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Delivery focused and passionate about driving innovation and growth, I was the head of the BAU "Business as Usual" unit, reporting back to directly to the head of engineering, serving 6 markets with new development work and maintenance. I've also spearheaded the migration of one of the largest markets for KFC worldwide, KFC Japan.Responsibilities include:- Designing and implementing streamlined processes across development, QA, and UAT phases to accelerate delivery and ensure top-notch quality.- Taking charge of the whole project lifecycle, from kick-off to delivery, to make sure we're hitting our goals and keeping everyone in the loop.- Develop comprehensive project plans outlining objectives, timelines, milestones, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders and team members.- Conduct thorough risk assessments and mitigation planning to anticipate and address potential challenges that may impact project success.- Utilize project management tools and methodologies to track progress, monitor performance, and adjust plans as necessary to ensure adherence to timelines and budgets.- Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders by actively engaging them throughout the project lifecycle.- Understand stakeholder expectations, concerns, and priorities, and ensure that they are addressed effectively.- Communicate project updates, progress, and challenges in a clear and timely manner to stakeholders, keeping them informed and involved in decision-making processes.- Strategically allocating resources, prioritizing tasks, and managing program initiatives to drive on-time delivery and maximize business impact.- Cultivating collaboration and synergy among multiple vendors to enhance project outcomes and drive success.- Leading a rockstar team spread across the globe, fostering a culture of innovation and accountability.

Hands-on hard driving PM that is focused on delivering feature/stories “fully signed off” and ready for dev. Heads down and focused on speed.• Owns a range of features that need to be built (features and supporting stories that need to be fully refined, unblocked and prepared for Web and App development).• Works across various areas to get it defined, unblocked and ready for dev.• Collaborates with different departments and units to understand blockages, unblocks the features/stories and prepares them fast to resolve and development.• Heads down focus and energy to rapidly punch through and get the work down.• Advises on best practices for Agile development processes.• Keeps JIRA updated, works on generating roadmaps, plans and other dashboards.• Extensive Web and Mobile app project Delivery experience • Drills into the details and fully understand the feature/story. In a hard-driving, hands-on manner in which to go into the ticket and properly understand each one and how to progress it.• Refines requirements excissivly (checking feature definition if ready, breaking down stories, story points estimation, and prep for dev).• Drives the features through the whole life cycle. All the way to UAT sign-off.

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• Gathers business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.• Analyzes new business requirements to deliver new functionality, carry on integrations, enhance design, and smoothen user experience.• Leads globally distributed teams of developers and defines technical solutions to meet clients’ business requirements.• Maintains architectural documentation and deliverables for the development and implementation cycles.• Manages JIRA projects, including creating and assigning tasks, monitoring progress, and ensuring deadlines are met.• Develops and implement JIRA best practices, including naming conventions, issue types, and workflows.• Creates road maps based on the projects’ vision.• Works closely with the engineers to ensure the technical quality of the delivery and to ensure that any technical blockers are resolved as quickly as possible based on my solid technical hands-on experience.• Works closely with the engineers on integrating backend systems with external web services and APIs, such as payment gateways, third-party APIs, and other data sources. • Identify and work on removing blockers rapidly with the appropriate stakeholders and delegates responsibilities effectively.• Serves as a linkup between business and technical discussions.• Keeps all stakeholders and senior management informed of the current project status, deliveries and blockers.• Works closely with engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure that everyone is aligned and working toward the same goals.• Stays actively involved in initiating, planning, executing, tracking, monitoring, and closing projects.

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• Leads daily operational aspects and scoping for e-commerce projects.• Gathers business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.• Analyzes new business requirements for e-commerce projects to deliver new functionality, carry on 3rd party integrations, enhance design, and smoothen user experience.• Leads teams of developers and defines technical solutions to meet clients’ business requirements.• Maintains architectural documentation and deliverables for the development and implementation cycles.• Provides estimations, evaluations and recommendations on the design of e-commerce sites, while integrating components from across the team and ensuring the integrity and quality of the deliverables.• Serves as a linkup between business and technical discussions.• Stays actively involved in initiating, planning, executing, tracking, monitoring, and closing projects.• Ensures the best practices are met and maintained during the design and implementation cycles.

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Worked within the product team on 3 core products: Fabric Pay, Fabric Loyalty & Fabric OMS. All built on a headless microservices architecture & RESTful APIs built on an AWS environment.

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• Leveraged expertise in working with J2EE, JSPs, JMS, and EJBs and in the writing of tasks and automation scripts.• Carried out the writing and design of data transfer XML and XSLT documents.• Operated in a pivotal capacity by writing and developing optimized SQL scripts to be used in data extraction and ETL processes.• Administered the efficient and effective migration of data by writing Windows batches, Linux shell scripts, and Apache Ant tasks.• Oversaw the creation of Java code to integrate WebSphere Commerce with a wide range of Business Intelligence solutions.• Handled the modification of the Apache SOLR access and search profiles and extended the available REST handlers.• Drove the development of compliant standards and semantic back-end code from requirements and other specifications.• Cross-functionally collaborated with other teams and cooperated with QA, DevOps, and front-end developers in the successful delivery of new features and fixes.

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