Jodi Baumann Email & Phone Number

WE-Energies

Shorewood, Wisconsin

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Brown Deer, Wisconsin

• As Release Train Engineer facilitated and guided the Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Product Managers to optimize the flow of value for the solution train in various ways using SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).
• Challenged with the size of the Solution Train (4 trains acting as one train with 36 teams), successfully partnered with the other Release Train Engineer.
• Through strong integrity, relationships, and drive for excellence successfully encourages others to share the same through teamwork and team trust.
• Organize and facilitate virtual planning events, ART sync meetings, and other Agile ceremonies. Utilized Jira dashboards to facilitate ART ceremonies
• Implemented a new tool, Kendis, to facilitate the first virtual planning event in June 2020 one of the most successful planning events.
• Provided the Solution Train and management team various metrics and reporting from Jira.

Milwaukee, 507 Michigan Ave

• As the Senior Project Manager and Scrum Master, lead the activities of the team, key stakeholders and business contacts.
• The project was to move customer facing websites (off old Microsoft.Net framework and old database versions) off Win NT 2003 servers and to new Win 2016 Servers with the latest OS and SSL Certificates to secure the.
• Worked with global, virtual teams consisting of offshore team 4 in India (executed SOW), the main project team of 5 from Canada, France, Florida, and California.
• Worked with a global steering committee of 12 members and approx. 20 business owners worldwide.

• Proven success in leading and directing large high-priority critical company initiatives requiring considerable resources and high levels of cross-functional integration company-wide.
• Successfully managed multi-million-dollar efforts for cloud, infrastructure, data, application,Construction/IT Tower & Commons, migrations/conversions, and other types of projects.
• Implemented strategies to overcome extremely low team morale that impacted Sprint commitments and delivery overall such as lunch & learns agenda determined by focus groups.
• Served at the program level in RTE with five trainees and 3- 5 scrum teams focusing on consistent process execution and tool usage.
• Exhibit exemplary team building ability with skillful straight talk mindset to address items others are thinking but not verbalizing to aid in resolving issues and turning challenges into opportunities.
• Successfully transitioned in-flight project initiatives from traditional project delivery to Agile / SAFe.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Work prior to Northwestern Mutual