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Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

Providing Program management, Agile consulting services for various clients in Greater Minneapolis-Saint Paul area.STRATAGEM: Sr. Agile Practice ConsultantEstablish agile product delivery using value flow, lean thinking.MAYO CLINIC: Sr. Program Manager Consultant/Release Train EngineerImplemented Mayo Clinic Cloud program build and service consumption activities to support Center for Digital Health, Mayo Clinic Platform, Google partnership. Managed Portfolio Intake requests from Business and prioritizing them for Program Increment Planning. Establishing cadence across all Agile Release Trains supporting the AI Factory, Core Tenancy, Data & Analytics product lines.GENERAL MILLS: Sr. Agile Project Manager ConsultantResponsible for managing Cloud and Data Science Agile projects. Implemented SaaS based Looker platform and provide the business with dashboards and the ability to visualize and drill-down data using Looks and Explores. Tableau migration from on-prem to Google cloud.CHS INC: Sr. Program Manager/Agile CoachRun governance across the program and provide counsel and reporting to leadership on go-forward strategy. Measure and track progress based on established Program KPIs; Assisted in Organizational Change. Actively coached 6-10 scrum teams, product owners, SMEs, and business stakeholders. DELTA AIRLINES: Sr. Agile Project ManagerResponsible for the multi-million program budget to enhance the end-user experience to be responsive on Mobile/Web channels, provide seamless backend integration with SAP Concur Trip Link product to post bookings and receipts. Managed 200+ resources driving program delivery.BUFFALO WILD WINGS: Agile Program ManagerManaged multi-million-dollar capital program to eliminate millions of restaurant chargebacks. Implemented tablet based EMV payment solution, providing a self-service experience to order, and pay. Managed the product roadmap, multi-vendor scrum product teams, project financials, solution rollout to stores.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Responsible for a multi-million dollar program to implement a suite of financial applications including the order to cash, billing, invoicing, dunning, credit card tokenization in SAP S/4 HANA. Conducted gating meetings with the Program steering committee to update stakeholders on project status, change management approvals, and determine updated schedules and project plans accordingly. - Served as SAFe Agile Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams in U.S, Prague & Germany; Improved delivery KPIs around technical and team agility - Coached Leadership teams, stakeholders, and Product owners in practicing SAFe/Scrum- Managed geographically dispersed cross-functional teams both domestic and global team members to build and deploy software solutions.- Responsible for establishing project charters, resource planning, budgeting, program risk assessment, and mitigation plans.- Responsible for driving project intake process, leadership gating meetings to gain approvals on key project milestones, gathering comprehensive status reports, and presenting to the Program leadership.- Implemented Organization Change Management to ensure the business solution is effectively adopted

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Led product launches for global product management to maximize ROI on the Travel, Expense, and Invoice product lines by establishing product roadmap with product management and engineering teams. - Collaborated on establishing the strategic objectives with the cross-functional teams such as R&D, product marketing, finance, legal, and marketing communications, implementation, and client support to prepare and execute on go-to-market strategies, field readiness, and sales enablement for North America, EMEA, and the Asia Pacific regions.- Responsible for the delivery of product enhancements to Expense, Trip Link, and Client managed invoice capture product lines by managing the product roadmap for the productized scrum teams.- Partnered with Client Executives and Product Marketers to plan and manage Early Adopter Programs with Clients for strategic launch initiatives.- Established new launch processes using Sirius Decisions Product Marketing and Management methodology to drive new sales and current client adoption of new products and services across the Concur Travel & Expense Cloud platform.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for the tactical transformation from projectized model to agile product delivery model on the eDiscovery product line to collect, manage, review custodian data for legal entities.- Organized and facilitated agile and scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review & retrospective; Successfully guided multiple scrum teams through the transition from waterfall to agile development.- Managed the portfolio in collaboration with stakeholders across product lines to ensure the portfolio remained aligned with organizational strategies and objectives.- Established new launch processes using Pragmatic Marketing principles and Scrum development methodologies.- Mentored and managed project managers and business analysts on the Product Life Cycle methodology; contributed to defining the organizational project management standards, particularly agile program delivery standards.

Detroit, Mi, Us

CLIENT: PATTERSON COMPANIES – Program Manager Consultant, IT PMO- Managed various programs for EPMO including corporate acquisitions, Enterprise legacy modernization, Customer Service systems, and SQL server migrations across subsidiaries.- Responsible for planning, budgeting, and delivering large, complex Web-based Customer Service System project for the Dental division, which increased efficiency by 30% on order routing, inventory management, and saving $2M annuallyCLIENT: KROLL ONTRACK – Project Manager Consultant, Product Portfolio Management- Expanded Power Controls data recovery product offering to OEM partners like NetApp, EMC, Storage Craft, Store Simple, thereby increasing revenue by $3M annually.- Collaborated with Agile teams on prioritizing product backlogs, driving release timelines, created branding, produced sales collateral, sales tools, training services, and account managers on the Power Controls product line.CLIENT: HARTFORD LIFE – Project Manager Consultant, IT PMO- Responsible for developing schedules, budgeting, managing resources such as Business Analysts, Architects, Developers, and QA professionals to develop an Association management system- Improved the workflow among Field agents, Underwriters, and support staff and increasing the efficiency by 30%- Led business process modeling by creating as-is and to-be process models

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

- Responsible for leading development projects in the Supply Chain to customize industry-leading UGS Product Lifecycle Management software to commercialize Target soft line brands, which resulted in cost savings of $5M annually.- Rolled out a digital asset management system for designers to create style, technical Design, and Technical specification.- Gathered business requirements, performed system analysis on Business Partner Management systems.

Dublin, Ie

- Responsible for leading Business analysis and technical architecture of Online Travel Management product for the venture-funded Startup Yatra Corporation, later acquired by Datalex.- Conducted wireframe design sessions, focus groups to create a Business process for the online travel management portal.- Designed web-based scalable systems using Java, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) technologies to integrate with travel GDS like Sabre, Worldspan, and Galileo, etc.

- Responsible for design and development of Client/Server applications using Object-oriented and RDBMS technologies using C, C++, Java, and Oracle for various clients including Unisys, GE Travel, Firepond, and Rorke Data

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

- Developed Client/Server applications using C++ and Sybase for Nielsen Media Research

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In