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Cedar Rapids, IA, US

• Business development, knowledge leader content productions, consulting and coachingMarch 2023 - PresentFirst Land Services Inc./Nextera Energy Resources, Palo, IA - Renewable Energy Land Services Agent
• Cultivating enduring relationships with landowners for utility-scale renewable energy projects, reducing opposition and fostering partnerships
• Facilitating communication between Construction Management and Land Owners, for smooth project execution
• Salesforce CRM system implementation champion, becoming a principal agreement requestor and status reporter
• Locate agreement request documents from public and private sources
• Analyze title package documentation to determine how to document land ownership and payees in agreement requests

• Leadership agility coaching practice development for Walmart Inc.Product team coaching practice development for Walmart Inc.
• Coached leaders in an organizational pillar on structural impediments that create waste and prevent teams from being able to deliver value to stakeholders
• Coached a pilot team in the pillar towards self-organization, empowerment and an experimental mindset

Moline, IL, US

• Desktop Services - Business Capability Agile Coach
• Evolved a catalytic leadership mindset in Desktop Services leaders
• Grew empathy on product teams for the people they deliver to so workis meaningful and teams are intrinsically motivated to deliver measurableoutcomes
• Feedback from users who fit the personas in delivered user storiesincreased 53% across the product family
• One of my product teams presented their objective and key resultslearning journey to company executives

Nantes, Pays De LA Loire, FR

• Coached Walmart Inc. co-located and distributed product teams on their journey towards business agility
• Employed journey mapping, user persona development, product roadmapping and value stream mapping to build a collective understanding of customers and what they value
• Mentored Product Owners on regularly engaging stakeholders and end users in product experiments
• Coached managers on persistent, dedicated product team formation that enables team empowerment and self organization
• Empowered teams to experiment with agile frameworks and other ways to maximize the flow of work for their specific context
• Advanced mindset shifts through formal training sessions, ad hoc workshops and real-time coaching

Coralville, Iowa, US

• Scaled distributed teams as product development demand increased
• Coached company co-founder to be a first-time Product Owner of an interactive education platform for a major publishing company - Project budget of over two million - Won awards from Horizon Interactive and EdTech.
• Facilitated the development and delivery of new product concepts, including simulations for college chemistry, and a three-dimensional medical rendering tool for an original equipment manufacturer (OEM)
• Served as OEM customer liaison, demonstrating new product concepts, gathering feedback and building product backlog items based on feedback - Provided frontline resources with in-person and remote product training
• Observed student end-users interacting with product offerings on a variety of hardware platforms to discover new problems to solveSkillsBusiness Intelligence: Google Analytics, Unity 3D Analytics, Jira Issue.

Somerville, MA, US

• Coached an Agile pod, paving the way for the adoption of Agile software development
• Was principal architect of the company-wide software quality assurance infrastructure, providing real-time visibility into the progress of all software development efforts across the company
• Developed customized Atlassian framework tools for issue management and asset repository creation
• Authored the company-wide software quality assurance strategy, which is communicated to prospective clients - QA was brought into the software development life cycle sooner in order to reduce, rework, and improve.
• Collaborated with the Project Management team to create QA Jira tasks
• Collaborated with Business Intelligence team to determine the most effective ways to validate dashboards setup for clientsSkillsBusiness Intelligence (BI): BI dashboard validation collaboration, Google Analytics, Bing.

Hanover, MD, US

• Facilitated scrum teams creation, including establishing collocation areas, and scrum of scrum collaboration meetings
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Leads on the use of Confluence and Jira to facilitate cross-team collaboration and improve transparency

Tempe, AZ, US

• Collaborated with Development Managers, Project Managers, and Business Analysts on estimating, scheduling, and managing development efforts
• Mentored team members on effective backlog and sprint management – team delivered over ninety percent of planned work, exceeding departmental goal of seventy percent
• Was the dedicated Quality Assurance resource, supporting a scrum team made up of six Software Developers, a Database Administrator, a Product Manager Liaison, and a Scrum Master
• Selected to serve on company-wide committee which was tasked to come up with a road map with action items to make the Quality Assurance organization “world class”
• While leading the company-wide Quality Assurance Best Practices Committee, recognized the need to improve Quality Assurance communication across the company, so founded bi-weekly Quality Assurance Manager collaboration.
• Served on the Business Analyst Best Practices Committee

San Francisco, California, US

• Collaborated with executives in Mortgage Compliance and Finance to develop a testing framework for the Mortgage Compliance piece of an organization-wide, service-oriented architecture project
• Led a team of contractors to develop targeted use cases and test data for the framework
• Used Mercury Quality Center for the requirements and testing repository

The Hague, South Holland, NL

• Significantly improved testing efficiencies by developing and implementing data backup/restore and merging procedures for mainframe regression testing
• Trained Quality Assurance Analysts on how to use the tools mentioned above
• Reduced the time it takes to complete test cycles by developing automation methods for various portions of the testing process
• Trained Quality Assurance Analysts on how to use automation methods for testing
• Became the divisional expert on applying data-driven software automation; responsible for automating various labor-intensive computing processes
• Trained operational personnel on how to use data-driven software automation tools

• IST Quality Assurance Analyst (10/1999 - 12/2000)
• Tested iterative software releases that led to the successful launch of the Mattel Interactive e-commerce website
• Applied Total Quality Management techniques that improved the end user experience at the Mattel Interactive e-commerce website
• Served as a liaison between internal business users and IT developers for client/server application development
• Created and executed test cases and test plans, then wrote defect reports and design suggestions based on the resultsTechnical Support Representative (10/1997 - 10/1999) Outbound Sales Representative (10/1995 - 10/1997)

Bs, Microbiology

Bs, Business

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing And International Accounting

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General