Scott Vail CSPO, PSPO

Experience

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  Take 2 Interactive

  Feb 2001 - Nov 2003

  Quality Assurance Analyst

  * Create and execute test cases related to game functionality* Ad-hock testing and validation of game objectives and quality

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  Verizon Wireless

  Mar 2004 - Mar 2005

  Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

  * Verified quality of handset applications* Analyzed new application submissions* Compile feedback on handset application for management prioritization

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  Educate, Inc

  Apr 2005 - Aug 2006

  Sr. QA Analyst

  * Create and execute test cases for increment* Plan and execute regression test suite* Review test cases created by JR QA members* Act as liaison between business and development units to insure technology projects meet business needs.

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  KinderCare Education

  Sept 2006 - Aug 2019

  Lead Business Systems Analyst

  * Work closely with stakeholders to understand their goals and business needs* Refine complex and nebulous stakeholder goals into a cohesive vision broken down into epics and stories that can be easily understood by cross functional team members* Create clear and concise story acceptance criteria to guide story implementation by Dev and QA teams* Drive agile adoption throughout the organization through consistent delivery success* Active participant in all agile ceremonies and incorporate feedback from grooming/refinement into story criteria* Break down complex technical concepts into easily digestible pieces for non-technical stakeholders* Facilitate stakeholder conversations to drive alignment and conflict resolution* Quickly react to constantly changing stakeholder needs and impact analysis of desired change* Validate business readiness of development deliverables* Delivered payment processing system that processes over $1B in transactions annually.* Delivered suite of applications used to manage day-to-day operations and serve as financial sub-ledger for ~1500 locations and over 100,000 clients. Show less

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  NWEA

  Sept 2019 - now

  Product Owner

  • Led innovation in student engagement by using generative AI to create custom items aligned with student interests.• Manage division-wide delivery roadmap; facilitate delivery plans of 12+ engineering teams, across all capability areas and multiple platforms.• Lead ongoing initiative definition, exploration, planning, and delivery for NWEA's State education assessment platform.• Design and apply agile team standards for product owners and business analysts.• Mentor and advise individuals and teams on product ownership and agile best practices.• Product Owner for ML derived AWS cloud-native, adaptive testing engine spanning three development teams serving over 500,000 annual student tests. • Define and document API specifications for internal and external integration partners supporting over 8,000 requests per second.• Reduced employee spend on simulations from 6hrs to 1hr while reducing simulation cost from 8 cents per student to 1 cent.• Run all agile ceremonies, Standup, Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retro for 3 scrum teams.• Owned value delivery in concurrent Scrum and Kanban teams within a SAFe Agile framework. • Maintain a prioritized backlog in TargetProcess and Jira within a 3-month PI planning cadence. • Analyze data from SQL, AWS CloudWatch, and customer support to identify improvement areas and create the user stories/features/epics necessary to realize those improvements. • Product representative for psychometrics, content, and state partners to drive product and delivery decisions.• Make extensive use of PowerBI and Miro to demonstrate complex technical application changes and added value to non-technical companywide stakeholders. Show less