Competencies
30+ Years of experience showcases success in many niches. The following lists strengths in the various spaces and Maryrose’s execution experience
Program Management
A seasoned program manager with a track record of delivery of medium to large-sized, varied complexity level project work in Fortune 100 companies, Maryrose’s experience in the trenches brings a realistic perspective to her teams. Her subordinates instinctively trust her and allow her to take charge. She was trained and has managed projects using various methodologies including the traditional information engineering, PMI, SEI’s CMM, waterfall and SAFE/Agile methodologies and hybrids thereof. She is also trained and has practiced ITIL to streamline Service Management and has successfully integrated the best practices of ITIL into her practice of Six Sigma. Her project portfolio ranges from straight-forward application development, mergers and acquisition programs, PMO procedure development, infrastructure software installation, customization and implementation.
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SAFe 4 Agilist/Scrum Master
Maryrose is a Certified Scrum Master and Certified SAFe 4 Agilist. Her experience in adapting Agile to the real world that exists with applications that are challenged to adapt to Agile development methods/techniques is valuable to organizations that have not yet made the transition, and are striving to. Because of her background performing in various application development roles, she has the credibility with the Scrum team and is effective in driving the change to the Agile mindset, both as change agent and Scrum Master.
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Maryrose is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Her practice of Six Sigma was part of the business excellence initiative at both Seagate and Best Buy. She is also a thought leader in the application of Six Sigma to IT, having published a podcast on the subject in www.sixsigmaiq.com. She is currently writing a book on this subject with the goal of bringing down the practice of Six Sigma to the trenches.
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Process Improvement/Change Management
Her segue into formal process improvement work began after Six Sigma training, while working as IT Program Manager at Seagate Technology. She has always been passionate about streamlining process and a firm believer that an improvement can easily be made if a tangible (measurable) change can be identified as a success factor. (Metrics! Metrics! Metrics!)
She compiled a document that describes a repeatable process improvement effort in context to work performed for a client. This document is general enough to cover most process improvement work. There will be challenges that are not addressed by the document, and, for those type efforts, she recommends using consulting support.
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Quality Assurance
Her deep understanding of quality assurance and software development was demonstrated very clearly in her execution of the Direct2Guest project at Target. This project was high-visibility, executed on a very tight timeline, outsourced to an offshore vendor on a fixed-bid basis. The project concluded with resounding success, only to be sunset as soon as rolled out (due to the divestiture to May Co.)
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Project Management Office
Maryrose has extensive experience in performing project management office (PMO) duties, first-hand. In addition she has had the responsibility of leading a team that performed PMO oversignt for client Target Corporation. Her role then was IEF Expert/Consultant for the Development Technologies Group. At that time, 75% of Target’s legacy applications were built using the toolset IEF (also known as Composer, Cool:Gen or Advantage:Gen). The Development Technologies group was acting PMO for all applications developed in IEF or interfacing with applications developed in IEF.
She also performed some PMO duties as IT Program Manager for Seagate.
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