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Omaha, Ne, Us

Wright-Patterson Afb, Oh, Us

Guide two SAFe development teams achieve our goals by:- Teaching and coaching SAFe ScrumXP and SAFe- Implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices- Identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to flow.- Keeping stakeholders apprised of team status and impediments- Using data to estimate team capacity and reliably predict software delivery schedules© Scaled Agile, Inc.Include this copyright notice with the copied content.Read the FAQs on how to use SAFe content and trademarks here:https://www.scaledagile.com/about/about-us/permissions-faq/Explore Training at:https://www.scaledagile.com/training/calendar/

Supervised team of 20 Software Quality Assurance Analysts ensuring the highest quality product of inbound and outbound telecommunications services to clients in healthcare, financial services, utilities, and education ▪ Leading team to adopt Agile principles to improve quality and reduce time to market ▪ Mentored team on software testing automation methods as they built automation tools for service virtualization, automating the process of converting manual test calls ▪ Using JMeter and Python, developed a tool to automate analyzing customer-supplied test accounts for suitability to testing scenarios ▪ Developed Python scripts to automatically populate operational score card site from TestRail and JIRA ▪ Awarded Lean Six Sigma Green Belt after leading an effort to consolidate Interactive Services’ time tracking methods ▪ Awarded Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Applied Lean Six Sigma principles to lead a cross-disciplinary team to reduce the number of “Working as Required” Bugs opened by the QA team by over 50% in six months reducing the waste of developer, business analyst, user interface designer and QA member’s time

Managed team of seven QA analysts and four offshore consultants supporting two product lines with multiple live versions merging the teams to provide flexibility in testingStandardized procedures and practices using the ATERN model between two disparate teams using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Test ManagerLed team to begin adopting SCRUM practicesTeams delivered 112 releases between the two teams to provide new functionality and bug fixes including a complete overhaul of the security model for the Receivables360 Online™ productPinnacle Award Winner for customer support

Wausau, Wi, Us

After starting as the sole tester for the Receivables360 Online™ product line, built, mentored, and led a team of three QA analysts ▪ Pinnacle Award Winner for customer support ▪ Created automated testing tools for three modules using SilkTest and C# ▪ Delivered over 60 releases to customers to provide new functionality and bug fixes on time and with high quality ▪ Created an escalation guide and compatibility matrix to guide other teams in troubleshooting ▪ Developed daily status reports to keep all stakeholders apprised of testing status ▪ Created performance tests using JMeter ▪ Introduced factorial experiment testing methods to test team to speed testing while maintaining test coverage

Wausau, Wi, Us

Worked with the State of Kansas State Disbursement Unit to automate the processing of ACH child support payments resulting in 85% of all payments processing with no operator processing of payments which had required 100% manual intervention ▪ Wrote specifications for multiple projects praised by Product Management, Product Development, and Quality Assurance enabling teams to deliver high quality code on time meeting the customer’s business needs ▪ Designed the database structure and wrote the stored procedures to access a Microsoft SQL Server database to track tens of thousands of monthly payments ▪ Performed code review and testing of all C# code

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

Provided Quality Assurance Analyst support to Wausau Financial Systems (formerly Data Management Products, Inc.)

Master Of Science - Ms, Analytics

Masters Of Science, Industrial And Systems Engineering

Bachelor'S, Electrical Engineering