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St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• Senior most Agile Consultant assigned to Affinity Solutions Technology. Responsible for coaching delivery teams in applying Agile values, principles, practices, tools and techniques. Providing actionable feedback to.
• Piloted Quarterly Big Room Planning for Affinity Solutions Technology (AST), aligning product teams with stakeholders to define priorities. This enhanced collaboration between stakeholders, teams and their customers..
• Implemented JIRA dashboards to track team metrics, increasing visibility of team progress. This helped teams and leadership make data-driven decisions and improve customer satisfaction through better planning.
• Coached Product Leadership to implement JIRA Data Standards, streamlining work structure and reporting. This led to a shared understanding of task breakdowns and eliminated reliance on Excel, allowing for real-time.
• Revamped the team quarterly employee health survey, shifting from outdated methods to a digitalized process with targeted questions. This improved engagement to 92%, fostering better leadership and team behaviors.
• Introduced the use of product roadmaps to leadership, improving prioritization and alignment with company goals. This created actionable backlogs for teams, helping them align on shared objectives, and provided.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Senior Manager / Senior Product Owner of a business execution team responsible for overseeing and delivering product management and agility best practice integration solutions on several significant initiatives within Consumer Lending to 1,200 software delivery teams.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Served and coached multiple teams comprised of onshore and offshore, cross-functional members, for applications whose goal was to provide support to the Correspondent and Capital Markets business models and their defined workflows.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Facilitated all Scrum events, provided recommendations on process improvement, promoted Agile principles and values, and generated metrics for teams. Guided teams through the entire Scrum development life cycle and coached them on managing risks, issues, solving impediments, and developing mitigation strategies and plans. Served as a liaison between the.

Led business initiatives for several large-scale change management programs inside Home Lending. Selected to be one of the first group of Scrum master’s within the Home Lending Customer Excellence business line during the company’s early transformation from Waterfall to Agile. Led business initiatives for several large-scale change management programs.

West Des Moines, Iowa

Led business process analysis for large-scale, strategic programs aimed at implementing enterprise changes to processes, operating models, and technology systems within the Home Lending Customer Excellence Business Architecture unit.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Product Owner for a third-party portfolio of applications in the Information Technology Department. Specifically related to the companies primary third-party vendor transportation software. Directly supervised a team of eight analysts and consultants, managing their daily tasks related to production support, customer integration, and software conversion.

West Des Moines, IA

Collaborated with two other analysts for 18 months inside of the PMO office on a project involving Wells Fargo's Home Lending primary e-commerce site for brokers & correspondents. During the project, acted as a liaison between business and technical groups by performing an analysis of complex business problems to resolve outdated system problems. Captured.

Cokato, MN

Managed and led the construction of a new website (www.Evoctech.com) for the company's main product. Managed the vendor selection process and represented stakeholders in evaluation and the selection of a technology vendor. Led the project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope were met to achieve project deliverables. Collaborated.

Eden Prairie

Daily servicing and growing client relationships including client vendor management, acted as a daily communications liaison and facilitator between business and technology groups on multiple high profile projects. Proactively facilitated solutions design/problem solving sessions between groups on client projects. Actively negotiated and collaborated with.

Eagan, MN

Acted as the contact liaison between my company and the federal government. Managed a high volume of incoming client and driver calls. Created PowerPoint presentations and project updates for management review. Provided customer service and support for client and management needs. Daily use of strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills..

Bachelor'S Degree, Criminal Justice

Business Analysis Associate Certificate