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Minneapolis, Mn, United States

I help organizations succeed with Apple

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Scrum master for an agile team of business analysts, QA testers, and developers. The team delivered scheduled releases on a Salesforce platform for Employee Benefits administration with 700 users. • Designed solutions (including coding and configuration), identified and refined business requirements, provided estimates, prioritized work, coordinated user acceptance testing, and managed implementation plans. Provided functional and technical direction to team members.• Lead business… Show more • Scrum master for an agile team of business analysts, QA testers, and developers. The team delivered scheduled releases on a Salesforce platform for Employee Benefits administration with 700 users. • Designed solutions (including coding and configuration), identified and refined business requirements, provided estimates, prioritized work, coordinated user acceptance testing, and managed implementation plans. Provided functional and technical direction to team members.• Lead business consultant on a strategic initiative to automate a customer onboarding process to a Salesforce platform, reducing manual data collection processes and decreasing onboarding cycle times. Increased data accuracy by eliminating redundant data collected from 2400+ data points to 750 data points and streamlining a process that had over 30 handoffs. Show less

Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Led analysis and implementation of new interfaces from Salesforce to various administration internal and external systems, including real-time and batch processing.• Presented project overviews and system functionality demos to senior IT and business leaders.

Bloomington, Mn

As Project Lead:• Oversaw projects through all phases of the project lifecycle. Ensured projects stayed on schedule. Managed risks, issues and resource/time constraints. • Presented project overviews and application demos to senior leadership.• Supervised work efforts for a cross-functional team of tech leads, business analysts and developers.• Administered a change control process, providing management with oversight to ensure changes were managed within program budgets.… Show more As Project Lead:• Oversaw projects through all phases of the project lifecycle. Ensured projects stayed on schedule. Managed risks, issues and resource/time constraints. • Presented project overviews and application demos to senior leadership.• Supervised work efforts for a cross-functional team of tech leads, business analysts and developers.• Administered a change control process, providing management with oversight to ensure changes were managed within program budgets. Ensured compliance to documentation, funding and approval process standards.As Lead Business Systems Analyst:• Primary Subject Matter Expert between business and IT teams for a workflow/imaging system used by 1700+ users.• Led development of functional requirements/design to address complex and varied business needs. Diagnosed areas for system and process improvement.• Collaborated closely with business users and technical teams to ensure business requirements were met and issues were resolved in a timely manner.• Conducted thorough reviews of test plans, scripts and traceability matrixes.• Created/updated use cases, business process diagrams and training materials.• Estimated work effort for new projects.As Tech Lead:• Managed analysis for a $2M project to reengineer the infrastructure for a workflow and imaging application. Defined a new disaster recover solution, reducing system recovery time from 72 hours to 4 hours. • Led multiple application, database, third party software and hardware upgrades.• Supported data mapping and conversion of 27,000 customers from multiple legacy applications onto core MetLife systems. • Led analysis for a project to expand use of a workflow application for a corporate-wide business process offshoring initiative. • Implemented planned releases. Coordinated release activities across multiple applications and projects. Created detailed deployment and communication plans. Provided regular status updates. Show less

St. Paul, Mn

• Lead analyst for a project to convert customer billing data to support a major company acquisition. Prioritized and oversaw the work of three senior developers. Provided regular project status to the overall program manager.• Application development for maintenance and development projects, including building and testing system modules.• Technical Lead/SME for the billing system of a policy administration system.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology; Minor: Management

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)