Ian Macdonald Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Az, Us

Hereford, Arizona, Us

I collaborate with business partners to understand their business strategy, objectives and expected outcomes. With this understanding, I coordinate with project/program teams to ensure they have a clear understanding of scope, timelines, and expectations. By maintaining clear communication channels, I monitor progress and provide guidance as needed with the objective of delivering a high-quality outcome as efficiently as possible.

Chicago, Il, Us

As a team leader, I drove all facets of the agile development lifecycle including: backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily standups, end of sprint demos, retrospectives. I worked with client Product Owners to help them build and maintain product backlogs using Jira. I was the communication bridge between business and technical teams.

St. Louis Park, Mn, Us

Coaching clients through the adoption and maturation of Agile frameworks. Leading large-scale and complex enterprise-wide digital transformation projects from sales pursuit to inception to production deployment. Building strong and trusted working relationships with clients that resulted in a high level of new and repeat business. Working closely with client stakeholders to discover, understand and document. requirements, to build and prioritize project backlogs.

Eagan, Mn, Us

Led a team of 12 Business Analysts tasked with researching the enterprise-wide impact of changing the medical coding system from ICD-9 to ICD-10, Instituted agile ways of working to drive collaboration and communication both within the team and across the organization, Within a tight timeline, delivered a detailed impact analysis and work breakdown to the steering committee.

Anoka, Mn, Us

Researched, planned, scoped, and implemented a Digital Imaging department tasked with electronically capturing all contractual documents across the organization. This was a ground-breaking project for RCIS and required close coordination across the entire enterprise. This project resulted in the ability to rapidly locate documents on-demand and the elimination of the need to store more than 11 million pages for 7 years.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Introduced General Mills to the concept of agile and specifically the Scrum framework. Applied my business experience and knowledge of technology to assist in the planning and implementing of technology solutions that had a high business value. Acted as the conduit for communication between business process owners and technical teams. Assisted business process owners to prioritize and drive change to achieve maximum business value from the use of technology.

Diploma, Technical Communication And Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering