Deanna Talley

Experience

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  Meramec Valley R-III School District

  Aug 1990 - Jun 1997

  Health and Physical Education Teacher, Coach Basketball and Volleyball

  Taught 7th & 8th grade Physical Education and Health.Coached Junior High Basketball and volleyball.Coached Freshman volleyball and assistant Varsity Volleyball

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  Visitation Academy

  Nov 1992 - Aug 1994

  Coach

  Basketball Coach: Junior Varsity and Assistant Varsity

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  Nerinx Hall High School

  Nov 1994 - Aug 1999

  Coach

  Basketball Coach: Junior Varsity and Assistant Varsity

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  The Team Room, LLC

  Jun 1997 - Dec 2001

  President/Owner

  •As the owner of a retail business for footwear and athletic equipment, I performed duties such as hiring, on-boarding, purchasing, marketing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, customer service as well as evaluating business value of projects and weighing opportunity costs to maximize growth. •I enjoy being in 'start-up' type environments that inspire innovative thinking, continued learning, collaboration and consistent process and product improvements.

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  New Balance Web Express and Joes New Balance Outlet

  Feb 2002 - Aug 2007

  Customer Service Manager, Buyer, Merchandising

  •Various positions starting with Customer Service Representative, Pay-Per-Click Manager, Customer Service and Returns Manager. •Launched, merchandised and managed JoesNewBalanceOutlet.com and NewBalanceWebExpress.com Hong Kong.•Buyer for Women's and Kid's Athletic Footwear for NBwebexpress.com.

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  Rawlings Sporting Goods

  Aug 2007 - Jun 2018

  •Managed and assisted throughout all departments of RawlingsGear.com such as: planning and launching website, streamlining warehouse processes such as receiving, fulfillment, inventory control and physical inventories. •Wrote and distributed SQL query reports for all departments.•Product owner for the Order Management System and Fraud Control System.•Managed 3rd party vendors for Gift Card and Loyalty Programs along with Click to Chat system, •Built efficiency within Customer Service for best practices and standard operating procedures.•Set-up, optimized and maintained Microsoft Dynamics. Show less

  • Ecommerce Operations Manager

    Jan 2014 - Jun 2018

  • Operations Manager, Product Owner

    Aug 2007 - Dec 2013
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  Capacity

  May 2019 - May 2020

  Project Manager

  •Streamlined design, development, and delivery of Capacity features between the product team and development teams. •Coordinated new customer implementations and customer support requests between Client Success team and developers. •Facilitated communication and collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering teams to get features built quickly and effectively. •Continuously improved and educated teams on project management processes, scrum activities, sprint planning and backlog grooming. •Organized and attended daily stand-ups with engineering teams, collected updates and reported progress and impediments to product managers and the product owner in daily Scrum of Scrums meetings. •Collected updates from all teams, compiled recent news and up-coming events and published a bi-weekly internal company newsletter to improve communication across the company. Show less

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  Wisper Internet

  Aug 2020 - now

  Project Manager | Business Analyst

  •Interim VP of Information Technology from January 2022 to August 2022•Manage multiple cross-functional projects using both waterfall and agile methods such as merging multiple legacy systems into a single instance, upgrading company reporting and revamping processes throughout the company to meet requirements for government funding programs.•Collecting requirements, writing user stories and test scenarios, coordinating testing plans and results for each project.•Creating and distributing weekly updates on all projects to leadership and stakeholders.•Introduced, setup and managing Jira for numerous teams utilizing it for collecting requests, planning and executing sprints.•Facilitate Scrum activities such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning meetings, sprint retros, removing team impediments and distributing information to educate the company on agile methodologies. Show less