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Amana, Ia, Us

Amana, Ia, Us

· SAFe Certified Agile Product Owner and SAFe Certified Advanced Scrum Master,· Defined and prioritized features, translating user inputs and company strategies into attainable roadmaps.· Collaborated with stakeholders to understand industry dynamics and business needs, shaping strategic vision and aligning delivery efforts with organizational goals.· Standardized and accelerated product delivery across departments, implementing adaptable product techniques applicable at all organizational levels.· Led agile transformations at multiple Fortune 500 companies, driving cultural and process changes to enhance agility and efficiency.· Owned deliverables, proactively identifying risks, providing timely status updates, and collaborating with executives to ensure alignment across the organization· Facilitated agile ceremonies, ensuring effective collaboration and communication within the team.

Fort Mill, Sc

· Collaborated with stakeholders and users to develop comprehensive user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring alignment with project objectives.· Worked closely with the Product Director to integrate capability requests into the product roadmap, leveraging supporting research to inform decision-making.· Created wireframes and prototypes to visualize product features and functionality, facilitating effective communication and alignment with project goals.· Engaged proactively with development team members to deliver clearly defined and well-written acceptance criteria, enabling efficient development processes.· Orchestrated release plans, communications strategies, and upgrade initiatives in coordination with stakeholders, ensuring smooth project execution.· Monitored project progress and proactively addressed production issues throughout the design, build, and testing phases, ensuring timely resolution and adherence to project timelines.

Mooresville, Nc

· Agile Product Owner· Collaborate with multiple departments and end users to create product roadmaps that focus on optimization, innovation, and client experience· Plan and prioritize the product feature backlog and development for the products· Define product vision, road-map, and growth opportunities· Provide backlog and program management, iteration planning and elaboration of the user stories while working with the development team to ensure they have all necessary information to complete their work· Develop feedback loops to validate the most critical product changes prior to implementation and solicit ideas for new functionality· Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals

Mooresville, Nc

Iowa City, Iowa Area

· Met regularly with business stakeholders to collect requirements for user platforms.· Translated business requirements into actionable refined stories for developers, providing comprehensive documentation.· Collaborated across delivery teams to identify integration points and sequence work effectively, ensuring timely delivery.· Kept stakeholders informed of identified risks and mitigations based on team discussions.· Developed wireframes for additional features in the ACT Profile platform based on gathered requirements.· Represented ACT Profile at conferences for counselors and students, addressing inquiries and promoting the platform.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

· Agile Product Owner· Worked with vendors to get mockups based on research and conversations with stakeholders · Collected requirements from stakeholders and turn them into actionable groomed stories for scrum teams to develop · Performed usability testing with students in order to understand their needs and what they think of the system we are designing · Communicated with our customers at conferences to see what they need from ACT

Iowa City, Iowa Area

· Agile Product Owner· Maintained communications between the business and the developers to ensure the requirements are being created correctly· Developed wireframes to create further features in the ACT Profile platform based on the requirements· Tested all developed stories, so ensure quality and the requirements were being met accurately· Represented ACT Profile at conferences for counselors or students and answer any questions they may have

Iowa City

· Created wireframe concepts on how to increase User Engagement on ACT Profile· Participated in discussions with stakeholders throughout the company to start gaining awareness in what ACT did · Organized a Book Drive with two other interns for our 20-intern class to participate in and collected over 650 books

Iowa City, Iowa

· Outreach to students who are struggling academically, socially, or financially · Hold office hours two times a week to discuss any issues the students may be having with them · Log all conversations and outreach into the university system that is shared with my supervisor and other University officials

Iowa City, Iowa

· Plan alcohol free alternatives for students living in the residence halls on weekend evenings· Organize events for groups of students ranging from 30 to 400+ students· Led weekly meetings to discuss the best themed event for the weeks activity and how we could tie in food, activities, and marketing

Master'S Degree, User Experience Design

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology

Activities and Societies: Relay for Life, Alpha Phi Omega, Dance Marathon, STATMinored in Business,

Bachelor'S Degree, Informatics Human Computer Interaction

Activities and Societies: Relay for Life, STAT, and a volunteer for several 5ks around the area.Majoring in informatics -human computer.

Education record

Soprano in choir, technician on sound and light crew, and member of showchoirs.