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Olathe, Ks, Us

Olathe, Ks, Us

Manage a team of 8 direct reports that include project managers, product owners, business analysts, and a web user experience designer that execute work on 6 scrum teams. Areas of accountability - Product Ownership and Project Management of:• garmin.com - homepage, product pages, account management center, subscription management center, marine maps purchase, blog, etc.• Content Delivery Network, Routing, and Web Application Firewalls - Cloudflare• Analytics and Web Marketing - Google Analytics, Tealium Tag ManagementContinuous Improvement Accomplishments:• Transformed a disengaged front-end development team to a high-performance results-oriented team that grew from 2 team members to 40+ associates and supervisors. • Founding coach of the Garmin IT Agile Center of Excellence. Collaborated on the creation of the training materials and ongoing consulting. • Product owner of the web tool for executive pipeline prioritization, project status, and project intake.• Proposal, discovery, and execution of project time tracking for worldwide IT associates to track project costs.• Facilitate weekly incident management and corrective action reviews with IT and Engineering directors.• Implemented governance for browser support standards to allow teams to focus on the substance and purpose of the work. • Drove mobile first paradigm shift in organizational thinking. User experience and user interface designs now account for mobile, tablet, and desktop resolutions.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Responsible for implementing Android, iOS, and web applications across a wide variety of industries. Involved from client kick-off, eliciting and documenting requirements, defining user experience through wireframes, securing and managing resources, project execution, creating Android and iOS builds, implementing products to production, training users, and transitioning project to operational support. When not managing projects, I focus my time on process improvement. Efforts include:• Construction project management tool (Android, iOS, and Web)• eCommerce website - responsive design, performance improvement, and migration to a cloud server• Pediatric care apps - strategic consulting, Android and iOS applications• Retail evaluation tool (Android, iOS, and Web)• Animal health - strategic consulting with user interface designsProject Management Office (PMO) Process Improvement:• Implemented Jira and Jira Agile to improve development team efficiency and provide a consistent client and team experience.• Instituted and facilitate weekly 90 day team resource planning meeting and estimate to complete process.• Create templates for the following: Project Charter, Project Schedule, Sprint Reviews, and Project Close. • Developed and documented the employee and contractor on-boarding process.• Developed project status template that is reviewed in a weekly team meeting.• Documented the Engage Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Project work:• Successfully managed the 11,000 hour effort to implement AEB's first Affordable Care Act (ACA) product. • Scrum master of the first team at AEB to deliver product enhancements using the scrum framework. The project enhanced the customer facing website for self service transactions.• Using the best practices learned on the first scrum team, I became the scrum master of a new scrum team that implemented enhancements to internal applications involved with the enrollment event process. Although none of the 8 team members had prior scrum experience, the team was able to implement into production a new application in only three months.• Project manager of transitioning to the corporate standard HP PPM project management software.• Managed the effort to update internal applications to support the upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer.Additional challenges:• Represent the PMO in the agile integration team. The team is determining how to integrate agile software development methodologies into our existing processes.• Frequently engaged to provide best practices and ideas on standardizing the use of the HP PPM project management software across all Assurant PMOs.• Interview potential candidates for open positions including: PMO Director, Architect Director, project managers, business analysts, and test engineers. Over 40 interviews have been performed since 2012.• Administrator of HP PPM project management software (traditional projects) and VersionOne (agile projects).

Kansas City, Mo, Us

• Facilitated weekly IT strategy meetings to vet new requests for future IT projects.• Designed, implemented, and maintained the technical solution for the IT request process.• Set the agenda and documented action items at the weekly PMO Project Review Forum.• Administrator of the project management software for 500 users. Worked closely with members of the PMO, DLC owners, and IT management to continually enhance the tool.• Developed and continually enhanced Cognos reports to provide data to stakeholders of the project management software.• Streamlined contractor sourcing and payment process to significantly reduce sourcing costs and resource acquisition time.• Liaison between IT and accounting departments for project financial reporting.

Masters, Business Administration

Ba, Business Administration