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Rockville, Md, Us

Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

• Delivered one of Appian's first applications available from an offline mobile device, providing direct feedback on beta versions of the product, and enabling our product team to meet customers needs.• Led scoping sessions with new Appian customers and led internal budgetary estimate sessions for contract proposals.• Started off as a team lead of two other individuals and increased responsibilities to overseeing the project leads of three teams, totaling eight individuals. Met regularly with the leads to monitor and remove impediments, guide them in their customer interactions, and review the architecture of their apps.• Grew the Appian application suite of a Fortune 500 company from five applications to twenty, creating multiple company branded applications for various departments.

• Mentored team members through leading their first Sprint 0's, helping them prepare for each session, providing oversight and refocusing discussions as needed, and providing feedback afterwards.• Established best practices across my customers' development teams to ensure consistency and quality of code.• Participated in budget estimates by analyzing customer use cases, documenting assumptions about the project, and defining the timeline and scope of work for upcoming Appian projects.• Oversaw development team's progress against key project milestones and adherence to budget and scope constraints, consistently hitting deliverables on time.

Reston, Virginia

• Led Sprint 0's, defined high level application features, then drove more focused conversations to create user stories and establish the boundaries of an application development project.• Created integrations with other systems from scratch, influencing customers' system architecture.• Led story grooming and backlog prioritization sessions.• Performed code reviews and taught best practices to junior resources.• Worked with stakeholders to translate and migrate data into Appian systems.• Orchestrated both scripted and exploratory testing sessions with over 20 end users.

Reston, Virginia

• Worked with stakeholders to develop conceptual designs of processes/functionality.• Coded applications for customers, unifying all of their processes and data.• Led customer facing demonstrations showing how users interact with the applications.• Ensured future coders have documentation to effectively continue with my projects.

Ocala, Florida Area

• Conducted time studies to improve internal business processes. This consisted of interviewing stakeholders, developing workflows, video recording processes, and documenting and analyzing data.• Participated in team meetings and presented data• Conducted trade studies for new warehouse equipment

• Facilitated technical exchange meetings resulting in the development of system requirements• Designed, built, and tested a multi-field search database using MS Access• Provided client with ability to easily search national labs based on research capabilities and technology • Analyzed financial information for projects assessing the Cost Performance Index (CPI) and prepared reports for customers

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Industrial And Systems Engineering

Graduated Cum Laude Deans List (3.2 GPA, 14 Credit Hours): Spring 2013, Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 34 / 36 score on ACT