Manager Scrum

Brian Buss

MSCE, CBPA, ACPI, PMP, LOB: **yrs in IT Innovation Solutions,

Integrations, Implementations, Process, Project, Product, & Program Management, Automation, SDLC, Agile, Workflow Management and More!

Prior Lake, Minnesota

Summary

15 years in Business Analyst, Project Management, Process Design and Improvement, Distribution, Manufacturing, Supply Chain / Logistics, Strategic Planning, Process Improvement, Web & Mobile

Application Management, Solution Delivery, Vendor and Warehouse

Management, SaaS, and Salesforce Integrations

•Exposed to all phases of SDLC (Requirements, Analysis, Design,

Development, Implementation, and Testing) following the V Model, Waterfall, and Agile (Scrum) methodologies.

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Top Skills

Integration

Team Building

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Languages

English

Certifications

BA Cert & Excel Power Pivot and

Power Query

BA and PM training

Certified Scrum Product Owner

(CSPO)

Professional Scrum Master

•ERP Solutions and Platforms, Requirements Gathering /

Documentation, Integration, Deployment, Presentations and Public

Speaking, Training

•Skilled in the areas of writing Business requirements document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD), Use Case identification, elicitation and modeling using UML/MS Visio. • Working knowledge of Scrum concepts such as Product Backlog, Scrum team, Sprint backlog, user stories, scrum stand-up, and retrospective meetings.

•Experienced in defining and lead software development sprints,create user stories, and drive team goals through prioritization (Jira, Confluence, functionality).

•Collaborate with all level users on collecting, analysis, testing, andpresenting statistical data to business stakeholders or SME's, via diagrams, mock-up, wireframes, swim lanes, to ensure scope and vision.

•Experienced with ITIL processes and using Remedy, Daptiv, and JIRA to track Production changes.

•Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, work under pressure, prioritize tasks and make decisions.

•Well versed with MS Project, Balsamiq, and Visio.

Experience

CVS Health

Senior Manager, Novologix Implementations

November 2019 - Present (9 months)

The Senior Manager, Specialty Implementations is responsible for overseeing a team of matrixed and dedicated resources to build and maintain industry leading capabilities that enable the Client Implementations team to operationalize CVS Health’s products and services within the Specialty organization. Key responsibilities include:

Developing and implementing a roadmap of internal initiatives required to support Novologix, Accordant, Coram, Stand-alone Specialty and client implementations within the Specialty organization.

Defining and implementing key operational processes across all client implementations within Specialty.

Developing key performance indicators aimed at ensuring consistent, high quality outcomes.

Developing and maintaining a best practices workflow library. Defining and implementing knowledge management tools and processes to accelerate continuous improvement in our service delivery while finding opportunities to minimize the cost of service.

Creating processes to keep implementations in sync with new product features being rolled out to clients.

Continuously improve implementation methodology.

Develop training and cross-training programs for Implementation Managers. HR responsibility, including managing the performance and career development, for a team of dedicated resources.

Executing other tasks and projects under the direction of implementation leadership team.

Optum

SR Product / Project Manager-Automation

December 2014 - November 2019 (5 years)

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Represents the customer needs and requirements to drive feature implementation and development with associated technology teams

Clearly defines and write user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira / Rally

Reviews and approves Epics and Stories based on product/feature strategy. Provide input into business cases when new products/features are being developed.

Work closely with Training & Process or LOE, Operations, Merchandising, Marketing, Application/Services Vendors and numerous other internal and external parties with the goal of clearly communicating their team's backlog and roadmap and ensuring the necessary support is available upon product delivery.

