Agile Project Manager / Sr. Scrum Master / Scrum Coach Resume

SUMMARY:

An energetic Agile Project Manager, Agile Coach and Sr. Scrum Master with 20+ years of experience in the Software Industry . An Agile enthusiast leading both co - located and distributed teams, driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum and Agile methodologies, and keeping teams focused in rapidly evolving environments with changing priorities and tight deadlines.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Project Manager / Sr. Scrum Master / Scrum Coach

Prepared and moderated regular Scrum ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/demos, and retrospectives, fostering collaboration and communication between team members.
Led 4 distributed teams using online communication tools.
Managed a team of ScrumMasters, introducing them to Agile processes and tools, ensuring consistency across teams.
Initiated and led quarterly release planning to create reliable and practical plans and estimates to forecast project delivery schedules.
Designed and rolled-out a company-wide Scrum process creating a more robust, well-managed Scrum process, contributing to the consistent adoption of Agile methodologies.
Managed cross-team dependencies by chairing weekly cross-team Scrum of Scrum meetings with top stakeholders, working collaboratively across all departments to provide clarity around who is doing what, by when, and why.
Tracked release, sprint and team progress using metrics including team capacity and velocity, burndown and burnup charts, using CA Agile Central (Rally) and Excel pivot tables and presenting progress summations to senior management and project stakeholders.

Confidential

Build and Deployment Lead

Managed overall build process for Windows-based product builds including publishing release notes, using tools such as MS Visual Studio, Subversion and Bugzilla.
Lead developer for all aspects of installation, packaging and deployment of client software using InstallShield and MSI installation packages.
Designed and coded the look and layout of a user interface for a Single Page Application (SPA) web site using CSS, collaborating with developers and stakeholders to develop user-facing features.
Managed 25 customer-specific software configurations, interfacing with customers across multiple time zones in locations such as Belgium, Canada, Australia, Africa, Greece and Finland capturing requirements and coordinating work effort across multiple teams including development, QA, and field personnel.
Created a new build process ensuring new feature development could co-exist with maintenance build deliveries in various stages of test and integration resulting in zero build delivery issues.

Confidential

Member Technical Staff

Led weekly “war room” meetings, supervising workflow across multiple teams to triage customer reported issues, managing the progress of issues through resolution and closure.
Prepared technical documents including FVT plans and procedures, functional specifications and sizings, and customer training materials.
Prepared project schedules ensuring milestones were met on time and on budget by clarifying requirements, tracking deliverables and resolving reported issues.
Created software tools to create and collect software debug traces used to investigate customer issues using MS Visual Studios and C.
Maintained legacy C code DLLs, porting from ASCII to Unicode, adding new features and fixing customer reported issues.