Project Engineer

Catherine Jarrett

Chesterfield, Mo *****

Telephone: 636-***-**** *******.*****@*****.*** Cellular: 636-***-****

SUMMARY

Information Technology Professional with proven experience in Agile Project management.

Experienced in all stages of SLDC using agile and waterfall SLDC process implementation.

Successfully managed numerous multi-million dollar projects concurrently, leading development

teams .

Strengths include:

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Agile Project Management Facilitated Scrum of Scrum meetings.

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Scrum Master Chaired Change Control Board reviews

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Software Quality Management Presentations to PMO

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Systems Integration Excellent interpersonal, communication

• and team-building skills

Microsoft Project Server

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• Accountability and Ownership of projects

Agile Process Improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Elekta Maryland Heights, Missouri 2010-2014

Elekta is an Oncology Treatment solutions company producing radiation treatment

hardware and software.

Agile Project and Quality Manager 2010-2014

• Project Manager leading multiple global projects (offshore) virtually and concurrently for client-

server project, web services project and data analytics project for a cloud based Business

Intelligence project. Successfully implemented projects from kickoff to project implementation

on schedule.

• Scrum of Scrum Master accountable for remote cross functional teams and 3rd party vendors

from Project kickoff through product definition, implementation and validation using scaled

agile framework. (SAFe)

• Created Project Plan, using Microsoft Project Server to create project timelines, milestones,

show dependencies, integration points, resource allocation and tracked budget for contracts

and resources. Managed resources and risks for the project, ensuring change management

occurred throughout the course of the project to keep the project on time and in budget.

• Chaired weekly meetings between Product Owners, Architectural Leads, Business Line

Managers, Scrum Masters, and3rd party vendors. Worked closely with Release Train

Engineer to use cadence and synchronization to manage variability and assure constant

system health. Provided status reports (burn-down charts) and defect metrics between team

members and key stakeholders.

• Provided quarterly Resource Metrics to PMO and Chief Financial Officer.

• Utilized Agile Methodology using Scrum/Agile methodology. Liaison with customers, Build

Management, Validation management, Documentation, Product Managers and Release Train

Engineer to ensure project deadlines are met with a high level of quality.

bioMerieux – Hazelwood Mo 2008-2010

bioMerieux is a FDA regulated microbiology and immunoassay medical device

company.

Sr. IT Consultant

Successfully managed agile methodology for interface testing between Vitek and hospital

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information systems. Lead agile testing effort for Knowledge Base System project. Maintained

ISO 900 and FDA QSR design history files for projects. Conducted ISO 9000 audits and reports

as a lead internal auditor. Wrote and executed manual and automated test cases, documented

and tracked defects as part of the agile team working with key stakeholders, product owners, and

developers.

Monsanto 2007 – 2008

Quality Project Coordinator II Consultant : Responsible for project coordination for a complex

breeding technology system. Directed project planning and coordination of the analysts,

developers and testers. Responsible for delivering test team status and metrics (iterative success

factor) reports to upper management. Created metrics and charts to show the benefit of

automation on test time against manual testing, and resource allocation. Responsible for project

assignments and progress of test team.

Unigroup 2006 – 2007

Lead Quality Analyst : Responsible for managing the System Testing and User Acceptance

Testing for a complex billing system. Created Installation, Regression, Functional test plans and

external interface system test plans for acceptance tests for these projects. Tracked project

tasks with Microsoft Project. Responsible for delivering weekly testing status and metric reports to

upper management. Responsible for training and supervision of a system test group.

Implemented processes for system test, and defect tracking. Use Rational Robot for performance

and load testing. Also responsible for coordinating activities with the customer to elicit system

requirements and business rules.

MetaMatrix 2001– 2006

Sr. Software Test Engineer: Creation and Execution of Test Plans and Test Scripts : project

leader for a team of automation testers using Mercury Quick Test Pro. Implemented Mercury

Quality Center to manage test cases, requirements and for test coverage reporting. Responsible

for writing, maintaining and scheduling automated regression scripts which ran nightly on each

software build against multiple platforms. These included Linux, Unix, Windows XP and Windows

2000, using DB2, SQL, Oracle and Sybase databases.

EDUCATION

BS, Biology/Chemistry Western Michigan University

MBA, University of Missouri

CERTIFICATIONS

Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Product Owner (CPO), Leading Scaled Agile

(SAFe), Test Engineer (CSTE), Quality Analyst (CSQA), Six Sigma White

Belt, MT(ASCP), PMP in progress exam scheduled for September.

Professional Affiliations

Member of American Society of Quality (ASQ), St. Louis Quality Assurance Association (SLQAA),

PMI, and St. Louis Agile (LINC)

TECHNOLOGY

Project Management MS-Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio

Software

Test/Agile Tools HP Quality Center, Rally, JIRA, Quick Test Pro

Programming/Scripting C, XML, Visual Basic, HTML, SQL

Languages

Software: MS-Office, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint

Operating Systems Windows-NT, MS-DOS, Unix, Linux

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