Jeff Ahern Email & Phone Number

Remote

POSITION SUMMARY:Responsible for leading the creation of a portfolio of data integration technology products aligned with Restaurant Operations, Digital Guest Experience and Information Technology strategy and vision, and a clear understanding of key business partners’ needs to translate those needs into a product roadmap. Success in this role would be defined by enabling business leaders to put data integration technology at the forefront of key decisions.KEY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:• Develops strategic product roadmap for the data integration portfolio of products.• Engages stakeholders to coordinate across internal teams to maintain product and strategic alignment/prioritization.• Becomes an expert in Jack in the Box’s data integration technology to meet Company needs.• Collaborates on all business readiness activities including end-user training, product testing, rollout, iteration and support.• Develops and promotes a culture of data-driven decision-making.

Greater San Diego Area

Scrum Master: • Work with the Product Owner and development team adhere to Scrum principles and lead all Scrum ceremonies. These include Daily stand ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retro, Backlog Grooming, and Sprint +1 / +2 Planning. • Experience working with a development team working on enterprise integration with Dell Boomi in AWS / Cloud in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment.• Coach Product Owner, development team, and project stakeholders towards Scrum best practices.• Remove all tactical and strategic impediments for the Scrum team and improve transparency within the team.• Be a servant leader to the team.• Effectively communicate with on-site, off-site, and offshore teams.• Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership.• Collaborate with product managers to groom and maintain the product backlog.• Work with onshore and offshore teams.• Ability to effectively work with developers, testers, product owners, product managers, senior management, and stakeholders.• Administer JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and other development tools.• Produce daily burndown and Scrum team status reports for senior leadership.Project Manager:• Communicate on multiple project statuses, highlight risks and collaborate on mitigation plans.• Organize the strategy for project financing including Capital Requests, Purchase Orders and the Contract approval process.• Look for opportunities to reduce costs without sacrificing the needs of the team• Ensure all follow-up action items are owned and closed out by the relevant owners.• Manage project budget, forecast and actuals.• Facilitate strategic alignment and cross functional coordination with other teams and business stakeholders.• Responsible for resource planning, onboarding and offboarding.• Manage vendor accountability. • Oversee offshore Production Support team.• End of the year project expenditure reconciliation.

Greater San Diego Area

- Transitioned from System Engineer to Scrum Master for last 5 years when company moved from Waterfall to Agile development.- Served as Scrum Master for numerous Agile software development projects and teams, including several software releases for a large scale network testing project that resulted in annual program savings of $9.3M. Business benefit upon completion $100M expense savings.- Helped develop technical requirements and release plans, and managed user stories in Rally. - Coordinated development efforts involving geographically diverse cross functional teams from requirements to successful deployment. - Ran all Agile related day to day activities and events to ensure that teams followed the proper process, including the Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.- Worked to remove all tactical and strategic impediments for the scrum team.- Coached Product Owner, Development Team, and Project Stakeholders on proper Scrum practices.- Helped Product Owner maintain Product Backlog and Development Team maintain Sprint Backlog.- Facilitated interactions and developed cooperation among team members. - Provided 7x24 application support and first point of contact for several internal and vendor developed applications supporting Ethernet and LTE network testing.- Responded to problems reported by end-user support in order to maintain maximum uptime and performance of the applications.- Led UNIX (AIX) to Linux server conversion project, resulting in $1M annual cost savings.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration And Management, General

minor in Computer Science