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Chandler, Az, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Delivered complex projects for Platform, Security and Product teams. Acted as the Product Owner and prioritized and maintained the product backlog for 3 software development teams. Coordinated Go To Market expectations with Sales and Marketing teams. Built and executed on program level plans consisting of business analysis findings, engineering discovery, strategic direction, data supported conclusions and timelines. In addition, learned how to use the Jira Service functionality in order to receive new requests from other teams in order to prioritize the incoming work and convert the requests into user stories for the Platform Team. Prioritized teams' backlog and kept Project Plan up to date for stakeholders visibility. Responsible for planning, executing, and finalizing projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This included acquiring proper resources (Dev & QA) and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to plan.Achievements:Delivered three projects in my first five months. Worked with three separate engineering teams, in parallel. First project was NPI with Google Workspaces, teams of about 12 engineers and QA, ensuring that we could secure the use of this tool. Second project was a new API/ Sales Integration with 3rd party vendor, project team was 5 engineers and QA, integrating with vendor's sales platform. Third project was with the Platform team, utilizing Jira Service Desk tool to capture new requests from in house engineers to be converted into user stories and prioritized in the backlog. Resource plans were adjusted as scope was added on all three projects.

Franklin, Tn, Us

Led team in data warehouse migration effort and enterprise-wide data project development and management in support of billing, reporting, and analytics. Collaborated with the enterprise to develop long-term roadmap for Data Management, Analytics and Reporting and led the team in executing on our short-term roadmap for the year. Informed business users and leadership of workload, timelines, prioritization, ETL failures, and processing latency times. Held weekly one-on-ones with direct reports and provide feedback in bi-annual reviews. Collaborated with ProductOwners, Scrum Master, and team to advance initiatives. Inform business users and leadership of workload, timelines, prioritization, ETL failures, and processing latency times. Engaged team and improved performance by aligning daily work to organizational strategic pillars. Executed weekly calls with IT and Development leadership to avoid gaps in planning and identify collaboration opportunities.Achievements:Created process to assess and hire qualified team members in just 5 days. Evaluate resumes on Mondays, execute interviews on Tuesdays, discuss candidates with team Wednesdays and Thursdays, and deliver offers on Friday.Built team that responds to daily requests within 24 hours and manages 3 – 12 months projects within 2 week Scrum cycles. Team also provides 24/7 response to outages for Cube reporting and RDS nightly ETL's.Raised user story completion 28% (78 to 100+), and story point completions 25% (300 to 400), in 1 year. Teamed with business client, Developer, and Scrum Master to clarify objectives, schedule solutions, and prioritize work.Saved time and improved quality by implementing Scrum processes with Data Management team, and Kanban processes with DBA team. Instituted user story board to replace tracking work in remedy force tickets, and implemented Cube optimization efforts, changing stored procedures and queries to run simultaneously.

Franklin, Tn, Us

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Acted as the voice of the customer with the Agile software development team and guided all stages of development. Prioritized requirements, wrote user stories and acceptance criteria in JIRA, designed wireframes, and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for project Go Live. Partnered with European country contacts, gathered requirements and documented initial epics and user stories, and prioritized work with Project team.

Gilbert, Az, Us

Championed use of Agile for Scrum team and facilitated daily and weekly Scrum ceremonies. Coached business teams on how to launch projects using Scrum and Agile methodologies, as well as on use of Confluence and JIRA. Taught Agile classes to business teams on the responsibilities of Product Owners and how Scrum will deliver results. Interviewed and onboarded team members and provided in-house training. Advanced Agile methodology adoption by developing processes, templates, artifacts, training materials, and retrospectives.Achievements:Saved time by migrating infrastructure Development team from TFS user story board toJIRA user story board and adopting GitHub for storing code. Also took on role of IT System Admin for JIRA.Facilitated faster completion of 100% of international projects by creating and delivering Agile training across IT and LOBs. Held small group and lunch-and-learn classes to educate Product Owners and team leads on methodology practices and benefits. Effort resulted in selling more product in European countries.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Advanced Motor Vehicle Modernization Program to migrate legacy ADOT platform from mainframe to cloud. Facilitated all Agile ceremonies and analyze end user feedback from Sprint Review to identify and address product needs. Travelled to business sites to elicit functional requirements from leadership. Wrote user stories, prioritized, and managed sprints and product backlogs. Project was completed on budget and on time.

Tempe, Az, Us

Created user stories and acceptance criteria in MS TFS, led UAT, and demonstrated completed development work at sprint ends. Advocated for the business during grooming and planning sessions based on priorities. Provided project status updates and presented results to executive steering committee and IT Director.Achievements:Trimmed overhead, streamlined project components, and increased profitability visiting field leadership to better understand user needs and develop detailed, ranked requirements. Process resulted in on time, under budget completions, as well as elimination of unnecessary projects.

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

Implemented enhancement data feeds and improved functionality to the data warehouse. Worked with scrum team to coordinate software releases and ensured that development efforts aligned with requirements.Established process and priorities for KPI iterations and communicated metrics to stakeholders.Led replacement of MS Excel and Access resources with cloud-based Salesforce. Enabled on-demand access to data supporting campaign and membership promotions by managing project to create a from-scratch marketing and data analytics warehouse.

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Project Objective: To migrate all 25,000 company desktop, laptop, and mobile devices to Windows 7 OS with MS Office 2010 and IE9Managed project team of 30 including schedule, budget, vendor contracts, and team assets. Responsible for planning, executing, and finalizing projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. Executed daily stand ups to resolve issues and ensure on track completion.Achievements:Headed upgrade of 29,000 computers to next Windows revision within 12 months. Managed a team comprised of IT, business, and vendors, throughout California.

Oakland, California, Us

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

Primary point of contact for IT-related business needs for the Insurance Product/Claims Division. Developed key working relationships with Claims Leadership and within the IT organization to facilitate more effective and efficient technical and project support for the Claims Division. Responsible for planning, executing, and finalizing projects according to strict deadlines and within the budget.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Liberal Arts And Sciences

Paralegal Certificate, Law