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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 teams and product leadership for improving and developing their skills in Agile practices and team dynamics. Driving teams to higher levels of proficiency and maturity with adopting Agile methods. •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. It also improved team efficiency in meeting quarterly goals.•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Excel, allowing for real-time tracking and reporting.•Revamped the team quarterly employee health survey, shifting from outdated methods to a digitalized process with targeted questions.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 stakeholders with a transparent view of the product strategy.

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 business client and technology organizations to plan and facilitate software projects solving complex business problems.

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 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.

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 projects. Acted as a liaison between the business and technology representing the team in senior leadership meetings. Partnered with business leadership to develop strategic roadmaps and advocate for IT value through a process for tracking projected cost/benefit analysis. Unfortunately, my position was eliminated due to budget cuts and a department reorganization.

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 and documented requirements in interviews with stakeholders. Assisted in the change request process to update the Business Requirements Document (BRD). Created process maps and user interface diagrams for stakeholder sign off. Translated business requirements into functional requirements. Worked directly with business and technology groups to support the flow of information tied to the project. Elicited requirements and interacted daily with people from across the US in a virtual environment utilizing the same skill sets as face to face elicitation with a concentrated focus on interpersonal communication and active listening.

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 directly with the business owners to oversee all activities for the project including ensuring compliance with stakeholder timelines, resolving constraints and issues, coordinating activities with vendors and assigning project tasks. Elicited, documented and validated stakeholder and business requirements for the project. This included creating the Business Requirements Document (BRD) translating all of the business requirements into functional requirements for the vendor. Provided user acceptance testing support and analysis for defect resolution.

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 clients, vendors, and company internal departments to achieve service-level goals and KPI's supporting and/or improving on business processes; determined the feasibility of system or project changes within time and cost constraints.

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. Solid analytical, negotiation and problem solving skills. Grew portfolio from $8 million to $10 million.

Bachelor'S Degree, Criminal Justice

Business Analysis Associate Certificate