Kenya Star Harris Email & Phone Number

Bloomington, Il, Us

Bloomington, Il, Us

Peoria, Illinois, Us

Currently serve as Project Manager/Scrum Master on an Automation Test team. Utilizing Robot framework the team is tasked with automating the entire suite of Auto and Home manual test cases to increase efficiency, cost and quality. Communicating technical information to all levels of non technical managers in a meaningful way is a key component. This role involves utilizing organization skills and servant leader management in a rapid changing environment.

My 30-year background in IT, Project Management, Marketing, and Business has given me a unique view across several industries and work experience with diverse cultures and personality types. Combined with my Intuitive skill sets it has become clear to me that EVERYONE has Intuitive Guidance System. Become a Master of this and you will be the master of every aspect of your life!Together we’llDeepen your connection to your purpose, Identify and remove what’s REALLY keeping you stuck Transform your life!If you answer yes to any of the below you are ready to take this step: Are you curious about how your intuition works and how it can help you? Do you feel that there is more joy to be found in your life? Is there a gap between your work life and your personal passion? Do you want to wake up excited for each day and with clarity on your path?

Serving as Program Manager for creating overarching quality improvements across 34 applications, multiple industries and customer demands. This program includes 7 projects each with multiple workstreams. Managing dependencies across project and work streams as well as external departments. Facilitating planning sessions, creating charters, schedules, risks and issues across workstreams, projects and rolling up to a program level. Meet regularly with executive leadership to discuss progress.Implementing Dev/Ops and Agile practices across teams and industries required excellent Organizational Change Management.Communication and reporting to customers, executives, development teams and managers on a consistent basis has been integral to the success of this effort.Identified key areas for improvement including Business requirements, Business intake and alignment with customer objectives to deliver product on time and to customer satisfaction.

Serving as Project Manager for implementing large multi-million dollar systems. Projects included large project focused on implementing a solution for sale of Canadian business, a mid-sized project to integrate incoming claims documents with new Health Claims system. Management of cross functional and multi-cultural teams to deliver projects on time and with desired results. Create project plans, coordinate resources, track and communicate project progress to executives, business partners and team members.Project Manager for project to implement Canadian Migration Program Claims solution. This included coordinating over 64 functionalities, 240 people within the Claims Solution Center; Facilitated over 1,000 hours of workshops and meetings to determine risks, gaps and solutions across all Claims functionality. Primavera was used to track timelines, milestones, budgets and executive reporting.In less than 8 months this effort identified a solution that involved over 140 changes to meet the contractual date of 1/1/15. An historic event for State Farm. Project delivered on time and successfully using the Agile methodology.Project Manager for project to integrate incoming claims documents with new Health Claim processing system. This included coordinating multi-cultural business, technical and test teams of approximately 40, performing analysis by working with multiple business areas to identify business, functional and system requirements and coordinating technical teams in design and development. Assisted in negotiations of a contract for off-shore development and testing. Responsible for budget and the management of detailed schedule to meet goals of the project. Also managed off-shore development team to ensure on time delivery of artifacts to the project. Delivered project successfully, on time, with no defects.

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