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TEKsystemsProject Manager
Jun. 2024Atlanta Metropolitan AreaDeliver projects valued from $32k to $500k.
Lead regular status calls with Product owners, Project managers, Scrum Masters, and Technical Leads to share blockers, dependencies, updates, and ensure teams were on track to reach objectives and key results.
Manage resources and predict team capacity and velocity using team tracker.
Raise risks early to product owners and upper management, so that mitigation paths can be agreed on.
Insight GlobalProject Manager Scrum Master
Mar. 2022 - Feb. 2024Atlanta Metropolitan AreaUse scaled agile principles to facilitate Agile ceremonies for a SCRUM and Kanban team.
Created templates on SCRUM boards for easier creation of JIRA tickets.
Created step by step guidelines and presented workshops on JIRA epic requirements.
Lead regular status calls with Release manager, Product owners, and Project managers to share blockers, dependencies, and updates.
Manage resources and predict team capacity and velocity using team tracker.
Track cross-train dependencies and attend meetings with upstream counterparts to determine the best path forward.
Raise risks early to product owners and upper management, so that mitigation paths can be agreed on.
Chime Solutions Project Manager
Aug. 2021 - Mar. 2022Morrow, Georgia, United StatesLead company six-figure site remodel project. Collaborated with construction project manager to deliver valuable increments of construction at set iterations.
Create and communicate construction project timelines with executives, peers, and contractors.
Establish and maintain vendor relationships to drive the construction timeline.
Facilitated cross-department communication with IT, training, and support staff to complete client training space setup.
Create risk mitigation plans and issue tracker log. Create and Maintain project workspace in Smartsheet.
Identified potential process improvement to allow quicker payment to vendors.
Created work stream activity logs in Smartsheet to track action items.
Haggard Home Cabinetry & DesignProject Coordinator
Mar. 2021 - May. 2021Create and communicate project timelines with designers, clients, and contractors.
Receive and review vendor product deliveries for client renovation projects. Coordinate cabinet deliveries between showroom and client renovation sites.
Used Agile methodology to create work breakdown structure and project plan
Consult with designers to create and submit client orders
Maintain project document library in Jira
Created timeline and document library to facilitate transition team from local hardware to cloud storage.
Jackson HealthcareProject Manager
May. 2019 - Nov. 2019Greater Atlanta AreaHandled project planning, implementation, and support for clinical systems project. Led and managed project development from inception to completion in hospital and healthcare facility sites. Provided strategic planning and education tools for migration project moving health information exchange from on-premises to AWS cloud. Utilized standardized project management and informatics management methodologies in system development life cycle.
Assisted staff in utilizing capability of clinical systems and buy-in. Provided written and verbal status reports. Managed daily activities of multiple subject matter experts during activation support.
Created and maintained document library in Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint
Delivered high-level recommendations to executives for strategies to improve efficiency and quality of health care services.
Held kick-off meetings to assemble project teams, assigned tasks, and delegated responsibilities, identified resources, and reviewed detailed timelines, to ensure timely completion of assigned studies based on Agile methodology.
Planned and monitored all work performed by team members and prepared all regulatory documents using recommended Scrum cadence to maintain team velocity.
EquifaxProject Manager
Apr. 2018 - May. 2019Alpharetta, GAWorked with Product Managers and Application Owners to gather and document requirements for migrating applications to cloud servers. Discussed how many cloud servers would be needed and what capacity to accommodate the applications moving as well as documented if applications would be restricted to a specific brand. Used waterfall methodology to plan and execute the decommission and destruction of 100 on premise servers. Coordinated testing with the network team to ensure servers were powered down. Scheduled pickup with our security vendor so that servers were securely destroyed.
Organized and conducted weekly meetings with trade partners and other community leaders to plan for the upcoming week.
Monitored projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing issue resolution, and taking corrective action as necessary.
Created Service-Now requests for firewall changes, VMs, VLans, and other infrastructure project requirements.
Provided program and project status reports to the project team and company.
The Liberated Soul MovementBusiness Owner
Jan. 2018Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesThe Liberated Soul Movement is a platform that empowers others to be unapologetically unafraid to be themselves.
Using project management principles and scrum methodology I created the workshop "I'm gifted.Now what?" This workshop is geared towards creative entrepreneurs who need a light weight framework that helps them consistently produce without stifling creativity. During the five step workshop I take participants through brainstorming, narrowing down the vision of their gift, identifying and silencing negative voices, and finally creating an iterative plan toward accomplishing their vision.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®)Project Manager
Jun. 2017 - Apr. 2018Atlanta, GeorgiaFacilitate meetings between development, testing, and business teams to ensure plan alignment and timely delivery of code enhancements.
Track progress of code enhancements in Rally.
Communicate resource allocation to business PMs for budget forecasting.
Update weekly status report for Senior Leadership.
Collaborate with corporate test team to get timely sign-off for code promotion.
Work hand in hand with technical lead and application development manager to plan delivery timeline according to Agile process
Turner (Turner Broadcasting System, Inc)Project Manager
Apr. 2016 - Apr. 2017Greater Atlanta AreaDeveloped and prioritized requirements for Closed caption project. Drove task completion for 2016 Olympic Opt Out project.
Conduct sprint planning meeting to assign tasks and allocate resources per Agile methodology.
Track daily tasks against agile sprint plan.
Correspond with project managers and partners to give status updates per team’s progress.
Manage team action tracker to insure timely delivery of team deliverables.
Create Jira tickets, manage team sprints, partner requests, and incidents in Jira.
Create and maintain project charters on team document page. Created functional test documents for Content Platforms Closed Captions Application.
Ran QA tests in Postman.
Reviewed developer’s Javascript to assist trouble shooting internal applications.
Created Implementation timelines using Team Gannt. Created functional test documents for Content Platforms Closed Captions Application.
Created Implementation timelines using Team Gannt.
ICFBusiness Analyst
Nov. 2015 - Feb. 2016Assist project managers in tracking project tasks, milestones and deliverables.
Assemble power point slide decks for weekly and monthly members.
Distribute meeting minutes to integrated project team. Collaborate with analysts and project managers to create Enterprise Lifecycle stage gate documentation.
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