Kelly Collins's Linkedin Analytics

Results-driven project leader with extensive experience overseeing medium-to-high complexity projects. Enthusiasm for leading and coaching agile delivery teams. Capable of pivoting between the role of Project Manager and Scrum Master. Talent for putting project structure in place and engaging teams. Passion for being part of agile transformations and helping drive agile adoption via delivery approaches that balance process and execution. • Financial services background encompassing banking, money services, mortgage services, consumer lending and education financing. • Highly qualified in organizing, planning, and managing IT projects end-to-end with project administration, budget management and reporting responsibility for projects spanning 3-months to 2+ years with an IT spend up to $7M. • Effective in managing distributed delivery teams of 8 to 65 resources (onshore/offshore/SOW contract). • Skilled in negotiating product backlog priorities and tradeoffs with product, business, and technical owners to ensure product/solution roadmaps remain aligned to strategic intent, customer value and improving the customer experience. • Observant, situationally aware and capable of anticipating roadblocks, identifying problems, risks, and issues, making insightful decisions, proposing alternatives, and removing impediments. • Accomplished in building trusted relationships with leadership, internal business partners, external clients, vendors, and other project stakeholders to ensure project alignment with business objectives, corporate strategy, core values, revenue targets and contractual commitments. • Facilitative in team interactions, collaboration, communications, and dialogue which improve transparency, promote information sharing, and build a common understanding of project progress/performance. • Recognized as a high performer with demonstrated abilities in prioritization, organization, planning, reporting, negotiation, influencing, conflict resolution, mediation.