Anna Mosca

About Anna Mosca

An experienced manager of software development teams, focused on high productivity achieved through innovation, self-organization, and empowerment of the team. Champion of the company’s vision to uphold strong employee engagement. Experienced in optimizing company global resource model (i.e: full-time, contractors, offshore, homebased) for initiatives across internal groups and external customers. Dedicated project manager skilled at collaborating with peers, product managers, and service providers to address customer needs; experienced in Agile and other SDLC methodologies. Savvy in budgeting and financial practices. Committed to increase diversity, inclusion, and women-in tech.

Experience

1. Software Engineering Manager - Content Architecture

   LexisNexis

   Mar 2013 — Present

   Proven record of building high performing teams with great retention of top performers and high level of commitment and motivation. Manager Effectiveness Index (MEI): 100%. Currently leading an engineering group of about 20 engineers ( i.e: offshore vendor resources, and LexisNexis India engineers) • Aggressively led the Agile transformation from Waterfall to Lean Agile integrating resources in Scrum and Kanban teams to reduce feature cycle time. In 2019 Lexis Advance became the #1 preferred USA service provider for next generation lawyers in the highly competitive field of legal research. • Partnered with product owners to deliver business value exploring advanced new technology in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence; partnered with editorial staff to increase productivity and quality through process standardization, innovation, and 24x7 tool support. • Managed system assets and provided data center migration strategy for legacy and strategic applications. Complied with inventory practices and licensing, security requirements, and eliminated over $100K of lifecycle yearly cost through the adoption of open source (i.e: Open JDK, MySQL).• Managed $10M yearly budget for the functional area (i.e. resource allocation, contractors, travel and training, software licenses).

Education

• Università degli Studi di Torino

  Master's Degree, Computer Science

Skills

• Requirements Gathering
• Integration
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Pmp
• Web Services
• Project Management
• Offshoring
• Databases
• Sharepoint
• Soa
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process Improvement
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Business Intelligence
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Software Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Program Management
• Data Warehousing
• Vendor Management
• IT Strategy
• Xml
• Saas
• Process Improvement
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture