Ariella Baston

Ariella Baston has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Ariella'smost recent role is as a Developer Relations Specialist at TrackTik, where they act as a liaison between external developers and the Development department, supports and challenges external developers, and defines best practices for external collaborations.

Prior to this, Ariella worked as a Business Analyst at Montrium, specializing in Microsoft Office 365, Azure, SharePoint Online, and Power Automate solutions for the Life Sciences industry. Ariella served as the primary liaison between the business community, technology organization, and external partners for project requirements.

Ariella also worked as a Scrum Master at Kronos Incorporated, organizing and guiding project status meetings and scrum ceremonies for local and international teams. Ariella provided support to senior, QA, and development managers while minimizing disruptions to scrum teams.

Ariella has extensive experience as an Agile Business Analyst and Product Owner at TEKsystems, where they worked with international clients across different timezones. Ariella actively participated in all Scrum events and construction activities, owned stories and acceptance criteria, and helped empower construction teams to achieve success.

Ariella has also worked as an Agile Business Analyst and Product Owner at SSENSE, analyzing and executing various e-commerce and retail projects. Ariella met with customers to identify business needs, maintained key project documents, and collaborated on projects to increase value and performance.

Additionally, Ariella has experience working as a Business Analyst for both a freelance role and at Floe design + technologies. Ariella provided business, technical, and functional analyses for different web contexts and helped validate project briefs.

Earlier in their career, Ariella worked as a Technical Analyst in a freelance role, providing consulting services in data analysis, reporting, requirements gathering, and data migration/transformation planning.

Ariella also served as a Senior Software Developer/Analytics at Beezid.com, where they led e-commerce solutions and fraud detection/prevention projects. Ariella worked with various technologies such as PHP, CakePHP, Ext JS, AJAX, and MySQL.

Ariella started their career as a Programmer Analyst (Contractor) at the Ministry of Natural Resources, where they improved data revision and reporting methods using ASP and Oracle 10g and developed tools to enhance the business workflow using Visual Basic for Applications.

Overall, Ariella Baston has a strong background in business analysis, project management, agile methodologies, and software development, with a focus on delivering valuable solutions to clients in various industries.

Ariella Baston has an education history in the field of Computer Science. From 1995 to 1998, they attended the Northern College of Applied Arts and Technology, where they obtained an Ontario Colleges Diploma in Computer Science. Prior to that, from 1993 to 1995, they attended Laurentian University/Université Laurentienne, where their field of study was also Computer Science. No specific degree was mentioned for this period. In addition to their formal education, Ariella Baston has also obtained two additional certifications. In February 2016, they received the Professional Scrum Master I certification from Scrum.org. Additionally, in March 2021, they were awarded the TrackTik Rising Star certification from TrackTik.