Kimberly Milio Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Contracting for both private sector and federal clients.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Agile Coach• Coach agile teams in the methodology• Integrate related methodologies within the company• Develop standards and requirements for the agile process• Provide training to employees on the agile process• Help teams navigate agile tools and software• Encourage employee and stakeholder buy-in• Coach teams and senior leaders on design thinking, user experience/product design best practices• Create and facilitate company-wide as well as targeted training sessions and workshops on business value discovery, retrospectives, and design activities • Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners and team members on Agile software development principles and practices, framework processes, team building, and facilitation• Coach executives and stakeholders to align their expectations for working with an Agile development environment• Effectively incorporate client insights into team direction by working with management and product owners to establish feature delivery based on business value and priority• Partner and coach, participating in real-time to provide advice or assistance to teams and team members as they tackle and overcome difficult challengesScrum Master• Scrum Master for multiple teams• Facilitate discussions of complex, high value IT delivery projects• Work closely with product owner and teams to identify and act on opportunities to ensure vision, roadmaps and personas are well defined and dependencies are understood• Identify and communicate impediments to remove with team members, stakeholders, or leadership, escalating if required• Practitioner and Advocate for for Agile and Scrum methodologies across department

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Directly planned, coordinated, and managed large and complex analysis projects. Major focus on providing specifications for data collection transformations including creating programs for file creation, markup transformation, and data clean up. Including:• Translated business requirements and vision into an actionable publishing plan• Conducted analysis meetings and maintain records of meeting decisions, manage analysis teams, and set priorities• Developed analysis reports, conversion specifications, user documentation, and DTD change requests• Supervised the activities of staff and project teams by planning, organizing, distributing, and coordinating the flow of work• Trained and advised staff on project tracker, data management tools

Alexandria, Va

Responsible for directing all aspects of content and metadata creation to ensure the timely and cost-effective production of high-quality online collections and videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning.• Responsible for directing all aspects of content and metadata creation to ensure the timely and cost-effective production of high-quality online collections and videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning• Served as point of contact for specifications, billing, pricing, and quality for 4 offshore and 3 U.S.-based vendors doing manual semantic indexing, audio/video encoding, and conversion to XML, HTML, SGML• Defined and led the RFP (request for pricing) process on 3rd party vendor indexing of The Sixties Collection, Romantic Era Re-defined, and Anthropology Online• Created template and process to publish quarterly Capacity/Volume Plan, including number/type of roles, financial implications on budget, and impact on company's annual publishing plan• Served as the analyst and implementation manager for VP Metadata Standards & Bibliographic Control to put in place metadata standards and controlled vocabularies for Women and Social Movements International, World History in Video, and Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels.• Established the best practices and trained production staff in archiving, storing, and retrieving all physical and electronic content including over 800,000 pages, 15,000 hours of video/audio, and 90,000 images• Established the production plan and process for award winning collections such as Classical Music Library, Counseling and Therapy in Video Series, LGBT Thought and Culture, and Nursing Education in Video• Created end to end process to support newly evolving business model including developing, implementing, and marketing full e-commerce site to purchase individual titles• Served as staff and technical manager for six indexers and five data processing specialists

Responsible for digital conversion of materials, including being the point person for external vendor communication and monitoring material delivery dates/adherence to specifications. Particular focus on cross-training and coaching staff along with creating and maintaining documentation on processes, learning strategies and approaches, technical specifications, and best practices.• Processed tens of thousands of video, audio, text and image-based data from licensing to loading for indexing, ensuring company’s turn-around requirements and quality standards are met• Provided in-transit visibility by documenting and communicating content release numbers at various stages of the production life cycle and monitor release goals to major stakeholders and senior managers• Edited hundreds of and/or edit HTML, SGML, and XML through various web authoring program• Leveraged knowledge of scripting languages to support import of external data for delivery to proprietary content management system • Defined and implemented workflow to increase the efficiency of over 500 hours of video• Facilitated accurate entry of bibliographic metadata about titles into internal systems as content arrives in-house• Assisted Production management in designing and developing efficient Production processes to support new lines of products and services• Communicated with vendors to resolve any issues that arise during processing, conversion, and shipping of production materials• Served as the in-house expert on DTDs, keying specs, and conversion rules• Trained newly hired staff on established processes, procedures, and tools to successfully perform the DPS role

Focused on identifying Information Technology professionals who exceed expectations and take projects to a whole new level of excellence. Vetted consultants work in contract positions that enhance their skills and advance their careers.• Created, edited, and distributed weekly reports Marketing Department• Reviewed published materials and recommend revisions or changes in scope, format, content, and methods of reproduction and binding • Selected and created photographs, drawings, sketches, diagrams, and charts to illustrate material• Upgraded and managed IT consultant resume database• Responsible for writing or re-writing potential candidate resumes, incorporating primary skills, applications and previous work locations • Organized hundreds of resumes according to set standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology which included writing a well-developed technical synopsis• Provided support to Human Resource department by managing and maintaining all pertinent data in the payroll system, which includes collection and posting of payroll hours bi-weekly • Responsible for gathering information for group health insurance proposals through various brokers and making recommendations to the CEO

Managed CCBC Alumni database.

• Created design prototypes, including graphic design, site navigation, and layout of content, for individual, client-driven websites.• Coordinated Quality Assurance procedures including testing and debugging of code.• Provide training on maintenance and update procedures to clients who choose to take charge of their own websites.• Built websites using technologies that conform to international standards and make sure that they are universally accessible.• Created graphics including icons and logos using PhotoShop and Illustrator. • Installed shopping carts by use of CGI scripts for business client websites.• Created a computerized customer database.• Documented and maintained all company correspondence.

Continuing Studies, Interactive Design, Painting The Portrait And Figure, Expressive Portraiture

Computer Graphics And Digital Imaging, Business And Management