Michael Bar

Senior Agile Program Manager at Intego Group

Ukraine

About

Strategic and results-driven senior leader with deep expertise in enterprise Agile transformation, clinical R&D IT delivery, and regulated environments. Proven ability to accelerate delivery, improve cross-functional collaboration, and ensure compliance across global teams supporting clinical trials. TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES Agile & Delivery: Jira, Scrum, Kanban Program Management: MS Project, Portfolio & Roadmap Tracking Clinical & Data Standards: CDISC ADaM, TFLs Regulatory: GxP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11 PROFICIENCIES: Salesforce Microsoft Office Suite Confluence Tableau Business Objects Hyperion Qlikview ERP Siebel CRM Encompass Calyx Point Remedy Aljex SQL

Experience

  • Senior Agile Program Manager | R&D IT | Clinical & Regulatory Systems at Intego Group
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Glorium Technologies (Remote)
    • Project Manager / Scrum Master - Transgender Healthcare
      Jun 2023 - Oct 2023 · 5 mos

      Promoting Agile values, principles, and practices within product management and software development teams. Addressing problems through risk management and contingency planning and presenting solutions and/or options to management. Ensuring effective implementation of solutions/changes.  Facilitating meetings and communication between product owners, stakeholders, and development team members to ensure the highest value work is top priority in the backlog.  Managing the development team backlog, work prioritization, assignments, and tracking in Jira Growing Agile maturity within development team members as well as product owners, scaling best practices. Scheduling, managing, and facilitating Scrum events (Scrum daily, Scrum Planning, Scrum Review, Scrum Retrospective and Scrum Refinements) Taking part in the determination of the project purpose, the criteria and desired outcome, stakeholders, and funding. Creating a comprehensive project plan that comprises the project's cost, timeline, and risks and determining the expected dates of project milestones and the activities involved in meeting each. Managing changes in project scope, schedule, and costs. Communicating with top-level management, project sponsors, functional area managers, and/or consultants regarding the status of the projects.

    • Senior Product Manager/ Scrum Master - Fintech
      Jan 2023 - May 2023 · 5 mos

      Managed Fintech commercial real estate product development, new products and features within an Agile development team without direct supervision. Lead discovery and framing exercises to translate high-level objectives into deliverable outcomes and gained stakeholder buy-in prior to beginning project execution. Supported the development and implementation of the company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute company goals. Owned, prioritized and facilitated the refinement of the product backlog to ensure that the agile development team is delivering new features and the right enhancements to drive consumer and business value. Administered all Agile/Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives; coached team members on Agile process. Analyzed work plans and making recommendations to improve processes across the teams.

  • EPAM Systems (Full-time · 1 yr 10 mos)
    • Product Owner/Business Analysis Team Lead - Global People Management
      Sep 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Experience managing projects/businesses in complex environments; multinational and cross-departmental. Managed and Lead stream activates within Business Analyst team including process improvement, planning, coordination, assist in backlog refinements, WBS, work estimate and control. Demonstrated skills in interviewing business units, stakeholders, and technical leaders to gather and clarify business requirements. Coordinated the documentation of business requirements and scoping of requirements for this phase, across multiple business functional areas. Collaborate cross­ functionally with other areas of the business, including tech, product, and design. Define, monitor, and analyse key metrics for launched product features and feed learnings back into our product development and learning process. Design and manage the project backlog, roadmap, and Agile solutions for OpenEDx platform.

    • Business Analysis Team Lead - Business Information and Media
      May 2021 - Sep 2021 · 5 mos

      Interacted extensively with the Business Area Subject Matter Experts to understand the Product and Business Processes thoroughly. Identified opportunities for business process improvement through various meetings with business users and developers and initiated efforts to make improvements. Analysis of requirements, creating, and maintaining the Business requirements document for software development project Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, involved in gap analysis and document them. Identified the business experts for the different modules and set up meetings with them to gather the requirements for functionality, workflow, and business rules. Coordinated with cross-functional teams in different locations for quality data and analysis. Interact with technology team to understand the data and information in the systems used and to provide inputs to help design and development. Ran refinement sessions for the client teams and shaping direction of the product development. Ability to work in a dynamic, agile project environment under time-sensitive deadlines.

    • Project Manager/Project Coordinator - Analytics, CXM and Content Ops
      Dec 2020 - May 2021 · 6 mos

      Engaged in business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, and coordination of people and resources. Responsible for defining project scope, goals and deliverables to plan reasonable deadlines for success. Conducting detailed process analysis to understand how business practices are supported by technology and teams that are involved in reporting process. Assisting in the development of full-scale project plans for approved projects and associated communications documents. Executing processes to collect, report, and accurately maintain program/project artifacts, including. Tracking progress and making decisions / recommendations on response plans for risks, resolution plans for issues and results on action items and make decisions on required escalation. Monitoring and controlling project work, including management of dependencies and interfacing within and between the project and line organization. Exerting strong influencing skills to impact choices on immediate and long-term directions.

  • Project Manager/Sr Analyst - CRM Consultants - Software Development at Customertimes Corp
    Jul 2020 - Dec 2020 · 6 mos

    Managing requirements to complex IT project delivery phase. Maintaining perspective and a big picture project view amidst complex project details, and synthesize/translate key concerns, issues, risk, opportunities and impact back to the business. Helping to create and translate user requirements to define the functions the application must provide and performing requirements management. Collaborating with client's contract administrators, estimating analysts, and program management to establish concise project guidance ensuring the technical engineering team has sufficient information to flawlessly execute their assignments. Own responsibility for direction of the product development and guiding requirements directives. Contributing to design discussions for improving existing and new system/process/service. Understand and apply new industry perspectives to existing business models, while seeking opportunities to improve models, processes, or products by reducing cost and improving efficiency.

  • Project Manager/Analyst & CRM Consultant - Software Development at Ascendix Technologies
    Jun 2019 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Performing gathering the business requirements and documented them with proper process flow charts and Use Cases. Manage multiple end-to-end project life cycles, including creation of project charters (business case/proposal, project scope, stakeholders, goals, project plan), UAT management, release management, training, and execution against each milestone. Working with team members for full-cycle projects, such as developers, to complete consulting projects on time, and deliver outstanding consulting services to Salesforce.com clients. Executing org customization for Workflow Rules, Page Layouts, Approval Process, Tasks, Email Alerts, Field Updates and Outbound Messages to manage the Workflow & Approvals. Creating various Reports (summary reports, matrix reports, pie charts, dashboards and graphics) and Report Folders to assist managers to better utilize Salesforce as a sales tool and configured various Reports and for different user profiles based on the need in the organization. Forming profiles, roles and configure permissions according to organizational hierarchy requirement. Using Lightning process builder for visualizing and creating automated business processes and flows. Collaborating with colleagues from various departments on the development and implementation of new, more efficient business solutions for Ascendix products.