SUMMARY:

• Skilled and digitally fluent Agile Transformation Leader with a background in complex software product delivery and large scale Agile transformation.
• Have experience with international and multi - cultural environments.
• Promote agility and understanding, provide leadership and direction, build effective cross functional Scrum teams and help them to perform at their highest level, facilitate ART events.
• My main career focus is on forming and leading successful Agile teams and supporting a culture of learning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAFe RTE/ Scrum Master

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Skype, WebEx, LucidCharts

Responsibilities:

• Increased productivity of Scrum teams by 18% and the quality of deliverables by 24%.
• Participate in the Lean-Agile transformation, coach teams in the new processes/ mindsets.
• Communicate with stakeholders, help manage risk, escalate impediments, drive relentless improvement, facilitate discussion and alternatives or different approaches.
• Work closely with multiple Scrum teams from different ARTs and organizational functions.
• Establish cadence and facilitate ART ceremonies (IP, PI, pre- and post- PI planning, Iterations, ART sync, SoS, PO sync, planning poker).
• Assist the teams to help understand dependencies and coordinate work to produce the highest value software in the shortest timeframe.
• Use metrics across ARTs and teams to identify areas for process improvement, identify anti-patterns and help avoid pitfalls identified in the past.
• Report status to Portfolio Management (PMO), support related activities.

Scrum Master

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Oracle, GitHub, JHipster

Responsibilities:

• Achieved program budget reduction of 20% through improved on-boarding processes.
• Lead cross-functional teams through agile transition, being a core team member of Agile CoP.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, drive those from concept to implementation.
• Propose innovative solutions to complex, time-critical challenges.
• Report to PMO, support related activities.
• Measure and monitor 3rd party Agile contracts through releases.
• Set up post-production support: planning, training tools, resources rotation.

Scrum Master/ PM

Confidential, Napa, CA

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Smartsheet, LucidCharts

Responsibilities:

• Develop trusted relationship with PMO, Global ITPM, steering committee.
• Lead cross-functional self-organized teams through the process towards goal.
• Facilitate ceremonies: Planning Poker, backlog prioritization, Sprint and release planning, retro.
• Manage sprint burn-down reports, burn-down charts, monitor velocity charts.
• Oversee system conversions and data migrations.
• Responsible for modeling business processes & User Experience.
• Develop and conduct knowledge transfer materials, conduct training for End Users.
• Work with the procurement & legal teams to evaluate new contracts, to determine any legal or other administrative implications and requirements necessary to execute projects.

Project Manager

Confidential

Tools: Netsuite, S4GV, SmartTurn, Trello, Smartsheet, Adobe Illustrator

Responsibilities:

• Successful iOS app development and release.
• Define success metrics for the app, beta release planning.
• Organize and facilitate ceremonies: stand-ups, planning, reviews, demos, retrospectives.
• Assist Product Owner with user story creation and backlog grooming.
• Work closely with engineering, development, operations, and marketing teams.
• Develop ERP based solutions to automate processes: detailed analysis of daily operations, inventory data and projects progress reports.
• Create and execute data driven tests.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Perform GUI, usability, functionality, build acceptance, and regression testing.
• Test on iOS, Android, iOS simulator Xcode and web browser.
• Maintain JIRA bug database and testing progression.
• Work with proprietary Content Management System to make updates to the QA server.
• Work with overseas QA team to properly regress different branches and environments.

Project coordinator

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Responsibilities:

• Assist with project plans, proposals, identifying resources, document issues.
• Track progress to ensure goals, timelines, and budgets are met using MS Project.
• Coordinate the entire life cycle of projects, financial cycles (bidding, PO, review, approval of vendor invoices, RIF, Pay applications, tasks).
• Improve the accuracy of budget forecasts.
• Establish good working relationships with subcontractors and vendors.

Project Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Revise procedures that slashed invoice approval time by 30%.
• Primary liaison with vendors & Accounts Payable to coordinate PO’s & invoices.
• Run DB of transactions.
• Manage all facets of job production schedule and deliverables from beginning to end.
• Review and manage actual job hours against estimates.
• Format documentation, creation of templates, assembly & quality of printed materials.