Samantha Lafferty Email & Phone Number

United States

Lead teams of agile project managers and scrum masters to enable IT and business workstreams to build the Career Mobility and Career Transition (CT&M) products, supporting functions, and our platform utilizing the Scrum Framework in an internationally dispersed team. Balance Scrum Methodology within the Adecco governance model to produce quality CT&M products.Launched Career Canvas, an industry-leading Career Transition solution and TAG’s first Artificial Intelligence *(AI)-enabled feature utilizing ChatGPT 3.5 technology and human insight. *Bringing to life the reimagined Career Transition experience and further innovations with a EUR 5.2M budget

Enable IT and business workstreams to build the Career Mobility and Career Transition products, supporting functions, and our platform via the most successful program The Adecco Group/LHH has ever had utilizing the Scrum Framework in an internationally dispersed team.Balance Scrum Methodology within the larger governance model to produce products that support the business’s ability to provide quality Career Mobility, Career Transition, and Leadership Coaching services to its clients. • Introduced new business capabilities, such as talent searches, to elevate the client experience and results.• Improved Talent Pooling capabilities to reduce business risk for many Security and Data Privacy vulnerabilities.

Nashville Metropolitan Area

Formulating and executing product roadmap and product vision to create efficiencies in labor, increased accessibility for public services, and cost savings of tax-payer’s money with enterprise SaaS solutions.• Fostering close stakeholder relationships with my interpersonal skills while releasing the SmartSimple Grants Management system in increments, resulting in enterprise visibility of agency grants management and auditing.• Bridging the gap of business and technical language for all teams to best understand requirements and make decisions based on well-founded understanding of business process and technical complexities.• Contribute thought leadership by leading planning sessions, identify problems, negotiate with vendor, motivate others in the face of adversity, and encourage creativity in problem-solving

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Charged with establishing an IT PMO using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to align technology practices.• Generated visibility and consistency to 100+ projects by establishing Jira portfolio for stakeholders and leaders.• Enabled Microsoft 360 product team to work in Scrum framework by facilitating and coaching the self-managed team as their Scrum Master, helping identify problems to improve user experience, and managing product backlog through Epics and stories.

Directed transition of Vanderbilt’s medical records, clinic workflow, billing, etc. to Epic software.• Enabled cross-functional, team-oriented interaction between technical teams, stakeholders, and leadership to deploy devices in over 800 hospitals and clinics with ZERO interruption in patient care.• Navigated all expenditures to ensure appropriate material and resource costs remained within $3.2MM budget.• Regularly collaborated with executives and stakeholders to identify and define project requirements and communicate status.

Tallahassee, Fl