Wendy Andrus

Skills Summary:

Agile Tool: Rally

Tools: JIRA, Confluence and MS Project

Software environment: MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, and MS Office Suite

Education:

M.S. in Technical Communication, Southern Polytechnic State University

B.S. in Business, Lamar University

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Member #: 000205675

Professional Experience

TCS

Client: Kaiser Permanente January 2023 to December 2023

Senior Project Manager: HR Technology

Worked on a Payroll Reconciliation project as part of Kaiser’s ongoing cybersecurity initiatives.

Tracked project impediments and risks until resolution.

Status reporting to the leadership team.

Managed project risks, action items, and defect tracking.

Utilized the Scrum/Agile and traditional methodologies.

Managed project scope and budget.

Attended daily scrum meetings.

Tools: Jira, MS Office Suite, and MS Project.

TCS

Client: Mastercard January 2022 to December 2022

Program Manager: Enterprise Data Governance Group

Worked in the Enterprise Data Governance group on compliance data projects.

Ensured effective management of projects from inception through implementation.

Developed and executed project plans, including scope definition and schedules.

Collaborated with technical and business stakeholders to determine and understand project requirements.

Facilitated project team and client meetings for the resolution of project issues.

Provided program status reports to management

TCS

Client: USAA June 2018 to December 2021

Program Manager: Data Modernization

Worked on data modernization projects in Property and Casualty business unit.

Responsible for pre-planning and post planning quarterly PI events.

Responsible for Roadmap to define the vision, direction, and priorities of the 3P Data team.

Collaborated with the data architects to define user stories and acceptance criteria.

Tracked project impediments and risks until resolution.

Status reporting to the ART on a weekly basis that included risks and milestones.

Authored project charter, project schedule and project kick-off deck for the GRC.

Managed project risks, action items, and defect tracking.

Utilized the Scrum/Agile and traditional methodologies.

Authored features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

Manage project budget.

Attended daily scrum meetings.

Participated in Iteration planning and Sprint Review meetings.

Tools: Jira, MS Office Suite and MS Project.

Pyramid Consulting: AT&T June 2009 to March 2018

Program Manager

Worked on Finance and Supply Chain projects.

Responsible for managing the Software development team (Developers / Programmers / QA's) in support of the company’s backend Oracle financial supply chain applications.

Utilized the Scrum/Agile and traditional software methodologies.

Managed project budgets and cost variances.

Assisted in defining roadmaps with a two-year horizon.

Status Reporting to senior level management.

Created project schedule with milestones.

Tracked and resolved impediments and risks.

Facilitated project kick-offs, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums Standups and Sprint Retrospectives.

Worked on project financials to ensure projects were in alignment with the project budget.

Agile Tool: Rally

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