SUMMARY

• A veteran servant - leader with a proven history of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects within time and budgetary constraints by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching multiple globally distributed Scrum teams.
• An expert Confidential driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments, and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering quality product on schedule.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft SQL Server
• Crystal Reports
• Tableau
• JIRA administration
• Scrum Certification (SAFe Agilist) Microsoft Project
• Visio
• Snagit
• Invision
• Proto.io
• MockupScreens. Product Management
• Project Management
• Agile
• Iterative
• Waterfall
• IBM Rational Team Concert
• UX design
• UI design.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating and organizing project planning, sprint and release planning, daily stand-up meetings, retrospectives, user story sizing, and software demonstrations.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Guide, coach, and assist the team and stakeholders in Agile concepts and principles.
• Collaborate with members of the product, business, and engineering teams to develop and groom user stories and maintain product backlogs while protecting the team from over commitment.
• Point of contact providing updates and coordinating dependencies with other teams, stakeholders, and management in order to protect the team from outside interference and distraction.
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other groups.
• Identifying and aggressively resolving impediments that may get in the way of our sprint and release goals.
• Work with engineering managers and organize Scrum of Scrums to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.
• Track and communicate metrics and artifacts like velocity, cycle time, cumulative flow diagrams, and burndown charts.
• Communicate with management, engineers, product analysts and support staff on product issues.
• Train new Scrum Masters on Confidential &T’s agile implementation.
• Recognized as an expert user of project tracking systems including: JIRA, Rally, and IBM Rational Team Concert.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Business Analyst - Data Analyst - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the client to understand their proto-requirements and produced a Statement of Work document that defined project-specific activities, deliverables and timelines.
• Organized workshops and one-on-one interview sessions with the marketing department’s data analytics team to gather and analyze requirements for a proposed data mart solution.
• Worked with the project sponsors to fully understand the legacy data warehousing solution and its limitations, and used that knowledge to create a solution that helped the marketing department achieve its goals.
• Responsible for the creation of business requirement documents, data dictionary, source-to-target mapping, and SOW.
• Sound knowledge of data warehousing concepts such as data cleaning, data integration, and data consolidation.
• Familiarity with data warehousing ETL tools such as Talend and SAS Data Quality.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Business Analyst - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Guided the successful migration of development teams from Waterfall to Scrum in six months.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Enacted process changes and encouraged continuous improvement that increased team productivity and the quality of their deliverables.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Responsible for coaching team members, mediating conflicts and aggressively removing any impediments that may get in the way of our sprint goals.
• Lead development efforts for a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) application. Oversaw all phases of the project from project initiation to deployment and training.
• Responsible for the creation of an online patient portal for our EMR product. Key features include the ability to register and fill out forms, request appointments, request medication refills, view lab results, view and download health education documents, and pay bills online.
• Led requirements gathering activities needed to build a Patient Care Dashboard for an EMR application. The dashboard gives providers a centralized, graphic, dynamic, and interactive screen displaying an Confidential -a-glance view of patients currently receiving treatment.
• Gathered requirements and prepared product specification documents for the Surgery Center and Hospital Bed Management modules to the core EMR product.
• Created and maintained user stories, use cases, and business process flows from requirements gathered.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with end-users, SMEs, development and QA teams.
• Ensured the feedback and engagement of users and stakeholders early in the development process with wireframes and mockups to quickly demonstrate functionality and to catch misunderstood requirements promptly.
• Responsible for the administration, configuration, training, and implementation of JIRA.
• Worked with stakeholders to optimize JIRA workflows including project workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes and notification schemes in JIRA.
• Created tables and defined relationships, default values and constraints to organize a wide range of data, including patient contact information, medical history, medication and allergies, immunization records, laboratory test results, personal statistics such as age, height, weight, and billing information using SQL Server.
• Worked closely with the Quality Assurance team to identify issues and defects, create test plans and test cases for functional and user acceptance testing.
• Responsible for analyzing and preparing project deliverables such as the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and user stories.