Lewa Bene
Clive,Iowa
Summary
A value-driven IT Professional with over ten years of experience in leading cross-functional teams to plan, build, introduce products from conception to launch. A pragmatic thinker with extensive Agile, Scrum, and SAFe experience who partner effectively with clients to isolate technology gaps and generate productivity through innovative system implementations.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
IT Business Process Leader/IT Senior Product Owner
Corteva™ Agriscience
04.2022 - Current
- Lead and deliver various Global Seed Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Manufacturing efforts ranging from BAU to strategic initiatives with budgets of over $5MM.
- Assessed business processes and identified ways to boost improvement.
- Led discovery and development for new product to enable Corteva Process Automation Engineers to manage control system requirements at various sites efficiently, which decreased processing time by 40% at each site.
- Implemented principles of enterprise risk management to measure, monitor and control operational deficiencies and roadblocks to success.
- Mapped processes to holistically examine business flow and identify improvement opportunities.
- Utilized data analytics to measure process and project performance, adjust services and operational activities and inform key stakeholders of relevant details.
- Observed packing operations to verify conformance to specifications.
- Collaborated with upper management to drive strategy and implement new processes.
- Evaluated staff performance and provided coaching to address inefficiencies.
- Cultivated positive relationships with vendors to deliver timely and cost-effective supply of services and materials.
- Manage employees and contracted staff as direct reports.
- Co-founded Community of Practice (CoP) for Business Process Experts/Leads to promote consistency by standardizing our approach across Corteva IT for documenting business processes.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes
- Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
IT Business Process Expert/Technical Delivery Lead
Corteva™ Agriscience
01.2020 - 04.2022
- Led, influenced, and partnered across organization to define product strategy and oversee product life cycle process including identification, assessment, design, and delivery of new product as well as manage existing product portfolio enhancements
- Created data models to support decision-making processes.
- Mapped processes to holistically examine business flow and identify improvement opportunities.
- Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.
- Updated and developed scripts and queries to extract and analyze data from multiple sources.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
- Collaborated with upper management to drive strategy and implement new processes.
- Acted as product evangelist to build awareness and understanding.
Scrum Master/Senior Business Analyst Consultant
Keyot
07.2019 - 01.2020
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Guided teams and refined Agile techniques throughout journey and evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support Agile methodology implementation with Waterfall-centric delivery team.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Effectively supervised team performance by implementing measurable metrics to assess delivery of requirements.
Lead Business Systems Analyst
Athene
West Des Moines, IA
09.2015 - 07.2019
- Served as Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for process and control related remediation matters including evaluating control deficiencies and remediation efforts around financial reporting which reduced data deficiencies by 30%
Education
MBA - Business Management
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ08.2005
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems
Drake University
Des Moines, IA08.2001
Skills
- Reading Comprehension
- Department Development
- Project Objective Understanding
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Leadership
- Data and Analytics
- Change Management Process
- Project Management
- Product Strategy and Development
- Process Improvement
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner® (License ID 000809129), Scrum Alliance
- Certified ScrumMaster® (License ID 917698), Scrum Alliance
Timeline
IT Business Process Leader/IT Senior Product Owner
Corteva™ Agriscience
04.2022 - Current
IT Business Process Expert/Technical Delivery Lead
Corteva™ Agriscience
01.2020 - 04.2022
Scrum Master/Senior Business Analyst Consultant
Keyot
07.2019 - 01.2020
Lead Business Systems Analyst
Athene
09.2015 - 07.2019
MBA - Business Management
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems
Drake University
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