SUMMARY

• Assistant Project Manager/Sr. Project Analyst with expertise in Project planning, evaluation, and analyses of the effectiveness of enterprise - level I.T. Development and Integration Projects.
• Responsibilities included assessing the operations' effectiveness, project planning and defining systems integrations and operational capabilities, creating and modifying Service Operation Procedures, Workflow planning, and creation, risk management. Support multiple aspects of the Systems Integration Projects, daily collaboration with corporate and contracting project vendors, and executive-level business and I.T. stakeholders.
• Prepared for dynamic administrative aptitude in multitasking, planning, as well as directing operations and complex schedules.

• Project management
• Agile Methodology
• SAFe
• Kanban Methodology
• Application Integration.
• Performance Testing.
• I.T. Business Analyses.
• Risk Analyses.
• Functional Testing.
• Creating a Test Case.
• Systems Architecture Design.
• Test Planning.
• Backlog Grooming
• Systems Security auditing.
• Utilization of Waterfall.
• Software Quality Assurance.
• Business Analyses.
• Confidential . and civilian Medical/Health Records.
• Benefits Management Systems.
• Enrolment Service System.
• UAT
• VRM (Veteran Relationship Management.
• Confidential, CPRS (Computerized Patient Record System) & EVSS.
• Team management.
• Information Technology
• Architecture Design Analyses.
• Operational Readiness Review.
• Systems Security Auditing.
• Test Cases Creation and Scripting.
• Project Planning.
• Risk Analyses.
• Systems Standardization.
• Critical Decision Making

• Acting Team Lead in PMO project support team
• Facilitating and conducting daily PMO team SCRUM meetings.
• Designing and implementing project processes and procedures based on Scaled Agile Framework principles.
• Creating and modifying Service Operation Procedures.
• Workflow planning and creation.
• Support multiple aspects of the Systems Integration Project.
• Lead requirements management processes and procedures implementations in a newly adapted requirements management system (C.A. Rally.)
• Conduct and support different levels of communications with a Program and Product workstreams.
• Assist the product owner's teams and PMO in developing a strategy for migration from VIP to DevOps project methodology.
• Work on multiple support tasks for PMO and VA OI&T project management team.
• Support OIT Project and Program management operations.
• Project status updates: PMR Reporting, VIP board weekly reporting, VIPR status
• Communicating with OIT and Business and project stakeholders.
• Tracking and managing project-related documentation in SharePoint, GitHub, and Rally.
• Conducting reviews and draw of business data flow processes.
• Coordination and alignment of Claims X.M. approved integrations for initial operation capabilities (IOC) with the business data flow process.
• Support the OIT team on various project-related tasks.
• Project Schedule assessments and program increment planning
• Risk and Issues management
• Managing Update in information portals Rally, SharePoint, VIPR, VAPARS dashboard - to enter and manage cost, schedule, risk, and performance data, reviewing user stories backlog reporting.
• Developing and coordinating responses to data calls for internal and external stakeholders.
• Developing and implement recommendations for improving processes and procedures operating programs
• Managing risk identification and tracking activities, including methods for escalating risks to issues
• Facilitating project and program levels virtual meetings; prepare meeting agenda, capture meeting minutes, and track outcomes and action items.
• Supporting VA project managers in preparation for project milestone reviews and critical decision points.
• Facilitate executive-level virtual meetings; prepare meeting agendas, capture meeting minutes, and track outcomes and action items.

• Support program/project-related processes and activities with Veteran-focused Integration Process (VIP)/Agile and Kanban procedures, related artifacts, and documentation.
• Support preparation of briefings and reporting, including coordinating with Office of Information Technology (OIT) and Business stakeholders and preparing presentations to Enterprise Portfolio Management Division (EPMD) Portfolio level and senior OIT leadership.
• Managing daily project team operations such as scrum meetings, risk management, schedule, and reviews.
• Managing the project's overall Agile process and developing project scope, goals, work plans, timelines, and implementation strategies.
• Daily collaboration with the development team to ensure frequent feedback on project progress.
• Scrum/Kanban Project meeting support: facilitation, agendas, minutes and action items, project task board management.
• Product backlog grooming ensures that product backlog items are continuously created, refined, estimated, and prioritized.
• Working with Confidential . program management, users, and project leads in analyzing, designing, implementing, and supporting a wide variety of I.T. business systems related to a significant Veterans Benefits Administration's data migration project.
• Managing project's compliance with governance bodies.

• Creating and Analyzing Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Scripts supporting functional business requirements and a reusable state.
• Conducting tests and UAT validation of Enrolment Service Applications.
• Q.A. Test preparation for Papyrus CCM / Correspondence Management System
• Working with the Business Systems Analysts, Project Manager, and Functional Owner to interpret the test needs as requirements are being developed to ensure the standard of testing supports the business need.
• Determining the types of testing that must be conducted (i.e., data validation, regression, etc.) and creating a comprehensive Test Plan that supports the business and technological solutions being delivered.
• Performing duties delegated by the Project Manager or Area Manager on behalf of the department.
• Executes each test case to identify defects before delivering software in a production environment and actively participates in reviews and checkpoints.
• Work with the Business Systems Analyst, Developer, and Project Manager to resolve the defects identified during the testing cycle.
• Assign severity levels to each test issue discovered during the test cycle.
• Tests data preparation to ensure it complies with specifications and present sound recommendations through thorough analysis.
• Responsibilities also include capturing and documenting metrics in support of the user acceptance testing and providing recommendations for improvements.
• Support multiple concurrent projects.
• Ensuring adherence to quality processes and procedures.
• Assessing current testing processes; recommend and implement process improvements
• Participating in scrum meeting in the formulation of project time estimates