SUMMARY:

Decisive, action - oriented and results-focused professional offering experience in the software engineering industry. Focused on project management. Offering outstanding talents in team and resource building, budget management, project scope development, customer relationships, cost avoidance, continuous design improvements. Efficiently facilitate sprint planning, sprint review, daily standup and sprint retrospective meetings. Driven by new challenges, enjoy navigation of complex projects and desire to be successful in all endeavors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Operating Systems, Unix, Ubuntu, MS-DOS

Development Tools/languages: Java, C/C++, Delphi, JavaScript, HTML, SQL

Applications: MS Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Rally/Agile Portfolio and Team Management, HP Quality Center, ServiceNow, Clarity Portfolio Management, Open Work Bench, SAA BusinessObjects Reporting, MicroSoft SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master|Software Defined Storage

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coach multiple scrum teams that comprise infrastructure development and engineering teams.
• Ensure team’s impediments are removed as quickly as possible upon escalation.
• Lead sprint events and ensure they happened as per the scrum process.
• Keep teams aligned with agile best practices, and help increase their actual velocity by more than 20%.
• Effectively work with teams to ensure a consistent team’s actual velocity, in order to predict product delivery timeline.
• Represent the teams in meetings with our counterparts in software-defined computer, networking and integration services.
• Work with product management team to ensure product features prioritization and timely delivery
• Initiate a scrum master center of excellence for JPMC Columbus area, with goal to create an ongoing, robust and valuable learning community for Scrum Masters to become better a what they do.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Focused on process as a PM, and ensure all contract required deliverables are submitted to the Ohio State on time for their approval.
• Accountable for prioritizing features, allocating tasks, managed schedule and risks.
• As a ScrumMaster removed blockers that hindered project progress
• Coached Confidential of Job and Family Services Product Owners and other project team members
• Coached Strategic system agile team on agile best practices and help the team increase their actual velocity by 25%
• Monitored the progress of the sprint, in order to complete the sprint goal successfully.
• Helped team estimate and increase their velocity, motivated the team, monitored and helped improve team dynamics.
• Facilitated sprint planning and other scrum meetings.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed agile projects through scrum framework by inspiring cross-functional, self-organizing teams to produce shippable code, deployed in quarterly and monthly releases.
• Ensured project Scrum Masters complete iteration checklist, after requirements handoff from the project leadership team.
• Joined daily standup and monitored sprint progress, as well as ensured blockers are removed on time by working closely with the Scrum Masters.
• Participated in release and iteration planning, show & tells or sprint review, reviewed agile teams estimates for each scheduled monthly release.
• Worked with Scrum Masters to ensure agile teams were allocated correctly in Clarity, and they were within budget at the end of each month; based on submitted allocations.
• Worked with Scrum Masters on monthly forecast variance explanation.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Scrum Masters and Product Owner, onshore and offshore, to ensure agile teams were working on the right product backlog items.
• Ensured project Scrum Masters complete iteration checklist, according to JP Chase project management guideline.
• Joined daily standup and monitored sprint progress, as well as ensured blockers are removed on time by working closely with the Scrum Masters.
• Participated in release and iteration planning, as well as show & tells sessions.
• Worked with Scrum Masters to ensure agile teams were allocated correctly in Clarity, and weekly charges to project were recorded correctly.
• Managed software development projects via the SDLC methodology (Waterfall/Agile).

Confidential

Performed as a ScrumMaster for Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a co-located scrum team of 5 developers, responsible to develop and maintain web-based applications.
• Reported project health and wealth metrics via Dashboard to senior level stakeholders.
• As ScrumMaster, coached the product owner and team to build the product backlog, facilitated the daily scrum, and removed impediments to help team meet the sprint goal.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up, reviews, retrospectives, release planning meetings.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Monitored project budgets, and provided monthly forecast to project sponsors.

Confidential

ScrumMaster for Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for guide 3 project teams of 4, 5, and 10 team members; onshore and offshore.
• Provided real-time guidance and coaching to teams, and efficiently removed obstacles.
• Ensured the scrum teams follow the scrum framework
• Supported the Product Owner by writing user stories and helping prioritize the product backlog

Confidential

IT Project Manager/ScrumMaster for Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Initiated and Managed project to get the company web based EHR system certified with ONC; the Office of the National Coordinator’s Health IT Standards Committee.
• Accountable for managing several 3rd party integrations with company EHR application; including Medisoft, Lab Corp, and others.
• Project management tools used: Rally, MS Project and other MS Office Suite applications.

Confidential

IT Project Manager/ScrumMaster

Responsibilities:

• Initiated a new project to implement a recurring credit card payment solution that allows the company to accept major credit cards as a source of recurring payments.
• Project Management tools used: ScrumWorks Pro, MS Project, Innotas; Project Portfolio management/Application Portfolio Management, and other MS Office Suite applications.