Understands the why behind each Epic and Feature and works with the Sr. Manager, Product Management to understand the roadmap, supporting KPIs and are able to clearly communicate to their development teams

Uses analytics to monitor product KPIs and ensure success metrics are being met, identifies opportunities for testing and product enhancements based on results

Align efforts across product teams, prioritizing as necessary, and driving/ facilitating execution to maintain focus and appropriate momentum. Build and leverage solid working relationships with business and product stakeholders, other Product Managers, user experience and technology teams to facilitate successful feature implementation

Participates in the team demo and retrospective

Provides input into and helps construct business case documentation

Cargill

SR ERP Solutions Manager: focus; ERPs, Web, Automation, Product

Owner, Process Improvement, OCM

September 2008 - December 2014 (6 years 4 months)

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Leader within the Global IT delivering, digital, SaaS, web-based applications, and integration solutions to streamline business platforms and functionalities, such as: Change and Process Management.

•Led both the technical and business teams to the completion of tasks and projects - via various Scrum, Sprint, methodologies, and via SAP, HR Success

Factors, Oracle, Rational, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Sales Force, Workday

HR ERP modules, Jira, TFS, VISO

•Document and define business processes and requirements, conduct functional decomposition, assist in project management, QA

•MS Dynamics, MS Great Plains, and ERP systems such as NIS Nutrena Information System moving to SAP, Financials applications development and implementations.

•Partnered and collaborated with internal Subject Matter Experts, Program Managers, Product Managers and other stake holders to ensure capture of all requirements and document then in order to proceed with development to implement a project and/or to deliver a product, incorporating user friendly processes.

•Assembled stories and meet with all stakeholders – on the product development team, product management team and across other business units - in the formulation of the backlog.

•Agile - Waterfall - Iterative Methodologies, OCM, Process Improvement

Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI)

Assistant Director of IT Applications / Products

April 2003 - September 2008 (5 years 6 months)

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead high profile Imaging - patient related ERP, Web, SaaS (Google Apps,

Dropbox, Salesforce, Cisco WebEx, Concur, GoToMeeting), HR (Success

Factors), Cloud Based, and Data Warehouse projects which had to meet FDA, MDH, HIPPA, and various national patient safety certifications and requirements.

•Act as liaison between product, process, and change management and software engineering team, articulating and recommending solutions that enable projects to be successful and goals met.

•Create and execute acceptance tests and document results while assisting the entire organization throughout the product development lifecycle.

•Collaborate with internal and external customers, software engineers, etc.to interview, research, analyze, and derive business, functional, and nonfunctional, change and process management requirements for products, and large complex systems.

•Translate business requirements into detailed functional and non-functional specifications.

•Lead in the process improvement, change management, design, testing phases, including design and testing of prototypes, orchestration, user experience, moving mainframe data to web-based technologies, ICD 10 development support, coding, claims, and CIO, CFO, sign-off on acceptance test results to ensure design integrity

Allina Hospitals & Clinics

SR Business / Product Analyst

March 2000 - April 2003 (3 years 2 months)

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Focus on Product / Project Management and Ownership for Medical

Equipment (radiology, imaging, bio-med, patient products), Process

Improvement, Risk, Patient Safety

•Established good working relationships with biomedical and radiology, vendors, and finance departments within Allina and clinical equipment services. Assisted in the elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation of business needs, requirements, and to-be processes using interviews, workshops, and presentations.

•ERP systems utilized: EPIC, In-House Systems

•Prioritized business requirements for the CES team.

•Validated that CES solutions will meet business requirements

•Lead The $26 million RASMAS project at Allina Hospitals and Clinics which transformed product safety, IT Security, HR, HIPPA, Risk, Patient Safety, and

Medical Equipment Recall Management across Allina's healthcare and IT Sector.

Executive Team Leader -ETL

August 1990 - January 2000 (9 years 6 months)

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Focus on Client Services, Applications, Operations, Logistics, Analysis

In this role, I oversaw 2-3 departments with sales ranging from $2-$9 million. My responsibilities included opening and closing the store on assigned days, logistics, operations, recruiting and hiring team members, and creating a positive experience for guests and team members every day. It was my leadership that guided our team to achieve sales goals and maintain budget controls.

Provident University, Delaware

Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology · (1996 - 2000)

Prior Lake High School

High School Diploma, General Studies · (1986 - 1990)

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