Kelly Qvern

Spearhead technology projects, including backlog grooming/management with product owner, story sizing, daily scrum meetings, capacity planning, sprint planning, tracking and removing of impediments, risks and dependencies, burn down/up charts, and retrospectives. Utilize MicroFocus PPM, uCMDB, ITSM, and GM cost benefit and analysis for IT portfolio planning and management, while adhering to 5-star compliance efforts for IT planning tools and uCMDB applications. Formulate and present regular program status updates to program teams and collaborate with technical and non-technical teams cross-functionally, delivering end to end technical solutions for all assigned initiatives. Supervise release of complex software builds, comprising communication of deployment with key stakeholders and gathering and tracking of release incidents ensuring resolution.

• Pooled resources with multiple internal organizations to define and configure IT planning tools infrastructure environments; established scrum discipline within development teams; and resolved technical issues.
• Directed six enhancement releases and multiple projects in fiscal year through complete GM Enable software development lifecycle, ensuring design and development of software using sound, repeatable, industry best practices and in accordance with GM’s software development project methodology.
• Identified and implemented improvement opportunities for software development, design, and engineering areas as well as monitored defects and system enhancements to numerous application stacks in enterprise release setting.
• Defined and steered maturation of best in class portfolio management and related capabilities across GM Information Technology (GM IT) function.
• Headed cloud-based implementations and upgrades with continuous development/continuous integration (Jenkins, Docker).
• Mentored and coached application development teams to adopt continuous delivery practices and other lean/agile modeling techniques.