Fortune 500 clients (LucasArts and Activision) with cross functional teams of 10-12 people in a high-paced environment with strict 11 month timelines that netted over 9 million dollars in revenue.

Achieved completion of video game at UCF's digital Master's program with a cross-functional team of 34 members in seven months. Completed five consecutive mini-games on two week timelines with teams of 3-4. Four of these games were included in the Academy's hall of fame (second most of all students).

Orlando, Florida, Us

Spearheaded innovative educational program for nationally-awarded museum in partnership with the Orange County Schools.

Tallahassee, Fl, Us

Accomplished successful projects for Department of State's premier history museum. Raised over $100,000 in grants. Increased educational programming by 200%. Resurrected museum outreach program to under-served schools. Created partnerships with school districts in five counties.

Ms, Interactive Entertainment

B.S., History