Kelly Muldoon
Waltham
Summary
IT & AGILE PROFESSIONAL Extensive experience working with Agile, SAFe, Scrum, and Waterfall project management approaches. Positions held include Release Train Engineer, Product Owner, Scrum Master Advanced, and Business Analyst / Tester. Assisted with Agile transitions at three different companies. Also experienced in coaching teams and departments in project management methodologies, most significantly Agile methods, as well as assisting in Agile transitions. Strong team leadership skills, organized and detail-oriented, motivated by collaborative work environments.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
ENGINEERING RELEASE MANAGER
Philips Medical Systems
11.2023 - Current
- Coordinated scheduled releases and updates.
- Collaborated with software development project departments to align engineering efforts towards prescribed release schedule deadlines.
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
- Collect metrics on release cycles, planned versus unplanned work, verification and validation cycles and more to further our continuous improvement objectives.
- Generated reports for IT project progress and performance and presented to management and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on future projects.
- Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation.
- Provided strategic plans to senior management for approval by internal stakeholders and aligned development teams.
- Created presentations and infographic for platform release enhancement communications.
- Chaired project meetings using Agile methodologies, Kanban, and Scrum formats.
- Trained personnel on use of IT tools and applications.
- Collaborated with project developers, quality assurance team members, business analysts and other stakeholders to ensure successful on-time delivery of project deliverables.
- Oversaw deployment of operating system patches, security improvements and hardware compatibility updates.
RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER / PRODUCT OWNER
Accuray
02.2022 - 12.2022
- Worked as Product Owner for Treatment Management Software and Data Management Software Engineering teams working on treatment planning, delivery analysis, and delivery optimization. Also served as Release Train Engineer for teams delivering software and hardware releases of Accuray products.
- Sped up release of two patches, one software and one security updates, by several months. This allowed for savings for Accuray as well as on time delivery for trade show presentation.
- Coached and trained in Agile practices and focused on relentless improvement to push program efficacy and efficiency,
- Worked with Marketing and other stakeholders to contribute to product vision and roadmap.
- Served as Voice of the Customer (VoC) on teams.
- Facilitated product vision execution as laid out by Product Management.
- Collaborated with SMEs and Scrum Master to define and breakdown Epics, Features, and User Stories for team execution.
- Performed regular backlog management and worked with stakeholders, such as marketing and architects, to ensure backlog was prioritized properly.
RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER / ADVANCED SCRUM MASTER
Philips Medical Systems
07.2018 - 02.2022
- Served as RTE for geographically diverse Agile train to execute PIs and as Scrum Master for two Engineering Agile Teams and one Platforms team, developing and releasing software.
- Planned, coached and trained in department in Agile practices, focus on continuous delivery and relentless improvement for program efficacy and efficiency.
- Facilitated and led PI Planning Events, Scrum of Scrums, PO Syncs, team and train demos and other ceremonies for stakeholder feedback and needed adjustments.
- Worked regularly with several geographically dispersed and culturally diverse Scrum teams from multiple Philips Radiation Oncology locations, including teams in the Netherlands, Germany, and India.
- Facilitated all scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-up, grooming, retrospectives, and sprint planning.
- Coached business partners on Agile principles and act as change agent.
- Worked with team to prioritize and sequence user stories and to identify dependencies.
- Tracked workflow and maintained metrics via Microsoft Azure DevOps (formerly Team Foundations Server).
BUSINESS ANALYST / SQA AGILE TEAM MEMBER
Dean Health Plan
02.2015 - 07.2018
- Worked as member of agile team performing requirements gathering, building, user acceptance testing, and quality assurance testing for all assigned projects.
- Performed Epic, Feature and Story decomposition to right-size Epics and Features and ensure ready for work.
- Created agile training plan to train and go-live new project management approach business area by business area.
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Psychology, Political Science
Edgewood College
MadisonSkills
- Agile/Scaled Agile Framework Coaching, Facilitation, and Leadership
- Change Management
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Agile Transition Coaching
- Software Quality Assurance
- Product Vision Execution
- Work Breakdown in tools such as JIRA and Azure DevOps
- Project Planning and Progress Tracking
- Stakeholder Relationship Management and Collaboration
- Timeline Management
- Product Development Testing
- Quality and Cycle Time Optimization
Certification
- Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer
- Certified SAFe Product Owner
- Certified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
Timeline
ENGINEERING RELEASE MANAGER
Philips Medical Systems
11.2023 - Current
RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER / PRODUCT OWNER
Accuray
02.2022 - 12.2022
RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER / ADVANCED SCRUM MASTER
Philips Medical Systems
07.2018 - 02.2022
BUSINESS ANALYST / SQA AGILE TEAM MEMBER
Dean Health Plan
02.2015 - 07.2018
Bachelor of Science - Psychology, Political Science
Edgewood College
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