Laura Adams Email & Phone Number

Newberg, Or, Us

Newberg, Or, Us

Tualatin, Oregon, United States

Tualatin, Oregon

A key member of Powin’s team and works directly with the executive team, product managers, software engineers, and hardware engineers to manage projects to their schedules and milestones. * Manage multiple, concurrent software, hardware, and business projects * Coordinate all aspects of project planning including scope, schedule, budget, technical resources, and communications * Provide regular status reports to customers and internal stakeholders about individual and interdependent projects* Track and report on company’s overall project portfolio performance * Mentor junior project managers

Portland, Oregon Area

• Collaborate with users and stakeholders to define stories, analyze their impacts, develop solutions, and document their impact on current process flow.• Manage story lifecycles using Jira and Confluence• Lead product owners through backlog reviews, sprint planning, release planning and retrospectives.

• Collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts, system users, and stakeholders to understand and document existing and proposed business processes, requirements, and system needs• Closely partner with stakeholders throughout the process to ensure ongoing alignment and participation throughout the SDLC process.• Effectively facilitate solutioning and requirements gathering sessions with individuals and large groups.• Produce effective documentation to capture and communicate business process and requirements in the format of business process flow diagrams, decision trees, requirements documents, and user experience flows.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Project management for the OSS vertical, supporting 6 integrated instances of MSS (Oracle’s MetaSolv Solution System) and 5000+ concurrent end users• Performed major upgrades of MSS instances from version 6.1 to 6.3, including the related infrastructure updates.• Performed 7 semi-annual, minor upgrades of MSS (OBF/ASR 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)• Full SDLC management of application enhancements and integrations with internal and external systems.• Implementation and post-implementation management.• Management of on shore and offshore project resources.

• Conducted in requirement gathering, analysis, detailing, and documenting.• Worked with key stakeholders to get their buy in for process changes. • Lead requirement gathering sessions, and base lining acceptance criteria of requirements• Worked alongside the direct business users and IT professionals.• Creative and positive self-starter, capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationships with clients, vendors, user groups and cross functional teams.• Excellent team player, able to meet deadlines, execute and deliver critical projects on time.

• Lead teams of Business Process Specialists through various engagements and projects, supporting a major telecommunications provider. • Serve as a primary point of contact between client, executives, and offshore partners. • Prepare, evaluate and conduct executive level project status presentations, dashboards, and scorecards. • Develop formal process documents for delivery and production by a global team. • Experience with new hire interviewing, evaluating employee job performance, and conducting employee monthly/quarterly/annual performance reviews.

• Develop formal process documents for delivery and production by a global team.• Act as SME for large global team on various projects in support of a major telecommunications provider

• Office duties: answer multiline phones, route calls, provide customer service, calendaring for 30+ individuals, schedule appointments, assist with overflow assignment, and general accounting duties• Extensive data entry

• In charge of A/R and A/P.• Manage all files for office, including accounting and inventory.• Write contracts for new jobs.• Assist clients with decisions on staging choices.

• Office duties: Filing, file room management, copy room management (including copying/scanning, faxing and mail room duties), etc.• Billing duties: Create invoices, interact with clients, process payments• Planned and implemented measures to increase efficiency in areas of the billing department• Assisted with receptionist duties, including multi line phone system

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology

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