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San Francisco, California, US

• Act as a catalyst for continuous improvement, collaborating with stakeholders to identify business challenges and implement scalable solutions that enhance productivity across the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrate adaptability, flexibility, and creativity in stakeholder engagement, actively supporting the Agile transformation agenda in the evolving landscape of work.
• Possess advanced knowledge of Scrum, Agile theory, methodology, techniques, rules, and practices, including estimating/sizing, planning, forecasting, reporting, conflict resolution, and facilitation within the team and.
• Foster an environment where my team feels comfortable escalating challenges, promoting positive reinforcement of successes and driving change.
• Foster collaboration and building strong relationships across teams and functions.
• Lead, plan, execute, and evaluate project activities to ensure successful completion of initiatives, contributing to the team's direction and effectiveness, while providing valuable advice to the team and delivery.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Acted as a servant leader for multiple onshore and offshore scrum teams, promoting agile best practices.
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective sessions.
• Assisted Product Owners in grooming and maintaining product backlogs to ensure sprint readiness of user stories.
• Coordinated efforts among engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders.
• Collaborated with the Agile Release Train Engineer to define and refine program and team backlogs, and supported PI planning activities.
• Organized and facilitated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams to align work and meet delivery schedules.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Developed best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics.
• Developed project plans and budgets, works with users to understand complex problems, and focuses on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines.
• Created and delivered presentations to senior level management on project goals and plans, including progress reports and score card.
• Promoted empowerment of the team and encouraged a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team which improved employee retention.
• Maintained relationships with material vendors to lower costs and diversify capabilities.
• Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance

• Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
• Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans.
• Guided teams and refined Agile techniques throughout journey and evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support Agile methodology implementation with Waterfall-centric delivery team.
• Managed team performance by implementing measurable metrics to track delivery of supporting requirement artifacts.
• Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.

• Performed competitor bench-marking analysis to identify manufacturing savings opportunities and potential product enhancements.
• Drafted quarterly and yearly reports on company financial metrics to assess successes and account for deficiencies.
• Reviewed contracts and agreements to identify potential risks and ideal mitigation strategies.
• Investigated allegations to check validity and recommend actions to minimize risk.
• Built and harmonized operations report for team leaders, senior managers and executives, supervising automation of reports and data sources to eliminate errors.
• Promoted enterprise-level risk management practices and helped instill strong culture focused on protective policies and procedures.

B Sc, Business Management & Administration

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