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Simsbury, Ct, Us

Burbank, Ca, Us

Sr. Technical Project Manager/Scrum Lead for 4 scrum teams delivering Ad Technology features and enhancements within the Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) organization.

Woonsocket, Ri, Us

• Product Manager on a team developing a best-in-class application to serve as a one stop marketplace to curate, manage and access all enterprise data at CVS.• Created Epics and Features to align with the Data Portal Product Roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements based on user feedback and business goals.• Collaborated closely with Design, Engineering and other teams to deliver exceptional user experiences.• Created user stories and worked with engineers and UI/UX designers to refine and size/point those stories to make sure they had all the details required and then aligned stories/points for delivery in iterations/sprints. Managed the Product Backlog.• Drove timelines, monitored progress in daily scrum meetings, identified and addressed potential roadblocks, and kept key stakeholders and management updated on progress.• Participated in successful MVP product releases.• Drove all pre-work for the Manage and Access team in preparation for quarterly PI Planning and led the team through each PI Planning event. This included identifying key epics for delivery and breaking epics down into features. Working with the engineering and design teams to identify user stories for each feature, story pointing each story and then determining which features could be delivered in the 3-month window of the PI based on capacity. Teams also identified Risks/Issues and Dependencies during the PI Planning.

Woonsocket, Ri, Us

SAFe Sr. Product Owner and Sr. Scrum Master in the Data Strategy, Product and Governance team within the Enterprise Data and Machine Learning organization. Also serve as a Product Manager, creating, refining and driving Features.Lead a scrum team working on delivering Security, Access Control and DevOps features for the Enterprise Data Platform in the Cloud. Features are focused on implementing the Google Cloud Platform, including POCs for Unified Access Control, POCs for Data Replication/Data Migration from on-prem to Cloud, standardizing DevOps/CICD with GCP, Cloud Function, GKE, Logging and Monitoring, Google IAM access provisioning across the platform, Key Management, Cloud Composer, Big Query, Snowflake, Data Proc, Muti-Tenant, multi-Line of Business, Encryption/Decryption, Voltage, Data De-Identification, Infoworks, Privacera.As a Product Owner I have frequent interactions with Engineers, Product Managers and Business Stakeholders to gather business and technical needs and requirements. Using those requirements, I create and contribute to Features, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria in Rally. Perform release planning with Development Managers, Scrum Teams and Business Stakeholders. Lead Iteration Planning sessions and Backlog Refinement with cross-functional scrum teams that include engineers, QA, Architects, Tech Leads, and Scrum Masters. Participate in and facilitate agile ceremonies – PI Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Retrospectives, Iteration Planning, Story Refinement, Scrum of Scrums, ART Synch, System Demos, Team Demos, Inspect & Adapt.Product Leadership includes interviewing candidates and giving insight on candidates to be hired, specifically Engineers, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters. As a Scrum Master, I also assist with onboarding new team members to the scrum team. Coaching - Also serve as an Agile Coach to all roles on the Scrum team and Train to help the Train members with growing skills in using best practices in Agile and SAFe.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

• SAFe Product Owner of the Consumption and Semantic layer of the Unified Data Platform within the Aetna Digital organization.

• Sr. Scrum Master for a multi-year transformation of retirement system solutions

• Program Manager on a large, multi-year business and technology transformation initiative in MassMutual Workplace Solutions.• Program executed using SAFe.• Participated in quarterly PI Increment Planning ceremonies, Daily Scrums, Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement/Grooming, Retros, and Scrum of Scrums.• Aligned Agile delivery to Program milestones and managed business readiness activities, risks, issues, decisions and status reporting.

Bristol, Ct, Us

• Led and drove projects in the ESPN Technology Data Platform that captured, stored and distributed sports data serving ESPN.com, the ESPN mobile app, BottomLine, Studio, and Fantasy, for this major sports and media corporation. • Served as a member of the Data Platforms team supporting the Sports Data Platform product. The team was a self-organizing, cross-functional and geographically distributed team, promoting adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continuous improvement, and rapid and flexible response to change.• Provided leadership to 2 Business Systems Analysts and 1 Technical Writer.• Facilitated and participated in Scrum ceremonies including backlog grooming, daily production support triage, iteration/sprint planning utilizing point estimation and business/technical prioritization, story reading and story-based development, solutioning, retrospectives, demos, and daily stand-ups.• Collaborated with other TPMs and POs to manage multi-year Sports Data Platform Product Roadmap.• Championed the implementation of Agile processes into the organization. • Utilized Jama for capturing business requirements in the format of user stories and acceptance criteria. Jama user stories were read in a story reading session and accepted by the team, then fed into a Jira backlog where they were then pointed and pulled into project sprints.• Responsible for managing Epics from inception through implementation. This included defining scope, documenting user stories, acceptance criteria, managing product backlog, facilitating design sessions, managing blockers and ensuring the final product met the Product Owner vision and market needs.• Defined various types of requirements (business, functional, UI, technical). Requirements included feed ingests, updates to any of the 25+ applications the Stats & Information Group uses to enter sports data and monitor sports, and requirements to update or create new APIs for ESPN.com and the ESPN mobile app.