Lynn E. Devries Ii Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Coordinate with co-founders to lay out the technical challenges we must address.Delivered map of technical roles and responsibilities, as well as anticipated organizational structure.Constructing a foundational technical roadmap and timeline to supplement the prospectus.

Remote

Joined the organization to transform operations and implement structured processes, while improving visibility into the health and progress of projects.Partnered with Leadership, Designers, and Engineers to negotiate project scope, establish goals, and identify deliverables.Established agile ceremonies, performed organization wide training sessions and partnered tightly with engineering leads to continuously improve our processes.Monitored and adjusted development teams use of agile practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery.Documented, communicated and resolved project risks, issues, and dependencies, and developing mitigation strategies.Built and maintained strong relationships with cross-functional teams, executive leadership and stakeholders, in a remote first global organization.Migrated the organization to Jira and confluence and preformed Atlassian administration which included building custom workflows, and establishing documentation practices. Identify, hire, and trained talent to join the organization in a Product Owner role.

Remote

Santa Monica, California, United States

Acquired by ShiftSpearheaded the transition of the teams and projects from Fair.com during the acquisition process by Shift.com, ensuring a seamless and efficient integration of operations and personnel.Successfully launched a year-long initiative to develop a robust, self-service vehicle purchase workflow, enhancing efficiency by reducing both the time and staffing resources previously required.Performed a leading role in the scoping, sequencing, staffing, tracking, and cross team coordination of a full business model reboot.Implements and improve Agile practices across development teams.Improved tool use, and adopt new tools, providing visibility and tracking performance metrics.Built out roadmaps for individual development teams, and combined roadmaps to build executive summaries.Coached direct reports through weekly one on one's and bi-annual reviews, improving the team's collaboration and reducing attrition rate to 0%.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Position was eliminated as a result of diminished business opportunities related to the Novel-sars-cov-2 pandemic.Position eliminated as a result of diminished business opportunities during the Covid outbreak and subsequent lockdown.Joined the organization as the companies first Project Manager during it's infancy as the twelfth hire in the Los Angles office. Introduced Agile project management to the organization, eventually grew a PMO of twelve members, across six countries, managing twenty seven engineering teams.Built the Agile software development culture with the trust and cooperation of highly talented software engineers, Designers, and product teams.Implemented processes across the board, from development practices, QA Certifications, live-ops, and release planning.Provided clarity on progress of projects / programs, and the performance of teams by establishing multiple metric based reporting techniques.Established and documented best practices with QA, program, product and release teams, and educated the rest of the organization about such practices.Recruited, trained, and mentored all technical project managers, performed one-on-ones, reviews, and provided an open door policy for my team.

Fulfill the duties of a Product Owner and/ Or Agile Coach in an Agile Scrum environment for multiple scrum teams simultaneously.Partnered with Senior and Executive producers from all game teams to improve the functionality of Blizzards internal development tracking tool, and built backlogs based off of coordinated prioritization with those producers. Work with Stakeholder throughout the Organization to identify company needs, and problems to solve.Manage backlogs of Epic and Stories communicating the issue being solved, and the value being provided.Managing backlog of dozens of Epics, 60+ Stories, and multitudes of Tasks for 5-10 applications simultaneously. Keeping backlogs prioritized among multiple applications, across multiple teams.Work with scrum teams to negotiate Acceptance Criteria, and definition of done.Agree to sprint capacity with teams, and support the team through the sprint.Collaborate with product design to ensure a polished product.Tracking velocity of scrum teams and report progress to multiple layers of management.