Justin Callan

This project was a major business transformation effort executed over six years, involving more than 300 project team members, and with an investment of more than $360 million dollars. I joined the project as a PMO analyst and quickly moved up to become the deployment team manager. Upon joining the deployment team, I identified manual processes and automated them using Excel VBA, freeing-up time for myself and my team to focus on more value-added activities such as improving our master release checklist's quality and content. I worked across all functional teams to coordinate critical project activities, lead weekly status reporting meetings, and report progress to key project stakeholders.

As a project manager, I worked directly with the client program manager to create a high-level roadmap outlining the planned iterations of development work required to design, configure, and test the compensation plans. I monitored development progress work through burn down charts and weekly status reporting. I wrote and executed 150+ unit test cases to validate that the configured features meet expectations.

As a scrum master, I worked with a geographically distributed product team, including a product manager and developer in Puerto Rico and two developers in Chicago. I organized the discovery phase and interviewed key stakeholders to understand their needs, define user personas, and write user stories. I worked with the product team to manage the product backlog through Microsoft DevOps and conducted daily scrum touch-points through two sprints.