Leah Masonick Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Oak Park Heights, Minnesota

Collaborative and insightful Agile Coach and Scrum Master with experience in a variety of areas including manufacturing, marketing, finance, legal, retail, and assets protection.As an Agile Coach I teach, mentor, guide, challenge, and coach individuals, teams, leaders, and organizations on how to leverage Agile values, principles, and frameworks to deliver.

I was a life and transformation coach who worked with people who feel out of alignment or who have fallen into patterns that keep them in the wrong situations whether it be careers, friendships, or relationships. I helped them create the confidence to be themselves so that they could align with the life they craved.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Leading a team responsible for designing and implementing an enterprise identity and access management platform. $3.75 million implementation includes installing and configuring security software and developing custom.
• Project initially was run using Waterfall methodology but transitioned to Agile methodology which required adjustment in processes, documentation, communication and approach.
• Acting as a servant leader to the scrum team of five members by removing impediments to their work, enabling cooperation with other teams, encouraging all members to be active change agents and being an active.
• Collaborating and coordinating with other scrum teams across multiple programs to first understand needs and then prioritize and plan team efforts.
• In conjunction with the Product Owner and Solution Architect, developing release plans.
• Developing platform specification documentation to provide to internal partners and applications consuming the platform’s services.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Upon entering into the middle of the sale process, coordinated the internal seller activities for the divestiture of the Legal Solutions business. Worked closely with the Vice President of Corporate Development.
• Led a highly challenging and fractured governance committee consisting of 17 business areas critical to the Legal Solutions business. Drove the committee to prioritize and become accountable to deliverables through.
• Using the Transition Services Agreement (TSA), which is a contract by which Merrill is obligated to provide services to the buyer for a set period of time and vice versa, I guided the organization in the development of.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Directed the design and development of the Multilanguage Services platform, an enterprise software tool that supports the translation of all material throughout the company. -The tool was a highly complex system that.
• Led the sourcing of additional language service providers for the enterprise. Previously the company relied on two translation providers for all services. Goals were to reduce expenses, improve quality and diversify.
• Developed, maintained and allocated the budget and financials of both the team’s U.S. and Canadian operations totaling close to $4 million.
• Managed U.S. account management team of three. Partnered with internal clients to understand their current initiatives and localization and translation needs. Consulted on best practices and ways in which our team can.
• Launched the U.S. project management team. Created best methods and identified the most efficient and cost effective ways for processing translation requests within the platform. Team consistently met client deadlines.
• Created, implemented and led agency evaluations. To address quality concerns, an evaluation was developed to clearly weigh agency performance against statement of work and provide formal feedback. Evaluation is now.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Consulted and coached all areas of Target on translation strategies and operations relevant to Canadian operations to ensure compliance to the language laws of Canada and Office quebecois de la langue francaise (OQLF).
• Leadership and education efforts drove Target Canada’s successful OQLF certification in May 2014 which was achieved in near record time. Additionally, because of these efforts Target Canada was also recognized by the.
• Core member of a cross-functional team responsible for testing the readiness of Target Canada to operate in a foreign language environment. -Developed testing plans to gauge readiness and quality of translations across.
• Developed compliance plans for Target Canada in regards to language and translation to ensure long-term adherence to OQLF regulations.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining the budget and financials for all start up Canadian translations.
• Coordinated all project plans for a team of four process managers. These project plans rolled up to the larger Target Canada launch plans.

Set the strategic direction and co-led the successful deployment of Six Sigma methodology and tools (DMAIC, Lean, and Kaizen) in Assets Protection.Gained valuable experience in process improvement over three years as a Six Sigma Black Belt at Target Corporation. Developed strong critical thinking and problem solving skills; commended by management for.

Managed budget of giftcard costs (across in-store, business-to-business, and web channels).Strategically forecasted card buy quantities for all three channels. Managed GiftCard Coordinator responsible for creation of purchase orders and processing of invoices.Led a Six Sigma Green Belt project pertaining to increasing GiftCard in-stocks to greater than 97%.

Managed overstock program for all direct marketing areas using both web and catalog channels.Identified product, determined pricing, and analyzed profitability of overstock items.Determined buy recommendations for liquidated product.Coordinated with call center leads to develop an upsell program.

Assisted in production of overstock catalog and website by working closely with manager on product selection and layout.Coordinated product identification, editing of copy, and routing of proofs with Marketing, Merchandising, and Creative.