SUMMARY

• As a highly motivated Agilist, with unique experiences and extensive knowledge to deliver high value software solutions that contribute to the success of our technology initiatives in an agile environment.
• I am a strong motivator, coach and influencer with effective servant leadership and communication skills capable of transforming any team to become highly productive, self - organizing and value driven.
• Have a strong background in Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile technology delivery team, and Web/ mobile applications, leveraging Agile development techniques and practices for delivering High value products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Techniques: TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Kanban, FDD

Agile Framework: Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFeDevOps Approaches FDD TDD, TDD, CI/CD, AWS environment, Backend teams

Continuous Integration Tools: Team City, Jenkins, VSTS

BI Tools: Tableau, SSIS, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, Google Analytics

Configuration Management: GitHub, Visual Source Safe, Jenkins

Processes: CMMI, ITIL, and Six Sigma Lean tools

Continuous Deployment Tools: VSTS

Project Management Tools: JIRA, VSTS, Nexus, PPRT, Confidential, Remedy, CRQ

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coach two new teams to adopt agile values, principles, and Practices. Guiding an API agile team and Accounting and processing agile team to enhance and stabilize Services use in the bank and by our partners.
• Provides overall guidance for team adhere to Agile principles and practices.
• Arrange, facilitates and schedule meetings, demos, and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use.
• Ensure user stories are prioritized and delivered.
• Work with Product manager in request intake and prioritization
• Drives quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity.
• Facilitate team transparency by escalating impediments and share progress by team to appropriate channels.
• Actively engage in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.
• Plans and coordinate testing environment deployment and application/ system integration testing.
• Guide team in self-organization
• Encourage and motivate teams to focus on iteration goals.
• Guide the team to Creating a culture of empowerment and continuous learning.
• Guide the team to create a healthy and stable product for our customers and partners.

Confidential, Dallas. TX

Project Management/ TSPM

Responsibilities:

• Planned, Cordinate, and delivery of project that delivers businss objectives.
• Communicate work objectives, cordinate delivery, manage risk, comply with change standards, manage project budgets provide end to end visbility into the health of the project.
• Ensured project stays in the scope of delivery objectives, as well as defining timelines, milestones, dependencies
• Deliver technical solution to resolve business needs
• Work with key stakeholders such as Project sponsors, execution lead, product owners, delivery lead, architects analyst and developers to understand business needs and priorties and achieve it .
• Partner with the front line unit to document project objectives and outcome and how the work will be planned and executed.
• Partner with LOB ( Line of business) lead and technology to ensure that business features and requirements are satisfied in the design and buid of the project solution and that solutions are tested and achieved business outcome.
• Identified and Ensure the people, process and tools that is needed for this change or project is available.
• Ensure the stakeholders and required approvers are enagaged throughout the change executive phase.
• Review and Approves the build, test and deloyment readiness at the GoNo/Go.
• Confirms that he project has acheived expected outcoms and deployed solution are performing in the business as usual (BAU) enviroment.
• Utilize agile tools including Jira to facilitate the teams daily stand up, iteration planning, backlog reviews and retrospectives as part of the SDLC
• Plan production releases utlizing tools, Including BMC remedy, to track release tasks report milestones and assess dependencies across application and infrastructure support teams.

Confidential

Scrum Master II

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coach 3 distributed team responsible for enhancing the company’s digital platform. Mentoring team members to perform product owner and scrum master roles to achieve self-organization and grow team cross functionally
• Serves as a scrum master to 3 teams and as a coach to the organization at large, educating them on scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.
• Coaches the Scrum teams on story estimation, task definition, Definition of Ready & done while ensuring high value requirements are delivered faster.
• Proactively identify and remove impediments that could serve as blockers
• Provide support to the teams using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
• Ensures that development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Motivate and protect the teams from external disturbance to ensure they stay focused on delivering potentially shippable product increment every week.
• Help build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear
• Facilitate discussions and help resolve conflicts
• Assists Product Owner in ensuring requirements are better expressed as independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small and testable user stories
• Ensures transparency of the product backlog, sprint backlog, burn-down & burn-up charts and communicates team overall progress tracking burn down/burn up metrics, velocity and productivity.
• Encourage team knowledge sharing and collaboration through designs sessions, programming pairing, code reviews, around knowledge silos to reduce risks
• Research ways of becoming more agile and sharing the knowledge with the teams

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experienced the transition from waterfall to agile adoption firsthand and assumed the role of scrum master to help team understand the scrum framework & use it effectively to enhance and optimize the organization nationwide web base app.
• Supported two Scrum Teams.
• Scheduled and facilitated scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, product backlogs refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings.
• Ensured the Product Owner knew how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value
• Coached the Development Team on self-organization and cross-functionality;
• Used various techniques for effective Product Backlog management and story estimates.
• Helped the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.
• Mitigates conflicts, remove impediments and help to foster good practice and principles among team members

Confidential

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall delivery of development projects. Headed a 7-member startup team focused on launching a cloud-based web interface with social media integration.
• Promoted the scrum framework to various departments within the university by helping them understand Agile principles, Values and practices.
• Led workshops to define team agreements and definition of done and revisited on a frequent basis
• Performed various project administration tasks, including coordinating meetings, taking meeting minutes, forwarding communication releases and performing maintenance of project tracking logs
• Provided regular project updates and managed project schedules, documents and prepared presentations to the top management about the project health.

Confidential, Dallas TX

Financial Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed financial information obtained from clients to determine strategies for meeting client’s financial objectives.
• Met with potential clients and developed a personal planning analysis based on the financial, personal and professional goals.
• Performed need analysis and assisted with client financials such as budget reconciliation and management.
• Developed and serviced an extensive network of clientele and helped them manage risk and reach their financial goals.
• Developed and maintained client bases, keeping current client plans up-to date and recruiting new clients on an ongoing basis.
• Acquired and maintained over 100 new clients and businesses within 2 years