SUMMARY:

• Results - driven, Scrum Master/Project Management Professional with a strong understanding of both application and technical project management life cycle management.
• Managing complex application releases, ecommerce online websites, infrastructure and other enterprise-wide projects with a strong proven background in Waterfall, SDLC and Agile Process (Scrum, JIRA) detailing a record of in building highly organized, detail oriented project plans and managing changing project requirements in highly dynamic complex environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile Principles (SCRUM)
• Iteration/Spring Planning Meetings
• Story-Based Development
• Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
• Conflict Resolution
• Coaching development teams to reach their highest potential and ability to introduce, drive, manage and execute new ideas; ability to adapt and change in quick evolving environments

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Atlassian, JIRA + Agile
• Confluence
• Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Rally Agile Tool
• Trello
• Leankit for Kanban
• Linoit for Scrum Team Retrospectives
• Scrum Poker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Scrum Master Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working with development teams and product owners to create collaborative Scrum Agile environment
• Facilitating Scrum evening; Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Daily Stand-ups, etc.
• Protecting the development team from distractions by removing impediments at all levels of the organization
• Coaching the development team on Agile practices and encouraging adaptation and iteration and an environment that fosters Agile
• Fine tuning Agile processes to deliver successfully within the organization’s culture
• Collaborating across teams in IT and the business as required to remove impediments and deliver on time for all Sprints
• Coach team members to properly define and estimate Stories, while assisting the Product owner to continually keep a sufficient set of stories defined and estimated
• Highlighting the team’s success within and outside the team
• Assisted off-shore team located in Bolivia 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, Carrollton, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached and lead product owner and scrum team through Agile sprint ceremonies (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review / product demo and sprint retrospective); the team is operating on 2 week Sprints
• Assisted product owner with product backlog management, epic and story refinement and definition of acceptance criteria
• Assisted scrum team in sprint backlog management, story and task refinement and definition of acceptance criteria
• • Maintained sprint burn-down chart and provide progress reports
• Provided strong leadership abilities, technology insight and delivery capability to drive execution on the prioritized product backlog
• Improved team performance and productivity by encouraging team accountability, self-organization, and empowerment, sharing common Agile practices, promoting and supporting automated processes and facilitating Retrospectives which generate new ideas for process improvement
• Maintained relevant metrics that guided the team to more efficient processes in their work and in satisfying their Product Owner and partners
• Maintained effective information radiators that aid transparency and encourage clear communication between the development team, the Product Owner, and partners
• Improved team velocity by 15% incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Scrum Master Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Worked collaboratively with Product Owners, cross-functional development teams, and Project Managers to support development and software delivery
• Assisted the Product Owner in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via developing requirement elicitation while supporting overall organizational goals
• Tracked and reported Scrum team velocity and manage Sprint capacity
• Resolved or escalated blocking impediments as necessary
• Coordinated dependencies between teams with other Scrum Masters
• Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership
• Lead a mobile applications app on the Confidential Omni-channel team and implemented and enforced Kanban principles as a Scrum Master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team’s throughput in less than 8 weeks (Three - 2 week Sprints).

Confidential, Plano, TX

Digital Mobile Scrum Master/Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted product owners and business analysts with backlog creation and grooming
• Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership.
• Acted as Scrum of Scrum master, coordinating three distributed teams all working on the same product.
• Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on the benefits of Agile and Scrum.
• Provided recommendations to Mobile Digital Platform Senior Leadership and Development Teams on improving agile processes and practices.
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example
• Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
• Lead 3 Scrum teams to complete both a website and mobile application redesign, for Confidential In-flight Wi-Fi customers for the company’s product re-launch.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the Product Owner on project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• As a Scrum Master, coached teams on Agile practices and Scrum execution
• Drove scrum team members to achieve release goals, spring goals and sprint work
• Identified and removed impediments, prevent distractions
• Responsible for project reporting- dashboards, status reports, roadmaps, burn-down and velocity
• Meeting facilitation/moderation and minutes, including sprint/scrum meetings
• Assisted with product backlog maintenance and ordering
• Ensured the development teams understood the work to be done
• Removed impediments to ensure team’s success
• Facilitated discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
• Interfaced with client and project teams and ensured implementation of Scrum and Agile principles