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Florida, United States

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

- Coaching multiple project teams on agile principles and using scrum to deliver new functionality.- Coaching multiple application teams on visualizing and prioritizing their work through Kanban using JIRA.- Facilitating retrospectives to help teams identify areas of improvements and experiments to address the improvements such increasing the use of specification by example and focused learning.- Coaching teams on using agile techniques of paired programming, specification by example, and increasing automated test coverage to improve software quality.- Facilitating backlog grooming, sprint planning, and sprint review sessions.

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- Championed and led the adoption and implementation of Scrum in the Business Intelligence department to reduce delivery time by 30% and increase business satisfaction.- Coached Product Owners on writing effective user stories and backlog management using Rally.- Gathered requirements, wrote users stories, prioritized the product backlog and release plans for ecommerce, finance, and merchandising BI solutions.- Mentored Scrum Masters on using different techniques for retrospective meetings to get more in depth in identifying areas of improvement.

- Created and executed the product roadmap for a new financial analytics, reporting and budgeting product that replaced FRx at over 30 customers in the first year after release.- Worked closely with sales, professional services, and key customers to build and execute a roadmap to refactor and enhance the EPM Business Intelligence product.- Created product roadmaps, release plans, gathered requirements, wrote user stories, prioritized backlog, managed release delivery and rollout, and training of support and professional services.- Built a culture of accountability and collaboration within teams improving the quality of software delivered by using sprint retrospectives to open up communication and identify areas of improvement.

- Managed the scoping, planning, and scheduling the projects for the Ross ERP release for onshore and offshore development teams. - Mentored the ERP BA's in our offshore development centers on effectively communicating requirements to the development and QA teams. - Wrote user stories, functional specifications, uses cases, screen layouts, and test plans for Ross ERP enhancements in the General Ledger, AP/AR, Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, and Manufacturing modules.

Durham, Nc, Us

-- Project Manager and Business Analysysst on enterprise wide software implementations of lab quality systems, CRM, business process re-engineering, and custom software solutions. -- Consulted in the pharmaceutical, medical device, insurance, financial services, biotechnology, software, and manufacturing industries. -- Responsible for all phases of the systems implementation lifecycle including managing client relationships, project planning, system analysis, proccess analysis, solution design, programming, testing, data conversion, training, and post-implementation technical and user support. -- Managed teams comprised of over ten Clarkston, client and 3rd party resources on projects with budgets over $1,000,000 with durations from 3 - 12+ months.

Master Of Accounting (Macc), Accounting Information Systems

Bs, Accounting