SUMMARY:

• Experienced project professional with experience working as a Scrum Master, Project Manager and a Business Analyst role.
• Experienced in leading, managing projects using Agile frame work and waterfall methodology.
• Extensive background in Project Management working with the IT/Technical, Business, and Sales department.

KEY SKILLS:

• Highly detailed oriented
• Innovative and Motivated
• Strong Communication Skills
• Excellent Written/Oral Skills
• Strong Team Focus
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Excellent project leader and team player

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Costa Mesa, CA

Senior Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serves as scrum master for multiple development team
• Lead development teams as a project manager on major initiatives
• Guides the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices & values
• Identifies and removes impediments for the Scrum teams by finding the right personnel to resolve issues
• Protects teams from both internal and external distractions, improves transparency, and radiates information
• Facilitates by getting the work done without coercion or dictating the work
• Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Use strong understanding of agile Scrum practices (e.g., sprints, estimation, prioritization, burndown tracking, release planning/scoping) to lead development teams
• Strong understanding of agile Scrum ceremonies (e.g., daily stand - ups, demonstrations, retrospectives, Meta Scrum, Scrum of Scrums)
• Strong understanding of software delivery, particularly in the software environment (e.g., understanding of development and test environments)
• Strong understanding of Scrum concepts (e.g., grooming user stories, managing the backlog, WIP)
• Strong understanding of Agile technology practices (e.g., Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing)
• Supports and educates the Product Owner on scrum best practices, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Holds regular sprint reviews to demonstrate finished work to stakeholders and celebrate team achievements
• Track and manage agreed scope and changes to scope
• Work closely with delivery teams to establish expectations and ensure tasks remain on track

Confidential, Orange, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Help and guide Product Owner and Team to achieve sprint goals.
• Collaborate with Product Owner on grooming and maintaining the Product Backlog.
• Guide Product Owners, Team, Management and Organization on Agile Methodology.
• Guide Product Owner on writing User Stories.
• Help Product Owner to define requirements and criteria of acceptance.
• Remove impediments or guiding Team to remove the impediments and escalate as appropriate.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (daily scrum, sprint planning meeting, sprint review meeting, sprint retrospectives meeting).
• Maintain scrum artifacts (the product increment, product backlog, sprint backlog).
• Ensure cross-team collaboration
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on Team’s progress and quality.

IT Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring that business requirements are understood and documented sufficiently.
• Act as a liaison between product management and the project team to drive the implementation of software solutions for our clients.
• Manage multiple, medium to large scale technical projects at a time, as well as ongoing production support.
• Elicit and gather business requirements, related business rules and business processes for software applications.
• Decompose high-level concepts and information into detailed, workable tasks and items.
• Document functional and non-functional requirements, develop and carry out methods and test plans to ensure that requirements and quality objectives are satisfied.
• Collaborate as part of an Agile team to solve problems and deliver projects in a fast paced environment.
• Responsible for answering questions from the implementation team and removing road blocks to success.
• Act as a liaison between Program/Product Management and project teams, and evaluate requests coming from business units/product management to determine true business needs and potential solutions

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed, executed and implemented Oracle sales online application for the Licensing Sales Group, which has annual revenue over $20 million and was the first group to have fully implemented and adopted the Oracle sales online applications.
• Subject matter expert (SME) for the Licensing Sales Group, Oracle project team, and other business teams.
• Demonstrated success in managing and implementing complex project plans including milestones, deliverables, users’ requirements, and dates to control the execution of projects and related activities.
• Projected leads, opportunities and pipeline reporting to the Licensing Sales Group executives, regional VPs and senior leadership, sales teams and other team members.
• Participated in all activities relating to product development with Oracle development group and assured that projects met and exceeded business requirements before being released into production.
• Participated in other Oracle projects as a business subject matter expert as needed, drawing upon Confidential ’s comprehensive business database with continuously updated data from more than 3.5 billion public documents, over 500 million transactions and 70 million mortgage applications.

Confidential, Fountain Valley, CA

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained detailed plans showing milestones, deliverables, team member requirements, and dates to control the execution of projects and other activities.
• Participated in all activities relating to product development with Confidential development and assured that projects met and exceeded business requirements before being released into production.
• Performed detailed reviews of projects and other activities with staff and communicated status of activities to management and users.
• Assisted department manager and operations supervisor with approval and coordination of all production implementations, procedures, participated in the development of standard operating procedures.