Jolene Jangles Email & Phone Number

St Peters, Mo, Us

At Balanced Agility, I specialize in driving transformative change within organizations who are struggling to deliver and unable to attract or retain good clients and top talent. I am highly skilled at enhancing organizational culture, optimizing delivery processes, and achieving operational excellence. I work closely with leaders and teams to instill a culture of continuous improvement and innovation while training individuals at all levels to recognize, implement, and lead change, ultimately evolving organizations to be more adaptive, resilient, and people-focused.Key Contributions:Transformational Leadership: Lead organizational transformation initiatives to drive cultural change and enhance operational effectiveness.Talent Development: Develop individuals and teams through customized training and coaching programs, fostering employee growth and engagement.Operational Excellence: Design and implement strategies to optimize delivery processes, improve efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. Client Stories:Led operational improvements and culture change at a commercial truck and engine manufacturer. Partnered with leadership and change agents, providing training, coaching, and workshops to enhance practices, systems, and processes. Collaborating with the CIO's team to achieve desired outcomes.Collaborated with the top hospital in the country to enhance cross-functional teamwork and data utilization. Gathered requirements, recommended effective programs, and processes, and facilitated a feedback loop for actionable insights. Developed training program and coaching to help leaders anticipate employee concerns and focus on solutions, improving outcomes.At a prominent pharmaceutical manufacturer I developed a pioneering leadership program tailored for technology leaders. Design training that enhanced leadership skills at all levels, fostering innovation, collaboration, customer delight, and increased employee satisfaction.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Minneapolis, Mn

Quincy, Il, Us

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

As a member of Target Technology Services I have lead multiple programs to delivery and adoption of agile principles and practices. Working with multiple business unit I drove successful implementations of applications and BI solutions gaining strong business value while adopting innovated methods to improve the teams. I achieved this using my cores strengths across.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Drove transformation of the 800-person Data & BI portfolio by leading organizational change across all levels; •Developed and implemented plan to extend the usage of agile principles and practices as part of the culture for the BI organization. Identifying and resolved barriers to scaling •Work with senior leadership, business, and other key stakeholders to understand the value of and engage with agile product development processes Migrated 20+ projects from traditional methods to Scrum. Coaching the newly formed Scrum teams in the adoption of agile, providing guidance to ensure effective application of agile values and principles and adherence to applicable standards in alignment with industry-standard scrum methodologies by •Determined level of agile maturity, developing plans to improve processes and increase productivity•Facilitated chartering, boot camps, and other intensive trainings as required.•Instructed and modeled core principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.•Taught team how to make appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

As a key Senior Leader in Enterprise Data Warehouse portfolio, I led multiple teams to successful deliver full BI solutions•Drove effort to move development and business/client teams from traditional methodologies to Agile •Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings•Optimized and lead team to meet Distribution and Transportation Portfolio need. Delivering analytics and reporting to improve operation in distribution centers and across the supply chain. Throughout 2011-2014: Stayed under annually budget of 12 million, delivered 15+ projects, 190 people across four locations. Budget reductions averaged 30% across projects as we moved to scrum•Worked with distributed teams in the US and India, developing a model to decrease resources while increasing value by right sizing and co-located the teams at each location and fostering empowerment •Led Merchant Business Intelligence portfolio of 210 technology and 60 business resources to deliver value within time lines and under budget to enable analytics for Merchant throughout 2009-2011

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

-Managed a team of 150 to facilitate the development and deployment of Product Lifecycle Management(PLM).-Modeled new iterative methodology to improve the team effectiveness, merging best practices of TSD and Agile Development and drove the use of the methodology for seven subsequent projects -Lead the delivery of the PLM Fall 08 release which increased Target's owned brand presence earning $2M in NPV. -Negotiated with leadership and clients to achieve a 45% decrease the ‘09 project cost ($854k) by challenging leadership assumptions, negotiating scope, and using the iterative methodology process to deliver earlier than expected. -Partnered with the PMO to design a reusable template for iterative methodology and Scenario Based Requirements. -Enabled new rapid development methodology on the Raw Materials Management (RMM) program in partnership with Merchandising Process and System Development (MPSD) and End User Computing (EUC).

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

-Analyzed annual product and technology plans-Created monthly release schedule based on code and resource impact-Responsible for process improvements, standards, and best practices for engineering and database administration teams

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

-Created and defined functional business requirements, designs, business scenarios and test scenarios -Acted as a resource providing support for product questions and issues for local and international development -Reviewed and provided approval for design documents and system test plans-Planned and implemented user acceptance testing concurrently at customer site and internally-Worked with management and end users to determine product challenges and strengths

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

-Principle engineer designing and developing large scale customizations to the lease accounting software which was the key line of business -Consulted with clients to identify business procedures and clarify concerns-Performed in-depth research on client issues to determine business solutions -Drove processes reengineering for our client with product training and customer funded development-Project manager for customer-funded product development-Consistently achieved and exceeded project goals: related to cost, time and quality of deliverables including sustained client satisfaction

Master, System Software

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems, General