PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Scrum Master with over 6 years development experience, 3 years Scrum Master experience and 2 years Management experience. Worked on projects with budgets in excess of $3 million lasting multiple years and as small as a few hundred dollars and varying team sizes. Familiar with Unit Testing, Behavioral Testing, and Peer Code Reviews. Dedicated to producing high quality code while keeping projects on track.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• All Traditional Scrum Master Duties
• 3 Teams sizes 7 - 8, 2 teams onsite 100% 1 team had 1 member remote.
• Jira was utilized for maintaining the backlog
• 2 Teams utilized 2 week Sprints and 1 team utilized 3 week sprints
• 2 of the teams were long term established teams 1 team was newly formed (less than 3 months)
• The environment was very agile/scrum but was not textbook scrum. Sprint reviews and retrospectives were done during the following sprint not at the end of the current sprint. Teams worked on multiple projects at once instead of swarming a single project.
• Review facilitation was more in-depth here than previous roles. It was required that a slide presentation was produced showing current sprints burn down chart, the past 8 sprints sprint goal and and actually completed story points, the current active sprints goal and associated stories. These were also recorded and storied in confluence so they could be reviewed later.
• Retrospectives followed a traditional retrospective format of what went well, what didn’t go well, what can we change, what do we want to keep doing.
• Sprint planning was handled every 2 weeks individual with each team to facilitate this meeting I would display the backlog on the TV in the team room and would walk the teams through story decomposition when necessary.
• The newer team required much more hands on work than my other 2 teams. The product owner was new and the team members were new. Most were familiar with Agile concepts but not at applying them real world. I was able to successfully work with this team and transform the company’s perspective of the team as failing and untrustworthy into a team that trusted by the organization and were actively given high profile projects to complete.
• Introduced a new template for project completion projection. It was a simple project burnup chart that showed initial project project, current project based on average velocity and story points addition/subtractions. Went over well with the business.

Project Lead

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• IT Manager
• Duties identical to Confidential Project.
• Scrum Master
• All duties carried over from Confidential .
• Team Size and Dynamic changed. Team consisted of New Product Owner, 4 Developers (Half Remote), and a Graphic Designer.
• Sprint Length remained 2 weeks
• Sprint Review was modified to be a multi team sprint review where all teams demonstrated the features completed the last 2 weeks during the same 2 hour time box at the end of the sprint.
• Product owner came from a waterfall background so considerable work was required to facilitate a shift in thinking around how requirements need to be delivered to the team and scheduling of the project.
• Jira was utilized for housing and maintaining the backlog.

Confidential

Lead Web Developer / Scrum Master/ IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead Web Developer
• Web Development using PHP (Symfony Framework)
• Established a Development Workflow around accepting, building, and testing of stories
• Utilized GIT with a branching method known as GitFlow
• Followed the PSR-2 Coding Standard
• Peer Code Reviews
• Unit Testing (PHPUnit) and Behavioral Testing (Behat)
• Working with the team to facilitate technical decisions concerning architecture of application
• Scrum Master
• Removal of team blockers
• Facilitations of Scrum Ceremonies
• Daily Standup with All team members including the Product owner to surface blockers
• Sprint Planning - Whole team story estimation, decomposition, and sprint backlog item negotiation
• Backlog Groom/Refinement - Whole team story estimation, decomposition, and prioritization utilizing Jira for housing and maintaining the backlog.
• Sprint Review - Generate the Itinerary slide deck for the teams use, introduce the sprint goals, allow the team to demonstrate working features, solicit and collect feedback for features demonstrated.
• Retrospective - Stimulate discussions amongst the whole team to determine ways for the to continuously improve.
• Conflict resolution between team and product owner
• Helping the team balance technical needs with business needs concerning the project
• Tracking velocity and providing metrics, project burn up and sprint over sprint goal to actual points comparison, to the business
• IT Manager
• Reviewing and Interviewing Applicants
• Annual performance reviews

Confidential

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed a web based student portal
• Developed a web based portfolio system 
• Lead transition to Agile beginning April 2012.
• Worked with Business to understand benefits and risks of moving to Scrum/Agile development.
• Worked as a Scrum team member with a team size of 9 developers and 1 business analyst
• As a team we delivered a revamped student portal experience July of 2013

Web Application Developer

Confidential, Columbus, IN

Responsibilities:

• Developing custom web applications on a LAMP stack.
• Working on an Agile development team.
• Maintaining and updating code in existing applications ranging in client size from 20 visitors a day to over 20,000 visitors a day.
• Primary languages used are PHP and JavaScript (Prototype and jQuery) utilizing a MySQL Database on a Linux Server.
• Some development was done with ASP.net and C# or VB.net on a Windows Server 2008 Server.
• Development process is an Agile process using the SCRUM methodology in a team based environment.

Web Manager

Confidential, Gonzales, TX

Responsibilities:

• Custom program and install image upload system to automatically populate the Photo Gallery.
• Create a Contact script that emails the Ranch Manager on submission with leads information.
• Search Engine Optimization is the current goal of the project now.
• Utilizing Google Adwords, Analytics, and Webmaster.