Agile Project Manager at CiRBA
Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B3P6 Canada www.cirba.com
May 2012-Present
- Focus on guiding these teams to improving the way they work by assisting them in implementing agile principles and practices.
- Work with the Engineering Leadership and Product Management to implement agile principles and practices throughout the product development life cycle.
- Act as agile coach and mentor to all members of the organization, including training/on-boarding of new staff to our agile practices and tools.
- Facilitate various meetings supporting our development lifecycle as as well as assist product management in maintaing the product backlog.
- Act as project manager when necessary, taking responsibility for managing dependencies between scrum teams and working with engineering leadership to ensure project reporting requirements are being met...etc.
Product Owner at Rogers Communications (on behalf of Thoughtcorp)
Toronto, Ontario Canada www.rogers.com
May 2011-May 2012
- As Product Owner for the Rogers.com and Sales Central design and development work supporting the launch of the new Rogers One Number product responsibilities included but were not limited to, requirement definition and clarification, story creation and backlog management, story/requirement prioritization and the execution of stakeholder application demonstrations.
- Worked closely and extensively with business stakeholders from Rogers to ensure requirements were clearly understood by the development team and that design and development progress was understood by the business.
- Worked closely with the design and development teams to ensure that the business vision of the application was clearly understood and articulated in the application being built.
- Worked closely with the Quality Assurance team to execute deployment validation tests as well as regression testing.
Scrum Master at Home Hardware (on behalf of Thoughtcorp)
St. Jacobs, ON Canada www.homehardware.ca
January 2010-April 2011
- Worked closely and extensively with business stakeholders from Home Hardware to help them understand the Scrum processes being followed, to define, in detail, all the dealer portal requirements, to plan and prioritize development activities and to identify and understand system defects.
- Worked closely and extensively with the Dealer Portal architect and developers to ensure Scrum processes were being followed, that requirements were understood, and to understand and resolve all identified system defects.
- Assisted in system configuration and development by working extensively with the Oracle UCM and SES systems in the configuration of various development, test, and production environments.
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