Sara Rachunok

Facilitated Scrum framework for the three highlighted projects below – sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews and demos, sprint retrospectives, and leadership planning and execution.

• GenAI Data Extraction Application: Replatformed and migrated from Azure to AWS utilizing AWS's recent release of Claude 3.0.
• Fortune 500 Food and Beverage Distributor: Platform enablement, transitioned into client managed services, managed team of 8-10 cross functional team members. Workstream totaled approximately $1.2 million.
• Fortune 500 Financial Lending Company: Implemented SAFe Agile methodology for the marketing technology department to align with the rest of the IT organization. Facilitated documentation of the processes.

Equipment Lending/Finance Company:

• Managed a team of 8-10 engineers implementing a data warehouse migration from on-premis to cloud.
• Developed user stories in conjunction with product owner, tech lead and business owner.

New York Kitchen Rebranded Website:

• Successfully managed the development of a new website by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.

• Responsible for the administration and management of the company's AWS reseller invoices as well as all client billable work.
• Deposited and recorded customer payments and performed regular audits of the company's accounting system.
• Recorded and sent out payments for all vendor invoices.

• Oversaw financial operations, maintaining accurate records and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
• Managed the company's process for recruitment, on-boarding, benefits, and payroll.

• Reviewed and tested business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Created and ran test cases based on requirements. Recorded resulting defects.
• Served as the business's point of contact during user acceptance testing.

• Improved software quality by executing thorough test cases and identifying critical defects.
• Streamlined regression testing process with the implementation of automated testing tools.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions for business challenges.
• Gathered requirements and performed gap analysis through design workshops with users.