SUMMARY

An Scrum Master with 5 ½ years of experience leading Enterprise program projects in the commercial and federal sectors. A builder of high - functioning teams and a leader that understands complex business problems and able to influence upper management in order to create effective solutions.

SKILLS

• Enterprise Resource Planning (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Hyperion):
• JIRA:
• VersionOne:
• Microsoft Project:
• Microsoft Office Suite:
• Tableau:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coach team and stakeholders on Agile methodology practices to empower them to be self-managed.
• Lead Development team that use JAVA, Oracle Unix and SQL-based applications for development and testing.
• Collaborate with business SMEs to collect and analyze business requirements to create user stories that would meet the Product Owner’s goals utilizing JIRA.

Confidential  

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached team and stakeholders on Agile methodology practices to empower them to be self-managed.
• Lead Development team that used Oracle and SQL-based applications for development, testing and system vulnerability scans.
• Collected and analyzed business requirements to create user stories that would meet the Product Owner’s goals utilizing JIRA.
• Lead all Agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews and daily stand ups encouraging participation from all team members.
• Monitored and maintained team capacity/velocity. Velocity increased each sprint as team matured.
• Monitored sprint progress using burndown charts and metrics that were provided to upper management.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead both IT and non-IT team members that used PeopleSoft, Oracle and/or SQL-based applications for development and testing of code.
• Lead all Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews and daily stand ups encouraging participation from all team members.
• Monitored and maintained team capacity/velocity for successful delivery of committed work.
• Monitored sprint progress using burndown charts and metrics utilizing VersionOne.
• Represented the team during meetings with key executives while reporting progress and identifying any impediments/risks.
• Coached team and stakeholders on Agile methodology practices to empower them to be self-managed.
• Resolved conflicts and problems while maintaining a risk/impediment log with target resolution dates.
• Assisted in creating team for Scaled Agile release train.

Confidential

Consultant/Bowlmor AMF

Responsibilities:

• Developed and documented divisional processes within the SAP while identifying gaps and implementing improvement methods to streamline efforts.
• Lead full lifecycle implementation of financial management system improvements and automated manual processes that reduce end-user processing by 50-90 percent.
• Reviewed and tested financial data integrity used during business acquisition of 80+ locations.
• Reviewed and approved journal entries prior to system input.
• Prepared month-end accruals and consolidated reconciliations according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Confidential  

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead IT team members that used PeopleSoft, Oracle and/or SQL-based applications for development and testing of code.
• Coached Agile methodology to team members and stakeholders to empower self-management and delivery expectations while transitioning from waterfall.
• Lead all Agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews and daily stand ups encouraging participation from all team members.
• Monitored and maintained team capacity/velocity. Velocity increased each sprint as team matured.
• Monitored sprint progress using burndown charts and metrics that were provided to upper management from VersionOne.
• Led Capital Markets teams ensuring compliance of Basel II regulatory operational process of treasury economic capital analysis. Created and maintained analytical tool that would allow end-users to identify threshold.
• Developed, analyzed and reported project budget/forecast plan which tracked progress and made more effective decision making process.
• Coordinated installation of computer hardware with third-party vendor to support data management.
• Developed controls and monitored resource management that tracked contractor/full-time employee ratio, including collection and analysis of program and project-level statistical data.

Confidential  

Responsibilities:

• Maintained overview of corporate and bank infrastructure projects. Managed banking controls which ensured organizational policies and procedures were in compliance with confidential.
• Supported internal/external audits by implementing process improvement change controls where appropriate.
• Managed balance sheet accounts for impacts regarding capitalized infrastructure projects to aid in business reviews and determine potential cost savings.
• Facilitated recording of infrastructure capital expenditures within fixed asset registry. Captured assets for monthly/yearly depreciation calculations.
• Monitored infrastructure project charges which ensured compliance with company capitalization policy.
• Reported statistical data such as capital expenditure analysis and non-branch depreciation expense schedule. This data was used for decision-making regarding owned vs. leased properties to increase company assets.