Marni Nelson Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Toppan Merrill, a leader in financial printing and communication solutions, is part of the Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., the world's leading printing group, headquartered in Tokyo with approximately US$14 billion in annual sales. Toppan Merrill has been a pioneer and trusted partner to the financial, legal and corporate communities for five decades, providing secure, innovative solutions to complex content and communications requirements. Through proactive partnerships, unparalleled expertise, continuous innovation and unmatched service, Toppan Merrill delivers a hassle-free experience for mission-critical content for capital markets transactions, financial reporting and regulatory disclosure filings, and marketing and communications solutions for regulated and non-regulated industries.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provides support to the team using servant leadership style, conflict resolution, time management skills and leading by example.Understands and facilitates agile/scrum ceremonies; daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospectives for a dispersed scrum team in the U.S., Europe and Asia.Coaches team and individuals in regards to their scrum processes.Identifies and removes impediments.Coordinates appropriate non-scrum team IT resources through project completion to ensure sprint goals and delivery dates are met. Works directly with business owners (in lieu of a Product Owner) to groom backlog using Jira and Confluence.Mentors and leads Business Analyst team members to write effective user stories.Assists with writing and own the distribution of release notes to appropriate users prior to each production release.Ensures team is audit compliant (ISO 27001 and 21 CFR, part 11).

St. Paul

Product Owner for Job Management System (JMS) and XBRL proofing system. Liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders to communicate new system changes and processes. Evaluate new IT development related to business requirements and recommend appropriate system alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.Facilitate and support project and team events, work sessions and meetings.Monitor and communicate project progress, issues risks with internal project team and stakeholders.Provide direction to ensure efficient design, development and implementation of systems.Map business processes using Visio.

Perform the Project Manager, Business Analyst and Developer roles for a major initiative to create a workflow system to manage client work for Merrill's Litigation Support (LS), Electronic Data Discovery (EDD) business.Responsible for gathering user and system requirements for workflow system.Responsible for mapping processes using Visio/BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) for workflow system.Responsible for development and testing of workflows using Visual Studio/K2 BlackPearl and SharePoint Enterprise Cal.Responsible for providing project Steering Committee with bi-weekly project updates.Developed tool for tracking features for the workflow system.Responsible for all change requests to existing Standard Cal SharePoint sites. Created SharePoint user guides for sites/lists/libraries created specifically for LS business users.Created process and responsible for tracking rework at the task level for the Electronically Stored Information (ESI) processing team. Provided Operations VP ad-hoc reports on productivity, on-time percentages, etc.

St. Paul

Acting Six Sigma Green Belt for Global Quality Project. Responsible for providing post-project updates to Sr. Management. Manager of project managers. Team of 5, whose primary responsibility is to identify improvement opportunities for end-to-end process and technological bottlenecks within the customer service and operations areas.Manager of production support coordinators. Team of 4, whose responsibilities are to be the primary help desk for approximately 400 operators world-wide, 24 x 7 on process and system changes, enhancement ideas and play the role of testers on software releasesManager of EDGAR Services department, Team of 4, responsible for implementing Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) required internal system changes due to new securities laws. This team works with end-user customers and sales force and are instrumental in helping facilitate change while avoiding client impact in what is filed with the SEC. Manager of operations style development team. Team of 2, responsible for creating new and updating existing client specific style templates for Quark Based Desktop Publishing tool.Created and managed XBRL team of 4, specializing in customer support and creation of XBRL documents for SEC filers. Created and managed internal Global Quality Auditing Team, consisting of 10 existing employees. Team was established to perform bi-weekly audits of 1st pass typeset pages for 200+ composition employees to determine quality ratings.

St. Paul

St. Paul

Specialized in Officer and Enlisted Annual Performance Reports.Held demonstrations of new performance review forms and processes to the bases’ entire Sr. Enlisted and Officer Personnel staff prior to implementation.Responsible for entering annual performance review information for over 4,000 military personnel into a secure database.Assignments included: Lackland AF Base, San Antonio, Texas (Dec 1987 – Jan 1988); Keesler AF Base, Biloxi, Mississippi (Jan - March 1988); Rhein-Main AF Base, Frankfurt, Germany, (March 1988 – March 1990).Honorable discharge - March 1990.

Certificate, Certified Scrummaster

Certified Scrum Product Owner Training

Green Belt Training

Project Management Training Course

Attended 12-month course, facilitated by Six Sigma Black Belt, PMI Certified Instructor. Required to take Project Management Basics Course.