Work Experience
Business & Tech Alignment:
- Act as the primary contact between business and technical teams.
- Translate business needs into actionable technical tasks.
- Clearly communicate business priorities to developers and designers.
Project Management:
- Manage projects according to business goals and technical feasibility.
- Coordinate task prioritization with stakeholders.
- Assist in managing technical projects from initiation to completion.
Process Improvement:
- Continuously optimize workflows using tools like Slack, Jira, and other relevant platforms.
- Align expectations between stakeholders, UX designers, developers, and QA teams.
Stakeholder Communication:
- Lead project planning meetings, backlog grooming, and sprint reviews.
- Regularly update business stakeholders on project progress and milestones.
- Manage product timelines and delivery schedules.
Technical Understanding:
- Possess deep understanding of product development processes.
- Speak developer and design “lingo” to facilitate seamless communication.
- Support decision-making on in-house vs. third-party tools.
- Remove impediments for the team to deliver according to their goals.
- Point of contact between business and tech
- Capable of speaking developer lingo and deeply understanding how a product is built
- Manages tasks according to business priorities and taking tech input into consideration
- Assists in the management of technical projects with the Employer (Company)
- Helps improve automation processes with Slack, Jira and other tools
- Aligns expectations between stakeholders, UXers, developers and DevOps
- Manages 2 or more medium-sized projects.
- Remove impediments for the team to deliver according to their goals.
- Support product owner(s) in their mission
- Educate team about agile and scrum principles
- Facilitate some of the scrum meetings
- Drive scrum implementation efforts across the company
- Mentor junior Scrum Masters
- Help coordinate releases
- Coordinate efforts across several teams working on related projects
- Build and maintain reusable, scalable code in custom build WordPress plugins.
- Define, analyze, plan, forecast, measure, maintain and improve all aspects of the availability of custom-built WordPress Plugins.
- Maintain the security, confidentiality, and integrity of data operations in WordPress plugin related tasks. Design, implements, and operates controls and management strategies to allow this.
- Provide documentation as required and participate in code reviews, planning sessions, and routine status stand-ups.
- Improve development workflow and quality through the use of staging sites, Git version control, and other tools.
- Design, code, test, correct, and document simple programs or scripts under the supervision of a more senior leveled developer.
- Applies key principles of modern standards approach and how they apply to the work they are undertaking and will apply under the guidance of more senior leveled developers.
- Fixes faults following agreed procedures.
- Carries out agreed infrastructure maintenance tasks.
- Assist as part of a team on the design of components of larger systems.
- Integrates systems and overcomes challenges of designing, building, and testing interfaces between systems.
- Focuses on user needs by taking into account user stories.
- Defines, analyzes, plans, forecasts, measures, maintains, and improves all aspects of the availability of services. Controls and manages service availability to meet the needs of the business cost-effectively, including managing the capability, functionality, and sustainability of service components (including software, network resources, and software/infrastructure as a service).
- Maintains the security, confidentiality, and integrity of information systems through compliance with relevant legislation and regulations. Designs, implement, and operate controls and management strategies to allow this.
- Design, code, test, corrects, and documents simple programs or scripts under the supervision of a more senior leveled developer.
- Applies key principles of modern standards approach and how they apply to the work they are undertaking and will apply under the guidance of more senior leveled developers.
- Fixes faults following agreed procedures.
- Carries out agreed infrastructure maintenance tasks.
- Assist as part of a team on the design of components of larger systems.
- Integrates systems and overcomes challenges of designing, building, and testing interfaces between systems.
- Focuses on user needs by taking into account user stories.
- As Support Team lead I was responsible for team of two people. I fixed bugs in WordPress themes and plugins and posted an update afterwards. Redesigned, added new functionality, and created WordPress themes and plugins.