Lee Ann Akaji Email & Phone Number

Lee Ann Akaji is a Writer and Copy Editor at Freelance. They possess expertise in cross functional team leadership, team leadership, vendor management, sdlc, program management and 17 more skills. Colleagues describe them as "I had the pleasure to work with Lee Ann at Invitae starting in early 2018 until mid 2022. She was amongst the first Scrum Masters to join us and immediately helped complex and business critical teams and programs (teams of teams) become more predictable, productive. Her teams included platform focused assay and lab development, bioinformatics, and dev ops teams, and cross platform Pediatrics and Rare Diseases product focused teams. As Invitae scaled from 500 people to 4000, Lee Ann led other talented agile practitioners and, in a role similar to a SAFe Release Train Engineer, adapted agile principles and practices for scale and supported Program Managers in their effort to plan large cross functional lab and assay development programs across multiple agile teams of up to 150 people. Along with other members of the agile team, she led the company’s program retrospective process, took in feedback from Program Managers about their experiences leading programs, has experienced the impact of acquisitions and rapid growth on a development organization, and would be a benefit for any agile program management office that needs to develop a successful scaling strategy. On top of all that, Lee Ann is an absolute joy to work with, always positive and looking for the next challenge to take on. Empathetic and able to intuit interpersonal and team dynamics and influence them to improve, she is a gifted agile coach. I absolutely recommend Lee Ann for any Project/Program Management, Agile Coach or Release Train Engineer, or Strategic Alignment role." and "During my work for Robert Half I have worked closely with Lee Ann for almost two years. Lee Ann was assigned to our team as a Project Manager and later on also as a Scrum Master in a variety of projects that we carry on for the client. And I think we have been blessed with that choice. Lee Ann is one of the most experienced, knowledgeable, intelligent, well organized and agile PM’s I have ever met in my whole work career. She was able to manage everything with such an ease that I haven’t noticed how much work she was doing for us in the background. Lee Ann is the goal is for the project to be successful and that means her goal is for the team to achieve success. She is always very helpful. She is able to overcome any obstacles for the team. She manages scrum, grooming, planning, steering and demo meetings. She is always very precise in communication. She keeps the very transparent budget within the given schedule. Her reports always are very clear and point out the most important things. Always keep the deadline critical from the business perspective. Lee Ann has a deep knowledge on the variety of IT tools and strict IT technical topics. She is also a fast learner and she keeps her knowledge updated to the most recent standards or IT trends. She uses this knowledge to be able to understand better what the project is about and she can go into the details of atomic tasks on the level that is Sufficient to explain those tasks for main stakeholders and business people. I would strongly recommend Lee Ann for a position of Project/Program Manager or/with Scrum Master role for anyone. She would be a tremendous asset to any company for any project and any team. Her cheerful character and very high project management skills coupled with extensive knowledge in the field of IT make her an incredible added value to each project. The project and/or the team, which is managed by Lee Ann, you can safely say that it is going to be successful."

Listed skills include Cross Functional Team Leadership, Team Leadership, Vendor Management, Sdlc, and 18 others.