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Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

Northbrook, Il, Us

Lead the establishment and coaching of new scrum teams in Allstate’s newest insurance product. Proficient in identifying program challenges and assembling the right resources for successful on-time delivery. Facilitate transparent communication among stakeholders, including directors, product managers, scrum masters, architects, engineers, and program managers. Utilize strong analytical skills to tackle issues comprehensively and offer innovative solutions based on my project management expertise.Champion agile methodologies by consistently achieving a 95% adherence rate to sprint schedules, resulting in consistent on-time delivery of high-quality increments. Ensure comprehensive understanding of all scrum processes among stakeholders through tailored communication strategies, interactive workshops, and targeted training sessions.Collaborate effectively with product management to swiftly address and resolve any risks or issues as they arise through an iteration, ensuring uninterrupted progress towards program milestones. Foster open communication channels within the project team, facilitating multiple weekly ceremonies ensuring steady progress on sprint goals and commitments.Facilitate all scrum ceremonies, contributing actionable insights that have led to an increase in sprint velocity iteration-over-iteration. Lead by example in stand-up meetings, encouraging team members to consistently participate.Provide consistent coaching to team members, cultivating the integration of agile best practices throughout the team. Employ project management tools to oversee team performance and meticulously monitor progress. Utilize collected data to deliver insightful updates to leadership, enhancing comprehension of performance bottlenecks.

San Jose, Ca, Us

End-to-end delivery leader of Agile program management team. Ability to understand program challenges and engage the correct people at the right time to deliver successfully. Maintains open lines of communication within a diverse group of stakeholders including directors, product managers, scrum masters, architects, engineers, and program managers. Demonstrates strong aptitude to analyze problems top down and provide creative solutions. Thrives in rapidly changing program landscape and prepared to take on any challenges that are presented.• Orchestrate transformative initiatives from discovery to deployment. Drive and empower efficient decision making within program teams. Leverage business and system knowledge to identify and mitigate program risks. Consistently provides transparent communication to everyone who is interested in the outcomes of my programs.• Cultivate diverse relationships that span across all OneX organizations and groups. Act as the glue between CPX, DES, WFX teams and foster a collaborative work environment. Enable and coach project teams in Agile values while continually driving improvement.• Champion Agile process improvements in the fast-paced CX Cloud engineering group. Utilize an iterative approach for identifying learning opportunities that incrementally enhanced capability delivery. Instrumental in the numerous enhancements of the deployment and capability discovery processes.

Irvine, California, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Took charge of Agile program management, product delivery, scrum team leadership as well as risk and issue mitigation with efficient project management methodologies. Emphasize stakeholder deadlines, efficient resource allocation, and communicating to executive leadership on project progress. Exercised interdisciplinary leadership across software development, product delivery, legal, and marketing departments. Acted as scrum master for ten global scrum teams.• Spearheaded proactive tactics for systems service delivery, technology platforms, and services while also ensuring seamless operations and achieving organizational growth. Partnered with QA and UAT testers to ensure timeline compliance and stakeholder communication.• Implemented industry methods for rolling-out Agile Scrum and human-centered design practices and thinking. • Trained, coached, and mentored 50+ employees in proper utilization of Agile tools including JIRA, Confluence, and Service Desk. Elevated delivery 5% sprint-over-sprint by employing analytics to determine project progress and secure more predictable delivery timelines.• Resolved issues and minimized risks by fortifying project transparency for business units and executives. Cultivated a review and response protocol empowering business end-users to deliver feedback to the development teams.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Northbrook, Il, Us

Northbrook, Il, Us

Proved vital to the success of full-phase software development lifecycle while delivering 20+ IT solutions within three years and with efficient project management methodologies. Strategically controlled $50K to $800K project budgets with attention to cost savings opportunities. Authored project status reports for senior management’s review.• Steered 15+ personnel on a national scope in upgrading ID badges and building access methods across all US-based locations. Standardized new process for requesting network information and orchestrated vendor on-site visits to 200+ corporate offices. • Directed company-wide 1099 process involving the coordination of 16 internal and external teams. Scheduled and meticulously planned the administration of 450,000 1099 forms, resulting in slashing costs and time required to deliver final filings to the IRS.• Employed efficient project management methods to ensure compliance with project milestones and deadlines with 100% accuracy while also surpassing budget objectives year-over-year.• Bridged gaps between technical and non-technical departments with astute knowledge of both the business processes and underlying technology for improved solutions, methodology implementation, and organizational effectiveness.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Analyzed and organized IBM Rational Software use data in order to update lab service charges.Leveraged data to create new pricing model for Global Infrastructure Lab Services to improve lab profitability.Managed and delivered McDonald’s internship video project which will be used to market summer internship program to students. The video was presented to McDonald’s CEO and other C-level executives.Conducted manual quality assurance tests on POS systems for company wide Windows 7 upgrade.Proofread and improved upon Global Infrastructure Lab project deliverables including requirements documents and presentations.Utilized Microsoft InfoPath to improve GIL engagement form to improve the user experience.Composed a user feedback survey regarding IBM Rational Software and help desk services to allow for possible improvement of both services.