Deanna Talley Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, MO, US

Mascoutah, Illinois, United States

• Interim VP of Information Technology from January 2022 to August 2022
• Manage multiple cross-functional projects using both waterfall and agile methods such as merging multiple legacy systems into a single instance, upgrading company reporting and revamping processes throughout the.
• Collecting requirements, writing user stories and test scenarios, coordinating testing plans and results for each project.
• Creating and distributing weekly updates on all projects to leadership and stakeholders.
• Introduced, setup and managing Jira for numerous teams utilizing it for collecting requests, planning and executing sprints.
• Facilitate Scrum activities such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning meetings, sprint retros, removing team impediments and distributing information to educate the company on agile methodologies.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Streamlined design, development, and delivery of Capacity features between the product team and development teams.
• Coordinated new customer implementations and customer support requests between Client Success team and developers.
• Facilitated communication and collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering teams to get features built quickly and effectively.
• Continuously improved and educated teams on project management processes, scrum activities, sprint planning and backlog grooming.
• Organized and attended daily stand-ups with engineering teams, collected updates and reported progress and impediments to product managers and the product owner in daily Scrum of Scrums meetings.
• Collected updates from all teams, compiled recent news and up-coming events and published a bi-weekly internal company newsletter to improve communication across the company.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• As the Ecommerce Operations Manager I ensured all departments from Accounting, Customer Service, Distribution Centers, Finance, IT, Marketing, Product Managers, Purchasing, Returns, Front and Back-end Web Developers.

Fenton, Missouri, United States

• Managed and assisted throughout all departments of RawlingsGear.com such as: planning and launching website, streamlining warehouse processes such as receiving, fulfillment, inventory control and physical inventories.
• Wrote and distributed SQL query reports for all departments.
• Product owner for the Order Management System and Fraud Control System.
• Managed 3rd party vendors for Gift Card and Loyalty Programs along with Click to Chat system,
• Built efficiency within Customer Service for best practices and standard operating procedures.
• Set-up, optimized and maintained Microsoft Dynamics.

Fenton, Missouri, United States

• Various positions starting with Customer Service Representative, Pay-Per-Click Manager, Customer Service and Returns Manager.
• Launched, merchandised and managed JoesNewBalanceOutlet.com and NewBalanceWebExpress.com Hong Kong.
• Buyer for Women's and Kid's Athletic Footwear for NBwebexpress.com.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• As the owner of a retail business for footwear and athletic equipment, I performed duties such as hiring, on-boarding, purchasing, marketing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, customer service as well as.
• I enjoy being in 'start-up' type environments that inspire innovative thinking, continued learning, collaboration and consistent process and product improvements.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Basketball Coach: Junior Varsity and Assistant Varsity

Pacific, Missouri, United States

Taught 7th & 8th grade Physical Education and Health.Coached Junior High Basketball and volleyball.Coached Freshman volleyball and assistant Varsity Volleyball

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Basketball Coach: Junior Varsity and Assistant Varsity