Olga VIOLETT

• Operation and technology leader with over 25 years of experience in driving product transformations, building high-performing teams while achieving cross-functional business objectives in finance/banking, insurance, healthcare, media and education industries.
• Innovation leader with demonstrated experience in evaluating and improving products with performance issues (product market fit/ upstream product development/ process/ budget/ technology of complex global enterprise systems.)
• Digital Transformation with excellent managerial soft skills building high functioning portfolios while promoting agile values of alignment, accountability, transparency, creating focus for lean-agile program delivery and business transformation. 
• Product implementation expert specialized in building full lifecycle invincible agile businesses.
• People leader experienced in building diverse, resilient, highly efficient cross functional teams. 

Yonder Media Mobile, New Jersey

VP of Operations – Remote                                                                                                       10/24 – Present 

• Provided Strategic Leadership: Collaborated with Founders and C-level executives to define and implement long-term strategies that align with the company’s mission and drive sustainable growth in a global, remote-first organization
• Led Operational Scaling: Developed and executed scalable operational tooling and processes to support the expansion of a rapidly growing international organization
• Lead the creation and execution of strategies for continuous process improvement, enhancing efficiency and operational excellence across all functions
• Oversee operations of Human Resources, Recruitment, Project Management, Customer support and Legal Compliance departments, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and adherence to best practices
• Created Global Benefits Strategy: Developed and lead global benefits strategies, negotiating competitive offerings and achieving a 25% cost reduction in U.S. benefits while increasing employee satisfaction
• Designed and implemented vendor management strategies, optimizing partnerships, contract negotiations, and cost-efficiency while ensuring quality and reliability

Eviden Corp. (an Atos company), New Jersey

Lean Agile Transformation Partner – Global FSI                                                                      09/22 – 08/24 

Clients included:  New York Life Insurance, AIB 

• Established and led Eviden’s Lean Agile Coaching practice from ground up, tripling practice size quarterly
• Built and developed sales pipeline maintaining current clients, and managed practice’s P&L
• Developed Innovation based customer product solutions by partnering with client executives from ideation, strategy, development and delivery phases of the product life cycle
• Key leader in the business development, sales and delivery of a $9MM digital transformation initiative at a Fortune 50 insurance company encompassing the launch of a value-stream organizational model for over 1600 FTE
• Key subject matter expert in a $100MM+ bid proposal to a major Irish banking institution for an enterprise-wide transformation effort that included building a unique client university to build a skilled employee and contractor workforce in the latest digital product delivery methodologies

Cognizant Corp., New Jersey

Principal Enterprise Coach                                                                                                           01/19 – 09/22 

Clients included: MARS, Comcast, Discover, Humana, COX 

• Transformation Lead for Lean-Agile business transformations, spearheading project to product realignment for global organizations implementing flow framework, innovation, and product development disciplines
• Innovation coaching, Reduced concept to cash process time from 24 + months to 2 weeks by introducing digital innovative approaches. Rapid development of 128 MVP ideas, creating 14 prototypes, and bringing 10 products to market within 2 weeks by creative sell it as you test it concept.
• Significantly reduced research, testing time and cost while improved effectiveness.
• Turn around lead tasked with successfully uplifting underperforming product portfolios and programs
• Led product-based transformations, value stream identifications and metrics supported prioritizations
• Improved Agile readiness and value flow alignment for various global organizations 
• Accomplished trainer with proven ability to effectively present complex training topics Such as LPM, OKR Definition while successfully customize the training materials with relevant business expertise
• Catalyst for product and agile-lean practitioner Center of Excellence (COE) creations, gamifications, data driven transformation prioritization 

Prudential Financial Inc., Newark, NJ                 

Innovation and Product Coach and Trainer – Consultant (Cprime)                                      02/18 – 12/18 

• Established enterprise transformation supporting coaching office driving US business transformation
• Guided program restructurings to create value flow and business alignments, Innovation Portfolio and Program collaboration and PI planning
• Championed product management capability, build from ground up, introducing Lean Startup, Design Thinking, COPs, lead CX envisioning sessions, Design Sprint Sessions and Product Dojo’s to support business innovation
• Led Innovation teams through test and learn rapid cycles
• Created ad-hock training materials and agile workshops, assessments
• Cultivated product as a discipline to support growth, opportunity discovery, and execution within enterprise

Bank of America - Merrill Lynch Inc., New York, NY/ Jersey City, NJ - Global Securities Division                               

Program level Agile Coach and Trainer – Consultant (Insight Global)                                09/16 – 02/18   

• Built product management capability from ground up, across multiple teams by hiring new contractors, supplementing, mentoring and training existing staff members in SAFe Product Development Practices and introducing Lean Start up philosophy while working closely with business leaders to connect business more closely with technology
• Evaluated current state, created and executed improvement roadmap for departmental and intra departmental scaled program execution ($70 Million +) 
• Planned and executed adaptive large-scale agile implementation with extensive Lean customizations
• Drove collaboration with management team to realign resources into agile roles to improve outcomes, created proper resourcing plans, including evaluations, and development plans, and customizable individual development plans for product, process and technology disciplines 
• Facilitated PI preparation, PI planning, PI execution and I&A workshops, training, coaching and mentoring
• Spearheaded accountability-based realignment to accelerate value delivery
• Created and facilitated Agile Center of Excellence for product owners and technical scrum masters
• Organized and facilitated hackathons and additional team building activities and events

Bloomberg Inc., New York, NY                                 

Agile Coach and Trainer - Consultant (Cprime)                                                                 10/15 – 05/16     

• Led Agile assessment for Trading Systems (AIM) product and engineering unit (350+ staff) 
• Planned and executed Value Stream Implementation for 4 release trains
• Trained and certified Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers
• Coached agile teams and release trains, leaders, executives
• Facilitated initial PI preparation, PI planning, PI execution and I&A workshops, Solution train level activities
• Championed product-based transformation from project management including innovation accounting, vision, roadmap creation

OMEC, SPC, CSP, CSPO, PMP, Jboss ESB, CSM, Leadership with Emotional Intelligence, CCNA & CCNP, HTML/PERL programmer, FFP, AHF, CIC,

GTB (IHK+Kolping) Advanced System Administrator and Programmer Certificate, 

CSAA Computer Science - Middlesex County College, New Jersey

BS in Information Technology- Banki Donat Polytech - Informatics - Software Engineering