SUMMARY

• 7 years as a Product Manager/Product Owner in multiple industries and Agile Scrum and SAFe environments.
• 13 years as a Scrum Master/Agile Coach/Agile Product Owner facilitating and participating in all Agile Ceremonies: Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives as well as facilitating backlog refinement.
• 3 years as a Product Owner/Reserve Scrum Master in a SAFE environment participating in all aspects of the Release Train including Inspect and Adapt, PI Planning, ART Sync, authoring Lean Business Cases, and maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog
• 20 years of experience in various stages of the software development life cycle including business and systems analysis, requirements gathering, quality assurance and testing, project and program management, and complete documentation and presentation of results and outcomes.
• 10+ years or coordinating and facilitating software development sessions and teams including: Joint Application Design (JAD), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Distribution resource planning (DRP), SAFE 4.0 and 5.0, and Agile Scrum and Kanban.
• Superb communication skills with excellent response time, attention to detail and follow - through leading to on-time delivery of quality products and solutions.
• Currently lives in Hanover, PA and comfortable working remotely, part-time travel, commuting within a reasonable distance, or relocating depending on circumstances.
• Certified SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner. Certified Scrum Master; Certified Scrum Product Owner; CompTIA A+ Certified; CompTIA Network+ Certified; Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Microsoft Certified Database Analyst

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Azure DevOps, VSTS, TFS, Rally, Salesforce, JIRA, Aha, Miro, Trello, VersionOne, Box, Skype for Business, Slack
• Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Databases, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Snag-It, RazorSQL
• IBM Web Content Management (WCW), DB Visualizer, Omnigraffle Pro, Quickbase, Google Docs, Sharepoint
• MKS Integrity, Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, Chordiant Foundation Server
• Chordiant Decision Manager, Chordiant Enterprise Case Manager, Chordiant Strategy Director, IBM Web Content Manager, DOORS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAFe Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Product owner for three development teams, including onshore and one offshore personnel for the purpose of developing software to support the Cyber Security Insurance Portfolio
• The liaison to the Cyber Management team responsible for product definition and scope as well as to define and prioritize stories in the team backlog.
• Facilitated Grooming sessions and Product Management meetings for planning and defining the Program Backlog/Vision.
• Preparation and Participation in PI Planning
• Maintain the product backlog from the Feature Level and down and typically reviews and contributes to the program vision, Roadmap, and content presentations.
• Involved with story definition and prioritization.
• Collaborate with the teams to detail stories with acceptance criteria and approved acceptance tests.
• Responsible for validation of User Stories and Test Cases against the Definition of Done.
• Active participant in the system demo, reviewing and accepting stories and participating in all of them the team ceremonies including retrospectives.
• Also, very active in the Agile Release Train’s (ART’s) Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop and regular ART planning sessions.

Environment: Rally, Salesforce, Microsoft Office 365, WebEx, Skype for Business

Confidential, Hunt Valley, MD

SAFe Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Act as the product owner for two development teams, one onshore and one offshore for the purpose of developing software to support the mechanisms that facilitate gambling in the horse racing industry.
• Serves as the Customer proxy responsible for working with Product Management and other stakeholders to define and prioritize stories in the team backlog.
• Facilitates Product Management meetings about planning and Program Backlog/Vision refinement.
• Preparation and Participation in PI Planning
• Maintain the product backlog and typically reviews and contributes to the program vision, Roadmap, and content presentations.
• Involved with story definition and prioritization.
• Collaborate with their team to detail stories with acceptance criteria and acceptance tests.
• Responsible to accept stories as done, including validation against the Definition of Done.
• Active participant in the team demo, reviewing and accepting stories and participation in the team retrospectives.
• Reserve Scrum Master facilitating all of the ceremonies, tracking burnup, burndown, capacity, and load, as well as the scrum master role at all PI Planning sessions.
• Also, very active in the Agile Release Train’s (ART’s) Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop and regular ART planning sessions.

Environment: VSTS, TFS, Jira, Salesforce, Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Skype for Business

Confidential

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Part of an Agile Center of Excellence responsible for Product Planning and Prioritization in an Agile environment.
• Work with product owner, scrum master, and key team member(s) to plan and ensure product backlog is prioritized, groomed, and has sufficient detail ready to be worked on by Scrum teams to avoid any downtime, ambiguity or rework.
• Create and effectively manage a dynamic product backlog which includes the maintenance of stories, tasks, and tests for detail, accuracy, and progress/status.
• Facilitate the elicitation of requirements from the Product Owner and team members and document properly inside the VersionOne application
• Lead/facilitate business requirement and process sessions with Product Owner
• Attend and participate in all Scrum Ceremonies
• Act as Scrum Master to facilitate ceremonies as needed when the assigned scrum master is not available.
• Participate in team retrospectives to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
• Able to manage multiple projects and tasks effectively for efficiency to all teams to which assigned.
• Raise issues as they are found to product owner, including identifying potential issues and roadblocks and working on preventing or eliminating them
• Create and help maintain any team documentation and other materials for internal and external customers.
• Collaborate with other business analysts and scrum masters to improve the methodologies’ efficiency
• Act as an Agile coach and mentor throughout Confidential .

Environment: VersionOne, Slack, Box, Microsoft Office 365, Skype for Business