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St. Louis, Mo, Us

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Greater St. Louis Area

Collaborated with agile teams for almost 15 years to build and manage new features and capabilities while delivering the desired business impact, while providing leadership on activities such as prioritization and negotiating with stakeholders on priorities. Aligned project goals with the larger business objectives.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate aircraft maintenance and wiring solutions beneficial to multiple diverse global user communities.• Enhanced operational efficiency of development lifecycle for enhancements by 33% and improved operational budget by 18% by streamlining change control board processes. • Negotiated distributed team’s release planning commitments within the iteration and release leading to 100% internal client satisfaction for on-time and high-quality releases over the 10-year Kanban SDLC.• Reduced defects by 19% over four years by implementation of a Kanban process.• Conducted detailed problem analysis for issues submitted by stakeholders employing a data-driven approach devising solutions beneficial to all stakeholder communities.• Owned successful multi-million dollar, two-year, four-phase database modernization, saving the company $450,000 annually.• Managed, coached, and mentored five employees performing engineering and technical activities in Software Engineering.• Managed $2 million team budget, financials, and third-party contract procurement activities.• Increased team’s velocity 27% annually over four years.• Worked with developers and testers on the team to create appropriate and executable acceptance criteria leading to 67% improvement in client satisfaction.• Enhanced overall team productivity by 32% via a test-first mentality and acceptance test driven development focus.• Trained, mentored, and coached three scrum teams within a division.• Managed scrum processes (SAFe and Kanban) and lead daily scrum, retrospective, planning, and sprint reviews.

Greater St. Louis

• Facilitated requirements gathering from stakeholders located at multiple locations• Captured functional and non-functional requirements from the business, technical, and user stakeholders• Defined use cases, activity diagrams, and other necessary documentation• Reviewed documentation throughout project lifecycle to ensure correctness• Created prototypes based on functional and user requirements• Provide weekly updates to management on automation progress• Captured and documented all SDLC metrics• Developed and documented SDLC process and desktop instructions for processes• Managed all aspects of ISO90001 audit preparation and passed audit with no findings for four consecutive years• Analyzed customer processes and internal controls and guided customer through process reengineering in conjunction with new software implementation

Greater St. Louis Area

• Completed automation of regression test cases for three iterations on time and under budget• Provide weekly updates to management on automation progress• Wrote and executed SQA and Java test cases with Rational Robot and XDE Tester• Conducted proof of concept for automated testing methodologies• Developed departmental automated testing strategy and standards• Developed XDE Tester implementation strategy• Developed routines and subroutines to enable automated runs of regression scripts• Data mined via Unix tools/commands• Tied project requirements to automated test cases allowing completion of metrics reporting• Performed SQA Library maintenance• Ran regression suites and shell scripts with Robot and Test Manager

Certificate, Technical Management

Master'S Degree, Organizational Leadership

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