SUMMARY:

• A dynamic Senior Product Owner with a detail - oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers.
• In-depth understanding of the software Development Life Cycle and a sound knowledge of agile principles, values, and practices. Experienced in the
• Product Ownership role for sensitive transformation projects, including onboarding and implementation of newly acquired Tech, existing or new product enhancement, product delivery, user experience, talent acquisition and career mobility
• Skilled Senior Product Owner, with diverse experience across several different streams, including Project Management, Digital Transformation, Agile Methodologies, Business Analysis. Experience working with product owners in development while assisting to influence customer adoption of new technologies and products.
• Agile Emotional Intelligence
• Agile Methodology
• Scrum Framework
• Kanban Framework
• Strategic Analysis & Planning
• Team Building & Leadership
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Risk Assessment & Mitigation
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Project Management
• Relative Sizing/Story
• Budget Management
• Burn Down/ Burn-Up Charts
• Process Optimization
• Scrum Events Facilitation
• Process/Performance Improvement
• Polices Development/Implementation
• Team Velocity Tracking
• Salesforce
• Oracle Applications
• Requirements Gathering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Product Owner/Sr. Scrum Master/ Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Deliver effective communications with the IT, Operations, business partners, and management to ensure buy-in and understanding of project objectives, scope changes and requirements.
• Contribute to cross functional team meetings to ensure Financial Projects compliance and lifecycle requirements were met for all quarterly product releases.
• Represent the stakeholders, end users and customers to the team, answer questions, and provide direction, Drive and own the backlog grooming sessions, participate in the planning events, reviews, and retrospective events to establish milestones, anticipate issues, and monitor adherence to project scope requirements, design documents and schedules.
• Partner closely with market teams, and other corporate teams to understand business needs, customer requirements, and build scaled solutions.
• Coach/Mentor a cross functional team of 16 resources to deliver quality products which led to significant cost saving/cost reductions and overall process improvement. Manage the delivery of customer and business value by owning the team’s backlog; defining and prioritizing stories, establishing acceptance criteria, identifying cross-dependencies, and always keeping the backlogs updated.
• Establish and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Plan and manage project scopes, schedules, budgets, deliverables, in accordance with company standards and seek to maximize ROI.
• Engage directly with customers at multiple levels, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships. End-to-end ownership of commitments with the ability to break down ambiguous problems.
• Track and maintain cross-functional dependencies/deliverables, work with other cross-functional groups within the company to manage dependency and deliverables.
• Integrate partnerships and 3rd party programs specific to sales,, and customer facing initiatives to ensure seamless experience.
• Remove team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Review Profit and Loss (P&L) Business statements and adjust as needed business strategies as needed.
• Evaluate procurement needs and projected expenditures.
• Kept track of sales targets, point of contact of any sales queries and recommendations

SR. Budget Analyst/ SR. Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gather data on prior year(s) spending, projected funding/resource needs (i.e., salaries/benefits; capital, operating and other expenses) and budget priorities to facilitate timely development of budget requests and supporting justifications.
• Prepare recurring reports to ensure execution of budget is in accordance with regulations.
• Conduct mid-year budget reviews to advise program managers of potential issues with planned projects.
• Monitor funds availability in order to make recommendations to program managers for funding approval of current projects.
• Managing lines of accounting and budgets and ensuring that all financial information remains accurate.
• Analyzed accounting data from internal and/or external sources to confirm the propriety of charges.
• Conduct periodic reviews of multiple subordinate unit accounts, fund managers and ensures that data in accounting and financial management systems are current.
• Prepare annual budgets and planning requests.
• Applies strategies to analyze financial statements and uses related information in budget preparation.
• Uses guidelines for establishing effective budget objectives.
• Populated and maintained the configuration workbook as it related to salesforce
• Conducted weekly brainstorming sessions with the team that generated 15+ implemented improvement ideas per week
• Generated Workflows for approval as PO

Finance Defense Travel Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review and approve or disapprove expenses outside the initial approved trip.
• Review exceptions to policy and input rationale if approved while updating the status of a specified travel authorization.
• Review and approve final settlements prior to forwarding to DADS and Digitally sign travel authorizations and vouchers. managing lines of accounting and budgets and ensuring that all financial information remains accurate while complying with all local financial policies and procedures for monitoring funds.
• Served as the Primary point of contact for all financial management related activities in DTS.
• Prepared travel documents and reports for briefing Sr. Officials on account audits and discrepancies.
• Maintain LOA’s and Budgets for processing rejects from accounting and disbursing purposes.
• Developing and executing a strategy for ODTAs, AOs, and travelers.