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Seattle, Wa, Us

Herndon, Virginia, Us

• Facilitate the execution of key Agile ceremonies within a collaborative team setting, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, and Sprint Retrospective.• Support the Product Owner with the creation, refinement, and prioritization of user stories within a product backlog.• Proactively identify and address impediments hindering team progress through adept problem-solving, resulting in reduced bottlenecks. • Address and facilitate conflict, in the moment, with diplomacy and poise or possibly elevate issues to management.• Orchestrate efficient communication and collaboration channels between cross-functional teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders, guaranteeing a shared understanding of priorities and expectations to drive project success. • Collaborate closely with UX counterparts to conceptualize screen mockups, ensuring alignment with project goals, while partnering with the software team to assess and implement feasible solutions.• Guided the team through a comprehensive walkthrough of Jira during a transitional phase, facilitating an understanding of the tool’s functionalities. Provided tailored one-on-one coaching sessions to team members, enhancing their proficiency and utilization of the tool.

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Developed an internal comparison tool in python that displays missing OMS topics from two sources in the effort to ensure the models reflect the most accurate information.• Baseline requirement specifications in DOORS to capture object modifications, deletions, and additions submitted and approved at Technical Review Board (TRB) meetings.• Create DOORS Extension Language (DXL) scripts to format data, update attribute values, and prepare data to deliver to our customers.• Maintain the template and package files up to date in RPE for model document generation.• Generate weekly metrics that display upcoming proposed requirements, dry run and formaltest status, and missing information across all specifications in the DOORS database.• Participate in product technical reviews such as peer reviews and TRB meetings.

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Created a product roadmap to help the scrum team understand the product goals and vision.• Managed and continually update the product backlog by creating a list of items, prioritizing project dependencies, and complete them in a sequential manner as the project evolves.• Coordinated and lead planning, refinement, review and sprint events.• Collaborated with stakeholders to anticipate the scope of future sprints.• Presented sprint performance summary (sprint report, sprint burndown, team velocity, dry run requirements results) to senior management at the end of each sprint.

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Built and coached 2 self-managing teams capable of achieving release goals and delivering objectives.• Conveyed and illustrated the fundamentals of iterative development.• Created an environment in which the teams were consistently learning from each other by encouraging to document lessons learned in a centralized location. • Conducted thorough reviews of product requirements, design, and code to uphold delivery standards and ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.• Managed scope, risks, and issues, escalating as needed.• Tracked team’s progress by developing and presenting sprint level reports (burnups, velocity charts) to management and business stakeholders. Maintained dialogue on performance, challenges, and recognition. • Ensured the work implemented by teams adhered to the steps and procedures outlined within the definition of done (DoD) framework (code coverage needed to be above 95% to validate a user story). Team made a significant 75% improvement in code coverage demonstrating a commitment to enhancing testing processes and outcomes.

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Provide the Integrated Product Team (IPT) and technical leads with day-to-day support to help manage the health of two geographically distributed integrated product teams.• Interface with software teams to provide schedule, and development status reporting for executive communications such as program management review (PMR) meetings.• Support review process boards such as Change Control Board (CCB), Technical Review Board (TRB), and PMR as well as schedule and risk board meetings.• Review labor resource and cost actuals on a weekly basis, taking action on any discrepancies as cost account manager (CAM).• Execute to an Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) and status progress.• Helped the program transition from a document-based systems-engineering approach to a model-based systems engineering approach by taking the Caltech Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Certificate Program as training.• Collaborate with systems engineers to review UML diagrams.• Leveraged and minimized re-work across the development lifecycle using MBSE.• Maintain current training materials throughout product updates and process changes.• Support continuous improvement including current state process and identification of nonvalue-added activity.• Support and generate staffing requirements, forecasts, seating requirements and reporting.

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Rotated through several Non-Contractual Technical Assignment (NCTA) projects in the Planning and Design phases, after submitted for DoD clearance process.• Understood customer expectations and analyzed system capabilities to create a traceable requirement baseline in DOORS. • Brought the software requirement specification (SRS) to Technical Review Board (TRB) resulting in Approval to baseline.• Provided human machine interface (HMI) feedback during review meetings.• Assisted in development and effectiveness of the application user interface.

Falls Church, Va, Us

B-2 Systems Engineering:• Developed tools and processes to digitize and restore a traceable weapon system requirement baseline in DOORS.• Developed VBA applications to automate the process for cost efficiency and overall productivity by 25%.Support the AS Directorate Provisioning Team:• Designed a VBA application to organize data in Excel workbooks to manage data displays by hiding columns using color combinations.• Improved productivity for presenting customers with desired data in a standardized format.AS Innovation Summer Project – Website Team Lead:• Rationalized concept layouts for user-interface of Innovation websites to communicate and highlight employee’s innovative ideas most effectively among all generations.• Coordinated weekly meetings to monitor progress and assure teams meet their goals.

Long Beach, California, Us

• Performed routine upkeep of computer system at District schools and departments.• Trained District staff in the use of desktops and software.• Provided technical assistance to technology support staff and end users.• Performed related duties as assigned.

• Provided technical assistance to student service programs on campus.• Performed back-ups of user data to shared drive and back to newly imaged XP/Windows 7 desktops for staff and students.• Troubleshoot, resolve desktop support issues, and perform preventive maintenance on desktops and laptops.• Provided peripheral support including printers.• Performed memory upgrades on Dell and HP desktops.• Named and joined laptops and desktops to domain.• Troubleshoot wireless network.