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Beth

Clarity and Speed For Operations, For Products, For Projects

About Me

Sometimes success is overwhelming. Business processes that keep a smaller place humming along will break down in the face of wild success. Backlogs turn to kudzu and roadmaps are lost to the overgrowth. Documentation gets wildly out of date, and slowly, the fear sets in. Not to worry, this is my kind of challenge. Let me boot up, suit up, and dig in to converting your mountain of anxieties into a ramp to the future.

Jurisdiction

United States | Canada

Notable Employer

  • IT Project Manager at Idaho National Lab
  • Product Manager/Technical Writer/Business Analyst at SpiderOak
  • QA Analyst II at Oracle

Experience

Seniority LevelAssociate
Years of Experience15-20 years
Current StatusActive
Do It AllElectric Elizabeth
2022 - Present

Only need a little help? Only need help for a short time? Right now I'm available for small contracts! Let's get you some breathing room by: * Define realistic and reasonable AI policies and procedures * Red-team/Black hat pitches, plans, and contracts to maximize returns * Sanity-check forecasting

IT Project Manager NotableIdaho National Lab
2024 - 2025

(Contract position) * Collaborated with IT Leadership to plan $250k+ worth of work to improve resource utilization across the entire IT organization, with a target of reducing project delays due to resourcing by 20% * Identified win-win compromises with stakeholders to accelerate discovery processes by a month * Produced concise and well-structured project documentation and transition materials to reduce rework delays by ~40 hours over 6 months * Lead a cross functional team comprised of analysts, architects, and engineers to produce quality, actionable insights into customer needs and behaviors and identify realistic metrics and implementation designs for the new process * Moderated technical working sessions to drive full engagement * Analyzed requests and created rough orders of magnitude to use for estimating cost, schedule, and effort * Worked with internal customers to refine asks, define success, and identify the MVP+ deliverable

Product Manager/Technical Writer/Business AnalystNotableSpiderOak
2017 - 2022

* Created pitches and proposals to bring in ~5M in contracts * Imagined and evolved top-level applications to showcase our platform capabilities to customers and to pitch demonstrably achievable proposals for Small Business Innovation Research funding * Designed and quarterbacked the 'Airlock' feature in the highly secure CrossClave productivity suite which allowed for secured onboarding protocols and secured out-of-band data shares * Defined requirements, testing plans (including UAT), and user stories for the Proof of Concept (0-1) for OrbitSecure (a pioneering secure communication app for space operations) * Created and prioritized an enterprise features roadmap for CrossClave in JIRA and Confluence, aligning development efforts with business objectives and available resources * Assisted in converting roadmaps to sprint plans, participated in Agile Ceremonies * Collaborated with Design, UX, and stakeholders to create smarter workflows and increase accessibility within CrossClave * Developed new roadmapping processes to capture effort and value data to enable fast-but-informed decisions about 'where next?' * Reduced the turnaround for the CrossClave DemoKit by 33% by creating strong processes and ‘aviation’ style checklists * administered JIRA

QA Analyst IINotableOracle
2012 - 2016

* created efficiencies in our team procedures to save about 20% of testing ttime * streamlined regression-testing processes to save QA hours * standardized bug-documentation to reduce confusion with off-shore/opposite hours teams * represented QA concerns to division and organization * developed a new training program * coordinated on-the-job training * trained and mentored new QA team members * reported and tracked defects * automated testing via custom frameworks * developed tertiary requirements for ACME products to simplify QA work * analyzed software design documents and requirements to identify completeness and accuracy

Education

Degree of HistoryEastern Washington University
2003 - 2007

Skills

Core skills0
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Languages

English