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Amanda McNamee

LOVELAND,OH

Summary

Dynamic Ways of Working Lead at Worldpay with a proven track record in strategic planning and lean-agile methodology. Successfully drove agile adoption, enhancing team collaboration and delivery efficiency. Key leader in organizational change management squad, creating a process to incorporate major change initiatives and successfully communicate change to impacted parties. Expert in project and portfolio management, mentoring teams to achieve significant improvements in performance and stakeholder satisfaction.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Ways of Working Lead

Worldpay
02.2024 - Current
  • Led a team of 5 Sr. Technical Project Managers and Sr. Business Analysts, influencing delivery and planning strategy across the entire Worldpay Technology Services department.
  • Developed and led quarterly planning sessions for cross-functional teams, improving collaboration, managing risk, and accelerating delivery.
  • Key leader in Organizational Change Management Squad, which scope included creating a process to engage key initiatives, identify impact and communicate change.
  • Created and delivered agile trainings (Kanban, PI Planning, Agile Fundamentals), fostering adoption of lean-agile practices across infrastructure teams.
  • Led the campus recruiting strategy: attended 5 career fairs, engaged over 500 students, hired a top candidate into a rotational program, and collaborated with senior leadership to design meaningful rotations.
  • Partner with Cyber and Product Engineering teams to align delivery and increase visibility of prioritized work, reducing silos and improving planning accuracy.
  • Championed agile coaching within infrastructure teams traditionally reliant on waterfall delivery, enabling modern practices and coaching continuous improvement.
  • Support the Delivery Management Office and Transition Management Office in guiding delivery governance during Worldpay’s separation from FIS.
  • Drove successful agile adoption including team confidence voting, ROAMing risks, and team sync best practices across multiple teams.

Agile Consultant

Rego Consulting
08.2021 - 02.2024
  • Liaised with clients, management, and sales team to help guide them in meeting business needs and maximizing the value from their Project Portfolio Management and Agile Lifecycle Management tooling investments.
  • Trained teams and Agile Release Trains on executing PI Planning and configuring tools for post-work tracking, optimizing commitments.
  • Mentored Release Train Engineers and Product Managers on conducting ART Syncs, PO Sync, Scrum of Scrum, and System Demos.
  • Coached leadership on Lean Agile mindset and configured tools to support people and processes.

Sr. Technology Project Manager

FIS
01.2019 - 05.2021
  • Led the roll-out of Clarity CA PPM to 10K+ users, creating a Roadmap through 2022 and Implementation Plans for PPM capabilities as a member of the Strategy and Transformation team.
  • Stabilized the Technical Support team for Rally and Clarity managing requests and incidents, increasing SLA Compliance from 65% to 94%+ by implementing Kanban methodology to optimize flow.
  • Coached teams to ensure SOX and PCI compliance while planning and tracking their development as a member of Lean Agile Center of Excellence.
  • Facilitated 12 Agile Release Train's PI Planning event for 650+ attendees, achieving desired outcomes, and expanded PI Planning to include Infrastructure Shared Services to provide more alignment on reduce silos.

Project Manager

Bon Secours Mercy Health
09.2015 - 01.2019
  • Served as a Project Manager coordinating IT deliverables and tracking key performance indicators in the Project Management Organization.
  • Oversaw numerous, concurrent and diverse projects of varying scale while collaborating with business and IT leaders to ensure overall business expectations are realized.
  • Delivered various projects from software implementations for 1,000+ end users, to hardware refresh of 2,220+ machines throughout the enterprise.
  • Created and executed project work plan, managed resource assignments, responsible for budgets up to $5M, and report weekly project status to stakeholders and management.

Resource Manager

DMI
04.2014 - 09.2015
  • Managed resource assignments for Big Data and Analytic projects at DMI.
  • Implemented Applicant Tracking System and Kanban Boards for efficient resource allocation.
  • Built relationships with local Universities to attract top talent to DMI.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration -

University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

Skills

  • Strategic planning
  • Organizational agility
  • Lean-Agile methodology
  • Demand Management
  • Project and Portfolio Management
  • Organizational Change Management
  • Team building and facilitation
  • ALM/PPM tool optimization

Certification

SAFe Practice Consultant

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Six Sigma White Belt


Timeline

Ways of Working Lead

Worldpay
02.2024 - Current

Agile Consultant

Rego Consulting
08.2021 - 02.2024

Sr. Technology Project Manager

FIS
01.2019 - 05.2021

Project Manager

Bon Secours Mercy Health
09.2015 - 01.2019

Resource Manager

DMI
04.2014 - 09.2015

Bachelor of Business Administration -

University of Cincinnati

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