Nancy Velar

Nancy Fox Velar CSP, CSM, CSPO, PMI-ACP - - Professional Profile Technology leader with 10+ years’ experience managing and delivering reliable and scalable systems / software across a variety of areas and technologies. Proven experience in software development / maintenance building high performing development teams. Experience in growing and scaling distributed teams as both a manager and manager-of-managers. Fosters collaborative and strategic planning relationships with Product Management, Engineering, QA and Architects Experienced in leading multiple remote, distributed, onshore and offshore teams. Areas of Expertise Servant Leadership Software Development Certified Scrum Master Innovation Development Manager Agile Methodologies Agile Project Management Iteration Management Remote Teams Professional Experience PepsiCo August 2021 - Current Software Development Manager - eCommerce Software Development Manager for a remote agile development team delivering global applications. Managed delivery, hiring, performance reviews, budgeting and roadmaps for large scale project development teams. Foster collaborative and strategic planning relationships with Product Management, Engineering, QA and Architects Technologies included: Angular, React, Elixir, Mongo db, Postgres, Kubernetes, and Python. Leveraged collaboration tools for communication across remote teams. These tools included: Zoom, GitHub, Slack, Confluence and Jira. SemanticBits November 2018 – August 2021 Sr Software Development Manager Lead three agile development teams for a Health and Human Services application including database, backend, UI development, Data Science and Analytics/Reporting. Lead the to team quickly improve from a prior rate of 50% to 100% delivery of committed features. Implemented numerous quality and delivery improvement initiatives including: QA automation, CI/CD, and agile process improvements. Foster collaborative and strategic planning relationships with Product Management, Engineering, QA and Architects Managed hiring, budget, mentoring/coaching and performance reviews for a team of five direct reports and total 40 team members. Lead team consisted of Development Managers, QA Manager and BA Manager. Technologies included: Angular, React, Node.js, Mongo db, Postgres, Kubernetes, Looker, LookML and Python Leveraged collaboration tools for communication across remote teams. These tools included: Zoom, GitHub, Slack, Confluence and Jira. Rackspace Hosting — San Antonio, TX August 2012 – November 2018 Sr. Software Development Manager Software Development Manager for an agile development team delivering applications for Customer Support Racker’s to enable 'Fanatical Customer Support'. Managed delivery, hiring, performance reviews, budgeting and roadmaps of both small and large scale project teams. Built and led successful distributed, onshore and offshore teams with model that enabled career growth for the developers and enabled them to deliver quality code features at a sustainable pace. Led applications development in python, ruby, angularJs, elastic search, JavaScript, react and java languages utilizing GitHub repository and Jenkins pipelines. Selected by Executive Leadership for Emerging Leaders Program. This program identifies a small cohort of key leaders within the company for a 6-month intensive leadership training program. Sr. Scrum Master Scrum Master leading Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives utilizing VersionOne agile software management tool. Agile Coach working with leadership to implement agile best practices and cross-train peers. Collaborated with developers and product owners to remove impediments, clarify requirements and deliver high quality new features at a sustainable pace. Developed, implemented repeatable processes and foster an environment of continuous improvement. Ensured that projects meet corporate SDLC standards, compliance and industry best practices. Fedex Services — Memphis, TN June 2011 – July 2012 Sr. Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master - Senseaware Project Manager / ScrumMaster for SenseAware: a game-changing, first of its kind service that gives users near real-time visibility into their shipments, and the ability to share that information collaboratively with their business partners. ScrumMaster leading sprint ceremonies, facilitating Iteration Planning and coordination of release management activities for deployments. Coordinated integration activities, testing and feature dependencies with other internal agile and waterfall teams. Sedgwick - Summerfield Associates consultant — Memphis TN March 2011 – June 2011 Business Systems Analyst – Consultant at Sedgwick Accredo (A Medco Company) — Memphis, TN May 2010 – March 2011 Sr. Business Planning Manager Business Planning Manager leading the Scaling for Growth project with $1.7 million cost savings in freight fees. Project manager for the implementation of a data warehouse integration and Verint i360 software rollout. Led team of data analyst utilizing SQL and Teradata to provide data for forecasting and business analysis. Identified Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to develop a scorecard tracking for business initiatives. Provided analysis of results versus plan, risk analysis, trends analysis and identified cost savings opportunities. Education B.A. Business Administration Saint Leo University Master Certificate, Project Management for IS/IT Professionals (PMP Prep) Villanova University Certifications and Professional Affiliations Certified Scrum Professional, CSP Certified Agile Leadership, CAL Certified ScrumMaster, CSM Certified Scrum Product Owner, CSPO Agile Certified Practitioner, PMI-ACP