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Fort Collins, Co, Us

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

- Helping clients optimize internal processes and successfully transform their business with technology

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

• Lead the product team in end-to-end feature development and delivering continuous customer value.• Self-starter and learner lead to role as team "jack of all trades"; wearing different hats depending on our small, scrappy team's composition including technical project manager, product owner, engineering manager, quality assurance, scrum master, and ui/ux researcher in a fast-paced, agile, start-up environment.• Acted as the "glue" for our small, start-up team by facilitating collaboration and communication across all cross-functional teams/roles, including developers, designers, business development, and founder / executive leaders.• Developed C3LX's PDLC from scratch and lead the continuous iteration and refinement of our processes as our company and team evolves.• Developed and initiated a customer-focused product strategy for the company based on both qualitative and quantitative data.• Constantly move between big-picture strategy and detail-oriented thinking. From collaborating with stakeholders to create and maintain value stream and product roadmaps and prioritize complex backlog items to writing specific and clear user stories for the development team to review and prioritize.• Created and implemented a process for integrating Design Thinking into our Agile Product Development process to increase customer-focused innovation and utilize the creativity of everyone in the company.• Act as subject matter expert of our software applications with a deep, technical understanding of the features and functions. • Hired and managed a team of contract engineers located around the globe. • Grew extensively knowledgeable about healthcare through direct client relationships, user research interviews, and continual market research.• Collaborate in Journey Mapping research for consulting clients as an interviewer, researcher, and insight distillation. • Train and mentor consulting clients in PDLC, Agile Methodologies, Lean, and Design Thinking

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

• Managed projects and collaborated with clients ($1M+ contract) to build innovative custom software applications that continue to be wildly successful; transforming their business operations and delighting their customers.• Created a customer implementation process from the ground up and led successful implementations for multiple customers, including implementation with an API-integrated partner with constantly changing expectations during the COVID-19 pandemic.• Facilitated continuous improvement for the product team, worked quickly to remove barriers, maintained our product development lifecycle, and ensured the team was empowered to perform at their best.• Lead a culture of customer-focused development by collaborating with our UI/UX design to create user research strategies, and interview guides, host interviews, and distill the data into actionable insights that were prioritized brought into our product roadmap.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Removes impediments as a catalyst leader for scrum teams integrating in to work on a new, complex software product; one case resulting in our team being the first to achieve their Definition of Done in the new development environment.• Partners to develop and deliver training for single team to business unit wide audiences on agile, scrum, and role specific topics to promote an agile mindset and drive business results at the grassroots level.• Instills and evolves a culture of empowered teams, prioritization, and transparency brought to enterprise size HPE with acquired start-up Simplivity by actively collaborating as a member of an agile transformation scrum team. • Successfully fosters team trust by coaching teams and individuals as needed on emotional intelligence and team work, in addition to creatively hosting team building and transparent retrospectives for distributed & collocated teams.• Stimulates creativity and encourages collaborative innovation in the organization as a lead planner for “Hackathon” activities for the globally distributed organization during set weeks throughout the year. • Takes initiative to partner with the Employee Engagement team, site leaders, and management, in specific example planning and hosting Employee Appreciation Week Activities for more than 800 employees at the Fort Collins site.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Actively executed the on-time deployment for three software programs by forming teams of globally dispersed value chain partners aligned and driving to a schedule, collaborating with engineers to manage and define the scope, transparent communication with sponsors, and deliberate risk management. • Led the iterative development of sustaining processes for new StoreVirtual 3200 Storage array product line, which enhanced the service available to thousands of customers receiving critical software patch updates.• Created an innovative electronic defect management process for waterfall sustaining release, StoreVirtual Operating System version 13.6, which realized manpower cost savings of $45K over a 12-week pilot. • SAFe evangelist for the organization which included active participation in the SAFe process team leading the transformation, and hands-on experience facilitating PI planning as well as other SAFe ceremonies in RTE role.

Omaha, Ne, Us

Assisted in the process of closing a three year construction contract for Phase II of the Northern Rail Extension Project by:-Maintain the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan-Oversee trestle installation and craft workers-Create inspection sheets and monitor quality-Manage and guide sub-contractors-Create and apply safety plans-Survey layout and data collection -Daily cost records-Calculate take-off estimations -Interpret project plans and specifications-Problem-solve and trouble-shoot

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Bachelor'S Degree, Engineering Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Engineering Management