Release Train Engineer/Agile Coach Resume Smithfield, RI - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

I am an Agile Trainer, Practitioner, and Agile Transformational Strategist with extensive experience in all aspects of Agile, Scaled Agile Framework Project, Program and Portfolio Management.
I offer proven skills in the areas of developing and coaching high performing teams, and acknowledged for outstanding leadership ability.
I have demonstrated ability to facilitate, think, lead and execute strategically and tactically, and is driven to achieve the quality output. Expert user of JIRA and AgileCraft
Rapid Product Prototyping
Lean, Kanban and Scrum
Program Planning and Team Setup
Dependencies, Issues and Alignment
Agile Training and Coaching
Continuous Value Delivery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Smithfield, RI

Release Train Engineer/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Managed the Enterprise Confidential program PMO operations (#1 priority initiative for Fidelity in 2016 - 2017) including funding, program increment planning, impediment resolutions, and contingency planning
Partnered with Confidential PMO leads for monitoring and reporting of the program performance metrics
Coached and facilitated MVP, program incremental and release planning sessions for Confidential Phase 2
Partnered with the leadership team to scale Agile coaching practices by creating Agile Coaching playbook

Confidential,Providence, RI

IT Agile Transformation Consultant

Responsibilities:

Led multi-functional, vendor and onshore/offshore IT teams to integrate MS CRM and Manhattan Inventory Optimization and Warehouse solutions that streamlined order and inventory management
Coached and onboarded teams on the Confidential Agile delivery best practices and facilitated continuous improvement sessions that increased sprint velocity by 2X and reduced code defects by 45%

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Agile Practice Lead

Responsibilities:

Implemented Lean Agile portfolio planning, prioritization and governance that increased cross-functional team collaboration and transparency.
This increased teams’ average velocity by 127%
Managed Release Trains. Coached product owners on Product Prototyping, Release Planning, Backlog Grooming and Product Demo sessions.
Trained Dev teams to use Sprint Burndown, Sprint Velocity and Release Burndown analytics to maintain the even flow of the incremental deliveries

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Lead Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Product owner to develop the epics, stories and release plans for the customer data integrations initiative to create single view of customer to support the loyalty and marketing personalization initiative
Transformed program teams to Confidential Agile to transition to Adobe Email and Personalization platform that automated response based cross-channel campaigns. Increased release velocity by 65%

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Senior Scrum Master to integrate the Balanced Rewards’ loyalty program with the merchandising promotion system that achieved 98% feature acceptance rate on the launch date
Coached and facilitated rapid product prototyping, sprint planning, daily scrums, product demo and team retrospective sessions for the pricing and promotions planning system implementation initiative

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Partnered with product owner and IT architects to define and testing user stories and create high level business architect documents to launch Confidential loyalty program in 2009
Promoted from Project Coordinator supporting regional market vice-presidents to expand their distributions channels