Kristine Tipton

Someday is not a day of the week.

Kristine Tipton

BACKGROUND

  • 7+ years Project Management experience
  • Project Management and Business Analytics experience
  • PMP (Project Management Professional)
  • PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)
  • PSM I (Professional Scrum Master)

SPECIALTIES

  • Project Management
  • Special Projects
  • Strong Technical Skills
  • Facilitation and Training
  • Data Analysis & Assessment
  • Process Improvement
  • Strong Leadership Skills
  • Communication Skills

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

  • Financial & Insurance Services
  • Merger and Acquisition
  • Quality Tools by David Langford for Process Improvement

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science
– Elementary Education
– Indiana University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Delivery of financial tracking and reporting deliverables.
  • Experience with formal and informal change management processes.
  • Identifying cross functional dependencies.
  • Facilitated requirements and solutions sessions with IT and Business.
  • Provided oversight on testing phase and defect management.
  • Documented the automated components for future audits.
  • Created and maintained project SharePoint sites.
  • Collected and rolled up IT estimates for impacted teams.
  • Conducted Project Kickoff Meetings.
  • Facilitated two Scrum teams in parallel through project work and Agile ceremonies.
  • Conducted weekly team status meetings and stand up meetings.
  • Managed several IT impacted teams with a very aggressive timeline.
  • Utilized the escalation process to keep work moving forward.
  • Utilized JIRA to track work effort in scrum boards.
  • Effectively communicate project status to various levels of stakeholders.
  • Developed and contributed numerous project diagrams, PPT’s, status reports, spreadsheets, communications plans, project plans, and other project artifacts.

Kristine Tipton

Someday is not a day of the week.

Often recognized for being the asset she is to her teams; Kristine is a powerhouse project manager/scrum master. Kristine is always looking for ways to make improvements, engage with her teams and ultimately bring business value with IT delivery. As a Bulldog, she works with client teams to ensure they are making the right decisions, getting buy in from stakeholders and working tirelessly to implement and meet project goals. Kristine’s project management skills have been focused on IT delivery of large-scale merger and acquisition programs as well as migration of applications/systems to AWS Cloud. Always paying attention to the dynamic of her teams, she builds relationships in an effort to deliver effectively and efficiently, every time.

FUN FACTS

Best thing about your job:

The team that I work with- they are AWESOME!

Describe yourself in three words:

Fun-loving. Driven. Authentic.

Childhood dream job:

Teacher