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Victoria Raskes

Castle Rock,CO

Summary

Advanced IT solutions, Product and Project Management, Technical Product Owner, Data science competencies including programming, data mining, machine learning, database management, data visualization, web design and more. Over 20 years of experience in the Top 500 corporations; leading development, delivery, implementation and integration of software technologies for large and small enterprise deployment. Ability to provide strategic guidance while leading a project team with a servant leadership approach. Deliver execution, strategy and vision across teams by creating technology roadmap alignment with the overall business strategy. Data Base and Systems Optimization, Project Management, SDLC Projects, Business and Systems design, Sales. Areas of expertise include: Strong analytical skills, design thinking, organization design, strong understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements. Able to analyze high-level requirements and translate them to overall detailed system-level design to be used for architectural design, cost / benefit analysis, solution development and technical documentation. Able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical colleagues. I have entrepreneurial and innovative-mined set. Agile SDLC - Software Development Lifecycle methodology. Enterprise Systems, Database Technologies, Financial Reporting, Systems Integration and Applications Development. Responsible, detail oriented and committed team player. Strong business, technical, problem solving, communication and relationship management skills. Always seeking to learn new things. Wide range of professional experience in IT, Business and Systems Analyses, Systems and Data Base Architecture, PM, PO, Reporting, Data Manipulation, Sales, Marketing, Property Manager and Public Relations, in the following industries: Financial: investments, loans, mortgages, billing, CRM; Health; Education; Travel; Services; Real Estate; Manufacturing; Entrepreneurial; Marketing; Sales.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Consultant - Sr. Scram Master

Charter Communications
08.2022 - Current
  • Leading 3 teams to establishing Agile Scram ceremonies and process
  • Coordination and planning of releases, and backlog refinement
  • Collaboration with Business Stakeholders, IT leadership and Engineers to deliver on time and quality agile solutions
  • Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket), Power Point, Aha!, Lucid Charts

Consultant - Sr. Data Product Owner / TPM - LPM

Equifax / Appriss
07.2022 - 05.2023
  • Collaboration with Business Stakeholders, IT leadership, Data Scientists and Engineers to deliver quality data and agile solutions to establish product roadmap in an agile and data driven environment
  • Defining requirements on enhancing data products and reporting / visualizations for new and existing clients
  • Moving Data Environments and processes to the Cloud
  • LEAN IT principles, LPM/TPM/Agile PM/Data Product Owner, JIRA Workflow, Epics and Stores creation, PI planning
  • Google tools, Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket), Power Point, Aha!, Lucid Charts

Consultant - Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst Advisor, Product Owner IV

Ally Financial
03.2022 - 07.2022
  • Capital Markets and Retail Auto requirements gathering for reports and metrics automation
  • (Data Mapping/Governance)
  • Deliver execution, plans & align partners across (move data and processes to the Cloud)
  • Collaboration with Business and IT leadership, and developers to deliver quality agile solutions
  • LEAN IT principles
  • Managing Sprints, planning, backlog and development of User Stores; Testing; creation of Projects dashboards / deck creation (PowerPoint)
  • SQL Server 2017, Snowflake scripting for Data validation between different database environments

Consultant - Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst Advisor, EPMO (Enovation and Transformation)

InnovAge
04.2021 - 03.2022
  • Assisted with New Acquisition (M&A) PM; Grows and transformation
  • Impact, Cost, Discovery surrounding New Domain changes
  • Analysis and documentation of the Infrastructure and Application changeover and E2E testing
  • Systems data flow documentation
  • (Azure DevOps, ADO boards, Azure Data Studio, CRM Dynamics 365, SQL, Agile, wireframes)
  • Collaboration with Business and IT leadership, and developers to deliver quality solutions
  • Managing Sprints, planning, backlog and development of User Stores; Testing; Projects dashboards / deck creation, KPI (Plan View PPM Pro, Visio, PowerPoint)

Consultant - Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst Advisor

Charles Schwab Corporation
02.2020 - 08.2020
  • Agile Value Stream Sr
  • Business / Systems Analyst in the full stack team
  • LEAN IT principles
  • Participation in the Application UI and Architecture design, and PI planning
  • Collaboration with Business and IT leadership, and developers to deliver quality solutions for retail and marketing infrastructures
  • Documented and analyzed requirements for highly complex Financial Retail and Marketing systems expansions: Salesforce and API Security Layer Services (Swagger, JSON, COQL, Splunk)
  • Derived technical strategy by working directly with solution architects and project managers from a variety of internal and external teams
  • Primary liaison between key business and development teams, in communication of project feasibility, status and issues to key stakeholders
  • Experience in IT BSA, PM, PO, E2E Project Delivery between multiple departments, processes and management
  • Technical Documentation: JIRA - Kanban, Scrum, Confluence, Salesforce, ER diagrams, SAD, E2E testing, PowerPoint presentations

