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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

Managed the end-to-end delivery of software change from Products to Engineering, QA, UAT, and Release Management, provided project status updates to Senior Management, interrogated dependencies to ensure they were considered and accounted for. Oversaw mitigation steps required to close any gaps between integration points while eliminating all blockers along the critical path to a successful delivery.• Prepared financial reports and presentations for project stakeholders, including senior management and clients.• Served as the first point of contact for multi-disciplined and multi-faceted Engineering design and development initiatives.• Secured resources, scoped efforts, outlined priorities, and established delivery milestones.• Identified and highlighted technical risk areas and mitigation strategies with Bakkt’s partnerships.

New York, New York, Us

Planned, led, organized, and motivated agile teams to achieve an elevated level of performance and quality in delivering new features that provide exceptional business value to users.• Collaborated with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to manage a portfolio of projects in accordance with our product delivery cadence.• Assisted in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks, leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity, and mentoring and developing team members.• Championed process improvement initiatives across the organization to implement best practices for Agile Project Management.

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

Managed three globally dispersed scrum teams to build and launch a one-of-a-kind consumer application for digital assets held in cryptocurrencies, rewards and loyalty points, gaming assets, and merchant-stored value cards.• Successfully managed the full onboarding and off-boarding process cycle, including conducting orientation sessions, facilitating new hire paperwork, coordinating background checks, and processing exit interviews.• Established collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders and built trust to ensure leadership buy-in across both Business and IT.• Demonstrated the ability to make decisions and independently drive any aspect of an Agile rollout at a team and management level.• Led scrum events (e.g., Daily Standup, Retrospectives, and Sprint & Release Planning).

New York, Ny, Us

Managed an existing portfolio of multiple clients with a combined total in excess of $25 million in annual spending and over 150 thousand users on the platform, a key stakeholder in the roll-out of new features, and a Project Lead for new client implementations of a SaaS solution.• Conducted financial analysis to evaluate project performance and provided recommendations for improvement.• Conducted interviews with prospective candidates, assessing their skills, experience, and cultural fit.• Established client on-boarding processes and requirements.• Collaborated closely with the Product Owner to keep the product backlog relevant and prioritized for the project deliverables, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon, and stories are ready for sizing for several departments including Business Analysts, UI/UX, QA, Developers, Network Operations, and E-Commerce.

New York, New York, Us

Led onsite and offshore resources comprised of Developers, UIUX, and QA professionals.• Monitored cash flow and managed project expenses, including vendor contracts and payments.• Defined the project scope, gathered business requirements, and developed mission-critical policies and procedures.• Developed and implemented routing protocols for web application user interfaces; created QA plans, test scripts, and acceptance criteria for various testing phases.

New York, Ny, Us

Facilitated cross-departmental communications to review and update existing policies and procedures.• Designed current and future state workflows; identified inefficiency errors within NYCHA’s process of closing court-ordered work orders.• Built and maintained collaborative relationships with stakeholders to collect business and technical requirements; successfully designed, developed, and implemented software into existing technology.

Ny, Ny, Us

Managed multiple projects for a world-class FinTech company assisting in combining aggregation, funding, and automation of E-Commerce.• Oversaw the candidate selection process, coordinating interviews and reference checks.• Owned the payments product lifecycle from research and requirements gathering through development and release.• Successfully led the design, development, and implementation of toolsets and payment systems; reduced the firm’s risk exposure by 30%.