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Irvine, California, United States

• Successfully implemented SAFe, Agile scrum frameworks for software development teams, allowing for increased predictability, efficiency and productivity by 30%.• Facilitated Agile ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, demos, reviews, PI Planning sessions, and Inspect and Adapt events to ensure all objectives were met, the projects progressed on schedule and identified opportunities for improvement.• Collaborated with stakeholders, RTEs, other Scrum Masters, Release managers, Senior leadership and business owners to proactively identify risks and dependencies for Agile projects, reducing the chance for costly delays and errors.• Successfully coached and mentored, provided guidance and training to existing or new team members on SAFe and Agile best practices and best practices.• Based on regular monitoring and feedback, utilized Scrum methodology consistently to drive progress and Continuous process improvement. Improved Agile processes overall.• Created Multiple Dashboards for tracking and visibility, leading to improvement in ART performance by 30%.• Created several documents and guides to support teams and Scrum Masters. Improved and aligned existing processes to enhance efficiency.• Monitored team velocity and quality metrics and worked with Scrum Masters to improve team velocity by 35% by implementing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).• Tracked and managed deployments for several products. Improved and implemented deployment tracking and management process to increase visibility and efficiency and successfully completed several deployments on time or ahead of schedule.• Enhanced designated product landing pages to provide crucial details on Deployment Management.• Facilitated multiple types of surveys, completed assessments and reports to track development team performance.

Irvine, California, United States

• Managed the delivery of a high-visibility, enterprise-level projects, coaching and supporting teams to successfully delivered projects on time.• Facilitated Agile ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, demos, and reviews, to ensure all objectives were met and the project progressed on schedule.• Successfully negotiated, escalated and managed project dependencies, resulting in reduction in project risk.• Used agile metrics to measure and improve team performance, resulting in increase in team efficiency.• Reduced the number of blockers by 50% and increased the team's ability to deliver high-quality features by leading several Scrum of Scrums (SoS).• Improved team morale by 20% by leading team-building activities, fostering open communication, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and trust.• Generated project and sprint reports to provide visibility of the project’s overall performance.

Irvine, Ca

• Lead team of 40 project managers across 6 locations globally and managed their workload.• Planned long and short-term allocation of resources, ensured timely development, coaching and retention of resources.• Monitored day to day communication of project managers with clients and other departments for operational support and lead meetings to ensure successful completion of projects.• Reviewed and approved quotes sent out by the sales team to verify costs and project times to ensure profitability and timely delivery.• Established project delivery guidelines for the PM team, which improved turnaround time of projects by 20%.• Collaborated with BDMs and contracts department for revenue growth by looking at lost opportunities with current clients.• Experienced in working with the Sales teams on preparing KPI and Requests for Proposals (RFP and RFQ)• Partnered with Vendor Management team to streamline Vendor rates and reliability allowing the PM team to efficiently place projects for completion.• Tracked workflow to provide continuous process improvement ideas to upper management and QA dept.• Initiated and implemented new production processes, such as: Clinician Review Process (allowed for a reduction of 30% of time localization process and improved quality of delivered translation projects)• Developed and maintained the training and mentoring plan for new hires and for existing project managers.• Revised and implemented the performance review process; focusing on consistent and timely reviews of production team to boost morale and foster a positive work environment.• Conducted monthly client surveys to: record, investigate and resolve client issues and boost satisfaction with client teams.• Managed and lead the following:• ISO Guidelines Adherence and changes• ISO Audits and internal audits• Corrective/Preventive action plans, reports and postmortem reports• Nonconformance reports (internal team and external vendors).

Irvine, Ca

• Managed workflow for the entire PM team and assigned projects to PM’s based on experience and workload• Monitored communications between PM’s and the client daily to ensure quality and timely delivery of projects• Lead weekly meetings to discuss project managers’ challenges and resolve issues with vendors and other departments• Facilitate effective communication between project managers and Sales team and set the expectations of project timelines• Managed Freelance vendors and overseas resources and negotiated rates and project timelines. Created a standard base rate resulting in an average savings of 31% for small scale project• Generated and submitted variety of reports on daily, weekly and monthly basis for CEO to review

Irvine, Ca

• Managed variety of translation and localization projects, with extensive knowledge of clinical trials document localization.• Team lead for Long term clinical trials studies. Managed the team as well as point of contact for the vendor and client. Team worked 24 hours in 4 distinct Geo’s (US, SE Asia, Europe and S. America)• Assigned translators/interpreters for translation projects with efficient scheduling to ensure timely delivery of projects.• Oversee vendors’ selection, allocation, communication, and budgeting and contracts negotiation.• Lead project team and provided support by sharing expertise• Maintained a positive working relationship with clients across the world while meeting extremely tight delivery deadlines.• Worked on high volume of projects on daily basis and maintained good profit margins.

Irvine, Ca

Fountain Valley, Ca

• Managed the speaker and sessions layout for the 2 yearly International conferences • Kicked off the process by sending out request for submissions to about 2000 registered global members and tracking their responses• Responsible for dealing with all submissions of Economic theory and research papers for the conferences and coordinate with all participants (globally) to validate and prepare their sessions• Review submitted Abstracts of research papers to verify suitability of topic/content for presentations, reported to President of the Association (Dean at CSUF)• Scheduled Keynote speakers and corresponding breakout sessions to align with the theme of the conference• Maintained the member database and ran SQL reports to provide member and cost data for the VP of member services• Managed the Office Payroll, Bookkeeping and petty cash.