SUMMARY:

Agile visionary & Scrum Master at the intersection of application development, and agile transformation and adoption. Valued for driving and implementing strategic technology solutions in an agile environment to support business needs

TECHNOLOGY & METHODOLOGY SUMMARY:

Agile Transformation & Adoption, Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, XP, DevOps, Release Management, and (TDD) Test Driven Development, (FDD) Feature Driven Development, (BDD) Behavior Driven Development, Jira, Rally, Version One, SAFe, Crystal Reports, Java, HTML, XML, SQL, Scala, Python, SharePoint, Spark, Hadoop, Machine Learning, & Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration & Deployment, Jenkins, Waterfall, Maven, Eclipse, Selenium, Git, Jenkins, PMO, Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Machine Learning, Deep Learning, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Other Deep Learning Libraries

PROFESSIONAL EXPERINCE:

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led an Integrated Weekly Scrum of Scrums meeting with other Scrum Masters across various initiatives to provide a platform to discuss dependencies, issues and risks from a delivery perspective.
• Actively identified and removed impediment that prevented team from focusing on execution and delivery
• Provided hands - on Scrum Master/Coach experience in the company large-scale setting, guiding team members how to diligently apply scrum principles, and other agile practices and theory
• Responsible for creating Agile Roadmap, leading Release Planning, and Iteration Planning and Execution
• Helped deliver solutions that give enterprise user powerful, scalable analytics capabilities with a Build Once and Deploy Anywhere advantage, enabling them to intelligently surface contents, derive business insights from their massive data
• Facilitated, in addition to Scrum of Scrums, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand up, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives and Sprint Review
• Helped Developed Product Vision, the Definition of Ready and Done for our distributed agile teams.
• Assisted the Product Owner with keeping the backlog groomed and ensured cross team coordination
• Helped establish metrics, key performance indicators (KPI), and service level agreements for driving the performance of IT projects
• Instituted new development and lean prioritization processes which guarantees that high-priority projects would get executed immediately, and that new prioritization process reduced the backlog of pending business projects by 65% within 6 months.
• Designed & simplified a core set of complex data-driven metrics as tactical and strategic indicators with input & outputs to monitor our development processes, drive optimization, and improve operational excellence
• Created the Product Quality Program for Confidential . This program was designed to implement better testing, reduce defect backlogs, and increate quality
• Consistently communicated our customer-centric vision of our work to my teams & other relevant stakeholders to clarify the importance of the work that we do and increase visibility
• Guided and coached team in improving velocity of overall work
• Enhanced visibility, transparency and collaboration in our work effort, while ensuring distributed team remains self-organized and autonomous
• Facilitated multiple cross-functional scrum teams made up machine learning engineers, artificial intelligence experts, testers, other developers
• As the lead scrum master, acted as change agent to facilitate collaboration, manage risks, address dependencies, and remove internal and external impediments

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Rebuilt the development team for the data warehouse almost from the ground up, and moved developers from spending 60% of their time on operations to 60% on development activities
• Created multiple cross-functional scrum teams composed of both onshore and offshore teams to support the bank's road-mapped initiatives
• Provided leadership and mentorship in Agile development in, continuous delivery/continuous improvement to help team master Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective in the initial Agile Transformation of the bank
• Maintained projects/release artifacts and continuously update on SharePoint.
• Engaged release management team to understand and coordinate release activities.
• Use data driven metrics (KPI) to monitor performance, business process optimization form baseline to achieve better productivity and improve operation excellence
• Managed complex responsibilities of various projects, that included developing the Program Roadmap, leading Release Planning and Management, and well as providing timely executive status reporting covering development and delivery
• Engaged continuously with teams and Product Owners on how to increase speed to market Facilitated installing an agile SDLC processes across development, support and implementations to improve quality and drive schedule integrity
• Responsible for end-to-end project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end
• Developed roadmap to achieve key business goals while, prioritized key IT initiatives that delivered the most value to the bank
• Monitored milestone completion and provided timely reporting of issues that impact progress
• Optimize quality through technical excellence, while remaining flexible in managing uncertainty.