SUMMARY

• Most notably, while at IHG, Confidential took ownership of implementing Agile practices and frameworks throughout the enterprise to deliver several multi - million dollar/year initiatives.
• Before her enterprise Agile coach role, Confidential functioned as the Product Owner and a Product Manager, ensuring that the requirements were gathered from the stakeholders promptly and implemented within budget and on time. Confidential also functioned as the Release Train Engineer for IHG's first SAFe, agile release train and implemented the SAFe framework within IHG's development team in China.
• Confidential has also coached and trained Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and several other groups at IHG on Agile/SAFe/ principles, Agile best practices, and Rally software. Confidential has earned the following certificate from the scrum alliance; Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Product Owner (CSPO), and Certified Scrum Master (CSM). In addition to her Scrum Alliance certificates, Confidential holds two SAFe 5 certifications:
• Release Training Engineer (RTE) and Product Manager/ Product Owner (PM/PO) and thirteen years of Agile experience. Confidential also started an internal mentoring program for 150 women to connect with senior leaders at IHG and was part of the leadership team for Lean In at IHG.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Enterprise Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implement Agile and SAFe frameworks and strategies across the enterprise.
• Coaches and leads training workshops for Senior Leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, RTEs, and several other groups at IHG on Agile/SAFe/ principles, Agile best practices, and Rally software.
• Leads Release Train Engineers (RTEs) and Scrum Masters to ensure consistent approaches within the enterprise.
• Manages and optimizes the flow of value through the release train and solution train.
• Establishes and communicates the annual calendars for iterations and program increments.
• Facilitates PI planning readiness by fostering preparation of the backlog.
• Facilitates the PI planning event.
• Summarizes and publishes team and program objectives for visibility and transparency.
• Track the execution of features within a program increment.
• Coaches leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Manage risks and dependencies.
• Encourage collaboration between teams and the system architects.
• Collaborates with Product Managers and Product Owners, and stakeholders to ensure strategy and execution alignment.
• Facilitate System Demos.
• Drives relentless improvement via inspect and adapt workshops.
• Creates an environment of mutual influence while supporting personal development for individuals and teams.

Confidential

Sr. Agile Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Established a clear vision and release plan for various products.
• Defined, prioritized, and clarified requirements; work with others to understand use cases, features, business, technical domain rules, and overall product goals.
• Built and groomed product backlog(s).
• Created and groomed short-, medium and long-term product roadmaps.
• Collaborated with the Scrum Master to run successful release planning and sprint planning sessions, as well as sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Accepted or rejected the delivery team's work results, ensuring development decisions stay aligned with business needs, and any issues that arise are addressed as quickly as possible.
• Provided day-to-day tactical objectives and provides quick JIT decisions to system-level questions and defect triage.
• Worked with the project manager, product manager, and project sponsors to ensure proficient knowledge of the product's vision and project scope.
• Elicited business/solution needs using varying methods to translate into user stories with specific measurable, attainable, realizable, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Identified ways to assist product management in product planning through user story development and analysis.
• Proposed new product features and updates.
• Ensured product development budgets are spent in a way that maximizes IHG's return on investment while minimizing business risk.
• Worked with product management to determine each product's profitability based on the cost to develop versus the forecast revenue.
• Began Lean Coffee sessions to encourage relationship building across the enterprise and give opportunities to share knowledge and experiences openly, honestly, and freely.
• Began a mentoring program for 150 women at IHG to connect with senior leadership, which has grown to over 300 women and held a leadership position within IHG's women's Lean In program.

Confidential, GA

Product Manager/ Business Analyst, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led three development teams which included web, mobile, and B2B development.
• Facilitated and led Scrum meetings, including daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, planning meetings, and Scrum of Scrums.
• Managed agile artifacts and metrics (including product backlog, sprint backlog, burndown metrics, and velocity).
• Led teams to self-organization,balance product delivery, andteam sustainability and client satisfaction.
• Facilitated communication between the technical and business stakeholders.
• Prioritizedand remove barriers that impede progress.
• Gathered and documented requirements in the form of User Stories.
• Functioned as a Stakeholder to ensure requirements were complete and correct before releasing products to the public.
• Managed release schedules between all three development teams and Infrastructure.
• Managed dependencies and upcoming product improvements.
• Created Release documents for new products.
• Produced reports for executive management regarding upcoming priorities, status, and user information.
• Developed and conducted Scrum training for new hires.

Confidential, IL

Business Analyst, Project Planner / Jr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned projects from start to finish using waterfall and agile techniques, including creating/ maintaining schedules or backlog depending on the project type.
• Created storyboards and charts to capture the project team's progress during a project's life cycle.
• Developed, gathered, prepared project plans, scope, and requirement documents.
• Analyzed project problems related to staffing, development, implementation, and funding.
• Created recommendations regarding delivering solutions within budget and project time frame.
• Developed and prepared analytical reports regarding funding, staffing, and project scope.
• Developed product breakdown structures, work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, and several other items for a project's life cycle.
• Built and maintained project schedules in Primavera Project Manager software and other State Farm Lotus Notes tools.
• Monitored funding and took actions as needed.
• Produced reports for upper management weekly regarding resources, project status, funding, etc.,
• Organized, planned, and facilitated meetings between team members and others.
• Interacted with business partners to scope projects and develop requirements.
• Created and presented presentations regarding technical deliverables and project scope.