Consultant - Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst Advisor

Great-West / Empower Retirement
06.2019 - 01.2020
  • Agile Value Stream Sr
  • Business/Systems analyst in the full stack teams
  • Primary liaison between key business area and developers teams, in communication of project feasibility, status and issues to key stakeholders with in collaboration with Business and IT leadership to deliver quality solutions for local and global teams
  • Gathering, documenting and analyzing requirements for highly complex reporting, multiplatform reporting applications
  • Experience in IT, PM and QA Project Delivery processes and management
  • Technical Documentation: JIRA - Scrum, Confluence, SharePoint, Salesforce, PowerPoint presentations

Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst & Architect, DBA, SQL & ETL Developer for HR & Compensation Analytics Group

DaVita Kidney Care
02.2017 - 06.2019
  • Partnered with Business and IT Leadership to deliver projects on-time and by company protocol
  • Experience in IT systems, UI and data base development, design, PO, PM and QA Project Delivery processes and management
  • Managed projects and product quality, releases and delivery, able to identify and resolve project issues effectively
  • Create and manage stakeholder management plans adapted to the project and organization
  • Release pipelines, troubleshooting, DB monitoring, escalation and change management
  • Mentored and advised team to improve processes and coding standards by communications, training, coaching and adoption
  • Responsible for creating and enhancing technical solutions that streamline manual processes, reduce labor efforts, and increase accuracy and data quality
  • Agile Lean methodology
  • Database and Systems designs, implementation, DBA, QA, Analyzes and development with in Informatica (ETL), TSQL, Large Data, SSRS, Workday, Tableau, Python, Smartsheet, ServiceNow, Excel data manipulation (Pivot Tables, VLookup, VBA), PowerPoint presentations, Atlassian: Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket

Consulting - Business/Systems Analyst / Project Manager / DBA

Telecommute (HI, CA, CO)
06.2013 - 02.2017
  • Responsible for Systems, Data Base Analyses, Reporting, Project Management/Technical Product Owner for E-Commerce, Finance, Medical, Education, Real-Estate, Entertainment and Travel industries
  • Agile Project Management, Systems and Data Base Documentation
  • Applications, Databases, Systems, Reporting - Modifications, Implementations and Optimization (SQL, Informatica, Excel data manipulation (Pivot Tables, VLookup, VBA), PowerPoint presentations)
  • Delivered technological, system conversion projects and strategic guidance, by supporting implementation of numerous internal systems integration and data reconciliation initiatives

Sr. Software Engineer / Business/Systems Analyst

Janus Capital Group
07.2011 - 11.2012
  • Business and Systems analysis, and Technical documentation
  • Internal Web application support and redesign
  • Analyzed and translated business requirements into user needs
  • Project Management/Technical Product Owner
  • I provided strong knowledge in analysis of business processes and workflow
  • Designed, coded and deployed web-based record management and data analysis applications
  • Worked closely with users to identify, develop and plan of business functional requirements for web-based applications, created testing plans for new and existing systems; web site, system changes and enhancements in coordination with business users
  • Software Development Lifecycle methodology
  • Production support of various applications and data bases: - Web Development and UI design in MS Visual Studio C#.Net 2005-2010; SQL 2008, Oracle (Toad), Share Point 2007, SVN - Informatica 7.5 & 9 (maintenance, development and upgrade), Autosys, Perl Script, Hummingbird, Atlassian, Jira - IBM Cognos Reports, PowerBI, Business Objects XI (development and support), Excel data manipulation (Pivot Tables, VLookup, VBA), PowerPoint presentations

Sr. Software Engineer / Data Analyst II

Flatiron Financial / Centrix Financial
06.2003 - 11.2008

· Developed complex integration and data correlations between various internal systems using a combination of .NET and SQL

· Designed, coded and deployed web-based record management and data analysis applications in C#.NET

· Managed performance reporting using Crystal Reports 8.5/9.0 and Enterprise

· Managed conversion of Crystal Reports logic to SQL Stored Procedures and Views

· Optimized customer account and credit management by designing and implementing web-based front end to internal loan management system – a key proprietary infrastructure component used in management and delivery of client credit services. Technologies: C# with CSLA.NET and CodeSmith. Back-end: SQL Server 2005. Highlight: Implemented SqlDataSource and GridViews for optimal user experience and database transaction handling.

