Yrs Professional Experience
Beth Rissman
Solon,IA
Summary
Highly experienced IT Delivery Manager with over 25 years of experience in various sectors such as healthcare, education, and manufacturing. Proven track record in executing large-scale infrastructure and software delivery implementations, especially in challenging IT environments. Skill set includes strategic planning, diligence, forward-thinking, and adaptability to dynamic company, customer, and project requirements. Expert at motivating teams to achieve and surpass demanding timelines, ensuring successful project outcomes, and maintaining client satisfaction.
Overview
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Professional Certifications
Work History
Software Delivery Manager
Outcomes
Remote, IA
09.2021 - Current
- Led team through challenging acquisition while successfully delivering innovative product features and scaling enterprise customer by 3x.
- Responsible for managing and coaching agile software development teams in delivery of custom web applications and mobile device software products to market, focusing on achieving product objectives and maximizing user and customer value.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Leveraged artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms for standalone products and enhanced existing product offerings.
- Maintained positive vendor relations to build strong partnerships.
Cloud Services Technology Delivery Manager
Pearson
Iowa City, IA
01.2021 - 09.2021
- Lead collaboration between Site Reliability Engineers and Product Development teams to build high performing applications leveraging Amazon Web Services cloud computing.
- Coordinated delivery of $30MM contracted solutions at program level and in full accordance with outlined cost, scheduling and quality terms.
- Worked as technical leader alongside customers and infrastructure team and contributed to business development.
- Participated in architectural discussions to build confidence and promote customer success when developing new and migrating existing applications, software and services on AWS platform.
- Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs.
Principal Data Analyst
Pearson
Iowa City, IA
01.2016 - 01.2021
- Creates standard set of data artifacts for data elements across 26 state assessments programs.
- Collaborated with business-unit leaders to identify and prioritize problems.
- Participated in requirements meetings to understand business needs.
- Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
- Provided technical support for troubleshooting analytics and reporting issues.
Program Technology Manager
Pearson
Iowa City, IA
01.2013 - 01.2016
- Managed 5 implementations of technology solutions, totally over $10MM annual revenue in large-scale state education assessments.
- Analyzed client business processes to propose optimal software applications for unique requirements.
- Interacted with customers and clients to identify business needs and requirements.
- Addressed and resolved technical, financial, and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.
- Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.
Education
Technology Leadership Development Program - Technology Leadership
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ12.2012
BBA - Finance, emphasis in Accounting
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA05.1996
Affiliations
- Additional tenure as Sr. Unix System Administrator at Pearson (Iowa City, IA) and BAE Systems (Cedar Rapids, IA). Details available upon request.
Skills
- Agile Development Methodologies
- Staff Management
- Cloud-Computing
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Servant Leader
- Budget Planning
- Regulatory Compliance
- Vendor Selection
- Software Development Tools: JIRA, Confluence, GitHub
- Software Deployment
- System Administration
Certification
- Scrum Master Certification, Six Sigma Global Institute - August 2021
- FinOps Certified Practitioner, The Linux Foundation - July 2021
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services - June 21
Timeline
Software Delivery Manager
Outcomes
09.2021 - Current
Cloud Services Technology Delivery Manager
Pearson
01.2021 - 09.2021
Principal Data Analyst
Pearson
01.2016 - 01.2021
Program Technology Manager
Pearson
01.2013 - 01.2016
Technology Leadership Development Program - Technology Leadership
Stevens Institute of Technology
BBA - Finance, emphasis in Accounting
University of Iowa
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