PROFESSIONAL S UMMARY:

• Dedicated Servant - Leader committed to embracing Scrum framework of Transparency, Inspection, and Adaption, staying neutral, removing impediments, and protecting the team from outside influence.
• Over 1 6+ years of professional working experience and over 4+ years of leading Scrum teams in complex enterprise environments.
• Participates in all Scrum ceremonies with excellent knowledge of Scrum roles and artifacts. Teaches team various Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAF e and Continuous Development and Integration.
• Experience with lean product development to create re-usable knowledge, develop cross-functional autonomous teams, and visualize key trends.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodology: Agile (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Scrum at Scale and S AFe frameworks), and Waterfall

Tools: TFS, JIRA, Trello, Physical Boards, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Visio, Snag IT

Technical: Java, T-SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, AS400, Swift, VBA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Member of Confidential Agile Community of Practice at Confidential
• Emphasized trust, transparency, openness, and good communication within teams and with business stakeholders
• Coached Development Teams to increase Agile Maturity through continued on Scrum and Agile
• Helped Product Owners groom Product Backlog by having clear Acceptance Criteria, simplify and prioritize all user stories
• Tracked sprint velocity and sprint burndown, used custom Jira dashboards, and assigned user stories to epics and versions within Jira
• Worked closely with Information Systems Project Lead in raising impediments with Quality LAT Jira board and senior management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Guided two Development Teams from zero releases in prior six months to a total of nine releases in the next six months
• Helped teams to release after every three sprints
• Coached Development Team to navigate four different Product Owners
• Development Teams consisted of 50 / 50 mix of onsite and India offshore resources
• Enforced timing and frequency of Sprint ceremonies
• Switched Development Teams from absolute hour estimation to relative user story estimation; reducing waste, improving velocity and flexibility of both teams
• Improved velocity and quality by removing internal Governance roadblocks

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Guided Development Team to upcoming Production release in Feb / Mar 2019
• Confidential Base Upgrade from version 6.0 to version 7.0 (Feb release)
• New functionality allowing suppliers to enter Supplier COA information through ts.com (Mar release)
• Future release focused on debugging and enhancement user stories
• Supported IS Project Lead in navigating change requests and configuration worksheets through Confidential Infrastructure
• Acted as Confidential Infrastructure change coordinator / liaison to ensure QA and Production servers delivered on time and correctly configured
• Guided Development Team to upcoming Production releases early Mar 2019
• Helped Development Team refine and prioritize user stories to user Alteryx, PowerBI, and custom web portal for application uplift
• Overcame impediments related to repeated loss and addition of new Development Team members and two former Scrum Masters
• Mentored Product Owners on value of strategic vision and sprint goals to focus Development Team
• Raised Microsoft impediments with PowerBI Center of Excellence for PowerBI export to Powerpoint issue

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully guided one development team through transition from Waterfall to Agile development
• Protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into Sprint Planning sessions
• Advocated team use Trello to see User Stories online and improve Stakeholder transparency
• Helped Product Owner groom Product Backlog by breaking Epics into User Stories and having clear Acceptance Criteria
• Mentored Development Team on estimating user story points through planning poker and simple algorithms
• Coached Product Owner on creating vivid Sprint Goals presented during Sprint Planning
• Taught Development Team how to properly hold Daily Scrum
• Facilitated team discussions on key Stakeholders test driving software during Sprint Review
• Led Sprint Retrospectives to eliminate wasteful meetings, enhance value adding processes, and minimize non-value added but necessary activities
• Guided team to discover deeper team insights and fail faster, while improving team happiness
• Worked with team to apply Generally Accepted Scrum Practices

Mid-Level SQL Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Deployed code to Production with a 95% success rate without defects
• Worked with business analysts to gather and interpret business requirements for multiple financial and healthcare systems including large data warehouses
• Designed and developed database applications using SQL Server Integration Services, T-SQL and Stored Procedures
• Performed code reviews, analyzed execution plans, and re-factored inefficient code for enhanced performance

Confidential, Irving, TX

Actuarial Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Slashed monthly reporting time by 75% by re-engineering process using SQL and Excel, while ensuring accuracy and quality of results
• Drove business insight by writing ad-hoc SQL queries to assist business users
• Strategic advisor and partner to IT regarding SSAS and OLAP pricing cubes
• Generated custom dynamic SQL code through Excel VBA and executed code in SQL stored procedures

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Actuarial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Improved performance by re-designing portions of large SAS program
• Developed multiple Excel VBA macros / add-ins for Financial Reserving
• Worked with IT to ensure correct implementation of pricing changes