Agile Coach and Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY:

Able to rapidly assess organizational environment and make strategic recommendations based on breadth and depth of knowledge, skills, and experience - tool set extends Confidential Agile
Extensive expertise with traditional and Agile SDLCs and SW engineering management approaches such as Waterfall, Iterative, Scrum, XP, Pair Programming, User-Centered Design, TDD, and ATDD)
Career-long experience delivering presentations and to large groups - high comfort levels in public speaking
Successful history of leveraging project management information and collaboration systems such as MS Project and Project Server, Clarity, and SharePoint - and scaling the use of these systems for Agile
Able to effectively assess the need for Agile-friendly backlog management systems such as JIRA, JIRA Portfolio, Confluence, Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Coach and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Conducted divisional-level team retrospective events to identify areas for strategic improvement of product sales support, marketing, and business analytics
Delivered Agile on topics such as Active Product Ownership, requirements elicitation techniques, backlog estimation, grooming, and task estimation
Developed key Agile and Scrum metrics to communicate release status at all levels of organizational management from Scrum team to CIO
Delivered a bi-weekly Sprint release plan for a multi-year web platform with a complex data mart and ETL data integration component

Confidential

Strategic Consultant

Responsibilities:

Delivered and implemented an Agile Strategy for the Center for Biomedical Informatics - including an ePMO Executive Strategy which aligned with the Agile PM framework
Developed standardized processes for performing backlog prioritization, sprint planning, task estimation, and measurement of team velocity and capacity
Authored the organization’s Product Development Strategy driving the future prioritization and feature request process - integrated the use of JIRA and Confluence for team management and collaboration
Conducted Scrum orientation and User-Centered Design to over 60 team members

Confidential

Portfolio Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

Designed and executed a project portfolio management strategy for the Firestone Industrial Products division - later implemented components within Firestone Building Products
Implemented a sprint-based approach for project management efforts to deploy Salesforce (SFDC)
Leveraged an existing MS SharePoint instance as an Agile document configuration management tool

Confidential

Agile Coach/Scrum Master/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

Implemented a GUI-driven Medicare fraud detection and editing application using PMML and Java - leveraged newly implemented Scrum approach
Led the transition to application development via Scrum approach - reduced feature delivery time from 20 weeks to 2 weeks

Confidential

Product Management Consultant/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Directed the transition from a waterfall/iterative SDLC to a Sprint-based, Scrum approach using Pair-Programming and User-Centered Design at the engineering team level
Managed a $28.5M P&L budget using an ANSI 748 compliant Earned Value Management System
Led a portfolio of parallel system implementations for transactional and business intelligence platforms
Reduced maintenance cycle time and cost by 20 and 29%, respectively, through business process reform

Confidential

Transition Director & Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Leveraged an Agile approach to leading the integration of MRO software products into the Confidential Tivoli product suite - conducted ‘blue washing’ in record times
Directed outreach programs to achieve a client retention rate of 97% one-year post acquisition
Implemented cross-marketing product management and sales techniques to integrate Maximo products into existing Tivoli product lines

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Overhauled multiple failing Iraq Reconstruction projects to ensure contractual and client continuity
Established a 550,000 sq/ft logistics hub allowing a 50% decrease in commodity delivery time
Authored multi-discipline proposal responses resulting in a combined $24M increase in contract backlog

Confidential

Special Operations Program Officer

Responsibilities:

Directed the creation or restructuring of Confidential major command Program Management Offices
Architected the integration of a major command level Microsoft Exchange server consolidation
Negotiated infrastructure overhaul contracts with vendors to implement fiber optic network equipment