Sabrina Shelley
St. Louis,MO
Summary
Results-focused, energetic leader with experience leading diverse teams responsible for critical business processes. SAFE and PMP certified in project management with a proven track record in deployment of complex, customized solutions for business partners while ensuring quality and schedule commitments are maintained. Dedicated to implementing process improvements that result in improved quality and efficiency.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Delivery Manager
Edward Jones
01.2021 - Current
- Direct management of geographically dispersed teams responsible for design, development, implementation and sustainment of payroll and compensation capabilities supporting associates and over 19,000 financial advisors
- Responsible for execution and delivery of key initiatives including Branch P&L improving financial advisors insights to branch expenses and profitability
- Advocates and ensures firm technology strategies are taken into account during solutioning sessions
- Collaborates with product management on team structure
- Makeup and capability focus
- Partners with QA and enabling teams to develop metrics to monitor and progress team maturity
- Initiates process improvements to enable stakeholder efficiency and effectiveness including automation of payroll compliance reporting and
- Led multiple teams through SAFE activation process, responsible for continuous coaching and improvement of processes and practices
- Close collaboration with senior leaders to identify, plan and implement portfolio improvements
- Developed initial roadmap and statement of work to build offshore teams supporting production and development to further enable stakeholder feature delivery
- Developed new finance organization leadership structure to support onboarding and initial oversight of offshore teams
Senior IT Manager
The Boeing Company
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Close to Report Value Stream
- Direct management of 20-member global team responsible for design, development, implementation, and sustainment of Cost and Financial accounting capabilities within the digital enterprise SAP ERP system
- Lead implementation and understanding of SAFE methodologies and practices across multiple scrum teams; including number of teams and strategic focus
- Implemented system solution supporting the accounting foundation required to replace Enterprise indirect procurement system
- Oversight of solution options including software recommendations
- Responsible for recommendation and assignments of internal and external resources; balancing on long term roadmaps with PI objectives
- Lead process improvement initiatives including the automation of tax regression testing scripts enabling stable, repeatable process reducing IT resource support by 20%
- Deputy global solution owner of finance implementation roadmap, strategy, and sprint execution for next generation Enterprise Resource Planning
- Finance leader responsible for recommending process improvements integrating digital enterprise change board functions into sustaining operations
- Enterprise focal responsible for ensuring resource needs across finance value streams are understood, communicated and filled based on emerging priorities and budget allocation
IT Manager
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Direct management of 15-member team responsible for a suite of applications supporting Enterprise Planning, Cost Management and Earned Value capabilities utilizing multiple technology stacks
- Implemented DevOps pilot team resulting in accelerated delivery of business value and increased employee job satisfaction
- Provided development opportunities aligned to employee career path through internal team rotations and short term assignments
- Implemented cost management improvements using agile practices resulting in compliance with cost accounting standards, eliminating the risk of non-payment on government contracts
- Forecasted demand and capacity needs of organization; balance statement of work and resources between Application Services, Second Century and technical obsolesce
- Business partner engagement focal between Finance System Integration and development teams
- Lead cross functional process improvement teams responsible for developing work intake process and workload management tools supporting agile product teams driving team empowerment, increased throughput and accountability
Solution Delivery Lead
Boeing
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Of 44 systems including, International Business Systems, Contracts, Pricing, Estimating & Procurement Financial Analysis, and Travel Systems
- Facilitated evaluation and execution of work through the Single Work Intake process
- Evaluate business case, ROI and potential solutions, estimate effort required to develop solution
- Lead planning, monitor project progress, schedule and budget based on Program Management Change board priorities
- Led cross functional team establishing strategy of Team Foundation Server (TFS), incorporating project schedule tracking, resource loading, iteration planning and SOx controls
- Led culture shift to the services methodology
Team Lead
Boeing International Business Systems
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Managed 18-member global team supporting International Finance System on Oracle E-business ERP supporting 3,100 users
- Led accelerated deployment of 50 International entities with sourcing partner, resulted in common systems and processes enabling compliant global business, implementation approach resulted in cost savings of $10 million
- Implemented PRM (Project Resource Management) module resulting in SOx compliant practices for Boeing Defense United Kingdom
- Built strong, collaborative relationships with IT staff, customers, vendors and third party contractors
- Implemented best practices supporting transition from development to sustaining application
- Service level agreements, after action review process, root cause analysis and year end readiness strategy
Functional Architect
PeopleSoft
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Evaluated products for, accounting solutions driven by business requirements and IT strategy
- Defined best practices of design and implementation solutions for complex systems and infrastructure development
- Led all stages of the software project life cycle, established design constraints and ensured solution conformed to requirements and design constraints
- Led functional excellence team focused on common processes and cost reduction across Finance Systems
- Collaborated across multi-discipline, cross functional teams to build conceptual design recommendation of future state IT work intake process
- Defined and implemented Change Management process utilizing Team Foundation Server with business partners
Team Lead/Project Manager
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Managed 16 person IT Accounting Close team supporting major development projects for PeopleSoft Financials 9.2 and PeopleTools 8.54
- System supported 2,200 users
- Responsible for weekly, monthly and year end accounting close processes
- Ensured service level agreements were met, issues were resolved in a timely manner with minimal customer impact and lessons learned reviews were performed and implemented
- Managed schedule and scope of projects to achieve customer expectations and budget control
- Implemented process improvements
- IT lead for Lean Change Management process improvement resulting in 23% reduction in data entry by leaning out required field input
- Championed process improvements automating manual efforts reducing IT support costs by $645K
- Led Production Support/Monitoring steady state sourcing statement of work initiative throughout Accounting Close Systems
Education
MBA, Master of Business Administration -
Webster University
BS, Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Webster University
Certificate, Project Management -
University of Colorado
Skills
- Staff Development
- Performance Management
- Team Leadership
- Risk Mitigation Planning
- Product Development
- Agile Framework
- Project Leadership
Timeline
Product Delivery Manager
Edward Jones
01.2021 - Current
Senior IT Manager
The Boeing Company
01.2019 - 01.2021
IT Manager
01.2018 - 01.2019
Solution Delivery Lead
Boeing
01.2017 - 01.2018
Team Lead
Boeing International Business Systems
01.2016 - 01.2017
Functional Architect
PeopleSoft
01.2015 - 01.2016
Team Lead/Project Manager
01.2011 - 01.2015
MBA, Master of Business Administration -
Webster University
BS, Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Webster University
Certificate, Project Management -
University of Colorado
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