SUMMARY

• Extensive Scrum Master experiences working with Scrum at the Enterprise Level (10+ years):
• Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement
• Creating/sharing Enterprise Best Practices (including roles as a Scrum Master Mentor, Scrum Master Coach
• Certified Scrum Master for IT, Marketing, Operations, and Executive Leadership teams
• Expert at working with Jira at Enterprise Level for Scrum - at-Scale (100’s of Scrum teams working together)
• Proven record resolving/solving/planning dependencies between Scrum-at-Scale
• Direct experience launching 100’s of new Scrum teams and/or repairing broken Scrum teams:
• Hands-on experience working with local, international, and virtual teams
• Especially successful at improving code quality, accuracy of final product
• Expert teaching, mentoring, guiding teams to document User Stories using Gherkin (which also simplifies BDD)
• Advanced skills/experiences working with:
• Teams/organizations that deliver success using employees, internal, and external third-party development teams
• Especially effective in solving Scrum Quality issues associated with loss of dedicated QA teams
• Using BDD, Code Coverage, User Stories, Sub-task breakout/documentation (JIRA)
• 20 years creating/delivering mentoring/training programs at the enterprise level,, Cisco)
• Prior leadership roles as a Product Owner, Enterprise Training director (for 15,000+), Lean/Six Sigma, Scrum Master
• Expert in working with teams to implement/use JIRA, Confluence, InVision, Zeplin, and BDD for Scrum/Kanban
• Hands-on experience coaching teams to implement UX/UI modeling to improve velocity & reduce time-to-market
• Extensive experience working with senior, middle, first-line managers, and teams implementing new learning
• Significant experience delivering e-Learning, Recorded, and Instructor-led, Coaching/Mentoring programs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Scrum Master

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Lead Certified Scrum Master for Enterprise Scrum-at-Scale IT teams for blended Scrum Teams
• Employee, International/national contractors, and third-party product/contracting teams
• User Stories, Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement
• Go-to expert for all things needed by JIRA to accomplish Kanban and Scrum
• Recognized for outstanding contributions mentoring/training teams to write User Stories
• Primary mentor for helping other teams to identify/plan work using JIRA sub-tasks
• Recognized for first/most successful improvement of team Velocity Increase
• By justifying, implementing UX/UI wireframes/comps within Scrum teams (to be used with User Stories)
• By implementing Code Coverage, User Stories, and automated BDD

Scrum Master

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Senior Certified Scrum Master for blended IT Scrum teams (International, National, Onsite)
• Scrum Ceremonies (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement
• Direct support for Enterprise Release Planning and Quarterly/Annual Product Planning
• Extensive work training, mentoring, and guiding Product Owners/teams how to write User Stories
• Recognized for outstanding contributions for Best Practices, Reference Materials, guiding new Scrum Masters
• Also Scrum Master for Executive Leadership team (using Scrum)
• Worked with leadership to justify/implement UX/UI addition to team, Style Guides, and Wireframes to increase velocity
• Coach for local/remote teams to convert Gherkin user stories into BDD testing programs (feature files, step definitions)
• Coach teams seeking to leverage User Stories, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and DevOps
• Author for numerous internal How-To guidelines for Scrum, JIRA, BDD, DevOps, and Bug management
• Coach/mentor Scrum Masters and Product Owners to use JIRA Portfolio for Scrum-at-Scale Planning (JIRA certified)

Scrum Master

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Responsibilities:

• Senior Scrum Master for 1st successful deployment of Agile Scrum delivering mobile (IOS, Android) and web software
• Scrum Master responsible for 1st successful use of UX/UI to reduce development cost & improve product quality
• Successful implementation of team “Swarm” concepts to speed delivery of completed Stories within a single Sprint
• Other duties included Release Planning, Product Planning, and Quarterly/Annual timeline activities
• Mentoring of new and junior Scrum Masters

Scrum Master

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master responsible for transitioning an existing Waterfall team to Scrum and another team to Kanban
• Train/coach/mentor teams to understand/apply Scrum Ceremonies and Artifacts to improve velocity
• Extensive use of Retrospectives to understand Scrum, evaluate/understand/agree on how to implement Scrum
• Go-to resource for Scrum, Kanban, User Stories, Backlog Refinement, and Generally Accepted Practices (GASP)
• Transition team from QA-based testing to BDD (User Stories, Gherkin, Feature Files, Step Definitions, Testing)
• Coordinate with senior leadership and PMO to implement/leverage Scrum to solve organizational challenge

Senior BA/ Product Owner

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Product Owner/BA for flagship e-commerce mobile (IOS/Android) and web team moving from Waterfall to Scrum
• Coach team and Stakeholders from document-heavy requirements to User Stories (Gherkin)
• Implemented/creation of interactive Wireframes to reduce Stakeholder gaps between asked/delivered product BA,

Process Improvement

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• BA/trainer for newly implemented 4G clients/companies within the North American market
• Delivered eLearning and onsite product training and organizational process improvement programs (BPM)

Scrum Master

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master, Product Owner, QA, and BA for a Cisco Gold partner software company
• Scrum ceremonies, maintain/create Scrum Artifacts, with extensive Product/Sprint backlog management
• Extensive work with 3rd party vendors to identify, sell, and deliver mobile/web solutions for Cisco products
• Identify, document, deploy, and manage online/integrated product How-To manuals for company products
• Create video, digital, and corporate marketing to support company portfolio

Director of Training/Development

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Servant Leader for Project Management, BPM, Six Sigma, Lean, SDLC, team process improvement programs
• Extensive interaction/results working with small and large teams to improve how they complete their work
• Project management for vendor-delivered, internally created, and hybrid solutions through implementations
• Directly responsible for small team coaching and leadership mentoring for new/existing managers
• Creation and delivery for onsite, web-based, and e-Learning programs for 3,500 employees

Executive Senior Manager/Training/Development

Confidential, Weldon Spring, MO

Responsibilities:

• Servant Leader for National/International Process Improvement team for 15,000 employees
• Operated with annual budget of 7.2 million and 157 team members focused on software, business process improvement
• Operational footprint included Six Sigma, ISO, small/large team coaching, and leadership coaching
• Extensive experiences working with local/international teams coaching/training/ coaching SDLC, Operations, etc.