SUMMARY
- Accomplished at implementing Agile/Scrum practices to increase quality, manage risk, facilitate speed to market, resolve conflict and instill continual improvement.
- Skilled at facilitating project planning, daily stand - ups, product reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning and release planning.
- Adept at managing team capacity, addressing roadblocks and challenges to deliver a successful project.
- Proficient in the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Recognized track record for developing essential relationships with team members and stakeholders.
- Established collaborative and leadership skills.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Focused on Business Value.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Scrum Master
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Agile coach for corporate applications development team.
- Agile coach for Physical Security team to implement corporate security systems.
- Facilitate effective Scrum events (release planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-up, product reviews and retrospection meetings)
- Setup and maintain projects in electronic Agile tools and physical boards.
- Prepare and maintain tracking metrics including burn down charts, velocity charts, cycle time measurements and capacity charts to track and forecast project progress.
- Create Agile and Scrum training materials.
- Provide Agile training and Scrum training.
- Work closely with the Product owner and customers to create and prioritize product backlogs and manage dependencies and risk.
- Mentor teams on Agile principles.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office tools.
Scrum Master
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate effective Scrum events (release planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-up, product reviews and retrospection meetings)
- Prepare and maintain multiple tracking metrics including burn down, velocity and capacity charts to track progress and make forecast.
- Prepare release notes and customer communications to provide a consistent and clear message regarding software release details and strategies.
- Track and Remove roadblocks.
- Employ Agile maturity model to educate and improve team in Agile / Scrum practices.
- Coordinate multiple teams with collocated and distributed membership to achieve project deliverables.
- Apply technical knowledge to perform high-level analysis of complex user problems.
- Develop and communicate release plans and forecast critical for roadmap modeling.
- Proficient in Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Project
Functional Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Monitor dependencies and identify impacts to software development.
- Apply technical knowledge to perform high-level analysis of user problems to make recommendations for new processes, changes or corrections to develop and implement appropriate solutions.
- Decompose complex ideas into functional requirements at an appropriate level to direct software development and testing.
- Facilitate design reviews and education sessions to communicate customer requirements.
- Address impacts to system interfaces, settlement calculations, data model and data acquisition methods.
Senior Software Developer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Incorporate complex business rules used to manage trades and aggregate business data.
- Develop software for trade entry, data analysis, editing and reporting.
- Apply Waterfall Methodologies.
- Develop for multiple power markets including New York, New England, MISO and Texas.
- Create and maintain technical manuals that provided technical details to customers.
- Assist management of development projects.
