Amisha Kenworthy
Product and Agile Leader - Change Navigator at Motion Consulting Group- Claim this Profile
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Certified Scrum Master
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Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
Experience
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Motion Consulting Group
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product and Agile Leader - Change Navigator
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Oct 2021 - Present
Consult and coach organizations to modernize IT operating models and frameworks. Identify organizational opportunities to improve efficiencies and create strategies that help leaders, teams and individuals navigate through complex change. Consult and coach organizations to modernize IT operating models and frameworks. Identify organizational opportunities to improve efficiencies and create strategies that help leaders, teams and individuals navigate through complex change.
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Early Warning®
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Product & Agile Coach
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May 2022 - Jan 2023
Align product, portfolio, technical, quality and development groups in delivering digital products and services utilizing agile values and principals. Provide guidance, coaching and training to move from managing projects to building innovative solutions. ▪ Assess release trains and teams to create customized training and coaching plans. Coach product teams and individuals in product strategy, product backlog health and Program Increment (PI) planning. ▪ Improve efficiencies of delivery tools, scaling events and scrum ceremonies. ▪ Organized Scrum Master community to inspire agile maturity growth for the enterprise through re-occurring meet ups, consolidating digital resources, and socializing continuous improvement efforts. Show less
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Athene
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Enterprise Agile Coach
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Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
Acted as a change agent who mentored sprint team resources at either the team and/or program levels, including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Technical Leads, and executives to leverage Agile principles, engineering practices, and frameworks to deliver high value business capabilities. Coached on product management, design thinking, engineering culture, and DevOps as a subject matter expert for scaling Agile development and embracing servant leadership. ▪ Transformed the organization roadmap to move the organization from project-based development to product development. ▪ Incorporated an outcome-based approach to coaching with a focus on change-based deliverables and continuous improvement. ▪ Coached and mentored over 40 Business Analyst across the enterprise during the transition from a waterfall delivery model to scrum. Show less
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Keyot LLC.
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West Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Senior Consultant
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Oct 2014 - Oct 2021
As a member of the Keyot team I am a part of a team comprised of talented business and technology program managers, project managers, business architects and business analysts in multiple industries. We work with clients in transformation programs, automated work flow and process change, package implementations, system integration, process improvement, and technology enhancements. As a member of the Keyot team I am a part of a team comprised of talented business and technology program managers, project managers, business architects and business analysts in multiple industries. We work with clients in transformation programs, automated work flow and process change, package implementations, system integration, process improvement, and technology enhancements.
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Corteva Agriscience
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United States
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Farming
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Analyst
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Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Part of a leadership team for scheduling, budgeting, and process management, with close involvement in the planning and execution of marketing programs to improve process transparency and program velocity. Enabled faster decision-making across leadership by providing communication and clear status of projects. Conducted audits of current processes, determined success metrics, analyzed results, and worked across the organization to ensure internal capabilities were married with best-in-class customer experience as new services and features were made available.▪ Coached Product Managers for the global corporate websites for eCommerce and loyalty programs and collaborated with in-house and vendor development teams throughout the United States, Europe, and Brazil to promote regional solutions.▪ Coordinated and participated in Scrum of Scrums, quarterly planning, big room planning, dependency boarding, and road mapping. Show less
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Product Owner, Digital Ag
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May 2018 - Dec 2020
Led three delivery teams in the implementation and optimization of websites, mobile applications, and backend cloud services by serving as the frontline project lead for technology projects. Created and implemented end-to-end change management plans to maintain platform efficiency and stability. Created project plans and oversaw activities required to ensure smooth and efficient platform implementation, operations, and governance.▪ Prioritized deliverables for multiple digital applications according to Product Strategies, Objectives and Key Results (OKR’s) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).▪ Created user process flows, web/application mapping and context diagrams, and facilitated definition of user stories, business process, and story mapping.▪ Define and document business rules, non-functional requirements, and technical opportunities.▪ Facilitated backlog refinement discussions with the scrum team, system architects, engineers, and UX to refine, size, and uncover issues and risks.▪ Coordinated with multiple scrum teams using product road maps and quarterly planning to align business delivery needs with sprint work and dependencies. Show less
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Wells Fargo
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Business System Consultant
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Mar 2015 - May 2018
Contributed impact analysis Capital Market’s demand program and translated them into functional requirements via features and user stories and leveraged wireframes and other deliverables to facilitate the creation, modification, and enhancement of critical applications. Accountable for developing subject matter expertise as well as understanding how to drive delivery. Developed and facilitated scrum framework including backlog through all sprints of product release phases and contributed to the Agile and Waterfall Development Framework for individual teams. ▪ Facilitated and provided traceability to requirements for multi-year initiatives to integrate legacy systems of record into common platforms. ▪ Actively engaged with other product owners, business system analysts and scrum masters in developing a comprehensive strategy around the development of IT products and services and to ensure successful code integration. ▪ Developed project documentation for successful requirement audits and maintained traceability of requirements and change control artifacts to functional solution design. Show less
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Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance
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United States
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Insurance
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300 - 400 Employee
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Scrum Business Analyst
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Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Applied knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals by maintaining a detailed understanding of existing business systems and processes and researched new solutions to enhance the business strategy, process improvements, and integration of new systems. Utilized Agile Scrum project methodologies to work with teams and deliver value to business areas by ensuring projects and daily activities were achieved by identifying the stakeholders, building consensus, and understanding how to get past barriers to success. ▪ Defined business and functional requirements by working closely with the end-users, programmers, and other business partners. Ensured scope was adhered to and change management was enforced. ▪ Developed Testing Checklists/Test Cases based on requirements and impact analysis. ▪ Executed manual testing situations based on Testing Checklists/Test Cases by the target date with a high level of accuracy and quality. ▪ Coordinated defect management, communications, and follow-up with the UAT testers to ensure all aspects were coordinated and approval was obtained. Show less
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MetLife
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United States
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Insurance
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Analyst
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Aug 2010 - Sep 2014
Drove end-to-end accountability for project and program implementation from initiation to post deployment. Accountable for creating the project and program and governance structure at kick-off, and ensure alignment of expectations with various key project management matrices, tools, and training. Led the definition of problem statements, user stories, acceptance criteria and acted as a conduit between the user community and QA, development, and production support teams to ensure transparency and clarity.▪ Facilitated training sessions for users to navigate and process through system programs. ▪ Collaborated with users, business analysts, and developers to understand user and system requirements and guided the QA team in generating scenarios for effective and thorough testing.▪ Prioritized the development backlog and partnered with project and delivery leads to organize backlog items into sprints.▪ Leveraged data modelling practices to analyze findings and proposed improvement options, during and post implementation. Show less
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Business Consultant
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Dec 2006 - Aug 2013
Liaised between Annuity Operations IT and external departments including; Compliance, Product, Legal, Tax, Customer Relations, and Special Investigation Unit as related to the business procedure and contract provisions. Facilitated meetings and sessions to resolve issues and problems and worked extensively with insurance annuities, life insurance, investment contracts and compliance issues and bringing resolution•Consulted internal and external partners regarding processing procedures and settlement agreement parameters impacting MetLife major systems and applications•Worked extensively with compliance, contracts/agreements, and legal regarding work that is associated with annuity benefits, payouts and settlement•Managed the resolve of consumer fraud allegations by working with contract holders, state insurance departments, and attorneys through written communication regarding complaints Show less
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Education
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University of Northern Iowa
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), College of Business, Marketing
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