· Supported new business and revenue opportunities by significantly enhancing and extending internal record management system by developing and implementing numerous customer integration solutions.

MIS/WEB Developer

eCollege.com
07.2000 - 08.2001
  • Managed and administered MS SQL 7.0/2000 & MS Access databases and maintained IIS Web Server
  • Analyzed, documented systems and databases, and suggested improvements and system optimizations
  • Designed, developed, and maintained internal web site to host IT department documentation, which resulted in improved trouble resolution processes and communication throughout the department
  • Improved and optimized companywide financial reporting through the use of in-house and commercial data analysis and manipulation tools
  • Assisted Information Systems (IT) department in performing data recovery and application of hot fixes, and improved efficiency of IT operations by analyzing system reports, and suggesting preventive measures for problem areas
  • Assisted Product Management team by developing Business Requirements Specifications Documents

Education

Master’s Degree in Marketing and Management -

ALSRT
02.2021

Technical College of Kiev & ALSRT, Degree in Management -

ALSRT
2019

MS SQL 2000, OLAP - Microsoft -

DTC, CO
DTC, CO

Tableau, Python -

Self-taught
01.2017

Informatica - Microsoft -

Denver, CO
Denver, CO
01.2012

Visual Studio 2012 (MSTest) - Microsoft -

Denver, CO
Denver, CO
01.2012

IBM & Pyxit -

Denver, CO
Denver, CO
01.2011

Management Certification Course – ACC -

Littleton, CO
Littleton, CO
01.2003

Skills

  • SQL Server 70-2017 - Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursors, UDFs, Linked Servers, Data Transformation Services (DTS), MS Access, ODBC, OLAP Cube Design, Oracle (Toad), Snowflake
  • Agile & Scrum development, Lean, Waterfall process, Iterative development, Xtreme Programming (XP) and other development processes, ASP Application development
  • Windows Server 2000-2008, SQL Server 2000-2016, MS SharePoint 2003, 2007 Server & WSS 20, 30, IIS, BizTalk 60, Oracle (Toad)
  • Reports: Visual Studio NET 2005-2010 (C#, ASPNET, VBNET, CSLA), NET 20-40 (GridView, SQLDataSource, MSMQ, CSLA 2005, CodeSmith), JavaScript, CSS, Transact/ANSI SQL, Web Development, Crystal Reports 50-90, PowerBI, IMB Cognos Reports 101, Tableau, SSRS
  • HTTP, HTTPS, MSMQ, ODBC, Wordpress, HTML5, Java Script, XML
  • IT Project / Product Management and Development I provide strong knowledge in analysis of business processes and workflow Work closely with users to identify, develop and plan of business functional requirements and testing plans for new or existing systems, system changes or enhancements in coordination with business users Can act as the interface between the all levels of business partners and IT resources, and developers Software Development Lifecycle methodology I am innovative problem solver and self-starter with strong technical skills EPMO/PO/TPM/LPM

Timeline

Consultant - Sr. Scram Master

Charter Communications
08.2022 - Current

Consultant - Sr. Data Product Owner / TPM - LPM

Equifax / Appriss
07.2022 - 05.2023

Consultant - Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst Advisor, Product Owner IV

Ally Financial
03.2022 - 07.2022

Consultant - Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst Advisor, EPMO (Enovation and Transformation)

InnovAge
04.2021 - 03.2022

Consultant - Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst Advisor

Charles Schwab Corporation
02.2020 - 08.2020

Consultant - Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst Advisor

Great-West / Empower Retirement
06.2019 - 01.2020

Sr. Business/ Systems Analyst & Architect, DBA, SQL & ETL Developer for HR & Compensation Analytics Group

DaVita Kidney Care
02.2017 - 06.2019

Consulting - Business/Systems Analyst / Project Manager / DBA

Telecommute (HI, CA, CO)
06.2013 - 02.2017

Sr. Software Engineer / Business/Systems Analyst

Janus Capital Group
07.2011 - 11.2012

Sr. Software Engineer / Data Analyst II

Flatiron Financial / Centrix Financial
06.2003 - 11.2008

MIS/WEB Developer

eCollege.com
07.2000 - 08.2001

Master’s Degree in Marketing and Management -

ALSRT

Technical College of Kiev & ALSRT, Degree in Management -

ALSRT

MS SQL 2000, OLAP - Microsoft -

DTC, CO

Tableau, Python -

Self-taught

Informatica - Microsoft -

Denver, CO

Visual Studio 2012 (MSTest) - Microsoft -

Denver, CO

IBM & Pyxit -

Denver, CO

Management Certification Course – ACC -

Littleton, CO
Victoria Raskes