Alyson Jones
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Scrum Product Owner
Scrum AllianceApr, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
ScrumMaster
Scrum AllianceDec, 2014- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Bink
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Solutions Architect
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Apr 2018 - Present
Bink is a Fintech company based in the UK. We’ve made it our mission to imagine a world where loyalty came with less fuss, and created a solution where rewards are easier for everyone. For banks, for shops and for people who love to shop. Bink’s unique Payment Linked Loyalty™ technology is smart technology which securely links a customer’s payment cards to any loyalty programmes that they are already part of or may want to join. This enables customers to be identified and rewarded every single time they shop, using only their payment cards. This technology opens a world of opportunities for banks and retailers.
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Digital Consultant
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Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Gathered business requirements, translating these into technical specifications.Worked with Fredhopper’s internal teams to deliver on customer requirements. Created custom data enrichments that helped clients enhance their product catalogue for better customer search and visual merchandising experience. Created and launched new Fredhopper accounts.Provided training to the client's technical teams (front-end and back-end development) and to the client’s visual merchandising teams on how to use Fredhopper and get the most out of their implementation.Worked with clients on upgrading and maintaining their implementations.Understanding the technical as well as project implications (timelines, resources, costs) of client projects.Answered how-to questions from both client visual merchandisers and technical teams and provided advice to clients on how to maximise their implementation and deliver better experiences to their customers.Maintain client relationships for existing accounts.
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Deloitte Digital
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Digital Consultant
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Nov 2013 - Aug 2016
Functional Lead on a website re-platform for a US non-profit. The project focused on providing the organisation with increased website and CMS functionality. Responsibilities: maintaining the project backlog, budget, scope, development time frame, functional acceptance of user stories, organisation of cross-functional team, and creation of documentation for client backend users to configure and maintain the new site.Functional Lead on a small mobile game team. Working to deliver an educational message using a fun/engaging game that was aligned with the client’s existing educational business model whilst developing a new revenue stream. This was the first mobile game developed by Deloitte Digital. Responsibilities: coordinating with the project and client relationship management teams, working with creative, UX, and development to translate the client’s existing educational programme into a mobile game, keeping development on budget by monitoring development schedule and scope, created targeted operating model and marketing strategies, and coordinated with external PR company leading up to launch of game.hybris eCommerce developer on multiple projects for large multi-national retail clients (including client’s in grocery and fashion). Responsibilities: developing technical customisation on the hybris platform to deliver client desired functionality. My focus was customising pricing and parts of the order process, including shopping cart and mini-cart, checkout, and order confirmation.Technical designer on a hybris eCommerce implementation. The project was focused on implementing the order process for a fashion retail client. Responsibilities: attending order process workshops and providing technical insight into what was possible from the hybris platform and taking client requests and translating them into requirements and designing the associated data architecture.
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Hult International Business School
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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MBA Candidate
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Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
Graduated with Distinction Graduated with Distinction
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CSG
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr. Systems Programmer
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Apr 2008 - Aug 2012
• Built a HTML based web application to build a versatile and scalable platform for clients to offer their content direct to consumers.• Used HTML, JavaScript, CSS to implement features such as shopping cart, digital wallet, catalogue browse, account management, along with other client feature requests • Worked with client services to troubleshoot issues that clients are experiencing and determine solutions • Assisted fellow team members by explaining business cases and giving programming advice• Used Silverlight for the development of a cross-browser and cross-platform multimedia rich internet application. This application allows content providers to provide a rich content delivery platform to their consumers. • Worked directly with a project team to build a client specific storefront, utilizing Silverlight, that leveraged our pre-existing API structure
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Microsoft
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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SDET
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May 2007 - Aug 2007
Used SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services to build an application that constructs reports demonstrating the correspondence between testing and development efforts. The reports link functional requirements to test cases, highlighting areas that are not covered by test cases. Used SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services to build an application that constructs reports demonstrating the correspondence between testing and development efforts. The reports link functional requirements to test cases, highlighting areas that are not covered by test cases.
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Microsoft
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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SDET
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Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
Used C# to develop automated tests for existing and new website functionality, wrote test design document based on functional spec. These test cases are used to ensure the website maintains past functionality. Used C# to develop automated tests for existing and new website functionality, wrote test design document based on functional spec. These test cases are used to ensure the website maintains past functionality.
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Education
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2012 - 2013
Hult International Business School
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Distinction -
2003 - 2007
Iowa State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering
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