SUMMARY:

• Led the effective functioning of a software development teams using Agile methodologies. effectively coordinated planning, collaboration, reporting and execution activities across cross - discipline Scrum teams.
• Dynamically applied, implemented and enforced Scrum principles and practices, facilitated continuous improvement, and effectively removed impediments to delivery. Effectively enhanced team dynamics, maximized performance by continuously improving agile practices.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies and enterprise-level application development projects. Strong facilitation, coaching, and collaboration skills. Strong understanding and demonstrated experience in using JIRA. Proven ability to effectively communicate information to a wide variety of .technical and non-technical individuals or groups at all levels of the organization. Proven strong customer service and analytical skills. Strong planning, organizational, analytical, leadership, interpersonal, decision making, oral and written communication skills.. Strong negotiation, conflict resolution and customer service skills. Initiative, dependability, cooperation and thoroughness in a team environment. Ability to work independently and flexibly in a rapidly changing environments. Professional attitude with ability to prioritize work, multi-task and exercise time management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Miami Florida

Agile Coach

• Mentored and coached the teams on Agile methodology and Scrum values and process
• Participate in longer term roadmap planning
• Monitored and tracked milestones, and facilitated mitigation of issues and risks
• Collaborated with the teams to identify and resolve problems and remove impediments/barriers confronting teams
• Ensured release of deliverables and quality standards as defined by the team were consistently met (per acceptance criteria and definition of done)
• Monitored the effectiveness of scrum team processes and performance, and collaborated with the team on changes and improvements
• Worked with appropriate departmental teams within the company to achieve/satisfy customer's requirements.
• Stayed in touch with emerging technologies / industry trends and applied them when necessary.
• Evangelized Agile Principals, Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
• Communicated, Relative Estimation
• Fostered Team Dynamics, Story-Based Development
• Iteration/Sprint, Planning Meetings, Successful Conflict Resolution

Confidential, Ft Lauderdale Florida

Agile Coach

• Coached/Mentored a cross functional team of 12 resources to deliver quality products which led productivity increases of 20 percen.t
• Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase velocity by 23% within the first months of Agile adoption
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 3 agile teams.
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs

Confidential, Ft Lauderdale Florida

Agile Coach

• Trained on knowledge of various Agile methodologies (XP, Scrum, Kanban, User Stories, SAFe etc.)
• Successfully migrated more than 10 project teams from Waterfall to Scrum.
• Experience with Project Delivery and Execution working in both co-located and large scale distributed environments using Agile methodologies and techniques.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Demonstrated application of leadership skills as an Agile Coach resulting in high-performing Agile teams
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Highly skilled in change management practices and theories necessary to successfully facilitate organizational transformation
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams.
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%

Confidential

Agile Coach/Agile Project Manager

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 12% and the quality of deliverables by 20%
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protected teams from over-commitment, managed backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 33 major initiatives
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Determined defined fundamentals and complimentary Agile, frameworks for all transformational work streams and identified Agile, knowledge gaps, then provided training, coaching, mentoring and/or workshops as needed for clients.
• Resolved conflicts and interacted with employees for proper negotiation.