SUMMARY

• Highly Accomplished Servant - Leader with demonstrable expertise in effectively facilitating, leading and coaching Agile/Scrum cross-functional teams in delivering high quality software development projects. Skilled in teamwork, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and relationship building between development teams and business partners to align with Agile, Scrum and Lean principles. Extremely ambitious and ready to face new challenges and learn new technologies.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Agile Software Development Application Integration and Testing
• tory Analysis and Estimating Management of Cross Functional Teams
• Budget Planning Product/Project Management
• Agile/Scrum/Kanban Frameworks Quality Assurance
• Process Improvement Business Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Scrum Master/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led the Lean-Agile organizational transformation, coached teams on SAFe, Agile, Kanban, Scrum principles and processes to reach CMMI Level 3 in 9 months.
• Acted as mentor to team members on software engineering and quality practices (Continuous Integration, Collective Ownership, Pair Programming. Coding Standards, Test-First) company wide to drive disciplined development and quality. Team was able to to execute 80%-90% of user stories over multiple sprints.
• Acted as mentor to Product Owners transitioning to Agile product development.
• Created internal processes by using Agile/Scrum framework to to spin up a new piloted platform team designed to support delivery of product driven web application features for Confidential &T's Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) compliance architecture to provide law enforcement access to US domestic call information.
• Worked with Scrum Masters to prepare for and facilitate product increment release planning sessions.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for off shore teams and encouraged inter group communication and dependency resolution, thus ensuring that teams interacted and shared cross team issues and risks.
• Encouraged collaboration between Product, Development Teams and Solution Architects/Engineering.
• Assisted with negotiations and signoff of Solution Definition Document.
• Facilitated Team and End to End System Level Demo meetings, to show working solutions to key stakeholders.
• Assisted in solution integration and user acceptance testing and provided post implementation support to business stakeholders and end-users across multiple business domains to ensure solutions met the prescribed business requirements/features.
• Communicated and reported all key project/release plans, status, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule and scope changes all levels of the program as required.
• Proficiently facilitated and organized daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning.
• Proactively identified, communicated, escalated, tracked, and resolved team impediments, risks, design and quality issues, or increases in scope/time required to ensure projects remained on track.
• Collaborated closely with Product Owner on features backlog grooming with respect to priorities, scope and release planning, thus ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon, and stories are ready for sizing. This led to an increase in customer satisfaction.
• Effectively tracked and communicated team's velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Assisted team with appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices reducing development time by 40%.
• Facilitated Product and Development Team periodic synchronization meetings in assisting with sprint planning to support the Confidential &T Web and API initiatives.
• Utilized abilities and skills of individuals and fostered a feedback culture to support team building and development.
• Ensured team implementation of process improvement ideas learned from retrospectives, thus increasing quality by 60%.
• Facilitated and assisted in acceptance criteria testing that define “Done” for developed features,
• Provided effective defect tracking and management to ensure highest quality software,thereby reducing defects by 75%.
• Managed release processes and activities for code through development, test and production environments. Conducted Release Readiness Reviews, Milestone Reviews,and Business Go/No Go Reviews.
• Promoted continuous improvement and helped teams increase productivity and foster innovation.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile Project Management methodologies (Agile/Scrum/Kanban), to design, develop and deploy a $5M portfolio of web and mobile based software projects. Project was completed on time, on budget and on scope with high quality.
• Managed hybrid (Agile/Waterfall) projects using Rally and JIRA to track user stories,sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily standups, QA Issues Tracking, Design and Development work streams for 3 application teams.
• Appointed to the Agile/Scrum community to help build standardized processes to assist other scrum masters in leading projects. Result was a 95 percent organizational-wide improved adherence to Agile procedures and processes, which led to an annual savings of over $200,000.

Technologies/Tools: JIRA, Oracle, Version One, Rally, Java, Python, C++, SQL, JavaScipt, HTML, CSS

Confidential ’ Office Center, Newark NJ

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to savings of $150,000 in the first year by participating in the EDI mapping functions that met current business issues that satisfied business user groups and trading partner’s requirements.
• Managed redesign of data warehouse product that delivered significant improvements to architecture and batch processing.
• Achieved 95 percent success rate on all order assessment, technical evaluation, technical troubleshooting, overall project management and IT process performance improvements, resulting in increased revenue of $700,000 within the first year and improvement of customer satisfaction from 35 to 95 percent.
• Generated more than $150,000 savings annually by ensuring 100 percent successful final test and turn-up of equipment prior to cut-over.

Technologies: CLARIFY, TIRKS (Ordering Systems), Microsoft Excel XP, Microsoft Access XP.