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Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

• Facilitate ART and Solution Train processes and execution, respectively. • They escalate impediments, manage risk, help ensure value delivery, and help drive relentless improvement. • Participate in the Lean-Agile transformation, coaching leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the new processes and mindsets. • Help configure appropriate SAFe steps to the organization’s needs, standardizing and documenting practices.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Serves as the Enroll & Onboard Journey Team Scrum Master focused on reimagining and improving our new members’ first year with Humana. This journey work leverages the new Customer-Centric Operating Model and an Agile approach to tackling customer-focused problems. R&R includes but not limited to:• Leading a newly formed business team learn & work in an Agile model.• Working with the team to plan & organize around a sprint cycle for delivery• Pulling together all team members to learn to "pivot" through Agile on what works and what needs changing• Removing obstacles that affect the team.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

• Facilitating (not participating in) the daily standup and helping maintain burndown.• Setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions.• Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint.• Removing obstacles that affect the team.• Walking the product owner through more technical user stories.• Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum team and product owner.• Developing & managing the overall release plans for three (3) workstreams.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Facilitating (not participating in) the daily standup and helping maintain burndown.• Setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions.• Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint.• Removing obstacles that affect the team.• Walking the product owner through more technical user stories.• Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum team and product owner.

Southfield, Mi, Us

• Lead technical teams in the areas of application development and infrastructure in one or more phases from project inception to delivery.• Responsible for overall project strategy, user interface and technology, and develops project plans, deliverables, and schedules, and to ensure the teams are meeting proposed milestones and goals.• Identify procedures for implementation, coordinates project plans, works with ancillary groups, and has full financial and operational accountability for each project managed.• Coordinate and facilitating the completion of a variety of internal and external projects that together lead to the successful deployment of software, hardware, database, or enterprise products and services.• Used expertise to assist team to “bootup” Scrum teams and implement Agile practices.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Facilitating (not participating in) the daily standup and helping maintain burndown.• Setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions.• Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint.• Removing obstacles that affect the team.• Walking the product owner through more technical user stories.• Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum team and product owner.• Developing & managing the overall release plans for three (3) workstreams.

Plano, Texas, Us

NTT DATA is a Global IT Innovator delivering technology-enabled services and solutions to clients around the world. The company provides consulting, managed services, projects, outsourcing, and cloud-based solutions to mid-sized and large enterprises in all major industries.• Full project timeline and plan responsibilities, including status reporting to senior management using MS Office product suite of applications.• Project inception, business requirements/Epics, and functional requirements/User Stories accountabilities with LOB partners.• Hold status meetings with various enterprise team members, including management, to report progress, cite challenges, and resolve issues blocking success.• Work with directors and program managers to map out strategic departmental changes that need to occur.• Review and recommend process improvement changes, where applicable and needed.

Plano, Texas, Us

Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group (CG) is a management and technology consulting firm that delivers large-scale, complex technology solutions for the world’s leading financial services organizations.• Full project timeline and plan responsibilities, including status reporting to senior management using MS Office product suite of applications. Manage budgets for multiple workstreams (including tools like Clarity).• Project inception, business requirements/Epics, and functional requirements/User Stories accountabilities with LOB partners and development teams. Follow all client SDLC, SECDM, and internal requirements throughout the project lifecycle.• Hold status meetings with various enterprise team members, including management, to report progress, cite challenges, and resolve issues blocking success. Manage business partner relationships. • Partnering with development teams on releases and resources to meet project timelines, including full SDLC metrics. Engage with development teams during daily calls. Where needed, act as the Scrum Master. Use working knowledge of numerous software languages to analyze code and provide recommendations to development, where needed.• Used expertise to assist team to “bootup” Scrum teams and implement Agile practices.

San Francisco, California, Us

Manager of the software build & deployment processes, formal technology change mgmt., and access coordination across all Retirement Technology.• Responsible for seven (7) System Support Analysts work assignments, compliance training, career development needs planning, project management planning for all intra-department projects, and financials. • Define and declare software releases through enterprise change management practices. Engage development and project teams to document application release readiness requests. Act as formal coordinator to review and approve all application readiness requests within Retirement Technology. Design/implement/oversee all software system implementation/migrations/upgrade/rollout processes.• Responsible for overseeing the software installations on server infrastructure involved in the depreciation process (servers 3 years old were “rotated” out of use and newer servers were “phased” in after certification completed).• Software build and deployment for several applications in Retirement Technology – including non-production and production regions. Includes Linux/Unix, Sybase/Oracle, Websphere, Windows, Lotus Notes, and Pega, and .NET software.

San Francisco, California, Us

Manager for the development and support of distribution based application for Retail Retirement Annuity• Responsible for three (3) System Support Analysts work assignments, compliance training, career development needs planning, project management planning for all intra-department projects, and all financials. • Formal responsibilities for the support of all applications used in the Annuity sales processing within Retail Retirement. Includes escalation within Retirement as well as enterprise resources when issues occurred. Formal escalations to two (2) external vendors when systemic issues occurred. Managed relationships with external vendors.

San Francisco, California, Us

Manager for the support of distribution based application for Retail Retirement Annuity.• Responsible for three (3) System Support Analysts work assignments, compliance training, career development plans, project management planning for all intra-department projects, and all financials. • Formal responsibilities for the development and support of all applications used in the Annuity sales processing within Retail Retirement. Included requirements reviews, oversight of application development processes, insuring formal testing methods were completed, and partnering with teams to release software for its formal use. Reviews on software and process changes with two (2) external vendors. Use working knowledge of numerous software languages to analyze code and provide recommendations to development, where needed. Managed relationships with external vendors.

San Francisco, California, Us

Leader for the joint application development teams building customer relationship management (CRM) application in Wealth Management.• Lead developer for the entire life-cycle development using Siebel for the various customer relationship management applications in Wealth Management. Included six (6) application in total. Use working knowledge of numerous software languages to analyze code and provide recommendations to other developers, where needed. • Participated in and led joint application development (JAD) sessions to gather requirements, review development milestones, lead joint testing efforts, lead demonstrations to show functionality, and formally deploy application changes.• Includes full software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes: requirements gathering, business processes, use case scenarios, design, development, functional/regression testing, and implementation/deployment.• Partnered with third party integration consulting firms for project work.• Managed all third party Siebel vendor relationships.

New York City, Ny, Us

Management of 15 software developers in Application Enhancement III department• People and project management responsibilities for 15 individuals. Including training plans, annual reviews, disciplinary actions, and formal rewarding/recognition.• Accountability for operating within budget, requesting additional funds, and business cases where additional resource headcounts were needed. • Formal project management oversight for all development work within department

New York City, Ny, Us

Full software development lifecycle processes for applications within the Legal, News, and Financial sections within the company.• Lead developer and developer for many departments within the company.• Accountable for accuracy of business specifications, creating design flows, all development needs, creating/implementing a full test case plan, and insuring a smooth production release.• Created and implemented continued education plans in consultation with management.• Status reporting responsibilities to senior management.

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