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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Boston, Ma

Helped lead company wide Workday implementation across 7 businesses, 130+ countries, and 300k+ employees.Created and deployed framework, workflows, and dashboards to prioritize and manage 10k+ user stories, 50k+ tasks, 50k+ defects, 35k+ test scenarios across 8 global scrum teams and 1k+ SMEs and stakeholders.Certified Workday Master Trainer, educated 60+ HR Managers on how to utilize the new Workday environment.Scrum Master and Technical Project Manager for 6 teams, including data conversion, integrations, HCM, recruiting, talent, and payroll.Designed and implemented agile management strategy and toolset for 8 global scrum teams that blended the milestones and long term planning of a waterfall based approach with 11 3 week long sprints to remain flexible to changing business needs and regulatory requirements.

San Ramon, Ca

Program leader for establishing an organization wide release process for Power Digital Solutions. Engaged with stakeholders from every business function and unified core commercialization processes into a quarterly release process for the entire portfolio of Power Digital products.Product marketing owner for new application offering, leading the creation of the strategy and requisite marketing materials needed for commercialization and sales generation.

This leadership program is a two-year program with four rotational job assignments focused on GE’s top digital initiatives. Program members lead by doing—gaining real-world experience by working on important and challenging projects alongside some of the brightest minds in the world.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Project Leader for supporting the engineering tools used for 2D plant design. Scrum Master for 2D plant design application development and support (4 country team).Implementation Lead for tool migration, executing a fair sourcing strategy for proposal and ensured process integrity.Designed/Organized/Conducted internal Scrum training for organization driving adoption of the agile project management methodology.Pioneered first augmented reality PoC initiative for Digital Engineering, highlighting AR's potential in the digital industrial space and the creation of a dedicated AR team.Led decommissioning effort of 15 application servers and 26 instances, reducing annual maintenance cost.

Atlanta, Ga

On the professional services team, I acted as a customer engagement lead for one of our strategic customer contracts. In addition, I worked as part of the engineering team to deliver internal training on new functionality, create architecture traceability documentation, and act as Rally Admin for the dev team.Created PoC for end-to-end application architecture traceability map using a model based systems engineering approach.Developed/Delivered internal new functionality training to ensure customer engagement readiness in supporting the new functionality.Migrated Jira project to Rally and acted as Rally Admin which streamlined development team collaboration and highlighted use case interdependencies to reduce redundancies.Designed and innovated on new conference room intelligence tech to enable more effective use of the limited conference room resources available.

Schenectady, Ny

Project manager for migrating our supplier database into the a new ERP instance and remedying data errors and inconsistencies. Led first stage development for materials ship direct track and trace app designed to streamline the tracking process for the shipment of wind turbine blades, hubs, and tower pieces and improve inventory control.

Schenectady, Ny

Iterated on IT education web portal design and led development changes to streamline end user experience.Identified and implemented nanodegree learning strategy, driving new MOOC based internal talent development.

Albany, New York Area

Led owners in the creation of a formalized business plan for an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. Developed 5 year financial projections based on industry growth trends and expected market penetration.Created marketing strategy and identified strategic, high impact customers.

Cincinnati, Oh

Created, through software performance testing, $183,000 annual savings with projections of up to $318,000. Drove computer deployment simplification process through focus groups and process mapping.

Albany, New York Area

Conducted group workshops to educate customers on how to better utilize their devices.Provided superior customer service by explaining difficult technology concepts in comprehensible terms.Developed technology solutions to fit the needs of both consumers and small businesses.

Albany, New York Area

Researched and drafted legislation for potential sponsorship by senator.Organized/maintained constituent database, provided office tech support, and prepped daily legislative agenda.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, It Management

Graduate Business Certificate, Cyber Security/Big Data Analytics/Business Analytics

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government

Chinese Language And Culture

Summer semester abroad focusing on intense language study and cultural immersion.