Geri Schneider Winters

About Geri Schneider Winters

I have had a long and varied career, covering all facets of solution delivery as well as…

Experience

1. Senior Scrum Master, Technical Product Owner

   American AgCredit

   Nov 2018 — Present · Santa Rosa, CA, US

   January 2022 - Present: Technical Product OwnerWorked with stakeholders to identify backlog items, managed the backlog according to company strategic goals, communicated status regularly to stakeholders, worked closely with the team, vendors, and implementation partners to develop the backlog items in each sprint, and provided technical leadership for cross company strategic initiatives.• Provided technical leadership to migrating the company\'s file storage solution into SharePoint, including acquiring tools and implementation partners, developing the migration schedule, coordinating technical solutions to issues discovered during the migration, developing communications, and managing the file migration.• Responsible for ServiceNow (ITSM, ITOM/Discovery, HR/Cases, IRM/GRC, SPM/Agile), SharePoint Online (One Drive, Teams, Purview, Sites, Power Automate, Viva), other back office applications• Completed course Visionary Leadership: The Lewis and Clark Experience• Empower EIG Steering CommitteeMarch 2020 - December 2021: Senior Scrum MasterCreated a new Agile team to support Enterprise Tools. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, coached on Agile, Software Development Lifecycle, and System Administration. Also filled Business Analyst, System Administrator, QA, Technical Lead, and Product Owner roles for several months each to cover gaps in team composition.• Completed courses Identifying Unhealthy Conflict, Managing Conflict, Leading Effectively from Anywhere, Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback• Member of Diversity and Inclusion Council, Inclusion Committee LeadNovember 2018 - March 2020: Scrum MasterCreated a new Agile team to support Core Banking Applications. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, coached on Agile and Software Development Lifecycle. Worked with the Product Delivery Office to develop metrics & reports, governance & controls, and risk models for Agile teams.

Education

• Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

  MS

• Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

  BA

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Scrum
• Agile Project Management
• Software Project Management
• Rup
• Process Improvement
• Software Engineering
• Strategy
• Consulting
• Requirements Analysis
• Business Analysis
• Systems Analysis
• System Architecture
• Business Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Architecture
• Architecture
• Architectures
• Software Development
• Uml
• Ooad
• Software Design
• Certified Scrum Master Csm
• Direct Marketing
• Communication Skills
• Business Process Design
• Project Portfolio Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Unified Modeling Language (Uml)
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)