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Kansas City, Mo, Us

Leeꞌs Summit, Missouri, Us

Leeꞌs Summit, Missouri, Us

Responsible for a team of ten Program Managers, Project Managers and contractors supporting more than 100 projects across all areas of the organization. Collaborates directly with C-level executives to review project portfolios, project performance, capacity planning, budgets and stakeholder needs. Leads development and management of the project prioritization process, resource management, business case, project standards, audit and ROI. Responsible for the development of goals to drive increased team performance and reviews staff through regular constructive performance feedback. Continually providing career development and training opportunities. Makes decisions on personnel actions such as hiring, promotions and salary increases. Strong ability to collaborate with leadership to define and implement creative solutions including defining, measuring delivery results and KPI’s.

Leeꞌs Summit, Missouri, Us

Responsible for planning, execution and delivery for all programs and projects supporting > 130 yearlystrategic milestones within the Analytics Center of Excellence. Perform leadership and agilecoaching for eight development teams leveraging both Scrum and Kanban frameworks with atotal of 60 employees. Duties include training and development of the department onleveraging agile methodologies to continuously improve delivery of the highest value to ourstakeholders. Responsible for implementing multiple software applications including AzureDevOps and PowerBI to support real-time automated stakeholder reporting for all teams andleadership. Mentor and collaborate with two project managers supporting the team to ensuresuccessful delivery programs goals.

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Responsible for managing multiple agile software development teams including international locations, supporting various proprietary software platforms. Perform all leadership and management functions for Software Engineers, Systems Engineers and Quality Assurance personnel. Leveraging agile methodologies, cloud infrastructures and tactics to support shippable code that adds business value. Continuously applying development and problem solving skills to all phases of application development, delivery, and support. Communication and relationship management to all levels of the organization from project teams to Sr. Level executives.Continuous coaching of agile team members. Sets performance goals to drive individual performance; reviews staff through regular constructive performance feedback; provides career development and training opportunities. Makes decisions on personnel actions such as hiring, promotions and salary increases.Strong ability to collaborate with senior leadership and project managers to define and implement creative solutions and measure delivery results. Highly skilled in working well with individuals in all levels of the organization and to effectively lead others. Partners with the business teams to understand their business focus, assist in technology learning for the business, and suggest new/innovative ways to solve business problems. Ensures that staff has proper production support arrangements in place, including after-hours support. Accountability for all financial aspects of the project(s) during the execution phase.Ensures that the team is appropriately trained. Develop and maintain training standards for various technologies. Anticipating staffing needs for future development.

Responsible for performing all leadership and management functions for a group of Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, and Quality Assurance personnel. Leveraging Agile methodologies and tactics to support shippable code that adds business value. Continuously applying development and problem solving skills to all phases of application development, delivery, and support. Communication and relationship management to all levels of the organization from project teams to Sr. Level executives.Continuous coaching of agile team members. Sets performance goals to drive individual performance; reviews staff through regular constructive performance feedback; provides career development and training opportunities. Makes decisions on personnel actions such as hiring, promotions and salary increases.Strong ability to collaborate with senior leadership and project managers to define and implement creative solutions and measure delivery results. Highly skilled in working well with individuals in all levels of the organization and to effectively lead others. Partners with the business teams to understand their business focus, assist in technology learning for the business, and suggest new/innovative ways to solve business problems. Ensures that staff has proper production support arrangements in place, including after-hours support. Accountability for all financial aspects of the project(s) during the execution phase.Ensures that the team is appropriately trained. Develop and maintain training standards for various technologies. Anticipating staffing needs for future development.

Develop strategies and overall vision to leverage the SolidifyHR software platform to drive revenue. Acting Scrum Master for software development team leveraging Agile methodologies and tactics to support shippable code that adds business value. Additional responsibilities include projecting revenue goals and developing metrics reporting to Senior Management Team. Maintain monthly program report to CEO of Assurant Employee Benefits and presenting monthly program report to Senior Managers/Stakeholders. IT Program Manager for all projects that involve SolidifyHR and Assurant. Responsible for infrastructure integration and management of Assurant Project Managers assigned to SolidifyHR projects.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Managed large project teams to deliver new features and solutions to support various business needs. Practiced both Waterfall and Agile methodologies to drive results and deliver business value. Reported to Senior Leadership Committee weekly on project progress, requests for resources and mitigation planning. Assigned as permanent Project Manager for the SolidifyHR outside vendor relationship.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Report directly to the 2nd Vice President of Marketing and Senior Management Team. Responsible for the research, development, implementation and support for new product initiatives that generate new revenue streams for the company. Accountable for creating strategic alliances with outside companies to improve overall financial performance. Activities include, but are not limited to, strategic coordination, reporting and metrics, attend conferences, research competitive environment, product development, infrastructure analysis and streamlining.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Woodland Hills, Ca, Us

Woodland Hills, Ca, Us

Auburn Hills, Mi, Us

Mba, Masters Of Business Administration

Marketing, Business

Business Administration, Business