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lululemonSenior Project Manager
Oct. 2023 - May. 2025Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada• Partnered with product and engineering leads to establish program scope, define measurable objectives, and outline key milestones across multiple teams and projects. • Engaged in planning to co-develop program charters, ensuring clarity on goals, timelines, cross-team responsibilities, budget and resourcing. • Led project planning and execution across all program teams by managing timelines, milestones, and dependencies, proactively identifying risks, tracking progress, and resolving or escalating blockers. • Collaborated with engineering teams to understand system architecture and dependencies, led design reviews and technical discussions, and ensured technical solutions aligned with long-term architectural, scalability, observability and business goals. • Served as central point of contact between engineering, product, design, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders by translating business requirements into technical tasks and facilitating Agile ceremonies. • Led PMO team to drive end-to-end project delivery, ensuring deliverables met technical standards and business expectations, while coordinating releases and deployment schedules with business and engineering teams. • Reported progress to leadership and stakeholders, managed expectations around timelines, scope, and outcomes, and communicated risks and trade-offs. • Evaluated and improved engineering and project delivery processes, promoted best practices in Agile and Scrum methodologies, and fostered a culture of continuous improvement. • Led incident response processes and calls, managed the on-call support rotation, and maintained incident management procedures to ensure timely resolution. • Led Vendor collaboration to resolve integration incidents, streamline support processes, strengthen working relationships •Managed resource allocation and budgets of up to $5 million, reviewed team structure and composition, participated in resource rating and hiring process to optimize team performance and capacity
lululemonProject Manager
Jul. 2020 - Oct. 2023Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaResponsibilities: • Day to day execution of development sprints
• Running sprint ceremonies: Daily stand up, sprint planning, demo, retro. • Facilitating escalation's and team blockers
• Defining, tracking and facilitating delivery milestones
• Defining Project Plans and Timelines
• Facilitating and being responsible for cost estimating and sizing
• Leading and facilitating quarterly planning sessions
• Managing project budget trackers and financial deliverables
• Coordination and creation of deployment/cutover plans and rollout execution
• Project/team status updates and weekly reporting
• Assisting in Backlog maintenance • Release Coordination
lululemonQuality Assurance Lead
Jul. 2019 - Jul. 2020
lululemonSenior Quality Assurance Engineer
Jul. 2018 - Jul. 2019Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
EventbaseQuality Assurance Analyst
Jul. 2016 - Jul. 2018Vancouver, Canada Area
FBD InsuranceSoftware Quality Assurance Analyst
Aug. 2013 - Apr. 2016Blubell, Dublin.I am a technical quality assurance analyst with FBD for almost 3 years. During this time I have become familiar working in a fast paced development environment which has used both agile and waterfall methodologies. While testing this web based application I have excelled in roles such as functional tester, in-sprint functional primary tester and also as a load tester. I received the award for QA of the year 2014 in FBD.
Here my duties included: As a functional tester: Review and validation of business requirement documents.
Planning, creation and execution of manual test scripts in HP Quality Centre.
Execution of test scripts on delivered bi weekly development releases.
Management and prioritisation of defects from detection through to resolution using HP QC.
HP Quality Centre Administrator.
Liaising with the Business Analyst to make requirements as clear as possible before and during sprint.
Testing development for each developer in sprint before release to improve development quality.
Working closely with developers to resolve any issues found while testing before release.
Querying of DB tables using SQL Developer.
Triage of defects to identify validity, priority and severity of defects.
Execution and maintenance of selenium cucumber automated tests using eclipse.
Attended daily stand ups and bi-weekly sprint planning sessions.
Liaising with Model Office (UAT) test team. As a load tester: Management of load generator virtual machines and controller
Recording of load test scripts using HP load runner VuGen (true client protocol).
Execution of load test scripts using HP load runner Controller.
Load test Report generation using HP Load runner Analysis.
Monitoring application availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures using HP Sitescope.
Liaising with application architects to identify bottlenecks and contention issues.
Athy Credit Union Ltd.Teller (part time)
Dec. 2006 - Aug. 2013While working in Athy Credit Union I have gained excellent experience of working in a team driven environment while having many individual responsibilities. I have become comfortable with handling large amounts of money and handling sensitive situations with members of the public. Here my duties included: • Taking in lodgments and loan repayments.
• Dispensing money in withdrawals and loans.
• The issuing of loans including signing of legal documents.
• General office duties.
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