TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Scrum
• Agile
• Coaching
• Facilitation
• Servant Leadership Manifesto
• Epic
• Quality Assurance
• SDLC
• Software Requirements
• Data Analysis
• Tableau
• Scaling
• Pair Programming
• Continuous Integration
• Jira
• Trello
• Version One
• User Stories
• Unit Test
• Kanban
• Epic
• INVEST Model
• SDLC
• Testing
• Coding
• Increment
• Stakeholder Management
• Leadership
• MS Office
• Communication
• Lean
• PBI
• Quality Assurance
• Defect Management
• Scaling
• SAFE
• Metrics
• Information Radiators
• Continuous Improvement
• Retrospectives
• Cycle
• Code Review
• Cadence
• Retail Management
• Logistics
• Payments
• Service Desk
• Supply Chain Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates daily stand - up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
• Maintains communication between the Product Owner, development staff, and leadership—updating them on project progression, issues within the team and process, and/or the agile process progress.
• Ensure that the development team has been fully allocated and accounted for during the planning process.
• Maintains consistency within Jira and polices the proper use of the tool amongst the development team.
• Define the metrics to be used to track process improvement and department health - overall velocity and quality
• Ensure development team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals.
• Coach the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Update agile tracking system to provide transparency on Product & Iteration Backlogs.
• Communicates status, report progress to management and outside stakeholders

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with product owner to represent strategic business goals, and drive clarity and alignment around the product vision.
• Guided and encouraged the adoption of agile and continuous delivery methodologies.
• Established agile values, methods, principles and practices for the delivery of projects and products.
• Facilitated agile ceremonies, e.g. product backlog refinement, preplanning, planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives.
• Established agile values, methods, principles and practices for the delivery of projects and products.
• Facilitated agile ceremonies, e.g. product backlog refinement, preplanning, planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives.
• Facilitated and organized all Scrum activities including daily Scrum meetings, sprint and release planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Guided and coached the team on Scrum and Agile practices to improve overall velocity and achieve objectives. Coordinate the resolution of impediments across organizational boundaries.
• Provided support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
• Identified risks, barriers blocking the team and work with internal / external resources to remove or resolve the impediments

Confidential

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led and contributed to the decision-making process and facilitate conflict resolution
• Embraced, coached, and evangelized agile values and principles in the team and across the organization
• Defined and refined agile metrics to understand and communicate team performance.
• Worked with management and other leaders to continually identify and implement team process improvements
• Facilitate prioritization discussions between IT and business teams’ leadership to ensure alignment on the company's IT project investments.
• Provide organization and function wide reporting on project priorities, status, risks.
• Resource planning to ensure proper staffing of approved projects. Includes employed staff, contractors, and outsourced resources.
• Conducted post project assessment to capture learning and ensure continuous improvement on tools and methodologies.
• Assisted the IT department and users during any future upgrade process
• Assisted in the development of training documentation and end user procedures relating to applications

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the assigned project manager(s), business and solution development resources to analyze, define and document requirements and delivering to time, cost and quality.
• Managed projects and business expectations to ensure accurate and reasonable timelines are being adhered to.
• Ensured proper assignment of all staff resources (IT and business resources) to complete the projects on time.
• Developed and maintained effective working relationships with business stakeholders and internal and outsourced development resources.
• Collaborated with stakeholders, development and quality assurance to translate requirements into developed solutions.
• Participated in Agile ceremonies such as daily standup meetings, backlog grooming sessions, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings
• Effectively communicated current state and potential future state scenarios to sponsors, customers, Information Services staff and stakeholders.
• Interacted with the business partners and internal and external stakeholders, including executive staff, to understand organizational processes and needs.