Provide Leadership, Training and Guidance over the digital technology portfolio that includes consumer facing self-service, data science, mobile, artificial intelligence, machine learning, api management, data management and scaled agile framework implementation journey initiatives.Saved the company an average of $5M per year with rapidly developing on the salesforce platform instead of purchasing a large software package for digital transformation portfolio work.Built a fully functioning Portfolio Management application on the Salesforce.com platform for tracking all the work the Digital Organization was implementing. This included Roadmaps, Roadmap Items, Risks, Dependencies, Product Catalog to allow for visualizing the data to make evaluations of working on the correct priorities.Improved efficiency of providing targeted answers about digital transformation work from an avg of 5-7 days of consolidation, reformatting and distribution to 2 hours having a source of truth about all the portfolio of work.

Provide Leadership, Training and Guidance over the digital technology portfolio that includes consumer facing self-service, data science, mobile, artificial intelligence, machine learning, api management, data management and scaled agile framework implementation journey initiatives.Oversaw and managed initiative concepts and benefit hypothesis leadership to evaluating the value delivered after implementation.Moved the company in the direction of lean portfolio budgeting funding agile release trains and bringing the work to them for an actual evaluation of value delivery and predictability in a scaled agile environment.Built a fully functioning Portfolio Management application on the Salesforce.com platform for tracking all the work the Digital Organization was implementing. This included utilizing the Opportunity as the work with Projects, Roadmaps, Roadmap Items, Risks, Dependencies, Product and Capability and an Approval process to manage In-Flight vs Backlog Opportunities with Stack Ranking for Prioritization and Sequencing.

- Assist team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes for the Anthem Anywhere Mobile App.- Manage the internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information pertaining to the Anthem Anywhere Mobile App within the four brands Anthem supports through it's mobile application for Android and iOS.- Built relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders to facilitate team's interaction to execute the vision and scope within the budget.- Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog with Grooming Sessions.- Coached team members on SAFe values, principles, lean budgeting, and lean-agile leadership.- Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile in the organization.- Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met.- Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and SAFe ceremonies.- Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example- Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment- Tracked and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management- Act as a Project Manager specifically when it comes to planning resources, delivery dates, approval processes, and budgeting.

Work with Executive & Creative Management to expand our clients marketing reach through the use of technology. Using an active and practical approach to help direct all people internally and externally to meet mutually beneficial strategic marketing & sales goals. Continually improve the technical integrations, platforms and services for Two17 Marketing.

Uniting software developers in the mid-Atlantic region through conferences, career, and learning opportunities. Organizers of RevolutionConf (http://revolutionconf.com) and HRDevFest (http://hrdevfest.org)

- Scrum Master on the Medicaid Mobile Team at Anthem

http://stratactical.coI am available to be hired as Consultant! I provide services as a consultant or contractor as a senior business analyst or project manager. I have experience in:* Emerging technologies* Software as a Service* Marketing applications and operations* Customer service and call center operations* Social technologies implementations internal or external* Implement and integrate social business operation* Technology Strategy and Planning* Operation and Resource planning for new business processes and technologies

Building a more efficient technology solutions to connect the Home Office operations with the Liberty Tax franchise locations. Making the "Zee's" more efficient, productive and customer service orientated with the use of this emerging technology solutions.

Reason for ending consulting assignment. I relocated to Virginia Beach, VA.Best Buy Corporation:* Documented End to End processes for implementing an eCommerce Marketplace on BestBuy.com* Developed and documented processes for processes product assortments from several supply partners.* Managed user acceptance testing through several technical and business process implementations.* Developed process models to integrate the online store, order management, fulfillment management, payment processing and Supplier\Seller management.

* Managing the functional ownership of Quality Center 9.2* Developed and implemented the utilization of the requirements module within Quality Center 9.2* Transition planning from one requirements management application to the requirements module in Quality Center 9.2* Coach and Mentor project teams on the enterprise standard requirements management process called Scenario Based Requirements.* Developed the process and documentation to use SBR with implementing packaged software. This area of improvement has helped many teams have more successful implementations and working relationships with their Vendors.* Managed and Communicated the changes necessary for the improvements and enhancements for the SBR process for our Enterprise Release schedule. Managed the changes and communicated them to an Enterprise audience.

Senior Business Analyst consultant for Weatherly Consulting. Providing leadership in the areas of consulting, recruiting, and sales support. Thrivent Financial Project Work:Senior Business Analyst : Business Systems Analyst Project work for Client: business analysis, conceptual application design requirements, management of the business process architecture for implementation of an enterprise client relationship management software as a solution SaaS application.Business Analyst : Systems Analyst : Project Manager : Release ManagerProject: Lead business analysis, system requirements management and quality assurance for an online Retirement Strategy tool called ThriveQ.com for Thrivent Financial

Project: Led business analysis, system requirements management and quality assurance for an employer portal application. Responsible for writing the project scope, requirement documents, detailed design documents, test plans and user documents for an Employer Portal web applicationProject: Led business analysis, project execution, discipline structure and senior leader communication efforts for the development of new software development lifecycle for the Employer Portal business group. •Served as the "process development liaison" between senior management team and project management, development, architecture, business analyst, and quality assurance teams.•Managed software requirements within the Rational Unified Process framework and facilitated the enhancement and maintenance of the new software development process for business requirements to be realized inside the Employer Portal application in a production environment

Carlson Companies (Client)Project: Lead business analysis, system requirements management, project managed work breakdown activities, and quality assurance for the development of Carlson Marketing’s new Service Orientated Architecture Platform for their Service offerings within their loyalty business.•Identified and documented internal/external business processes, developed and implemented methodological and process plans for the delivery and management of business and software/application requirements.•Managed traceability of the business service offering requirements I was responsible for within the program to ensure the program was proceeding mitigating the risks of the dependencies for delivery of this new service orientated platform.•Performed business analysis activities such as gathering requirements, managing those requirements through a project life cycle for their implementation of service orientated architecture of business services offerings.

Project:Lead project management and business analysis, system requirements management and quality assurance for the development of new electronic receipt submission application.Project:Lead coordinated the work breakdown structures, business analysis, system requirements management and quality assurance for the development foreign currency reimbursement integration.Project:Project Managed, lead business analysis, and provided subject matter expertise implementing a new software development lifecycle utilizing an iterative development methodology.• Developed the business procedures to ensure the development teams had the proper information exchange and approval processes to insure proper execution of projects within this new methodology.

Managed project timelines; gathered, analyzed, modeled and tested throughout the development lifecycle; and monitored and reported on project budgets to ensure adherence to guidelines. Project was finished 2 months ahead of schedule and $500,000 under budget. This system created a ‘on demand’ tool for submitting requests for appraisals that eliminated the need for an outside vendor, concurrently achieving a cost reduction in excess of $300,000 annually.Built and documented a new ‘Mortgage Portfolio Collection System’ that resulted in growing the portfolio collections from 46% to over 75% within 6 months by adding a system that allowed collectors to process more accounts in a day than was previously possible to do in a week. This $850,000 project was finished on-time and within budget.Change Agent within a Development Center of Services to implement shared internal resources concept. Produced a strong new strategic sourcing initiative.

Managed bulk purchases of mortgage loans up to and exceeding $500 Million dollars of Mortgage Loan Products. These products ranged from Asset Backed to Mortgaged Backed Loan Products.The Loan Packages were funded through operational funding processes to be placed into investment pools to be sold as mortgaged back securities on Wall Street's open market.

Managed a portfolio of repo'd and charged off balances of automobile loans around $3,000,000.Responsible for settling these account balances with either settlement balances and or monthly payments.