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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Moved in a position with responsibility over more teams within engineering, focusing on greater organizational fit through cross-team projects and collaboration.
• Monitored and led workshops with teams on metrics such as cycle times, velocity, and time to market, coaching them to make strategic decisions based on data
• Led project and multi-team level retrospectives and post-mortems to identify and document best practices
• Individually coached Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and Engineers on opportunities and impediments to delivering value both individually and on their teams
• Assumed greater responsibility over promoting tailored agile experimentation with fellow Agile Coaches throughout the organization

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Coached 10+ engineering teams in continuous improvements through effective communication, process experimentation, and continuous integration/continuous delivery
• Led an agile mindset through an influence-first approach toward teams in order to promote positive change and a prioritization on value
• Spearheaded an initiative to assess team needs and level of agile maturity across entire engineering department
• Worked closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Front End Engineers, Back End Engineers, and Quality Assurance Engineers to promote an agile mindset focusing on identifying and implementing the right process.
• Worked with team of agile coaches to promote excellence across the engineering department
• Led training on agile methodologies as well as project management tools within the Atlassian suite (Jira Software Projects, Trello, Confluence, Jira Service Projects)

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Led organizational focus on fostering agility among multiple teams and raising up agile evangelists and experts.
• Established a team of agile professionals to promote adaptability and efficiency within the Innovation Department.
• Orchestrated the engineering department’s split into two teams, allowing the teams to focus on releasing multiple features at the same time
• Hired and trained a Scrum Master on best practices within the Innovation Department at Rise, with an emphasis on supporting the teams through removing impediments and inefficiencies
• Coached cross-functional teams on interpersonal dynamics, push/pull communication, and the importance of a process that supports an organic workflow

Chicago, Illinois

• Selected to lead for planning, organizing, managing, and communicating on multiple engineering projects.
• Led and coached the team through Agile sprints for the Connex platform, Rise’s proprietary advertising analytics software.
• Evolved, evangelized and ensured the development and product support teams execute Rise’s scrum methodology consistently and embrace Agile values and principles.
• Facilitated project planning and agile ceremonies for cross-discipline development team, promoting team support and cooperation
• Tracked and communicate team metrics including: team velocity, accomplished vs committed story points, multiple burndown charts, and sprint/release progress,
• Provided scrum team accountability to the agile process and fostered an atmosphere of continual process improvement through routine retrospectives

Chicago, IL

• Initiated company agile transformation
• Facilitated cross-discipline cooperation to ensure successful delivery and execution of client contractual obligations
• Created, and managed project plans to ensure project success, including implementing a tailored-to-agency framework combining Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, and Lean
• Championed and coached team members in the use of agile methods including daily standup meetings, backlog refinement and estimation, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and user story mapping
• Worked closely with our client-facing Account Team to manage a backlog of project priorities guided by organically evolving designs, user testing, and evolving client requirements
• Created and owned sprint roadmaps to clarify and map deliverables, dependencies, needed change management, resource and budget requirements, and implementation schedules

Carol Stream, IL

• Responsible for managing and maximizing process workflow for publishing team, creating leadership and discipleship curriculum for over 4,000 clients country-wide at the top student leadership development organization.
• Built and successfully fulfilled roadmaps for over 10 large-scale publishing products incorporating velocity estimates and efficiency analytics.
• Increased project team efficiency by over 300% by researching and adopting cloud-based data storage services (Dropbox, Box.com), task-management and productivity software (Asana, Trello, Office 365), and elements of 3.
• Collaborated company-wide, assessing the needs of the executive, sales, and customer-facing teams
• Coached writing team of 8 professional writers working on 3 separate projects, helping develop the target writing voice

Greater Chicago Area

• Created roadmaps and guided the process workflow for over 60 simultaneous organization-wide projects within the Integrated Marketing & Communications (IMC) department.
• Coordinated 100s of project intake, client feedback, and creative team meetings in all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Conducted several high-risk project scope/timeline negotiation meetings with clients needing major project changes

Wheaton, IL

• Responsible for increasing awareness and contributions to the Wheaton Fund. Personalized and ran 5 campus-wide fundraising campaigns for 75 alumni reunion groups and directed student engagement program, creating the.
• Recruited approximately 90 alumni volunteers and many on-campus departments to establish new student scholarships
• Coordinated class and alumni giving to 5 new and several existing class gifts as well as funneling giving to the annual operations fund of Wheaton College
• In cooperation with Annual Giving team, reached our $5.8 million goal for the Wheaton Fund for fiscal year 2014-15
• Initiated a student engagement program, recruiting 25 students, managed a department intern, and led six giving-focused campus efforts hoping to foster early philanthropy

Glen Ellyn, IL

• Provided professional customer service, order anticipation, and product follow-through
• Prioritized patience and excellence in high pressure situations
• Took responsibility for point-of-sale and safe operations and security
• Trained and supervised fellow employees

Wheaton, IL

• Assisted fellow staff with maintenance, assembly, or organization of offices
• Acted as first point of contact for technical support issues
• Communicated with outside vendors for office supplies and larger maintenance projects

• Fostered over 100 third- and fourth-year student relationships through on-campus residentialcommunity
• Coordinated and implemented recruiting process for teams of students to develop and implementorientation program for transfer students
• Conducted student disciplinary conversations

• Hired and recruited students to intake, sort, and deliver time-sensitive mail throughout campus
• Coordinated scheduling of full-time students to meet needs of Wheaton College
• Streamlined system to more efficiently and quickly sort and deliver campus mail

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Counseling Ministries

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy With English Literature