Manager Project
Resume:
Elena Zhuravleva
New York, NY, 10040
Tel: 1-347-***-****
Email: ***************@*****.***
SUMMARY
* ***** ** *****-** experience using Agile/ Scrum methodology
Agile Tools such as Jira, Version One & Rally
Agile techniques: Scrum, Kanban, ATDD, TDD, CI, XP, Pair Programming, Agile Games
Proficient KeyNote, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office
PSM I Certification, PMP in progress
Servant leader with strong time management, analytical and communication skills
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FoxNews
Project Manager/ Agile Transformation September 2019 -
●Managing and successful delivery of 18 stations sites rollouts from Legacy to a new FoxNews CMS platform, which involved last minute fixes, urgent priority shifts and risk mitigation.
●Acted as a PM and a senior liaison for Prod directors, architects and team members to drive successful delivery of the FoxBusiness credit program.
●Iteratively encouraging a process transformation towards more frequent, transparent, adaptive and proactive vs reactive approach in the reality of spread remote teams and shared resources.
●Provided training to the platform maintenance teams on the SDLC upon project delivery.
●Constant reviewing the current project status, providing visibility to and gathering feedback from all involved stakeholders.
URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People, & Vetri Family) Mar 2018 - May 2019
Agile Project Manager
●Working with stakeholders across the organization to evolve the product set within my purview
●Utilizing soft skills to synthesize multiple, often conflicting, points of view and sources of information to define and implement a product building strategy
●Take on difficult, ambiguous projects where the solution is not always clear from the start and supporting them with metrics, status updates and ceremonies best practices to ensure project successful delivery
●Monitor program progress across different levels of upstream and downstream dependencies, analyze expectations vs reality, and manipulating around necessary adjustments with reasonable tradeoffs
●Empower communication, cross-functional collaboration and negotiation as key values within organization to bring the projects to their best efficiency
●Encourage a productive team dynamic by supporting Dev and QA engineers in their daily activities
●Guiding the team on metrics value to encourage on time delivery through improving velocity
Comcast Cable June 2016 – Mar 2018
Technical Program Manager/ Scrum Master
Guiding 3 teams in Organization transition to next level of agility under Compass 3.1 initiative:
●Work closely with the project team & stakeholders manage and track classic PM deliverables
●Influence cross-functional teams, including driving process improvement and change management
●Identify, manage and escalate project blockers & risks, facilitating it’s resolution
●Support the idea of team’s shared responsibility for maintenance & new releases vs handoffs
●Align team with DevOps model, encourage them to own their build & deploy process
●Stand for Cont. Integration & Delivery for teams to be able to get rapid feedback on code changes
●Drive teams to value non-functional requirements as much as functional to cover tech. debt
●Inspire Continuous Improvement through increasing velocity, reviewing the process and getting feedback
●Present velocity trends and propose solutions to challenges to senior leadership in production, quality engineering and development.
●Act as a PO prioritizing & re-prioritizing backlog to get ready for groomings & plannings
●Stand for using Real Agile Metrics, so the teams can reveal the actual status & use it for improvement
●Foster design, educational & social events as Brown Bags lunches & Hackathons
F. D. Worldwide Merchandising Group Jan 2015 - June 2016
Scrum Master/ Agile Project Manager
Involved in full SDLC of an internal app which provides control for all critical wholesale jewelry operations
●Working with the Product Owners & Tech Leads on priorities to be groomed for upcoming sprint
●Managing scrum process/ guiding teams and organization on scrum best practices and values
●Track team delivery on commitments through burndown charts and other visual methods
●Analyze velocity trends to unveil issues and opportunities in iteration planning, resourcing and delivery.
●Remove impediments and shields team from internal and external distractions
●Validating specs, categorizing and prioritizing them to align with project scope and objectives
Adrianna Papell June 2014 –Dec 2014
Scrum Master
Working with two teams dedicated to launching a brand-new ecommerce platform
●Acting as a change agent by improving Agile practices, team communication and collaboration
●Assisting PO with backlog management and release plan maintenance
●Facilitating Dev Team members to become more self-organized and cross-functional
●Manage team capacity and velocity and drive improvements to help us move faster
●Maintaining agile tracking metrics to provide transparency to teams & stakeholders
●Encouraging teams to troubleshoot impediments which enables them to progress faster
Agile Pace Inc, June 2013 – June 2014
Scrum Master
Guiding teams on implementing/adapting scrum process to a medium sized e-commerce organization
●Guides and coaches the organization on scrum practices thru adaptation of 4 formal scrum events
●Facilitate PO & other team members to be ready for plannings/pre-plannings prior to each sprint
●Facilitate retros – ensure highest priority action points are followed up on and closed out
●Monitor/tracking/ reporting statuses against goals on the ongoing bases
EDUCATION
BS, FIT - Fashion Institute of Technology 2010-2012
State University of New York
International Trade and Marketing for Fashion Industries
Minor in Italian, Dean’s List – Spring 2011/2012 semester, GPA 3.63
AAS, President Academy of Public Administration 2003 - 2006
International Economics, Belarus 2003 - 2006
ACTIVITIES
Cotton, Inc competition: Marketing Campaign “Creating Cotton benefits awareness on world market” 2011
World Retail Congress Competition, project “Retail Space of the Future” Spring, 2012
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