New York, New York, United States
• Facilitated SAFe adoption and enhanced team collaboration across technical and non-technical teams by partnering with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Stakeholders during Agile ceremonies, leading to a 12% increase in organization-wide SAFe adoption.
• Owned product backlog refinement and maintenance in Jira, prioritizing features and defining user stories with clear acceptance criteria. These efforts increased team efficiency by 20% and provided a well-defined roadmap for development.
• Collaborated with and supported Cre8tive Devs, a third-party technical training vendor, to develop and implement an internal upskilling program.
• Developed a skill matrix in PowerBI, integrating key software engineering metrics like velocity, cycle time, and lead time. Analyzed trends in high-demand technologies to drive data-informed decisions, while conducting needs assessments with stakeholders, including interviews with software engineers and their leads, to align upskilling initiatives with organizational goals and enhance strategic planning and resource allocation.
• Supported the upskilling of 200+ software engineers, from associate to senior levels, by creating documentation and assisting with WSL and Docker setup. This initiative, spanning 10 cohorts over 5 months, covered Advanced Java, Spring Boot, Docker, Event-Driven Architecture, and Reactive Programming.