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Kevin Gaston

Alpharetta,GA

Summary

Seasoned IT professional with exceptional leadership and product owner skills. Well-organized, systematic and diplomatic in defining business needs and spearheading teams.

Provide support to multiple development teams.

Leverage the product owner role to drive product development and enhance customer satisfaction.

Results-focused with 10+ years of proven success in developing and leading cross-functional technical teams to execute and deliver major technology initiatives. Comfortable leading large teams in process and product development.

Experienced in consulting with customers and other stakeholders to gather requirements, define scopes and set project plans.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Scrum Master

Humana
Remote
01.2021 - Current
  • Promoted cross-functional collaboration among different teams working on related projects or initiatives.
  • Assisted with developing and maintaining a product backlog according to business priorities.
  • Coached and mentored team members in Agile and Scrum concepts, values, principles, and practices.
  • Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
  • Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.

Senior Business Analyst

Change Healthcare
Alpharetta, GA
03.2019 - 01.2021
  • Conducted stakeholder interviews to understand user needs and preferences.
  • Identified and analyzed user requirements, procedures and processes to develop optimization strategies.
  • Conducted gap analysis between current state processes and desired future state processes.
  • Designed use case scenarios to demonstrate how users interact with the system or application.
  • Conducted interviews with subject matter experts to gather information on existing systems and procedures.
  • Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts, cases, and results matrices to validate system functionality.
  • Analyzed existing systems and processes to identify areas of improvement.
  • Modified existing software systems to enhance performance and add new features.

Senior Product Owner

Ciox Healthcare
Alpharetta, GA
07.2014 - 02.2018
  • Maintained open communication with team members and stakeholders, resulting in successful project outcomes.
  • Worked with cross-functional teams to achieve goals.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional team to define features and build powerful and easy-to-use products and customer-facing workflow tools.
  • Led daily scrum meetings with engineering teams to identify blockers and prioritize tasks.
  • Maintained a comprehensive backlog of tasks that aligned with company goals and objectives.
  • Created user stories, acceptance criteria, wireframes, and prototypes for new features and functionality.
  • Worked closely with designers to create intuitive user experiences that met customer needs.

Education

Bachelor of Arts -

Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA

Skills

  • Sprint Planning
  • Leading Scrum Meetings
  • Software Process Management
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Scrum Processes
  • Customer Requirements Analysis
  • Systems Analysis
  • Software Development
  • Scrum Methodology

Certification

  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Certified Business Analyst
  • Certified Product Owner

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master

Humana
01.2021 - Current

Senior Business Analyst

Change Healthcare
03.2019 - 01.2021

Senior Product Owner

Ciox Healthcare
07.2014 - 02.2018

Bachelor of Arts -

Morehouse College

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