Virginia Hernandez Email & Phone Number

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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.