Summary
**.* years of progressive experience in Business Analysis, Scrum Master, Business Systems Analysis, Project Management, Industrial Engineering and Process Improvement. Industries serviced include Automotive, Technology, Social Media, Aerospace, Electrical, Food, Insurance, Medical Device and Healthcare Industries. I have the capability to work in diverse environments from office settings to production floors, I thrive in ambiguous, pressure filled situations working with difficult people; I can extract data from manual and systematic sources and turn it into essential information.
Software development using Agile methodology and SDLC through Scrum framework.
Excellent communications, presentation skills for all levels of employees and management.
Demonstrated competence in completing projects accurately, on time, and within budget.
Leading both off shore and near shore development teams to enable enterprise systems and applications.
Skill Highlights
Lean and JIT Methodologies
Process Improvement
Scrum/Kanban
Six Sigma DMAIC
Cost Improvement
Root Cause Analysis
Work Flow Analysis
User Acceptance Testing
Training
Gap Analysis
ROI Analysis
Project Management
Certificate
Certified Scrum Master CSM Scrum Alliance license #660393 June 2020
PMI project management professional certification license #1988445 December 2019
DMAIC Leader, Hormel Foods Six Sigma Program Austin Minnesota September 2010
Professional Experience
Scrum Master/IT Business Analyst
Codazen/ FACEBOOK -Irvine, CA January 2020-Present
Facilitate all scrum ceremonies.
Create Sprint/ velocity reports, monitor carry over and reduced it by 50%.
As an IT Business Analyst, I was involved in gathering user requirements, creating stories, QA and helped create the process workflow for a public facing project for Facebook that was delivered on time.
IT Business System/Process Analyst/Consultant
CW/Spireon-Irvine, CA October 2018-Dec 2019
Uncovered that POs are sent to vendors prior to supervisor approval, which bottlenecked production due to deposits not being paid in a timely manner. Finance can’t pay a deposit without the PO first being approved. Solution: Worked with NetSuite developers to improve workflow and users are prevented from sending POs to vendors prior to supervisor approval.
Value Stream Mapping and Work Flow Improvement using Lean Methodologies; improved fulfillment capacity, order accuracy and cost per unit of the companies two main revenue streams. Reported to SVP of Operations and Director of Strategy. Labor Reduction: $270,000.
Staff Business Systems Analyst Consultant, Information Technology November 2017-June 2018
Ultimate Staffing/Edwards Life Science- Irvine, CA
Reduced 25% of the associate managers time spent manual tracking of the Label Design process by developing an automated label Tracker Application for Critical Care. (Conducted UAT for this effort).
IT Business /Operations Analyst Consultant, Information Technology June 2017- Sept 2017
IT Corpz/Cadence Aerospace-Anaheim, CA
Reduced 50% of non-value add work by improving planning workflow and eliminating the need to manually import the master production schedule in the visual application.
Re-Engineering Business Consultant, Information Technology November 2013 to June 2015
Quadrant 4 Systems Corp/Ford Motor Company-Dearborn, MI
Managed an information standard project that involved 10 legacy applications reduced into a single enterprise application. That project improved data quality by 15%.
Business Analyst, Claims Service/Information Technology
AudaExplora-Ann Arbor, MI November 2012 to October 2013
Managed, coordinated, facilitated the effort to fix bugs in company software that reduced calls to the call center by 10%.
Industrial Engineer, Manufacturing
Clougherty Packing LLC-Vernon, CA December 2008 to June 2011
Lead a lean Six Sigma DMAIC (Define Measure Analyze Improve Control) project team to reduce product giveaway by 25% with an annually savings of $250,000.
Manufacturing Engineer, Manufacturing
Gentex Corporation-Rancho Cucamonga, CA July2005 to December 2008
Created a lean oxygen mask U-Cell that increased throughput by 80% at annual savings
of $104,000.
Industrial Engineering Subcontractor, Manufacturing
B. Braun Medical- Irvine, CA September 2004 to June 2005
Assessed pack station workflow and broke bottlenecks and increased throughput by 15%.
Intern-Information Technology
Southern California Edison-Irwindale, CA June 2004 to September 2004
Streamlined the new hire process by creating an improved standard operating procedure.
Education
MS Engineering Management at California State Polytechnic University of Pomona, December 2008.
BS Industrial Engineering at California State Polytechnic University of Pomona, June 2005.
Technology Summary
Microsoft Office, Jira, Confluence, NetSuite, Minitab, JDE ERP, Salesforce, Visio.