Heather Davidson Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

MediaRadar’s award-winning ad intelligence solutions deliver timely cross-media insights that are highly targeted to the needs of media sellers, agencies or brands. Their extensive database covers over 4mm+ brands across TV, print, and digital platforms including emerging formats like YouTube, podcasting, OTT, and Facebook. Media selling teams rely on Media Radar to prospect for new business, create compelling pitches and connect with the right buyers. Agencies and brands use MediaRadar to create the best media mix, monitor competition and uncover new advertising opportunities.- Responsible for the execution and rollout of Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies across multiple teams within our Product and IT/Development organizations.- Coaching and mentoring Scrum teams and Product Owners on Agile best practices and industry standards.- Facilitating Scrum rituals such as, Daily Scrum call, Sprint Planning and Retrospectives.- Removing impediments to the development team's progress. - Leading training and communication to Development and Product team members on agile best practices.- Provide assistance to Scrum teams in navigating agile tools and software such as, JIRA Software and Confluence, creating and publishing dashboards and metrics using Structure.

New York, Ny, Us

Vivvix is dedicated to eliminating guesswork and blind spots within advertising intelligence. Formed in 2023 by unifying the advertising intelligence businesses of Kantar and Numerator, we offer the most comprehensive footprint available, including the largest creative library and estimates of advertising market shares across all media types.- Responsible for the leadership of two global teams, comprised of 18 quality assurance testers, to direct and guide the quality delivered to global advertising intelligence business applications.- Responsible for the development, management and continuous process improvement of the quality assurance processes and best practices for our Engineering Teams at Vivvix. - Developed a quality-focused and positive culture aimed at building strong and collaborative work relationships across the organization.- Developed efficient test plans and testing schedules across multiple global programs.- Provides ongoing ownership of QA strategy and mentorship for driving best practices in both manual, performance and automation testing.- Responsible for tracking schedules, milestones, deliverables and action items for both management and technical meetings.- Provide Senior Leadership Team(s) with timely, comprehensive and accurate reports on the status of projects requiring Quality Assurance testing.- Monitor defect metrics within the Sprints and releases per product line, identify trends and recommend test effectiveness measures and quality conclusions for root cause analysis.- Spearheading Automation Development efforts for web-based application where an automation framework does not exist.

London, Gb

Kantar, the Media Division, is a global leader in media intelligence, providing the most comprehensive and accurate intelligence on media consumption, performance and value. Our clients rely on our data and services for all aspects of media measurement, monitoring and selection. - Program planning and governance; overseeing the successful delivery of critical technology programs and projects in the Advertising Intelligence sector. Leading projects with Offshore Teams, including resources located in India, Latin America, Europe and the US. - Lead Scrum Master for the Advertising Insights web application(s) for US, LATAM + France business partners; overseeing four Scrum teams of technical resources employing Agile Methodologies and Best Practices. - Organize and facilitate all aspects of Agile activities and ceremonies including daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and product backlog refinement sessions. - Collaborate closely with our Product Lead(s) to manage the backlog and determine business priorities and direction. Assist in the effective management of user story estimation and forecasting. Work to represent the team(s) at broader business planning and coordination sessions.- Champion and facilitate adoption of agile standards, tools, and best practices to guide the team(s) to embrace agile core values, adopt and apply those principles, and implementation best practices,

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

The Vanguard Group is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania with over $4.5 trillion in assets under management.Assessed the needs of business financial service partners through direct, on-site support and interaction. Developed customized opportunities and solutions to support the client's business technology strategy. Effective utilized business processes, databases, and technology to provide an enterprise perspective on how devised solutions would impact existing processes, systems, employees and clients. - Led business requirements gathering processes for Corporate IT department, supporting HR Systems, Payroll and the PeopleSoft platform both individually and as a project team member.- Successfully directed multiple, concurrent projects employing Waterfall and Agile/Scrum project management methodologies. - Partnered with business clients to develop detailed project documentation, including project charters, to capture and define project scope, approach, timelines and objectives.- Facilitated information gathering sessions and authored formal scoping and requirements documentation. - Developed content and facilitated Vanguard University Business Systems Analyst Training courses to define the BSA responsibilities and best practices for employee enablement.- Recognized as a leader amongst the team and was hand-selected to guide multiple larger projects through to completion.- Member: IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis)

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Led the Business Technology Team, with 6 direct reports and a project portfolio of $4-9M annually, in the implementation and execution of business technology projects for Vanguard's Brokerage Services Division, encompassing all new brokerage products and services. Directed a team of project leads in support of 22 business technology products through the execution of large strategic initiatives, quarterly product enhancements and production support updates. Successfully managed concurrent, deadline-driven projects for each product area, which spanned trading, fixed income, pricing, and e-commerce, among others. Spearheaded weekly staff meetings within the department, organizing and managing departmental leaders and testers in their tasks to ensure client expectations were being met.- Successfully supported over 750 staff within the Vanguard Brokerage Services division in the provision of technology, product, and vendor support services.- Led all aspects of the Business Technology Services team including career planning, staffing requirements, performance management, team building, communication and coordination.- Managed vendor relationship with Pershing BNY Mellon for Information Technology Projects; collaborated directly with Pershing BNY Mellon for Information Technology projects; collaborated directly with Pershing Relationship Manager to identify and manage the projects the team would be leading.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Leveraged a deep understanding of quality engineering philosophies, best practices and tools at Vanguard in partnership with Senior Quality Engineering leaders. Identified high-impact ideas and best practices, and drove the development of new content. - Served as Senior Contributor to the Software Engineering and Architecture Department, developed adherence to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and ITIL-based processes used within Vanguard's IT Division.- Key contributor to the development, implementation and maintenance of the Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies and associated business processes. - Recognized as a lead contributor in assisting the Technology Operations subdivision to develop the ITIL foundational processes including mapping current to future state processes. - Selected as an Adjunct Vanguard University faculty member; facilitated training courses on project lifecycle, "Project Inception to Implementation and Beyond", for all IT Crew on Vanguard's SDLC and ITIL processes.

JPMorgan Chase & Company is the largest bank in the United States, and the world's sixth largest bank with total assets of $2.5 trillion under management.Developer for the Fixed Income business client, including the development and testing of system enhancements. Supported various departments in their use of numerous technology platforms, further enabling their efficiency, productivity, and output. Performed Sybase DBA functions, including writing, testing, and executing stored procedures.- Promoted to Associate within first 6 months in the company.- Developed tasks to include writing, testing, and executing code from business requirements, as a junior-level Powerbuilder developer.- Partnered with clients to perform Cognos development activities and to gather report requirements.- Supported Fixed Income line of business clients across multiple locations and time zones, including New York, London and Paris; provided off-hour support for the London Trading Desk.

During my final year of college, I worked as an intern and then participated in the full-time co-operative program that LaSalle University had in conjunction with Nabisco. In this role, I supported the Manager of IT in desktop support issues and resolving help desk requests.

Mclean, Va, Us

M.B.A.

Technical Certificate, Client/Server Development

B.S.B.A., Management Information Systems, Finance

Hs Diploma