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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Burlington, Ontario

• Acted as a lead participant in the project life cycle from inception to production.• Fulfilled the role of Product Owner (PO) by understanding stakeholder priorities and business value, resulting in a prioritized, estimated and groomed Product Backlog.• Facilitated all SCRUM related events, including sprint kickoff, retrospectives and backlog refinement. • Continued to work with Customers and end-users to achieve full transparency and engagement.• Acted as the primary bridge… Show more • Acted as a lead participant in the project life cycle from inception to production.• Fulfilled the role of Product Owner (PO) by understanding stakeholder priorities and business value, resulting in a prioritized, estimated and groomed Product Backlog.• Facilitated all SCRUM related events, including sprint kickoff, retrospectives and backlog refinement. • Continued to work with Customers and end-users to achieve full transparency and engagement.• Acted as the primary bridge between business and technology by being the key liaison in translating and documenting business requirements. • Collaborated with business, technology, and project teams to ensure that the product road map clearly defines the product's strategic alignment to the business need. • Acted as an advisor to the business by helping them understand how technology can be leveraged to solve business problems/issues, and acting as an advocate for the business when collaborating with IT.• Provided process and systems related analysis and support, including assisting with impact analysis.• Understood the needs of both the business and technology stakeholders, enabling a shared understanding of what is required on both sides, and establishing a climate of cross-functional collaboration. • Elicited functional and non-functional requirements iteratively throughout the delivery phase.• Managed and coordinated the production deployment and migration processes.• Ran and participated in business efficiency reviews (ex: Kaizen events).• Contributed to project management activities such as: - Scoping , estimating and forecasting project efforts - Identifying risks - Recommending migration measures - Communicating activity state, as well as escalating and communication possible issues. Show less

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

• Acted on behalf of the product management team to help define, steer and maintain the vision of the product.• Collaborated with customer stakeholders to evolve their desires in the product.• Organized and prioritized product backlog with direction from product management and customer feedback• Helped facilitate and organize sprint meetings with Scrum Master• Worked closely with SCRUM Master to understand and overcome SCRUM team impediments.• Created and published sprint… Show more • Acted on behalf of the product management team to help define, steer and maintain the vision of the product.• Collaborated with customer stakeholders to evolve their desires in the product.• Organized and prioritized product backlog with direction from product management and customer feedback• Helped facilitate and organize sprint meetings with Scrum Master• Worked closely with SCRUM Master to understand and overcome SCRUM team impediments.• Created and published sprint schedule to help with external communication and process stage gates.• Assisted stakeholders in breaking down feedback into usable stories following INVEST concept• Set acceptance criteria and determined the definition of DONE for all PBIs• Demo completed PBIs to management and stakeholders for approval and feedback• Developed and manage backlog (epic and story) prioritization model based off cost/benefit and ROI for business needs.• Planned and organized all sprint activity including sprint velocity, sprint kickoff and retrospectives and backlog refinement.• Advised Management and SME teams of committed PBIs, schedule and schedule changes, impediments (or potential impediments) of current and future sprints.• Planned and estimated SME and development team’s tasks and all required work related to the current sprint.• Performed all system level stress testing to ensure application stability prior to end user testing. Show less

Burlington, Ontario

• Acted as QA representative for business changes affecting quality both departmental and related departments (Operations).• Developed, improved and maintain all departmental process documentation.• Continually reduced process waste by analyzing product and process failures to determine the requirement for inspection vs audit.• Provided departmental training for new or updated process releases.• Performed role of application SME defining business requirements, developing… Show more • Acted as QA representative for business changes affecting quality both departmental and related departments (Operations).• Developed, improved and maintain all departmental process documentation.• Continually reduced process waste by analyzing product and process failures to determine the requirement for inspection vs audit.• Provided departmental training for new or updated process releases.• Performed role of application SME defining business requirements, developing software and defining test scripts for a web based software application.• Acted as a point of contact (POC) for various departments for process and software related issues.• Performed standalone and integrated stress testing on new software application releases• Provided end-user feedback to team for issues and opportunities for improvements.• Supported the business to help reduce the change management impact of releasing new process and software. Show less

Burlington, Ontario

• Inspected workmanship on built product both new and repaired against industry and company standards (IPC J-STD).• Audited test documentation for completion and passing results.• Worked closely with QA Analyst to track product failures and reliability concerns for new and repaired product.• Certified auditor performing internal audits as a part of AS9100 requirements and certification.• Demonstrated a good understanding of current industry standards and employed strong… Show more • Inspected workmanship on built product both new and repaired against industry and company standards (IPC J-STD).• Audited test documentation for completion and passing results.• Worked closely with QA Analyst to track product failures and reliability concerns for new and repaired product.• Certified auditor performing internal audits as a part of AS9100 requirements and certification.• Demonstrated a good understanding of current industry standards and employed strong technical skills and knowledge of QA standards. Show less