Objective

Scrum Master Agile Practitioner Innovative results-driven servant leader in technology with over 15 years of proven project successtrack record. Problem solver and mentor with a passion for technology grasping both big picture conceptualizations and atomic details for robust implementations.

Skills Summary

Impact

• Identify and maximize value of product and development team output to maximize ROI
• Streamlined product development lifecycle increasing efficiency by 30 through adoption of lean agile development methodologies mated with continuous release and embedded quality assurance practices. Complete agile lifecycle
• Accelerated new feature release to over 200 within quarters increasing company wide competitiveness by following early feedback and early reviews of prototypes
• Utilized agile project management frameworks to cooperatively steer and prioritize product directions
• Leveraged cloud and private cloud infrastructure components elastic demand to reduce infrastructure costs by over 50 while increasing peak capacity by several orders of magnitude 100 times more peak capacity

Professional Experience

Confidential

Scrum Master

• Organized product representation with departmental managers creating company wide participation for the project
• Responsible for agile development of BI solution driven by a Data Warehouse to drive alignment and optimization LIS Operations.
• Leverage Cloud BI and agile analytics for quick experimentation and fast delivery of ROI
• Story development and backlog creation using INVEST

Confidential

Scrum Master/Product Owner

Responsible for development of suite of commercial software products, product ownership, development and customer delivery for SAAS Applications utilized by over 500 schools nationally. Supporting multiple agile teams serving as lead product manager utilizing agile frameworks.

Confidential

Scrum Master

• Established agile practices and transformation to Scrum Framework from waterfall PM/PMO methodology
• Instituted Scrum inspection and adaption points to promote team self organization and product backlog refactoring
• Established sensible sprint durations to balance product visibility with the development teams ability to create a completed increment
• Established Scrum practices and rule enforcement while tuning the definition of done to yield a sustainable velocity with continuous improvement towards quality
• Created a register , updated daily, to facilitate resolution of team impediments ASAP
• Buffered team and coached product organization to minimize distraction to development teams in realizing sprint goals
• Facilitated the creation and ongoing maintenance of product backlog to reduce meeting times
• Coached product owner through prioritization techniques and sequencing of stories / backlog to maximize ROI
• Coached and facilitated self organization of development teams through careful observation and team accountability
• Managed team velocity and cohesion through careful management of Scrum Teams and member additions
• Maintained team velocities despite turnover through comprehensive understanding of the environment and attention to details
• Coached and assisted the Scrum team in decomposition of Epics and stories into the product backlog and facilitated sprint planning
• Maintained an integrated product, while 3 teams consumed stories from the same backlog, keeping the product releasable through utilization of Scrum of Scrum meetings
• Mentored teams in XP programming techniques and software engineering practices TDD, paired programming, code reviews etc and utilization of automation to maintain sustainable long term velocity
• Collected and disseminated code quality metrics into sprint burndown / burnup, release burn-down, alternative burn-down charts and time spent on defects throughout a release.
• Disseminated code quality, QA manual v. automated tests , build time, commits per day metrics to development team and management
• Assisted and mentored development team in setting up test and build automation practices to create sustainable velocities
• Hybridized processes with Lean Agile practices as processes evolved Queue Flow with WIP limits to better match engineering and organizational developments Scrumban

Application Informatics

Confidential

• Lead scrum team towards developing a complex data aggregation and analytics application
• Mentored and guided team through scrum process organizing and facilitating daily, stand ups, sprint planning and sprint retrospective sessions.
• Utilized and monitored metrics to account for team velocity and story estimation accuracy
• Facilitated and lead team through adoption of scrum process to derive suitable sprint duration, definition of done and prioritization of stories

Confidential

IT Manager

• Responsible for implementation, monitoring, infrastructure and services delivery for all managed clients, including apps for Bank of America and other large financial clients using lean agile methodologies KanBan Boards .
• Project building blocks including Cisco switching and Firewall technologies, Oracle RAC Microsoft SQL backends, F5 Akamai application accelerators, NetApp and EMC storage area networks and Windows and Linux operating systems. These complex systems had to be setup repeatedly for new customers involving various teams. Used ticketing and Kanban to create an agile implementation approach to streamline commissioning processes.
• Lead product development of custom Firewall services offering revolutionizing value to customers, and increasing profitability by 35 , while reducing Operations Center support load.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Managed a large project involving a lengthy time span and several teams, to gain certification for the data center and associated operations to be awarded SAS70 compliance. Worked with teams of independent auditors, infrastructure, facilities and security teams to document processes and implement change control processes.

Confidential

Web Software Development Manager

• Product owner and project manager for Online syllabus initiative involving representatives from all academic areas within the college
• Steering committee co-chair and project manager for Campus Web Portal and Student Single Signon solution to streamline the student navigation
• Developed several college wide and departmental application initiatives using Extreme Programming methodologies including
• Managed clean code base with XP software engineering techniques using TDD, paired programming and code metrics
• Numerous departmental applications using JAD sessions and agile co-development techniques

Technology Manager

• Migration project to switch Meta Directory implementation from Novell NDS to Microsoft Active Directory
• Switch messaging groupware and transfer users to Microsoft Exchange
• Legacy shared ring Networks to Fast and Gigiabit Ethernet switched networks

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• Created a network solutions consulting and Internet Service Provider practices including acquisition of talent and development of services delivery portfolios
• Built service revenues from zero to 1 million within a three year span

Tools / Products

• Team and Project Management:Fogbugz, Jira, Rally, VersionOne, Microsoft Project, OmniProject,
• Application Development:Fortran, Python, SQL, Java Script HTML5
• DataStores: MS SQL/SSRS/SSIS/BI, Apache Cassandra, Apache Storm