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New York, United States

New York, Ny, Us

Key Highlights▪ Conducted a comprehensive assessment of existing infrastructure teams' systems and workflows, identifying opportunities for automation and process improvements, resulting in a 10% increase in operational efficiency.▪ Spearheaded the pilot implementation of the Agile SAFe framework across 10 infrastructure teams, fostering cross-team collaboration and increasing overall productivity by 15%.▪ Led the implementation of advanced infrastructure management tools, including Splunk and AWS CloudWatch, enabling real-time monitoring and predictive analytics that reduced incident response times by 5%

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Served in a multi-faceted capacity contributing to organizational success. Acted as Chief of Staff to the Head of Product, overseeing a 50-person team. Implemented product-led strategies complementing Agile development. Led the development and implementation of a cohesive product vision and strategy. Managed the Product Objective and Key Results (OKR) process, creating alignment with organizational OKRs and establishing metrics for measuring team performance in alignment with strategic objectives, addressing gaps, and optimizing product delivery.Key Highlights▪ Enhanced feature road mapping efficiency by 30% in through the implementation of data- driven product strategies in alignment with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). ▪ Led the Agile transformation process by developing and delivering customized training, resulting in a 20% increase in team efficiency. Additionally, successfully led JIRA and Confluence administration to streamline project workflows.▪ Transformed customer success effectiveness by implementing a product feedback policy and integrating analytics, resulting in a 5% reduction in customer churn. ▪ Accelerated user onboarding by 30% and slashed post-launch friction tickets by 80% using Digital Adoption Platform, resulting in enhanced user satisfaction and productivity. ▪ Delivered a 50% increase in security within 6 months, resulting in ISO 27001 certification and readiness for SOC2 Type 2, enhancing data protection and compliance efforts.

Vernon Hills, Il, Us

Provided strategic guidance on the organization-wide adoption of the SAFe methodology, including planning and coordinating Agile release trains and managing program increment deployments. Identified and drove areas for improvement across the organization by analyzing current processes and workflows.Key Highlights▪ Conducted thorough assessments of existing systems and workflows, identifying opportunities for automation and process improvements to achieve strategic business goals.▪ Developed a comprehensive strategy for implementing Agile SAFe framework across multiple departments, resulting in a 20% reduction in project delivery timelines.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Partnered with executives and managers to implement Agile processes to improve business outcomes. Designed and integrated a systemic framework to support Agile transformation with standard project management practices. Managed a team of 8, providing guidance and direction in Agile methodologies and project management. Led Scrum of Scrum meetings to manage interdependencies and eliminate roadblocks. Supported Communities of Practice to foster broader organizational understanding and adoption of Agile principles. Directed critical projects, including AWS migration, AI initiatives (e.g., Ask Emma, chatbots), and real-time enrollment solutions for Aetna channel partners.Key Highlights▪ Managed a portfolio of 20+ high-impact projects, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives and achieving an on-time, within-budget delivery rate of 95%.▪ Led the successful Agile transition of 17 teams across 6 applications within 8 months, resulting in a 25% improvement in project delivery efficiency and a 20% increase in team productivity.▪ Directed the coordination and execution of cross-functional projects, optimizing resource allocation and stakeholder communication, which reduced project delays by 30%.▪ Led continuous improvement of program management processes, leveraging data-driven insights to refine and enhance project planning, execution, and tracking, which boosted overall project success rates by 15%.

