SUMMARY

• Experienced servant - leader and certified scrum master with a proven track record of successful project oversight, team advocacy, delivering on-time and within budget. A high-energy, proven leader with an innate ability to motivate others, encourage the highest quality work, and to interact with clients of all kinds with mutual respect and commitment to project goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAFe Agile Lead and Scrum Master

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Responsibilities:

• Unify and align upper management, mid-level management, and team levels on the concept of “agile transformation”.
• Organize and facilitate agile transformation initiatives including workshops and community of practice.
• Align and realign team’s vision and mission based organizational initiatives.
• Work with other thought-leaders in developing strategic initiatives to roll out successful implementation of SAFe.
• Provide guidance to multiple agile coaches and scrum masters on how to transition to and operate in scaled delivery environments.
• Help teams navigate through external and internal business challenges.
• Identify risks and opportunities and pass through the ROAM model.
• Assess scrum team maturity across entire enterprise.
• Work with agile enablement team in establishing best practices.
• Set a standardized list of team-level metrics to promote continuous improvement.
• Develop value stream and provide clarity and alignment with Confidential ’s mission and goals.
• Educate management on agile mindset, scrum, kanban, and SAFe.
• Initiate culture shift to an agile environment.
• Create stakeholder map and sphere of influence chart to aid in agile transformation.
• Encourage proper use of metrics from a managerial perspective and provide solutions for improvement.
• Identify organizational impediments and action plan to mitigate.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies.
• Assist product owners in effective backlog management practices.
• Present agile adoption and agile change model to align organization on required elements for successful transformation.
• Servant-leader to scrum teams and organization as a whole.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supports and facilitates one or more teams in agile principles and values as well as best practices.
• Meet with product owner to establish project scope and objective.
• Assists in backlog grooming, release planning, and establishing “definition of ready” and “definition of done” criteria.
• Identify, analyze, and mitigate risk.
• Develops budget forecast and establishes resource requirements.
• Determines team velocity and project health using various metrics, KPIs, and visual aids accessible to entire team.
• Improves product quality and provides consistent, rapid, and valuable product delivery.
• Schedules and facilitates regular status meetings with product owner, stakeholders, and development team(s).
• Strong advocate for self-organized scrum teams, ensure impediments are addressed early and often ensuring client expectations are met.
• Provides an open door policy for all members of scrum team.
• Through mentoring skills, provides guidance for team to work in a healthy and high-performance environment, ensuring motivated and passionate people who cared about their work.
• Develop and manage master portfolio of technology projects for the firm using tracking tool and operational database in JIRA and Confluence.
• Advocate for technical excellence and continuous improvement within scrum team.
• Adheres to scrum framework for day-to-day operations, artifacts, meetings, reporting, etc.

Confidential

Ambassador (Operations, Project and Client Management)

Responsibilities:

• Ambassador to international government authorities, patient advocacy groups, healthcare, educational facilities.
• Media contact, skilled press release and content writer, public relations and public speaker.
• Scrum Master/PM overseeing migration of CMS and CRM to more secure environment.
• Responsible for facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
• Coordinate scrum teams of developers, content writers, QA and compliance/security.
• Coach individuals and teams in clarifying goals and putting words into action.
• Tracking and coordination of project with Kanban and JIRA applications.
• Coordinate patient outreach with strict adherence to HIPPA regulations.
• Manage back-end admin, data governance, website updates and maintenance.

Program Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed overall project plan and logistics for year 3 of Positive results.
• Represent non-profit organization to international funding sources, frequent speaker.
• Filmed documentary chronicling the perils of substance abuse.
• Programed two young Case Western athletes to prepare them for duathlons.
• Documentary submitted to Sundance and other various film festivals to effect meaningful change.
• Key team leader overseeing the training and coaching of new regional directors, volunteers, and administrative staff.
• Recognized for ability to lead, plan, and execute as a role as Project Director.
• Spearheaded crusade to bring awareness to broken rehabilitation system.