SUMMARY:

• Management Consultant ~ Digital Transformation Strategist ~Agile Delivery
• Seasoned business professional offering an uncommon blend of Technology and Digital business transformation talents along with results proven ability to apply new ideas, best practices, resourcefulness and innovation to propel companies to the next level in their digital adoption journey, overcome roadblocks and build a competitive advantage.

KEY SKILLS:

Product Management Agile Delivery Business Analysis Digital Strategy DevOps - CI/CD pipeline Digital Automation Quality Assurance Azure & AWS cloud strategy Product roadmap Stakeholder Engagement Relationship Management Partnership Working Scrum and Kanban Solution Architecture

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Lead Agile Consultant

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Led a highly complex and interconnected transformation project for the whole Confidential healthcare network
• Contributed to product strategy and direction by working with Healthcare analysts & other stakeholders to build and maintain a backlog of business requirements and development stories
• Decreased product development costs by 10% (saving $200K in six months) by leading cross functional teams, leveraging 3rd party software and implementing optimized technical designs using agile product development and SAFe methodology
• Devised a Product Roadmap with prioritized release milestones and achieved a working MVP production release in less than two iterations
• Provided User experience design guidance in collaboration with professional experts to create user interface that was intuitive for different analyst teams and that reduced the error rate by 40% and improved operational efficiency by over 30%
• Led business initiatives for training end users, user acceptance testing, security and compliance reviews
• Utilized Azure Devops for tracking Epics, features, user stories and keeping artefacts transparent. Created UI designs and mock ups using Balsamiq
• Analysed and documented software requirements including detailed use cases, functional specifications and user stories by liaising with a range of people including users and other product managers, drawing together information needs from across the organisation

Agile Consultant

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Improved go-to market readiness by 10% and reduced costs of $2M program by 20% through implementation of process improvements and optimising application release scheduling and cross business integration
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint planning, review, retrospective, backlog grooming meetings
• Collaborated with UI/UX teams to translate product features into product design. Collaborate with business leaders and stakeholders through interview process to elaborate on user personas
• Dealt with highly critical real time account opening projects and products, leading to a $1 million engagement from customers within a month after product release
• Reduced time-to-market for the online CD account opening product by 50% compared to similar sized waterfall projects.
• Helped balance the prioritization of technical debt against new feature innovation and software delivery
• Collaborated with cross-functional managers to supervise and allocate the right resources, monitoring team performance and ensuring consistency across scrum teams

Lead Digital Transformation Consultant

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Introduced Scrum Principles and Methodology to Division Heads, Executive management and cross-functional teams
• Applied Agile Project Management knowledge, skills, tools like Atlassian Jira and techniques to deliverables, processes, and systems
• Reduced $1M (10%) of project costs by optimizing Enterprise Data Warehouse Analytics operational and technological architecture design
• Worked with the marketing team to present digital marketing content on the corporate website for 20+ B2B products
• Shared ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation to drive team performance
• Worked closely with Development and Operations teams, building relationships with Key Stakeholders
• Helped organize sprint backlog items and created burn down charts to estimate project metrics

Sr. Consultant Software Engineer

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined administrative tasks by defining procedures for Time Reporting, work assignment and workflow
• Established guidelines for estimation of tasks and ensured team compliance
• Created policies for IT infrastructure and guidelines for website development working with globally distributed Brand Managers
• Coached the team on using Test Driven Development, automated testing and pair programming techniques to facilitate agile delivery
• Liaised with Senior Management to identify team impediments and propose solutions. Used Xamarin and Mobile first UI designs
• Estimated project budgets, planned purchases and coordinated with finance department for funds
• Oversaw management of Teacher's Certification Project, a suite of applications which enable the State Department to accept and process applications for Teacher's certification in the state of Florida
• Set up Team Foundation Server, introducing Agile practice and teaching teams to write User Stories, work items, tasks, bug descriptions and test cases
• Improved team collaboration with improved process automation and workflow management capabilities
• Analyzed Customer and Technical Readiness, reviewing final project health with Project Sponsors and Stakeholders
• Set up Team Foundation Server and implemented Agile practice by teaching teams how to write User Stories, work items, tasks, bug descriptions and test cases
• Mapped process flows and captured 'AS-IS' processes through user interviews, historical data analysis and collection
• Acted as liaison between the Product Owner and Development Team to reduce overheads and time wastage
• Provided technical guidance to Development Team around team capacity and prioritization of Product Backlog items

Software Developer

Confidential, Tallahassee

Responsibilities:

• Developed an online learning platform based on new Common core standards set by the FL Department of Education for students and teachers, using ASP.NET MVC3.0.
• Developed Data and Partial View models to improve reusability and increase code readability

Software Developer

Confidential, Gainesville, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Developed software modules and applications as part of the Confidential project to enable EPA to track and monitor air pollution trends for the year 2011

Software Developer

Confidential, Gainesville, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Developed an application Remote Classroom which uses HTTP requests to remotely manage recordings inside classrooms