SUMMARY:

• Multifaceted technical career with 20 - year track record of innovation and success
• Certified Safe Scrum Master with 7 years of progressive Agile experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Agile Coach and Trainer.
• Specializing in short term contracts for transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.
• Leader of innovative projects across 7 industries including Health Care-Financial-Insurance-Retail-Investment.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize various agile approaches, championing team functionality and promoting agile values of openness, honesty, and respect.
• Skilled trainer and communicator; able to direct multiple tasks effectively and master innovative software and tools.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Scrum Master of up to 3 teams simultaneously
• Agile Team & Enterprise coaching
• Agile /coaching for all role(s)
• User Story Development
• Scrum & Kanban experience
• Short ramp up timeframes
• Continuous process improvement
• Jira and Rally experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Blacksburg, VA

Product/Project analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for a start-up company in the transition of Waterfall to Agile.
• Reviewed, modified or moved d Confidential base of user stories from legacy application to Jira.
• Set up roadmap visual wall board with swim-lanes by team and sprints.
• Completed the initial three internal releases (Beta’s) of the company block chain software.
• Identified, documented and built new enhancements to the product.
• Worked with seven internal teams from Development thru Infrastructure and automation.

Confidential, Roanoke, VA

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provide introduction and direction for Kanban style of project management.
• Company has 3 houses being converted to 9 units for AirB&B leasing.
• Multiple vendors and in-house teams working to meet city and state regulations/codes.

Confidential, Melbourne, FL

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provide introduction and direction for Kanban style of project management.
• Company has 5 boats and 3 houses being prepared for AirB&B leasing. Multiple vendors and in-house teams working to meet city and state regulations/codes.
• First rental accomplished in 90 days.
• All others on tract for end of year.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and direction for lead Agile teams on the ASTRO Business Assistant project.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective meetings.
• Assumed responsibility from promoted Scrum Master for meeting schedules to include Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective. Introduced team members to role participation.
• Provided team for story/task writing.
• Introduced Story Estimated points, velocity and capacity concepts and tracking.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and direction 2 Agile teams on the POS Replacement project.
• Facilitate scrum ceremoniesincluding daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective meetings.
• Assumed responsibility from temp Scrum Master for meeting schedules to include Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective. Introduced team members to role participation.
• Provided team for story/task writing. Re-formatted Epic level stories to working level detail.
• Team one velocity increase from 23 to 58 in three sprints
• Team two velocity increase from 34 to 70 in three sprints
• Established team approval for re-pointing and velocity of restructured stories.
• Created stats tracking for team level and team members down to story level

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and direction for implementation of a new Agile team of 20+ members.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective meetings.
• Develop and resources for Agile processes, definitions, and organizational charts.
• Daily work includes story and defect management.
• Established meeting schedule for new team to include Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective. Introduced team members to role participation.
• Provided group and individual for story/task writing. Included both Business and Technical formats.
• Established team approval for pointing and velocity for first sprint.
• Created stats tracking for team and team members

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Lean Agile Coach/ Scrum Master/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Coached two teams through the complete development of sophisticated projects utilizing Agile framework.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies, including daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective meetings.
• Encouraged efficiency and productivity to ensure quality and timely deliverables based on the product owner backlog.
• Developed and implemented Agile for new scrum masters/teams.
• Coached three new scrum teams with scrum masters from inception to proficiency, rewriting 70% of user stories and instituting agile SaFE framework.
• Developed and analyzed trends based on d Confidential from user stories, completion times, split points, carry-over patterns, and iteration completion patterns to increase bandwidth.
• Instituted use of successful Retrospective meetings.