Chicago, Il, Us

Originally contracted through Prairie Consulting but hired as an employee of Levy in Sep 2017. Defined the Agile transformation strategy at the organizational level, overseeing the mentorship and coaching of multiple application development teams towards self-direction and enhanced decision-making. Conducted Agile ceremonies such as sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning across departments. Implemented Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies to ensure feature requirements were met with minimal software design creep. Managed a diverse project portfolio including new location openings, legacy system replacements, new data warehouse implementation, dashboard creations, website developments, migration from Oracle to SAP, and AWS migration. Key Highlights▪ Spearheaded the optimization of the RFP process for $5 million supply chain system, reducing completion time to 6 months, ensuring on-time delivery and smooth system adoption for business growth. ▪ Enhanced project management processes, resulting in a 40% reduction in project management hours, saving the business significant costs. ▪ Reduced time to ship by approximately 20% by updating development processes to conform to Agile Scrum standards.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Conducted all sprint ceremonies for offshore sprint team and coached them on Agile. Facilitated product increment reviews with product owner, SMEs, and other stakeholders. Identified non-compliance applications/features with Global Information Security (GIS) standards and created user stories for corrective action. Served as lead analyst to enhance in-house search tool for custodian related data, Unified Directory (UD) application. Involved in automating e-discovery collection processes using in-house case management system, Casecura application. Coordinated between HR team and Lecorpio (vendor) supporting Patents and Trademarks group in hosting content management system for improved tracking of bank’s portfolio. Assisted testers in creating test approach and scripts. Participated in UAT and production deployment. Created and distributed release notes.Key Highlights▪ Led offshore team with no prior Scrum experience to operate at high performance in 2 months for UD application rewrite.▪ Improved data reliability in UD from 10% to 40% by proposing and implementing plan to identify bad data in existing database tables, ingest data from new sources, and validate existing data with data from new sources.

Began as a DSN Inc. contracted employee for Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) change implementation; accepted long-term contract from Alert IT Consulting in July 2013.Collaborated with stakeholders to review proposed systemic changes to support modernization initiatives such as streamlining staff workflow items, local office consolidation, and implementing new document scanning and indexing solution. Conducted sprint grooming sessions with SMEs to uncover requirements. Involved in fixing federal ETA report by reverse engineering existing ETA reports code, identifying discrepancies causing data errors, and documenting correction actions. Key Highlights▪ Improved team productivity by 10% as a result of implementing Scrum methodologies with XP.▪ Increased transparency in project management by using project plans, status reports, and time tracking tools.

Boston, Ma, Us

Steered several projects such as implementing a new check paying system, generating 1099G from new UI Online system, interfaces testing and UI Fraud detection/prevention. Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders, created project plans, requirements documents, data models and testing strategy. Key Highlights▪ Enhanced transparency in project management by maintaining issue logs and creating/updating project plans.▪ Increased vendor accountability from 20% to 80% by tracking deliverable timelines.▪ Improved client’s testing efforts to 90% by developing test plan and strategy for various functionalities.

Quincy, Ma, Us

Served in multifaceted role that included functions as Business Analyst, Project Manager, SQL Developer, and Quality Analyst in a fast-paced startup environment. Conducted user interviews, gathered/analyzed requirements, and created project documents to develop multi-kiosk application and Managers’ toolbox.

Columbia, Md, Us

The project included development of Archive Strategy and Prospect Inception projects using Transact SQL. Conducted business requirements meetings to create data mapping document and process flow diagrams. Fixed and tuned several complex existing Transact SQL codes to support critical business processes and documented the changes accordingly.

Plainsboro, New Jersey, Us

Participated in business requirements meetings, JAD sessions and review meetings. Involved in Installation and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005. Involved in Logical and Physical design of the database. Modified DTS to SSIS packages to accomplish critical business logic. Monitored SQL server performance and tune it (including queries). Created use cases and test scripts for various applications.

Teaneck, Nj, Us

Handled Marketing and composed website for new EMBA program; Also conducted research on various executive programs in the New York and New Jersey Region to develop new curriculum for the EMBA program.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

The project involved 2 Merrill Lynch business segments - Research & IDS. IDS deals with Global products on Incident, Problem and Change Management. Nextgen RAW was created to assist the Merrill Lynch research group with accomplishing its business by quickly creating and distributing meaningful, insightful, value-added research that is in full compliance with all pertinent laws; basically a new content authoring and distribution platform for the Merrill Lynch research group.

Mba, Management Information Systems, General

Ms, Information Systems

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electrical & Electronics Engg.