Joanna Burawa

* Act as a senior-level counterpart to client leadership, providing technical / creative strategic direction to the client;
* Evaluate client briefs and work with User Experience Designers and Creative on proposals that meet both consumer and client expectations;
* Work with Business Systems Analysts, Technical Architects, Database Administrators, Web and Application Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts to design and deliver technology solutions for websites, applications and systems integrations;
* Provide ongoing management of live systems in collaboration with client, Quality Assurance resources and production, creative and design groups internally;
* Partner with Creative leads to concept cutting-edge solutions;
* Estimate large-scale projects and work with Technical Architects to determine work breakdown. Manage technology delivery team consisting of any and all Technology roles;
* Provide leadership in the development and implementation of short- and long-term technology plans and related policies and procedures;
* Interface and coordinate activities with both internal and external technical resources;
* Collaborate with Project Managers to provision estimates, develop overall implementation solution plan;
* Oversee aspects of project life cycle from initial kickoff through requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment phases for projects within solution area;

Collaborate, facilitate, lead Scrum team responsible for developing content management systems, a registration application, an order system and automated tools for the major US publishing company - Scholastic. My responsibilities are:

* Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, retrospectives and software demonstrations.
* Empowering teams to self-organize and evaluate.
* Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain the focus on product backlog and project timeline.
* Manage the lifecycle of code development.
* Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
* Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups.
* Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.
* Manage the lifecycle of code development.
* Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
* Plan releases.

Responsible for guiding the planning, tracking and day-to-day activities of Web development teams for Scholastic projects. My responsibilities were:
* Planned and monitored project budget/spending.
* Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.
* Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment. Tracked and managed product backlog, velocity, and task break-down.
* Addressed problems through risk management.
* Managed signing new project contracts.
* Developed and managed good relationship with clients.

Responsible for product development, code development and managing a software development team for an internet-based underwear company - Freshpair. The site is designed to be easy to navigate and provide a client the best shopping experience. My responsibilities were:
* Useded good practices of Scrum while using waterfall methodology. Developed new functionalities and sub-sites.
* Enhanced site performance.
* Optimized the code.
* Optimized database queries and structure.
* Code refactoring.
* Migrated the site to AWS platform including site changes to support cloud architecture.
* Designined and implemented a new promotion and sales system.
* Implemented web tracking solutions.
* Web Server maintenance and support.
* Managed and implemented site redesign.