SUMMARY:

• Vision - driven transformation agent with career-long track record of agile practice, facilitating, and coaching teams, ensuring timely and accurate iterative delivery.
• Proven talent for aligning business strategy and objectives with Scrum, and other agile processes, software development to achieve maximum operational efficiencies and ROI.
• Growth-focused thought leader with expertise spanning end-user value,, performance assessment, solutions strategy, training/mentoring and coaching.
• Expert at evangelizing scrum principles and rules, accurate and timely delivery of IT solutions.
• Exceptional servant leader with keen interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• SDLC
• Agile/Scrum Coaching
• Servant leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Risk Mitigation
• Development
• Conflict Resolution
• Relationship Building

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Waterfall, and Agile

Processes: Scrum, Kanban, Scrum banAgile Tools: Rally, TFS and Version One

Office Tools: MS word, Excel, SharePoint and PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SR. SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Entrusted with owning, advocating, and coaching existing and new teams on scrum processes
• Bolster communication and discussion for entire suite of Agile ceremonies - IT “0” to product demo
• Help teams improve with facilitated conversations, metrics, feedback loops, and information radiators
• Coach development teams and in self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, risk identification, dependency management, and conflict resolution.
• Train and coach the team in scrum process to ensure optimal project success
• Train, mentor, and evangelize scrum principles to the team while providing constructive performance feedback - to drive growth and development
• Chart roadmap for the team to stay focused and achieve goals by removing impediments, protecting team from distractions and keeping team meetings lean and efficient

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Worked across complex projects and partnered with other scrum masters to ensure seamless integration across work streams
• Served as a single POC between client/business area and internal IT management for unresolved issues, and complex service requests
• Utilized team feedback and metrics to identify opportunities for continuous improvement, via sprint review meetings
• Succeeded in trouble shooting and solving problems in a customer focused service environment using knowledge and experience in agile
• Effectively communicated issues, risks and progress to Program manager, via scrum of scrums.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

SR. SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Delivered multiple projects on time, within budget utilizing the scrum process, as teams attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, (sprint planning, daily stand up’s, retrospectives and demos)
• Empowered team to self-organize and encouraged cross functionality of skills
• Coached team on product Increment, acceptance criteria, and scrum metrics.
• Observed, and encouraged increased team participation in Scrum Ceremonies
• Built a trusting and safe environment where issues were raised without fear of blame, or retribution with an focus on continuous improvement

Confidential

AGILE PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Helped the development team move from waterfall to scrum, through a series of whiteboard sessions, training workshops and 1 on 1 discussions
• Trained new product owners in, using INVEST principles, acceptance criteria and definition of done (DoD)
• Assisted product owner in breaking down epics into granular user stories, story selection, and estimation
• Leveraged scrum best practices to ensure delivery of incremental product features in each sprint.
• Helped team maintain high visibility through information radiators and sprint burn-down charts
• Motivated scrum team to work together and achieve sprint objectives through cooperation and resolving conflict resolution
• Initiated and facilitated a Community of Practice to share ideas, and experiences to practice scrum efficiently,

Confidential, Dublin, OH

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Trained both internal and external team members in Scrum basics
• Facilitated entire suite of ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand up’s, retrospectives and demos.
• Empowered team to self-organize and encouraged cross functionality of skills
• Developed and implemented key enterprise agile principles for process improvement
• Created and maintain ed i nformation Ra diators such as sprint and Release Burndown charts .
• Communicated and presented weekly updates to stakeholders and program managers
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition
• Helped onboard a new product Owner with concepts such as user stories, estimation, acceptance criteria, and definition of done

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Trained and mentored both internal and external team members in Scrum basics as Scrum Master
• Orchestrated entire suite of ceremonies - sprint planning, daily stand up’s, retrospectives and demos.
• Enabled team to self-organize and encouraged cross functionality of skills
• Created and implemented key enterprise agile principles for process improvement
• Supported team in making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Delivered large scale web projects that had direct and measurable cost savings
• Created self-organizing agile teams trained them in the Scrum Process and encourage self-governance.
• Catalyzed information radiators - through scrum boards, and burn-down charts
• Directed transformation of team from Waterfall to Agile methodology
• Partnered with Product owner by communicating updates; assisted with backlog maintenance
• Delivered consultative guidance to teams to become self-organized, and cross functional
• Provided visibility to team impediments/risks and helped eliminate them
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (stand ups, planning sessions and retrospectives)

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Educated team to write user stories using INVEST principles
• Organized scrum ceremonies (stand ups, planning sessions and retrospectives)
• Coordinated and trained team on core scrum values, and tracking metrics on Agile tools
• Updated and maintained standards, and best practices across the organization
• Connected with Product Owner on Iteration zero l sprint planning, story grooming, and demo meetings
• Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress through careful tracking
• Supported continuous improvement within the team through retrospectives