Sandy Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Longueuil, Québec, CA

San Antonio, Texas, US

• A contract position through The Millennium Group
• Facilitated all Scrum events: Daily Standup, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews/Demos and Retrospectives.
• Removed impediments to team progress.
• Acted as a resource on SAFe and Agile methodologies to development team and product owners.
• Participated in Scrum of Scrum and Community of Practice meetings.
• Facilitated SAFe PI planning at the team level.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• A contract position through ACS Solutions.
• Conducted all Scrum events: Daily Standup, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews/Demos and Retrospectives.
• Removed impediments reported by team members so they could focus on getting their work done.
• Served as organizational change agent.
• Worked with Product Owners on creating user stories, building product backlog and requirements prioritization.
• Worked with team members and stakeholders to achieve consensus when there were areas of conflict.

New York, NY, US

• Served as Scrum Master on vehicle manufacturer-focused Scrum teams supporting telematics services, end user subscription web enrollment, and customer management functions.
• Served as Scrum Master on a Scrumban team supporting operational improvement projects and enterprise platform initiatives.
• Served as Scrum Master on a billing and revenue management Scrum team that supported customer enrollments, B2C and B2B billing, and financial and accounting functions on a CRM system (Siebel).
• Assisted in transformation from a Waterfall to Agile environment by training and coaching team members and evangelizing the benefits of Agile.
• Conducted all Scrum events: Daily Standup, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews/Demos and Retrospectives.
• Performed capacity planning to ensure team members were assigned the appropriate amount of work.

New York, NY, US

• Managed multiple efforts toward scheduled release dates.
• Worked on projects involving vehicle telematics services, customer enrollment, B2C and B2B billing, finance, and accounting.
• Elicited and documented functional requirements using a variety of techniques, including interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, user stories, and use cases.
• Decomposed high-level business and user requirements into functional specifications.
• Participated in requirements prioritization.
• Identified and documented requirements for system design, implementation, and training.

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, ON, CA

Dallas, TX, US

• Performed requirements definition, analysis, design, and testing.
• Performed analysis of rates, rules, and forms to determine impact on policy processing system.
• Performed system modifications including rate table loads, form loads, and rating formula changes.
• Performed testing and quality assurance for system modifications.

Fort Worth, Texas, US

• A contract position through The InSourceGroup.
• Prepared project documentation including Business Vision and Benefits, Current State Procedures, Workflow Diagrams, Business Impact Assessments, Business Scope and Objectives, Business User Requirements, Use Cases.
• Successfully managed and implemented the following projects: Applicant Tracking System, Learning Management System, Automated Forms, Compliance Questionnaires, and Firm Element (training compliance).
• Prepared and maintained project schedules using MS Project.
• Ensured projects were delivered by required dates and within budget.
• Provided regular project status updates and led project status meetings.

New York, NY, US

• Successfully managed several projects through all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Performed requirements definition, analysis, design, and testing. Oversaw development.
• Implemented several projects that substantially reduced manual effort by the Finance and the Claims departments.

Mba, Information Systems

Bs, Management