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
Business Development
Advanced problem solving
Project planning and development
Software Development Lifecycle
Agile frameworks
Scrum methodology
Product Management
Story planning
Mockups and prototypes
Human Centered Design
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