Yshunda Shawn King

About Yshunda Shawn King

I am a Senior Global IT Program Manager/Professional Scrum Master and Agile Coach, with over 20+ years of client facing business and technology consulting experience. I have worked with several Fortune 500 companies and have over 15 years experience leading complex, large scale, global transformation projects with budgets up to $90MM. Through my years of working for one of the largest multinational beverage corporation Company, I have developed the interpersonal skills and executive presence to successfully manage senior level client relationships.I pride myself on being direct and clear, details are important to me, so I add value to an organization by asking the right questions and doing the due diligence to translate and break down complicated ideas into detailed strategic action plans and measurable activities. A plan is one thing, but in order to successfully execute the plan one must also be able to effectively navigate and mitigate conflict to lead teams and achieve organizational goals. My success in this area has been a direct result of hard work and my ability to influence stakeholders and outcomes.In today’s fast paced environment, it is paramount to stay ahead of the latest business and industry innovations. I add value to the organizations I serve by continuously learning and staying abreast of emerging technology and industry trends. This allows me to act as an advisor to management teams and drive innovative strategic planning.• Listed below are a few Global IT projects I\'ve led : Infrastructure upgrade (On Prem to GCP), Delphi Oasis, Oracle Hyperion (SaaS), Wallstreet Suite (ASP), Upgraded SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation system (BOFC) from 7.0 to 10 on SAP-HANA, including back-end infrastructure (Excel 64bit, SAP data services, business intelligence, and Citrix) and aligning with EPM financial reporting system. TECHNICAL SKILLS - Tableau Reporting- Workday- SAP BW Reporting - Jira - Aha- Google Suite- Wallstreet Suite 7.9 (ASP) – Certified 2011- Reval Commodities and Risk- Oracle – Hyperion(SaaS)- SAP Hana DB (EPM Add-In)- SAP R/3 4.0b, 4.6d, ECC 5- Microsoft Office- Slack

Experience

1. Senior Program Manager Scrum Master

   MagMutual

   May 2018 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Led a major Software Implementation while coaching teams in agile adoption. Implemented Agile Principles throughout the organization to build and improve Product communications between the IT Department, the Product Management, and the Business; creating more transparency across the divisions; and to obtain great business value with short turnarounds. • Managed a combined $20M dollar project portfolio, developed project controls and managed 10 direct reports • Strengthened organization by introducing KPI measurements to drive critical IT best practices and broad business plans • Managed and reviewed program/projects budgets; ensuring projects stay within budget and on track• Co-led the creation of Business Process Methodology (BPM) that was standardized as an enterprise-wide best practice, reducing project redundancies by 25% and increased team utilization from 10% to 25% • Successfully trained the Scrum Masters, Business Analysis and three development teams in learning and adapting the Agile Methodologies • Led the initial transition from waterfall to Agile. Introducing Scrum and Kanban/XPM development; increasing visibility and transparency across the organization• Conducted process assessments and established Agile adoption roadmaps • Coached/mentored a cross functional team of 20 resources (8 Scrum Teams) to deliver quality products which led to over $11.5M annual revenue increase• Introduced and applied Agile Scrum practices; helping increase the team/multi-functional teams velocity by 80% within the first year of Agile adoption • Developed and Delivered Agile Ceremony Trainings (inclusive of Daily Scrums, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospective Workshops and Product Vision Mapping) • Provided coaching and guidance to teams on Planning next Sprint/Iteration Planning

Education

• University of Central Oklahoma

  Accounting, Accounting

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Fmcg
• Sap
• Project Management
• Process Improvement
• Business Process Improvement
• Program Management
• Business Intelligence
• Sap R/3
• Change Management
• Business Process
• Erp
• Vendor Management
• Business Analysis
• IT Strategy
• Project Portfolio Management
• IT Management
• Forecasting
• Sap Products
• Sap Erp