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Denise Rahming

Houston,TX

Summary

Dedicated and focused Project Management Specialist with over 7 years of experience excelling at prioritizing, completing multiple tasks simultaneously and following through to achieve project goals. Flexible, detail-oriented and adaptive team player with expertise in equipment operation, staff training and development, customer service and process improvements.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master

Cardinal Health
Houston, Texas
02.2023 - Current
  • Led cross-functional teams to deliver strategic initiatives and meet emerging needs, including defined project plans, coordinated resources, managed implementation activities, and development/management of processes associated with program rollout and ongoing support.
  • I develop strategies to reduce project costs (same costs but allowing for more projects) and increase project success rate from 50% to 75% by initiating a two-phase project selection process.
  • Manage project(s) and project resources throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle and manage Scrum teams as needed.
  • Engage business stakeholders to identify and incorporate business owned project tasks and dependencies.
  • Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously and provide regular and timely Project status updates to project team and leadership as needed to ensure Projects are meeting the agreed-upon timeline.
  • I work with the team to create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
  • I ensure projects are on schedule and deadlines are met and I also manage project budget and forecast.
  • I direct and oversee the project team and manage conflicts within the group and efficiently identifies, escalates, and solves project issues.
  • Responsible for change/communication management and weekly updates reporting to stakeholders and PMO concerning project progress.
  • Ability to drive strategic projects to completion on time and in scope.
  • Experience in facilitating open communications between technical teams and the senior board.
  • Experience in arbitrating issues arising from project work and creating useful working relationships with all members of the project team.
  • Experience in gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information to the team in order to maintain project progress.
  • Experience in defining and documenting business requirements for moderate-to-complex projects and use Cases documentation for a variety of projects.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

CVS Caremark
Woonsocket, RI
01.2020 - 01.2023
  • Expert in working with the Product Owner to gather business process data and requirements.
  • Experience in handling multiple projects across project teams simultaneously.
  • Experience in driving discovery sessions to gather requirements from clients, while simultaneously guiding them on best practices and recommendations.
  • Experience in documenting the discovery as user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, value maps, and the overarching project management plan. I also led the daily scrum ceremonies across 2 major SAFE teams for our UX improvement projects.
  • Proficient in leading my team to successfully monitor our applications using Splunk and Grafana.
  • Experience in collaborating with the Live operations team, QA, Engineering, and various partners to prioritize and coordinate efforts to deliver on schedule.
  • Experience in coaching, facilitating, and maintaining steady and beneficial Agile process methodologies for the teams, driving process, and transparency.
  • Experience in communicating with the business around the team's velocity and projects health while supporting the PMO in reporting on all teams' status.
  • Experience in preparing project plans, documentation, risk mitigation, and resource management as needed for cross-team initiatives and large projects/programs.
  • Experience in resolving urgent issues and removing impediments for the team Lead and facilitated architecture and design of Single Page Applications and Micro-frontends.
  • Responsible for granting access rights for audits, risk & compliance assessment & audit responses using archer.
  • Experience in managing & troubleshooting multiple applications using SFDC (salesforce) and ITIL framework on L3.
  • Experience in troubleshooting incidents using Splunk & violet support tool to drive solutions from the Splunk logs.
  • Experience in the use of sales cloud for storage and infrastructure.
  • Experience in managing multiple project teams over 10 developers and vendor teams ensuring we meet the delivery.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

ABBvie Health
Chicago, IL
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Experience in managing multiple IT Initiatives such Data & Analytics, Cloud Migration, Compliance, Power BI Reporting etc.
  • Experience in managing stakeholder partnerships and communication. I also serve as the point of contact and subject matter expert on our EMT team applications.
  • Experience in overseeing interdependencies and integration of interrelated projects.
  • Highly experienced in facilitating technical design discussion and implementation of IT solutions.
  • Experience in using azure DevOps in project planning and tracking of our dev tasks.
  • Lead and facilitate Daily scrum ceremonies as well as grooming features, stories, and tasks in Azure DevOps.
  • I train and coach cross-functional teams using azure DevOps across offshore teams.
  • Experience in creating project road maps and prioritizing the epic for the team.
  • Experience in crafting a vision and strategy based on input from customers, stakeholders, and internal staff team that can be clearly communicated to all levels of the organization.
  • Experience in troubleshooting company pain points and issues to determine resolutions that lead to new fixes or projects
  • Experience in defining project scope and objectives, managing resources to reach objectives.
  • Experience in providing project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about adjustments, and progress.
  • Experience in coaching of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
  • Served as SCRUM Master in managing Daily standup, sprints, and addressing blockers.
  • Experience in facilitating discovery and ensures the removal of roadblocks and promotes them in a timely and assertive way.
  • Experience in ensuring the team is focused on sprint commitments and shields the team from distractions and hidden work.
  • Experience in facilitating backlog grooming and creating dashboards for management view.
  • Experience in ensuring there are no commitment changes during the Sprint and collaborating with Leadership Teams to ensure team success.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - Agricultural Business Technology

Prairie View A & M University
Prairie View, TX

Skills

7 years Project Manager/Scrum Master with the following exceptional experience

Proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA or TFS

Customer-driven and a team player, with strong interpersonal and customer interface skills

Excellent organizational and analytical skills, process and detail oriented, a self-starter who is highly motivated to obtain goals/results

Excellent communication/presentation skills, both oral and written, and tailor communication to various levels of the organization

Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts

Ability to work in a fast-paced changing environment while coordinating multiple complex projects simultaneously

Certification

. Certified (AGILE) Scrum Master

· Certified Scrum Product Owner- (CSPO)

· Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

· Certified ITIL foundation: Version 4

Timeline

Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master

Cardinal Health
02.2023 - Current

Project Manager/Scrum Master

CVS Caremark
01.2020 - 01.2023

Project Manager/Scrum Master

ABBvie Health
01.2018 - 01.2020

Some College (No Degree) - Agricultural Business Technology

Prairie View A & M University

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