SUMMARY

• Experience as Scrum Master for multiple Scrum teams, simultaneously.
• 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies (e.g., SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban) including backlog tracking and story splitting
• Experience working with agile development methodology, applying corresponding tools and techniques
• Proficient in tracking and collaborative tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally, Version One)
• Experience in sprint and release planning, running demos and retrospectives
• Use of metric to bolster work and glean insights
• Ability to work in a fast - paced environment
• Experienced in Agile methodologies
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, written and communication skills
• Experience working with various audiences, both technical and non-technical
• Experience working on software development teams and understand both SDLC and Agile Framework
• Ability to resolve conflict

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAFe Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Mentor and coach teams in the Agile mindset. Foster a growth mentality and spirit of continuous improvement.
• Remove impediments to team or release progress and when necessary, escalate issues to facilitate rapid resolution. Support efforts to identify and resolve systemic challenges that continually block teams.
• Participate in agile teams and customer meetings (PI Planning, System Demos, etc.)
• Support and educate product owners and product managers, in effective techniques for backlog creation, grooming, refinement, and decision making.
• Ensure effective communication within and across team boundaries and facilitate cross-functional meetings utilizing appropriate tools and information. Report effectively to provide transparency on the team’s progress.
• Demonstrate effective techniques for managing interruptions to development and protecting team velocity during sprints.
• Support and coach multiple Scrum teams on Agile principles and methodologies and guide teams on how to get the most out of self-organization.
• Assess scrum team maturity and build a trusting and safe environment where issues and risks can be raised keeping the emphasis on problem-solving.
• Promote SAFe quality practices: Help foster the culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams. Provide guidance to assist the teams in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done (DoD).
• Build a high-performing team: Focus on ever-improving team dynamics and performance. Help the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth. Escalate people problems to management where necessary, but only after internal team processes have failed to resolve the issue; help individuals and teams through personnel changes.
• Protect and communicate: Communicate with management and outside stakeholders; help protect the team from uncontrolled expansion of work.
• Coordinate with other teams at the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting, and pass information from that meeting back to the team. Coordinate with the System Team, User Experience, Architecture, and Shared Services.
• Facilitate preparation and readiness for ART events.
• Support estimating: Guide the team in establishing normalized estimates.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Guide the team’s operations by facilitating ceremonies (e.g. daily standup, sprint planning) and instilling Agile principles into daily activities to ensure smooth functioning of the delivery team.
• Facilitate internal and external communications (e.g. task coordination, progress tracking/reporting, dependency management).
• Facilitate meetings: Facilitate team meetings, including the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective.
• Ensuring all work is tracked in the backlog and accurately balanced across team members
• Work with development team to drive team velocity.
• Manage and plan development team capacity.
• Coach and Train development team and business stakeholders on Definition of Ready and Definition of Done as applicable.
• Coach and mentor development team members around Agile methodologies.
• Develop training plans
• Identify team training and tool needs.
• Understand, identify and encourage behaviors necessary to drive maturity in an agile environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to build trust and cohesion with the development team(s).
• Work with the Program Manager to define quality measures for each sprint; define critical success factors for the development team.
• Driving a reciprocal and encouraging team culture through team building and engagement practices

Project Manager Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Perform quality assurance checks of site(s) to ensure that cleaning is being completed in accordance with contract specifications and Southern Company’s standards.
• Checks on employees, and perform cleaning as necessary.
• Provide training as required for new employees and leadership to assigned crew member in the performance of cleaning tasks, including but not limited to: dusting, sweeping/vacuuming, trash removal, wet and dry mopping, restroom cleaning, disinfection and glass cleaning.
• Facilitate monthly safety trainings as well as necessary training of Southern Company technology resources such as Paycom.
• Perform administrative duties related to hiring, evaluations, corrective counseling and terminations in accordance with the company policy and procedures.
• Responsible for coordinating paperwork for site access including acquiring COR signatures and obtaining badges for new employees and visitors. Communicate with and assist site security as necessary.
• Meet new employees at the Visitor Center to oversee picking up of badge.
• Transport tardy employees from the gate to appropriate buildings, transport employees from building to building daily using company vehicle(s) and insure vehicle(s) are maintained necessary including taking off site for service.
• Communicate with COR regarding new buildings added to contract and perform walk-throughs.