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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia

Alpharetta, Ga

Managed 8 direct reports.Acted as an Agile Coach for the Tribe (Spotify Model).Led full-cycle, Agile development projects to be completed by delivery deadlines.Tracked in-flight projects through Jira and through direct contact with team members.Managed and tracked security compliance requests, such as patch management, vulnerability fixes, etc.Reported on in-flight projects to the tribe leader and the leadership team.Led teams through work estimates, Agile ceremonies and guided collaboration.Made and guided strategic direction for the squad (team), including efforts of the QA Analyst, developers, and SRE’s, as well as deployment activities in integrated and pre-prod environments.Assisted prioritization of development items to ensure they would coincide with the correct deployment and release schedules and overall project deadlines.Led the squad through quarterly PI planning.Tracked and reported on epic and quarterly forecasts.

Alpharetta, Ga

Successfully transitioned teams from siloed development practices and waterfall methodologies to effective Scrum teams.Coached multiple development teams in Agile best practices including both Scrum and Kanban teams.Effectively led Production DevOps team and implemented Kanban practices to improve delivery speed and operational efficiencies.Coached teams to improve Work In Progress (WIP) limits, cycle time, and ultimately throughput speed to deliver working software faster and more efficiently.Effectively mediate conflict resolution within the teams.Effectively remove impediments and mitigate risks for the teams.Lead teams through complex development projects with strict deadlines, including development, end-to-end integration testing, performance testing, and Production releases.Led multiple teams successfully through PI planning. Leadership member of a ScrumMaster’s Community of Practice and led multiple CoP sessions including the teaching of SAFe principles.

Managed the full life cycle from designation of scope through the deployment to the Production environments.Mitigated risks and impediments to keep the release cadence on track.Tracked and managed security and compliance operations required for enterprise releases. Coordinated the work of all parties and groups involved, including Scrum teams, DevOps team, release testing team, change management team, infrastructure team, database administrators, Senior Leadership and interested parties. Coached all parties involved in Agile philosophy and best practices and successfully implemented a Kanban flow to improve the team’s delivery time and quality.

Greater Atlanta Area

Began as a Mid-Market Account Manager and was promoted in January 2014.Analyzed customers’ business models and practices to identify areas of growth.Led technical teams to troubleshoot the Interconnect platform programming. Coordinated between Interconnect specialists and technical consultants to provide proper coding strings to produce the correct data output for a client. Managed a marketing data project to customize the solution for integration with the U.S. Dept. of Defense’s database. Pre-call planning was conducted prior to the discussion with the customer. The customer’s wish list and judgmental criteria were first identified and developed, as well as the overall project deadline. Developed project milestones to gauge completion progress and achieve the product toll gate, which was communicated with the different business units involved. Coordinated with a marketing data specialist to develop the solution’s data waterfall process and initiate product benchmarking. Engaged the data management team to develop the correct formats with the goal of producing a data output in the customer’s required format. Maintained communication with all business units involved to monitor the milestones and verify that the deadlines were on track to be met. The project rollout was completed successfully by the client’s requested deadline and process improvements were evaluated.Managed a project to develop new coding for a customer’s risk decision capabilities on the Interconnect platform. Client wish list was developed, as well as the project milestones for multiple business units to follow. Coding specs were reviewed before being released to the customer.

Greater Atlanta Area

Greater Atlanta Area

Greater Atlanta Area

Equifax empowers businesses and consumers with information they can trust. A global leader in information solutions, we leverage one of the largest sources of consumer and commercial data, along with advanced analytics and proprietary technology, to create customized insights that enrich both the performance of businesses and the lives of consumers. Businesses—large and small—rely on us for consumer and business credit intelligence, portfolio management, fraud detection, decisioning technology, marketing tools, and much more. We empower individual consumers to manage their personal credit information, protect their identity, and maximize their financial well-being.Headquartered in Atlanta, Equifax Inc. operates in the U.S. and 15 other countries throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Equifax’s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EFX.www.equifax.com

Marietta, Ga

M.S., Justice Administration

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Sigma (National Criminal Justice Honors Society), WCSU Justice and Law Club, WCSU Martial Arts Team

B.S., Justice And Law Administration

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Sigma (National Criminal Justice Honors Society), WCSU Justice and Law Club, WCSU Martial Arts Team