Elayne Schulz Email & Phone Number

Qld

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

63 Turnmill St, London Ec1M 5Rr

London, United Kingdom

- Reported directly to the COO as one of the early members of a London based Salesforce Consultancy acquired by Publicis Sapient. Worked alongside the COO and Head of Delivery to define the portfolio delivery methodology.- Senior member of the delivery team delivering varied Salesforce projects across the portfolio within time, budget and scope using a business-led methodology operating under the agile principles.- Planned, organised and facilitated client discovery requirement gathering workshops and playback sessions.- Built relationships with stakeholders to ensure strong communication with clients and VPs informing them of project estimates and progress from initiation to completion.- Performed effective project planning, estimation, resource scheduling, tight budget control, change request evaluation and management.- Proficient project risk and issue management ensuring risks and issues were dealt with and mitigated smoothly. - Facilitated and participated in agile ceremonies.- Active participant in the Technical Design Review board for all business opportunities.- Consultant Coach for 7 consultants, mentoring and leading consultants for both personal and business-related performance objectives, feeding into employee bonus scheme. - Hands-on with Salesforce platform: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Mulesoft.

London, United Kingdom

A London based tech venture operating in real-time social sharing and meetups.- Reporting directly to the CTO as one of the early members of the London based tech start-up.- Responsible for delivery of iOS and Android applications.- Management of a matrix project team consisting of offshore development of 5, Crowd QA resource of up to 50 and internal team members.- Working closing with the CTO, product and tech team within an agile environment accommodating fluid requirements and a rapid development pace.- Key communicator between tech and non-tech teams.- Project documentation: Project briefs, sprint reports, project plans and product specs.- Project risk and issue management. - Product and scope change requests.- Project planning, resource allocation and budget management.- Regular liaising with the senior management team, CEO and COO.- Worked closely with the product manager to devise and manage the best QA strategy for both Android and iOS apps in a small and budget constrained team.

London, United Kingdom

A tech venture operating in smart-sized news.- Reported directly to the CTO.- Responsible for delivery of the Android application.- Worked very closely with the CTO to ensure the adoption of the best delivery approach for the business size, budget and rapid delivery rate required.- Managed an offshore development team of 4.- Produced and delivered project and QA documentation to the appropriate level.- Regular correspondence with the CEO and CTO.- Resourceful and carried out hands-on QA when needed including defect management and analysis.

London, United Kingdom

- Reported directly to the Director of Global Products.- Managed delivery, rollout and in-life of global application distribution channels to support Global Partnership deals.- Defined and delivered an Android application to install Telefonica global content seamlessly to the device.- Built and maintained relationships with app store partners, Google, Blackberry and Microsoft. Launching local app stores within the major stores for each of Telefonica’s operating businesses, allowing them to showcase and distribute local branded content to a targeted audience.

London, United Kingdom

- Reported directly to the Head of Bluevia Marketing.- Bluevia as described by the media, analysts, and leading community figures as the world’s most progressive Mobile Operator developer programme.- Developed, executed and managed the marketing strategy for a global app ecosystem, driving developer acquisition and retention.- Managed third party Creative and PR agencies.- Negotiated, built and retained industry partnerships to enable collaborative marketing.- Responsible for developer marketing activity.

Slough, United Kingdom

- End2end delivery of the New Product Development Programme with multiple and international work-stream locations.- Successfully project managed the technical solution, service wrapper, take to market and operational support over cross-functional and 3rd party teams for the following projects:- O2 Litmus – web-based platform to accelerate application development- O2 Home Phone – VOIP home phone service- O2 Media – knowledge-based mobile advertising platform- O2 Broadband Bounty

Slough, United Kingdom

- Owner of the QA expertise and resource for O2 UK’s web and data applications.- Formulated, executed and owned test strategies.- Managed a team of 5 full-time employees.- Managed 4 QA resource suppliers up to circa 40 people.

London, United Kingdom

- Led the testing for mobile applications - Played a major part to the testing of Series 60 mobile devices

London, United Kingdom

- Key player in the testing of the main cable television self-service product

London, United Kingdom

- Implementation of testing processes for a mobile marketing company

Dusseldorf, Germany

- Software delivery of the customer care & billing system for telecoms. - Configuration management and software testing

Scrum Master

Bsc Hons, Business Information Technology