Jenny Schell, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

• IT Product Delivery DirectorAgile Program and Development Director: Oversight of Technical Project Management, QA and Engineering teams; matured startup engineering organization.
• Established program management structure and visibility by maturing engineering teams towards quarterly planning, regularly communicating status to peer Directors and Executive Leadership.
• Drove increased Agile adoption with backlog grooming, scrum of scrums, retros, and company-wide sprint report outs.
• Established Opala’s SDLC and rollout to engineering alongside Engineering managers.
• Established release maturity: taking organization from a single manual release to weekly automated CICD deployment.
• Collaborated with peer Opala Health Directors to establish our company mission and vision.

Spokane, Washington, US

• IT Project Leader & Manager: Oversight of several software application selection & implementations; Managed application support team, delivering solutions for our clinics during COVID.
• Established backlog, backlog grooming process and monthly planning cadence for Business Intelligence and Applications Support teams.
• Led 4 software application vendor selection & implementations for the organization.
• Developed team of Application Support Analysts through coaching, performance feedback and skill assessments.
• Partnered with Department of Health and National Guard to establish technical infrastructure at the Spokane Arena in order to administer COVID vaccines to the Spokane community.

Chicago, US

• Software Engineering Manager/Program ManagerAgile Program Leader, Release Train Engineer & Scrum Master: Managed agile development teams, delivering software releases on a monthly schedule.
• Partnered with Engineering and Product Management organization to establish and deliver product roadmap for new Payer Connect product line.
• Led the product transformation from pure research and development to production-ready solution; product now live with 2 clients and 2 pilots.
• Developed staff of engineers and testers through coaching, performance feedback and assessment delivery.
• Managed overall software development lifecycle, from planning through release post-deployment support, highlighted improvement opportunities; developed and delivered on corresponding process improvement plans.

Chicago, US

• Technical expert: Drove high-impact business initiatives to deliver technology, functional/process harmony, platforms and innovation. Executed on engineering project plans for four major development releases, including.
• Initiated and developed new software development processes to ensure highest product quality.
• Scum Master/Project Manager leading agile development team focused on delivering e-Prescribing Certification Requirements from Surescripts for Physician Order Entry E-Prescribing application.
• Created system requirements documents, collaborated with system designers; reviewed, edited and approved functional specifications prior to development.
• Created large-scale technical specifications, directed Lead Software Engineers to implement new functionality.
• Managed nine software engineering workloads, provided technical guidance and mentoring to teammates and peers.