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Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Windsor, Connecticut, Us

Windsor, Connecticut, Us

Scrum Master and Business Analyst for eight projects, completed 98% on time and with high customer satisfaction.Collaborated with two teams to identify solutions that would enable the teams to become high functioning teams. Coached teams about Agile Methodologies. Promoted transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Shared agile scrum tips. Encouraged teams to implement scrum principles on a continuous basis, resulting in 50% increase in agile scrum knowledge and practices. Utilized conflict management skills to bring together team members on the way to becoming a high functioning team. The result of successful conflict management was reduction in wasted time in meetings and outside of meetings as all team members felt valued, trusted, and heard. The cohesiveness of team one improved by 90% and team two has improved by 70%. Management commented on the improvements on more than one occasion. (Team 1 from 2019-2020 and team two from end of 2020)Assisted teams through removal of impediments, focusing on high value increments of work.Aided the product owner through leading sprint reviews when needed, tracking items requiring customer feedback. Facilitated meetings to manage the Product Backlog. Defined Product Goals. A driving curiosity to learn about everything. Learning about the Microsoft apps, provided new tools to aid in project management and reporting has improved by 40% in 2022. Knowledge for the DST proprietary systems has grown enormously creating an ability to aide others.Mentored other Business Analyst/Scrum Masters to improve their ability to utilize DST-SDLC, Confluence, Jira, and Microsoft Products. Elicit requirements, documented processes, created business documents and performed frequent requirements analysis. Organized approach to tracking project milestones and communication.

Chicago, Il, Us

Communicated risks from the commodity reports to the Vice President of Risk Management. Due to the volatility of the of the commodity market, the willingness to deliver unwelcome news immediately was paramount. This would allow the VP to make the best choices to manage the Milling Commodity Position Risks and save thousands of dollars.Engaged with Business Unit leaders to provide new applications and processes, to assist in the management of their businesses. Interacted with Business Units as a liaison between Development Unit and Business Unit leaders.Provided daily and monthly reporting for the Business Units. Additional responsibilities for the business units included process mapping, acceptance testing, training, creating training materials, maintaining, and creating macros and code for excel and access.Supported web applications and extensive excel reports. Initiatives included, using a new tool to continue with money saving options for training.Collaborated with Software web developers to create a plan, analyze and map processes, design, UAT for a new web commodity position. This endeavor was agile in nature due to incremented production of each page, collaborative effort, implementation of minimum viable product. Managed Projects. Proposed money saving options, tested feasibility, and implemented the options. Resulted in savings around $15,000.00 by training the location personnel using remote technology. Partnered with mangers and clerks at thirty locations to implement and train on the new processes and applications. Facilitated training, created training materials. Coordinated with Business Units and location personal to provide ongoing support and training. Worked together with Business Units on the Continuous Process Improvement effort. Created excel reports, modified macro code and wrote access queries to save the accounting department time. updated production report and created a web-based position report to highlight a few of the projects.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Information Systems

Continuing Education

Associate'S Degree, General Studies