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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

New York, NY, US

• Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
• Coached teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts
• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency
• Organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning for multiple scrum teams
• Promoted, supported, and educated the Scrum Team on Scrum theory, best practices, rules, and values.
• Servant-leader to the Scrum Team and protected them from themselves and internal forces (maximized the value created, by limiting interactions from outside the Scrum Team).

New York, NY, US

• Coached/Mentored functional QA team of 62 resources to deliver quality products
• Facilitated Daily Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted retrospectives and followed up on action items for continuous improvement
• Manage cross-functional teams from multiple locations representing the QA effort.
• Directed team members (QA and UAT) to ensure highest standard of quality so that the organization meets both internal and external audit/compliance requirements.
• Worked in coordination with other departments in implementing the quality standards and benchmarks.
• Established initial QA team and successfully managed and completed seamless transition of team from legacy vendor.

Zurich, CH

• Created and maintained project management practice, procedures and processes that drove cultural change, influencing project teams to cooperate and function as singe unit; increasing efficiency and reducing.
• Drove process improvements within team. Developed a document control system for procedures and practice.
• Increased software testing of products through automation.
• Managed over 30 team members during major release in multiple locations. Interviewed and made hiring decisions for the functional testing team.
• Defined a continuous improvement plan for growing and maturing the quality assurance process

Roseland, New Jersey, US

• Responsible for Quality Assurance planning, documentation, and functional testing through all phases of development for ADP’s Pay eXpert/HR eXpert (a web hosted payroll & HR solution) for the Employer Services, Major.
• Created and maintained test plans and test suites. Created automated test suites. Responsible for writing and executing test plans; troubleshooting and problem solving issues.
• Managed large teams in multiple locations, both on and offshore.
• Assisted in creating standardized development plans for FTE’s, recommended training, and completed performance reviews.
• Lead QA and UAT groups in pilot release of Universal Self Service Portal. Partnered with marketing and implementation groups for each pilot release.

US

• Worked closely with producers/developers during all phases of new releases to setup/manage testing environment.
• Managed production support and new development for 100 plus users.
• Worked with QA, Project Managers. Developers and user groups to refine software development process and information flow.
• Managed QA staff conducting manual and automated testing. Managed and performed of all phases of Quality Assurance including; User Interface, Negative, Regression and Functional test.
• Reported to management and end user's status of both production support issues and new functionality issues.
• Created and maintained QA Lab at Plural's Park Ave offices.

• Performed QA tasks for all phases of the project life cycle in mainframe environment.
• Coordinated support and communications between multi tiered staff and Y2K project management office.
• Communicated project testing status; contributing to the analysis and improvement of software development life-cycle processes; evaluating existing test plan coverage and recommending improvements.
• Developed a Client Control Profile database tool from design through implementation that culminated in increased efficiency and substantial workflow improvement.
• Initiated a process for project tracking that resulted in entire department (over 700 staff) tracking time and budget more efficiently.
• Developed, maintained and tested Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plans.

• Temporary Consultant, 08/1993 to 10/1995 Temporary Consultant, 05/2002 to 08/2003
• Manual and automated testing of in-house written mainframe performance and custody reconciliation systems.
• Manual testing of vendor (Merrin) trading system including compliance issues for fund clients.
• Reconciliation of mutual funds, custody reconciliation.
• Wrote documentation for portfolio management system. Created test strategy for POS application.

New York, NY, US

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