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Austin, Texas, United States

Build systems to reduce bad experiences across Meta's family of apps at scale.

• Manages projects resource, scopes, timeline and provides daily communication among clients, sales, implementation specialists, and internal executives. • Led business case developments, implementation planning, features prioritization, and daily engagements with clients, sales, development, and implementation teams to secure project milestones and ensure cross-functional teams’ accountability and project velocity.• Protected across-functional team members from external demands that might disturb workflows and put projects at risk. • Mitigated project risks by regularly identifying scope creep and expectation gaps, prioritizing backlog artifacts, and building accountability.

Virginia

Provide daily leadership in change and process management for SDLC and STLC projects. Produce Agile Teams from scratch and manage full software development cycles and liaise with business stakeholders, DevOps Team leads, product management and vendors.• Built agile cross-functional teams of 25+ members from the ground up and achieved consistent on-time and on budget deliveries. • Fostered a clear communication culture and accountability among team leads of information architect, DevOps, UX, marketing, and legal team. • Led release planning, features prioritizations, and CICD pipelines development with DevOps. • Conducted daily stand-up, Scrum, and Sprint meetings to drive projects progress in an agile environment for over 15 simultaneous initiatives.• Developed executive Jira dashboard for master project plans. Monitored and reported projects status, progresses, schedules, budges to senior executives, and related clients. • Provided day to day on-site leadership and judgment to mitigate risks, motivate project teams, and ensure delivery of projects goals.• Developed T-SQL objects & scripts such as Stored Procedures, functions, triggers, Indexes, and views for applications.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Design company-wide workflow, write software documentation and provide technical customer support.• Developed and optimized 120+ software documentation to increase client readability and internal training efficiency.• Designed company payroll workflows with Decisions workflow and rules engine that saved at least a total 15 hours a month of contract workers’ time. • Facilitated training Junior engineers to complete workflow design tasks.

Virginia Beach, Va

Develop, monitor, and execute highly visible software development initiatives and manage cross-functional project teams. Implement agile transformation projects alongside business partners, product managers, and cross-functional teams within the incubator group. Directly report program status and progress to senior executives and related clients.• Managed a portfolio of more than 30 IT initiatives, identified the risks and gaps of the project, provided business operational support, and specified business/Technical requirements for key initiatives. • Lead daily stand-ups and scrum meetings to ensure healthy velocity, SDLC/STLC process visibility, and identified roadblocks among cross-functional project teams. • Introduced and developed agile mythologies in SDLC for over ten legacy projects and provided daily leadership in KPI development and training in agile team building. • Established multiple projects plans, monitor program status, progress, and milestones to senior executives and clients involved.• Act as the first Point of Contact (POC) for contractual/administrative communication with vendors. • Translated Design Team’s UX Wireframe and mockups into dynamic and interactive features by using HTML/CSS, PHP, and Python. • Collected, cleansed, and provided modeling and structured and unstructured data used for major business initiatives.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), General Management

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International Relations And Affairs

Activities and Societies: Council of Graduate Students, Young American For FreedomCouncil of Graduate Student, Senator and Secretary

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Millsaps Chorus, International Student Association

Study Abroad

Activities and Societies: Dance Club