SUMMARY:

• Certified Professional Scrum Master specialized in leading high - performing teams from product development through successful product release. Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience in coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
• Agile Values & Principles
• Backlog Refinement
• Coaching/Mentoring
• Burndown & Burnup charts
• Conflict Resolution
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework
• Scrum/Extreme Programming (XP)/Kanban
• Team Empowerment
• Emotional Intelligence
• Iteration/Sprint Planning
• RALLY and JIRA expertise
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Team Performance
• Relative Sizing/Story Pointing
• Waterfall Methodology
• Software Development (SDLC)
• Risk Management and Compliance
• TDD/ATDD knowledge

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Office Suite, ArcGIS, CUBE, TRANSIMS, SPSS, ASAP, MyWorld, GE Small World (GESW)

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Scrum Master, Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.
• Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.
• Actively coordinated engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders.
• Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities
• Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality
• Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application.
• Guided and coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Scrum Master, Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with and influenced all levels of the organization to empower and enable teams to execute Agile framework.
• Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of feature
• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
• Directed and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product
• Facilitated discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.
• Expertly promoted continuous improvement and help team increase productivity and foster innovation.
• Organized and facilitated iteration/Release planning, daily stand scrum, reviews, and retrospective meetings
• Presented and evaluated design solutions objectively and facilitate conflict resolution
• Identified and removed roadblocks to teams working progress.
• Promoted an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.
• Developed, analyzed, prioritized, and organized requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow

Confidential

Technical Project Manager, Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Developed and refined project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources
• Responsible for understanding all user expectations, processes, and inputs/outputs necessary to develop a specific functionality/outcome.
• Leaded the execution of the tasks as defined in the project plan to achieve the project goals.
• Managed changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized project changes.
• Engineered fiber-optic routes within company’s fiber-optic network, yielding increase in new internal and external customers.
• Utilized Geographic Information Systems (GIS), such as Intergraph's G/Comms and ArcGIS, researching and developing new and existing routes, handholes, and manholes (sewage).
• Developed engineering documentation to customer satisfaction, using Engineering Change Order (ECO Excel) for OSP construction managers, splicing teams, and project managers to complete new fiber-optic routes on long-haul and metro fiber networks.
• Managed, coordinated, and engineered routes for large multi-site and multi-state FTTT (fiber to the tower) projects for wireless communications clients.
• Designed and maintained fiber splicing documentation, including maps, OTDR shots, handholes, manholes, and building sites in hard copy and in GIS network for future referrals.
• Interacted with engineering departments to render aid in troubleshooting outages and identified inefficiencies and new opportunities within and outside of fiber-optic network.
• Documented requirements, business cases, project charters, stakeholder impact assessments, and process documents
• Coordinated meetings, work with sponsors, vendors, project managers and subject matter experts to ensure successful completion of the project
• Prepared thorough and accurate technical and business management reports, effective correspondence, accurate documentation, and easily understandable presentations
• Project coordination & execution role for Plan and Define as part of the System Development process
• Development of business process models, business requirements/user stories (functional and non-functional) and product backlogs

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Project Coordinator, Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the PM in Keeping Track of the Project Budget in an excel spreadsheet
• Reported to managers the development of the project.
• Tracked Project milestones, Schedule, and Deliverables
• Managed changes and ensure effective communication among project team members.
• Organized and maintained project team SharePoint site, ensuring required documentation are posted for team member access
• Facilitated project planning and scheduling across individual pr