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Simran Patel

Simran Patel

Agile Delivery Lead
Tampa,FL

Summary

Dedicated Product professional with a history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Agile Delivery Lead

Capital One
Mclean, VA
06.2021 - Current
  • Managing two teams and ensuring on track delivery of features, improved commitment rates, feature cycle times, and backlog health
  • Conducting brainstorming sessions to help reduce Run the Engine work and help plan future intent
  • Taking on a product owner role; working with stakeholders to identify future intent for the Card Technology sector, building roadmaps and timelines, and prioritizing/managing the product backlog
  • Building a new team along with its structure - onboarding new members, creating a brand new tech and product backlog, and identifying the team's velocity for future sprints and program increments
  • Conducting ceremonies such as sprint planning, refinements, and intent workshops to better improve the team's backlog and assist with on time delivery
  • Streamlining process such as dependency reporting and PI metric representation
  • Worked with the engineering team to help prioritize their stories and features; eventually leading to the delivery of a major modernization feature

Project Manager and Security IDAM Lead

Guidehouse
Washington, DC
01.2019 - 05.2021
  • Managed an aircraft procurement program with a team of six digital employees, including UI/UX Designers, Data Analysts, and Developers
  • Established key relationships with government clients resulting in additional work for the project
  • Created a Security Control Traceability Matrix and a System Security Plan for the client as well as assisting with developing a process for Role Based and Attribute Based Access Controls
  • Prepared documentation which analyzes the risks and controls that are being met by the product
  • Interacted with users to identify requirements needed for the digitization and ingestion of paper and flat files provided by the vendor
  • Developed visualizations to allow for interaction with the data
  • Worked with other leaders to establish a cross-functional team that is using a Human-centered design approach as well as an Agile Scrum approach to develop, test, and deploy products into a large-scaled digital environment
  • Facilitated daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint plannings, backlog grooming sessions, and sprint retro meetings
  • Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.

Senior Business Analyst

TIAG
Vienna, VA
08.2016 - 01.2019
  • Led multiple projects for the Uniformed Services University Healthcare Systems USUHS.
  • Defined, analyzed, and documented functional and technical requirements to fulfill project needs
  • Worked with Military personnel to gain a better understanding of the USUHS workflows
  • Assisted developers with designing and modeling webpages and mobile applications for USUHS students and faculty
  • Led the implementation of Batch Auto Registration for the Department of Defense Military Healthcare Systems
  • Analyzed data provided by the project management office and strategically plans the implementation of the application into military treatment facilities
  • Created architecture diagrams of Security Assertion Markup Language SAML Federation, DEERS interface, Laboratory interface, and iCommand for project management office reference and use

Business Technology Analyst

Deloitte
Rosslyn, VA
03.2015 - 08.2016
  • Served as a co-lead to assist with functional design, product deployment, and project management on a Department of Defense Military Healthcare contract
  • Collaborated with project teams to create business requirements and test scripts
  • Assisted development staff with drafting project plans, advising personnel on milestone planning.
  • Developed material such as Test Plans and Executive Summaries to prepare for upcoming releases
  • Became a Subject Matter Expert in Medical Single-Sign on SSO and Reflections of the Web

Configuration Management Engineer

REI Systems
Sterling, VA
03.2014 - 03.2015
  • Led the build script performance and improvement initiative to assist in converting an hour long build to ten minutes
  • Worked with an enterprise wide reporting platform built on MS SQL2005 Enterprise Edition and SQL Reporting Services, along with migrating solutions to SQL server
  • Configured and installed applications in development and production environments
  • Trained in Object Oriented Fundamentals in C#, introduction to scripts, and introduction to .NET
  • Maintained knowledge of SDLC, including the Waterfall and Agile methodologies
  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
  • Managed and monitored installed systems for highest level of availability.

Education

Master of Science - Cybersecurity

University of Maryland Global Campus
08.2016 - 05.2018

Bachelor of Science - Biological Sciences

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
08.2009 - 05.2013

Skills

    Strategic planning

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Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Timeline

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

11-2021

Agile Delivery Lead

Capital One
06.2021 - Current

Certified SAFe 4 Agilist

08-2019

Certified ScrumMaster

05-2019

Project Manager and Security IDAM Lead

Guidehouse
01.2019 - 05.2021

Master of Science - Cybersecurity

University of Maryland Global Campus
08.2016 - 05.2018

Senior Business Analyst

TIAG
08.2016 - 01.2019

Business Technology Analyst

Deloitte
03.2015 - 08.2016

Configuration Management Engineer

REI Systems
03.2014 - 03.2015

Bachelor of Science - Biological Sciences

Virginia Tech
08.2009 - 05.2013
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