* Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to enhance delivery processes, elevating the capabilities of Product Owners through targeted coaching, feedback, and mentoring.* Cultivate an agile mindset across teams and stakeholders, educating on best practices and methodologies to foster efficiency and innovation.* Drive strategic planning in collaboration with Product Strategy and Management, assessing product performance to inform long-term visions and immediate improvements.* Champion the integration of agile principles and frameworks, ensuring alignment with business objectives through servant leadership, and managing team performance inclusively.* Excel in utilizing advanced Agile tools (Atlassian suite,Miro, etc), demonstrating exceptional leadership, communication, and analytical skills to spearhead continuous improvement initiatives.

* Collaborate with technical, business, and executive leaders to translate strategic direction into a series of actionable, measurable projects / initiatives to achieve both short-term and long-term goals and objectives; establish portfolio-level success measures.* Define and develop program/product management best practices, processes, and policy to ensure alignment with corporate strategy and goals. * Lead strategic planning and execution for our product management team, overseeing end-to-end execution across multiple parallel program workstreams, including risk management, issue/conflict resolution and dependency management.* Grow and manage a team of product managers that work cross-functionally to align on strategic direction overseeing end-to-end execution across multiple work streams.* Develops and maintains program plans and communicates program status to internal stakeholders and project team members.* Identify innovation opportunities to add value to programs and products and provide value for our customers, beyond defined project scope and constraints.* Manage external agency and multiple vendor relationships.

Nestle USA | Purina | Petfinder* Drive overarching roadmap prioritization, cycle planning and reporting across the product organization, working closely with the Director, Technical Program Management to align engineering objectives and deliverables. * Implement best-in-class program management tools and processes to increase team velocity, quality, and accountability.* Lead executive updates and cross-functional review forums.* Guide teams in translating business strategy and goals into specific, measurable program plans and objectives; help teams anticipate needs, mitigate risks, and deliver on time and in scope.* Facilitate decision-making, strategic alignment and go-to-market planning with cross-functional leadership. * Able to keep teams focused and thrive in an environment with a high degree of change and competing priorities.* Superior communication skills and attention to detail.* Technically savvy and at ease leading both technical and non-technical discussions.* Identifies and manages technical and schedule dependencies in the project and ensures that they are understood, planned for, and executed against, appropriately.

Facilitates IT projects and coordinates department operations. Works to bring people and technology together providing leadership to technology professionals while supporting, training, developing, and responding to the needs of faculty, staff, and students. Thought of as a valued member of the administrative team who serves on a variety of collaborative teams charged with instruction and operations planning. * Serves as district liaison to outside businesses and agencies as it pertains to all technology related issues.* Assists in the recruitment, screening, training, and assigning all personnel in technology.

Lead a distributed scrum team, prepared and presented comprehensive reports regarding project progress to the Company’s executive leadership. Effectively handled complex problems, available resources, and budgeting.* Facilitated the entire development and quality assurance to ensure optimal progress and product stability of end-users.* Spearheaded all aspects of project management for complete SDLC of three large-scale applications.

Core product owner functions through the software development lifecycle within the Scrum framework which included gathering requirements, authoring user stories, leading backlog refining, and supporting unit/system testing.* Developed user stories, story maps, and workflow diagrams. * Developed and strengthened professional relationships with clients, co-workers, and PeopleNet’s senior management.

Software Product Analyst (2010 - 2013)Contributed in the evolution of product development processes and tools while identifying and resolving potential technical problems or design flaws. Performed testing of product functionality while analyzing and debugging all the product issues. * Developed, evaluated, and implemented multiple procedures/methods to reuse components within a project or design.* Prepared functional and regulatory documentation, reviewed customer feedback, and provided appropriate solutions.Technology Service Quality Analyst (2008 - 2010) Operated as a Technology Service Quality Analyst and performed quality assurance data reviews. Communicated with all the customers and provided satisfactory guidance for the data review process as well as throughout the life cycle of the project. * Created the functional design documentation, and delivered quality assurance reviews of technical services projects.* Accomplished responsibilities regarding technical services and quality assurance along with other tasks as assigned.Training Specialist (2006 - 2008) Delivered initial and recurring training programs (by means of WebEx and in-person) as well as facilitated training sessions in the areas of core training, data review, building coach training, and end-user training.* Motivated groups to learn in creative ways, moreover facilitated on-site Go-Live launch to troubleshoot product issues.* Increased product knowledge by learning product updates through multiple professional development opportunities.

Geography Instructor for Washington Technology Magnet School, a comprehensive magnet secondary school with a STEM focus serving students grades 6 – 12. Washington’s mission is to help kids get smarter through engagement in learning and preparing them for a changing world.* Responsible for developing, implementing and integrating technology into the eighth grade geography curriculums. * Consulted with individual departments customizing and adapting these materials to meet the needs of diverse student groups. * Student-teacher relationships were managed and maintained by communicating effectively via phone, email, one-on-one conferences and web-based grading system. * Responsible for creating teacher training needs via designing web sites and online video tutorials providing effective training solutions.

GED Instructor for the Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps Center, a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, helping young people (ages 16-24) improve the quality of their lives through career, technical and academic training.* Supervised GED Program
* Tutored adults one–on–one
* Coordinated GED graduation ceremonies