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Victoria Olson

Cuyahoga Falls,OH

Summary

Tech-savvy innovator with hands-on experience in emerging technologies and passion for continuous improvement. Skilled in identifying opportunities for technological enhancements and implementing effective solutions. Adept at leveraging new tools and methods to solve problems and enhance productivity. Excels in adapting to fast-paced environments and driving technological advancements. Extensive experience driving all aspects of project management using both traditional and agile development methodologies. Possess great soft skills that facilitate leadership, team building and conflict resolution.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Solution Train Engineer

AT&T
07.2021 - Current
  • As an STE, I facilitate Solution Train events and processes, coordinating the work of 5 different ARTs and multiple Suppliers and support the ARTs in delivering value for our business customers.
  • Facilitate Solution Train PI Planning, define PI objectives and ensure strategic alignment.
  • Participate in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
  • Analyze and interpret data to identify trends and drive improvement back into the Solution Train.

Central Planning & Execution Lead

Kforce Inc
01.2021 - 07.2021
  • Lead a Central Planning & Execution team supporting a key Transformation Initiative focused on simplifying organization wide sales business processes by leveraging out of the box Salesforce capabilities and industry leading practices
  • Stood up a consolidated Front Door Intake process and team, accountable for decomposing high level business requirements, estimation, prioritization, assurance of visibility to vision and traceability
  • Managed a team of 6 Product Owners dedicated to managing portfolio level initiatives as well as defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision
  • Managed a team of 7 testers responsible for the user acceptance test strategy, test plan, test cases, automation, test scripts and defect triage for the entire platform

Principle Product Realization Manager

AT&T
09.2010 - 12.2019
  • Acted as product owner delegate, scrum master and release train manager across multiple projects over 9 year span with company
  • Maintained scrum based team progress against committed delivery plan within scrum based tracking tools
  • Drove backlog grooming at multiple levels in order to pinpoint gaps and provide a high level delivery plan for leadership
  • Owned all program communication, including weekly status reports, jeopardy and risk mitigation as well as Governance Board and VP level program reviews
  • Managed an $11M program budget to within 10% of forecast year over year
  • Drove contract negotiations and owned vendor relationships across multiple different suppliers
  • Led RFP effort to consolidate and scale to a single vendor, projecting a saving of $5M year over year
  • Managed vendor relationships for both agile and non agile development and on time milestone delivery
  • Managed a team of 7-10 direct reports - consisting of release management, architecture and quality assurance resources

International Site Manager

Aquent LLC
09.2009 - 09.2010
  • Defined schedules, deliverables and work flow processes for global content publishing, updating content on a weekly basis
  • Owned localization plan, processes, budget and vendor management
  • Drove cross team communication to ensure deliverables were ready for international stakeholders as per schedule
  • Owned communication with internal web team, stakeholders and market contacts via program reviews, regular conference calls and weekly status reports

Program Manager

Microsoft Corporation
08.1998 - 03.2009
  • Product owner of road map and feature backlog prioritization for a global platform within MSN Games, allowing for new business models and additional market opportunity
  • Created design specs, secured stakeholder buy-off and managed production schedules to meet project deadlines
  • Built a Geopolitical process and virtual team to ensure product designs and content were reviewed and modified as appropriate to avoid international incident and/or legal action
  • Managed relationships with marketing and Community teams to ensure global marketers were aware of feature sets, upcoming releases and marketing plans
  • Provided globalization expertise to studio, resulting in a scalable and extensible platform
  • Defined the localization plan, process, schedule, budget and international releases of all studio projects
  • Owned communication with management, product teams, stakeholders, market contacts, and external partners via program reviews and weekly status reports
  • Organized annual international conferences - identifying attendees, defining agenda and content

Education

Bachelors of Arts - Education

Central Washington University
Ellensburg, WA

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Stakeholder Communications
  • Cross functional Team Builder
  • Change Management
  • Agile Projects
  • Risk Analysis and Management
  • Vendor Management

Accomplishments

  • Agile Coach and mentor for multiple cross functional teams, supporting the transition and adoption of agile methodologies, development and delivery approach.
  • Imbedded within the AT&T Messaging platform team as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach to spin up one of the first fully cross functional Scrum teams within AT&T Mobility in order to facilitate the company’s transition to a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) delivery model.
  • Nominated to be part of a leadership team focused on streamlining company process/procedures as well as employee engagement scores for Seattle based offices.
  • Scaled a complex cloud based storage application from 2 to 7 platforms in under a year.

Certification

  • SAFe 4.0 Product Owner, Release Train Engineer and Scrum Master Certification Training

Timeline

Solution Train Engineer

AT&T
07.2021 - Current

Central Planning & Execution Lead

Kforce Inc
01.2021 - 07.2021

Principle Product Realization Manager

AT&T
09.2010 - 12.2019

International Site Manager

Aquent LLC
09.2009 - 09.2010

Program Manager

Microsoft Corporation
08.1998 - 03.2009

Bachelors of Arts - Education

Central Washington University
Victoria Olson