Erin Belka

Experience

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  Hanley Chiropractic Healthcare

  Nov 2011 - Aug 2012

  Office Assistant

  Filed and scanned patient records and insurance information into a database, answered phones, set up patient appointments, collected payment, called insurance companies to determine patient chiropractic benefits, set patients up on therapies and guided them through the doctor's office, and also developed x-rays.

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  DELiA*s

  Nov 2011 - May 2012

  Sales Associate

  Sold trendy clothing to girls, preteen through young adult, and often helped style them. Worked on the sales floor, behind the register, and in the back room stocking and organizing inventory.

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  Ohio University

  Mar 2013 - Dec 2016

  • Managed a subset of 20 Teaching Assistants ensuring grading of assignments were completed within 1 week of submission. • Hosted in-person help sessions for supplemental instruction on assignments and labs outside of class• Collaborated with Teaching Assistants and Professors of this course using email and GroupMe • Managed 30-40 Teaching Assistants during a given semester; Trained and onboarded new TA's; Approved and verified payroll biweekly; Managed and organized team documents on Box.com; Assisted on various projects requested by the MIS Faculty.• Consistently answered emails and text messages from professors and teaching assistants to ensure a timely feedback loop. • Cared for 3 sections of an MIS course with 30+ students in each section• Assisted students and professor with labs; grading assignments, tests, and quizzes; being accessible via email to the professor and students; and hosting help sessions for supplemental instruction Worked with/ for the College of Business advisers and the Resource Manager in the Office of Student Services. I scheduled advisors' appointments with students, printed out student DARS, gave appropriate paperwork and documents to students, answered the office phone, put information packets together for prospective students, and filed student records.

  • Teaching Assistant - Intro to Information Analysis & Design

    Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

  • Teaching Assistant Coordinator

    Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

  • Teaching Assistant - System Analysis & Design

    Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

  • Office Assistant

    Mar 2013 - Aug 2015
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  Skyhawks Sports Academy

  Jul 2013 - Aug 2013

  Coach & Director

  Coached and Directed week-long camps teaching kids ages 4-12 basic skills in soccer, basketball, t-ball, and cheer leading. I also had 4 t-ball teams that I met with twice a week each throughout the summer.

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  Domino's

  Jul 2014 - Oct 2014

  Inside Sales Associate
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  Simonyi BEDC Entrepreneurship Center

  Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

  International Business Consultant

  I worked in 2 teams of 4-5 students of different Nationalities including Hungarian, French, & Botswana as the only American and native English speaker in an English program. The program is 6 weeks long and designed for students to gain personal and professional knowledge regarding consulting for start up companies. The first project was about building a prototype for a new social networking application that allows users to find their friends and events in the area via a GPS tracking system. The application was origionally called "HangOut"​ but is now known as "Ph.aze."​ My team created a new name, new logo, and new design for the app, as well as putting together a business canvas, marketing plan, and competitive analysis.The second project was about creating an export plan for "Vietta,"​ a soap company started by an entrepreneur who currently makes natural ingredient soaps as a hobby. The owner is selling these soaps to friends and family in and around Pécs, Hungary. He wants to expand his business and begin exporting and selling to the US market. My team's goal was to help him with his decision making by doing research on the US market, the soap industry, the regulations and guidelines for the soaps and for exporting the soaps.A final exhibition held on July 17, 2015 was to showcase the products. The point is to try to find investors/ experts for the entrepreneurs as well as a networking opportunity for future business relationships. Show less

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  Nationwide

  May 2016 - Aug 2016

  IT Requirements Analyst Intern

  • Handpicked by top leadership to lead the IT Intern Council whose primary purpose was to help interns transition from campus to corporate worlds and to promote a culture of sharing, learning, and growing• Helped transform the enterprise-level IT delivery model by documenting and presenting current-state Waterfall to future-state Agile Methodologies; The new methodology was promised to enable projects to drive efficiency and cost savings• Facilitated several sessions for fellow interns to share, collaborate, and innovate on existing practices involving onboarding and organizational processes affecting the IT intern community Show less

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  Nationwide Financial

  Jan 2017 - now

  • Agile Methodology: Coaching and guiding my team by instilling Agile values, principles, and practices• Team Empowerment: Empowering my cross-functional team to self-organize, prioritize work, and make data-driven decisions, enabling them to achieve their objectives in a more predictable manner.• Scrum: Serving as a dedicated leader, facilitating Agile cadence meetings, removing obstacles, and ensuring the team adheres to Agile frameworks for successful project delivery.• Coaching and Mentorship: Providing coaching and mentorship to team members, Product Owners, and stakeholders to deepen their understanding of Agile concepts and facilitate continuous improvement as well as uphold the mindsets and behaviors agreed upon by the team to maintain our culture.• Continuous Improvement: Cultivating a culture of continuous improvement through feedback loops, retrospectives, and the use of metrics to track progress and optimize workflows.• Strategic Alignment: Aligning Agile initiatives with the organization’s strategic goals, ensuring that every feature contributes to delivering maximum value to our members. Show less • Served as both Agile Leader and Technology Analyst between Dec 2021 through Feb 2022 allowing my team to continue delivering on our outcomes without hesitation or interference.• Served as the only analyst supporting Nationwide’s Flagship Mobile Team with 40+ members split into 4 pods; Formally supported the Distributions Team working on Retirement Plans Applications such as DCdirect & RPlink• Facilitate team cadence meetings and brainstorming sessions such as Iterative Story mapping to break down feature work, Iteration Planning to make iteration commitments based on our velocity, and Mobile Product Discovery Stand-ups to make visible future work and CI initiatives to all stakeholders• Maintain our product backlog using Jira and communicate our progress each iteration to our Business Leaders and Partners• Support engineers, product owners, and UX partners by utilizing DevSecOps principles and practices• Coordinate release-when-ready deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes for the NW Mobile App (both backend and front-end binary releases). Show less • Used interpersonal and communication skills in interactions, enriching team collaboration, customer relationships on the Momentum Tier 1 project within RP.• Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.• Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend.• Started my career on the Trailblazers Team creating API’s to be passed along to front end engineers; eventually moved towards a full stack model and learned how to integrate API’s and UX design simultaneously Show less

  • Agile Leader SMC

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Senior Technology Analyst

    Jul 2018 - Dec 2022

  • Technology Analyst

    Jan 2017 - Jul 2018