Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY

MBA with PMP Certification and a Certified Scrum Master with over 16 years of progressively responsible experience in various IT Project Management roles.
Managed teams between 10 and 102 individuals on projects with budgets up to $2.3M.
Technical teams include .Net, mainframe, Java, and Adobe, developers. Managed customer and vendor expectations and experiences. Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, ITIL Foundation, and training in Kaizen/Lean Business Practices.
Background in rollouts/deployments, system implementations, quality control/compliance, process development and improvement, risk mitigation, and resource allocation.
Project Management Agile Leadership Team Leadership Vendor/Client Relationship Management Process Improvement Strategic Management Resource Planning & Analysis Business Analysis Requirements Gathering System Development Life Cycle Business Process Re - engineering ERP System Administration

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Windows, UNIX, SQL, COBOL, OS400, Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, JD Edwards, Lawson
Oracle E-Business Suite, and PeopleSoft ERPs; Java, Visual Basic, VBA, HTML, XML, CA Clarity
Microsoft Project, Crystal Xcelsius, SharePoint 2013, Visio, Jira, Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Scrum Master and Agile Coach to multiple teams with independent processes, projects, and levels of Agile maturity.
Projects included coaching traditional teams to understand agile methodologies, defining epics and initiatives of work to be completed, creation of user stories, negotiating an understanding of definition of done between development and business users, and tracking all elements in Jira with a customized Kanban board.
Whilst working on various clients’ projects, maintained project status, open and potential issues, managed business and technical teams expectations, and overall project deliverables.
Kept lines of communications open and clear between all project stakeholders.

Confidential

President / Consulting Project Manager

Responsibilities:

One of three contract Scrum Masters charged with educating, coaching, and transitioning, a team of 102 individuals from a Waterfall process to an Agile centric application development cycle. Introduced concepts of User Stories, the definition of Done, and Kanban board project tracking, for a mission critical payroll processing software suite.

Confidential

Consulting Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Contracted to primarily project manage a team of 6 resources on the configuration, customization, installation, testing, and deployment of an economic development COTS software package for several state economic development agencies. Tasks included requirements gathering, business process analysis, resource planning and tracking, and coordinating project schedules with multiple partners.
Created and initiated plans to transition development team from a strictly waterfall process to an Agile / Scrum based development plan. Time spent coaching team members on how to utilize Agile processes for client systems development. Presented time and cost savings to client management that would lead to increased profit margins on new engagements.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Financial System Manager

Responsibilities:

Took the division’s reporting process from last out of 38 entities to first place in 8 months
Reduced time required to generate monthly financial statements by 60%
Designed a process to reduce operational expense processing costs from $1.3m to $300k
Increased fiscal transparency and understanding between the finance and operations departments.