IT Consultant
Confidential
Total des années d'expérience :25 years, 1 Mois
Evaluate a company's IT systems to help them meet their business objectives. primary duties include analyzing and diagnosing a company's IT infrastructure, understanding a client's business needs, and designing and implementing a technology solution
• Diagnosing IT system problems, inefficiencies, and weaknesses.
• Planning a timeline for completion of projects.
• Understanding a client's business needs.
• Implementing a technological solution to meet business needs.
• Analyzing and determining security threats.
Providing advice on technology best practices.
Collaborating with the technical in-house team to ensure familiarity with technology.
Training staff to use the new IT system.
Monitoring the success of IT solutions.
Producing detailed reports on the efficacy of the technology.
• Organizing programs and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization.
• Developing new programs to support the strategic direction of the organization.
• Creating and managing long-term goals.
• Developing a budget and operating plan for the program.
• Developing an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement.
• Ensuring goals are met in areas including customer satisfaction, safety, quality and team member performance.
• Implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved.
• Meeting with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions on services.
• Producing accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle.
• Ensuring that every delivery team member is clear about their work priorities and individual responsibilities.
• Maintaining the overall project plan including software release dates
• Acquiring external resources needed by the Scrum team e.g. users for User Acceptance Testing
• Performs vendor and stakeholder management to ensure business needs/requirements have been met
• Communicating necessary changes and development to stakeholders in meetings.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Wrote User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stake holders.
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.
• Managing risks and issues which are escalated by the Scrum team
• Responsible for managing and motivating Agile project groups.
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.
• communicating with the executive including reporting progress
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology.
• Practiced backlog grooming, release and sprint planning, daily standups, impediment removal
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Interpreting stakeholders business needs and translating them into actual practice
• Conduct and participate in status meetings to collect data from business users.
• Ensured all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.
• Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.
• Documented Software System Requirements (SSR).
• Ability to develop / coordinate cross-functional workgroups and projects, yielding optimal outcomes
• Proven ability to apply industry standard modeling techniques as appropriate to further deepen a common understanding across project team members and stakeholders
• Proven ability to perform analysis and support teams during an analysis effort
• Accountable for ensuring user stories to have acceptance criteria.
• Updated System Change Request (SCR) forms for Product Data Management (PDM).
• Review, analyze and evaluated business systems and user needs.
• Reviews IT, operational and business risks, functions and activities, and evaluates client relations in order to determine and recommend nature, scope, direction and thrust of proposed audits.
• Ensured the development teams are practicing the Agile principles. Completed product demonstrations, retrospectives, and resolve action items.
• Web, portals and WCM Technology specialist
• Assisted Product Owner with Backlog maintenance
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story. Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.
• Operated in 3 week sprints with flexibility on length based on immediate functionality concerns.
• Ensured application availability and data integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades.
• Prepare Technical Specification Document.
• Conduct and participate in status meetings to collect data from business users.
• Validate Screen Technical Specification with technical designs created by IT developers.
• Implement business modeling using MS Visio to develop screens for the application.
• Review, analyze and evaluated business systems and user needs.
• Formulated and facilitated the implementation of system strategies to parallel overall business strategies.
• Wrote detailed description of user needs, system features, and functional steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
• Managing and coordinating project activates processes and documentation for different projects.
• Developing, maintaining project schedules and timelines, risk management plans, and issues.
• Preparing required project documentation to include business case, project charter, project plan, scope statement, and work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Maintain communication with project stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization.
• Managing and monitoring project according to project scope and business process and requirements according to project scope.
• Reviewed and provided feedback on project-specific SDLC artifacts.
• Maintain complete software life cycle using SDLC, Waterfall and Agile.
• Work closely with different business unit and technology areas to successful project delivery.
• Participated regularly in Review meetings with Architect, Application System Engineers and Business Analyst.
• Perform system, unit, acceptance, regression, load and functional/performance testing on dozens of applications using both automated and manual testing methods.
• Leverage knowledge of object-oriented programming to help validate, verify, communicate and resolve software issues through careful, thoroughly documented testing to maximize return on investment (ROI) for IT initiatives.
• Designed and implemented the information gathered to a system.
• Created flow charting, specifications and development control.
• Worked with business to ensure smooth transition from the "as is" to the "to be" business operating environment (Transformation).
• Maintained appropriate and responsive working relationships with clients, vendors and partners.
• Prepared RFP and software specification documents.