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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for implementing a Scrum framework within my current machine learning project. Instrumental in coaching, leading and facilitating the Scrum ceremonies while providing a safe and secure team environment. Created and owned an Azure DevOps board to manage team's tasks and deliverables. Provide information to Executives using querying capabilities for status reports. Assisted a new Product Owner in creating a Product Backlog, User Personas and Roadmaps to communicate the product vision. Coordinated and ran the quarterly planning events.

Led the Reporting Workstream conversion to Workday from Oracle. Manage the reporting product throughout the product lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements. Responsible for the product vision and working closely with the data engineering team to deliver the reporting product.

Manage product and business priorities associated to CWT’s data warehousing environment. Collaborate with global customers to create business requirements per request. Accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the scrum team. Primary responsibilities include creating and prioritizing the Product Backlog, ensuring the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood. Work closely with Scrum Master to layout plans for sprints in line with business priorities. Identifying and addressing risks to timelines and commitments.

Responsible for the management and support of a portfolio of applications. Managed resources to ensure required service level are met. Provide input to the development teams for future product enhancements.

Led the Global data engineering and application teams to deliver transactional data for client reporting. Managed project scope, schedule, budget, resources, roadmaps, and communication to sponsors. The team oversaw the day-to-day environment. Provided leadership and change management for the team as we transitioned from Waterfall to a Scrum Framework.

Senior developer on our Data Warehousing team. Responsible for analysis, design, andimplementation of new data / reporting requirements. Provide research, application architecture, analysis and design of business systems to meet current and future business / technology requirements.

Lead analyst / developer for our global reporting team on modifications / additions to the reporting system. Responsible for reporting client data on an Oracle platform utilizing Informatica, Actuate, and Cognos. Interact with business team to determine project scope, requirements and provide estimates for completion of the tasks.

Member of the Office Automation Services team; Developed department solutions using MS Access and MS Excel. Assist in the identification of solutions to business problems through the use of user interface, analytical skills, and business knowledge. Gather business requirements, business process flows in designing and preparing new systems / solutions.