Valerie Johnson Email & Phone Number

Greater Detroit Area

Process: Enterprise Agile Coach for OptumRx Portal Program Environment: SAFe, Scrum, Wire Frames, CA Agile, Jenkins, Mobile Apps, offshore developers, automatic testing and SharePointEnterprise Agile Coach • Providing Agile training to VP’s, Directors, SM, PO, Stakeholders and delivery teams for upstream and downstream alignment to Agile transformation.• Facilitating Scum of Scum meetings with 5 teams to ensure transparency.• Conducting 3-day Program Increment meetings for release planning using SAFe framework.• Generating Management by Objective (MBO) metrics with teams to cultivate an Agile behavior. (i.e., Velocity, Burn Rate, Defect, and other metrics)• Providing positive feedback loops to motivate teams on wins (1-1 role-based coaching).• Managing Portfolio Community of Practice for knowledge sharing and collaboration (open office hours to engage product managers and portfolio managers in their Agile transformations.• United Health Group (OptumRx) class facilitator providing training in 10 areas of Agile including (Kanban, Scrum, SAFe and LESS company versions).• Identifying opportunities to where to increase engineering practices through automated testing and continuous deployment.

Newark, Nj

Scrum MasterSAFe Agilst CertifiedDesign and develop Agile Project Life Cycle in lieu of CMMI Best practices and ScrumManage Vendor Engagement Manager project Forecast, Accruals and BudgetingResource planning Development of Agile tool kit (templates, checkpoints, processes and techniques)Agile Tool Assessment (Rally, HP Agile Manager)Training and Coaching Scrum TeamsOrganizational Change Management PlanCoaching project managers (PM) on CMMI Waterfall Training on PSEG PM processesAuditing projects for complianceManage Process Improvement plans in ITReporting to senior management

New York, Ny

Lead BA in the design of a web base tool used in construction estimating. I have been on this assignment to delivery Phase 0 artificats, which has included function and non funcitonal requiremnts, use cases, UML Activity work flow, process flows for current and future state processes, project plan, JAD sessions and typical BA roll for fesability study. Currently the project has been placed on hold due to a larger delivery effort taking place in other parts of the company. Project is set for start up in August 2012. Therefore I am on the market for a BA postion here in NY that would have the capacity to use my diverse skill set through implementaton of a solution.

Change Management for building consturction controls

My responsiblities included the roll out of Agile processes for product delivery and CMMI processes across IT Organization.

Education record

Accounting/Business Administration