PROFILE:

Agilist, Coach, SAFe PM/PO, Certified Scrum Master, and Analyst. I enjoy serving various roles to assist departments, teams, and executive leadership in the successful delivery of quality software using Agile - Lean processes. I enable teams by supporting iterations, simplifying delivery, and assisting department process flow that builds toward their Minimum Viable Product. I coach, listen, learn, and enable.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Strong with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile / SCRUM, RAD, LEAN, Kanban
• Administrator of: JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, SharePoint, Confluence, Google Suite
• Managing experience: AWS Transformation, .Net, PHP, JavaScript, UI, and Mobile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Chief Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned six-teams into newly created DD365 Beacon Dealer experience to allow for greater efficiency by leveraging Agile delivery.
• By coaching the teams daily to adopt LEAN principles into their discipline, the overall experience improved their delivery efficiency while reducing waste of schedule, re-work, tech debt, and mini-spikes.
• Dealers were delivered quality usable software with proficiency by incorporating direct feedback loops to all team members.
• Experience Sprint reliability increased from 29% to 80%.
• Leveraged the use of JIRA Portfolio to identify strategic road-mapping, ordering of issues, and realistic capacity planning to give stakeholders a realistic vision of when goals would be accomplished
• Worked directly with newly transitioned Product Owners to coach the concepts of Agile Product Owner responsibilities, LEAN and efficient planning, as well as story writing using Gherkin syntax for increased code efficiency
• Agile Coach / Chief Scrum Master for high level initiative that leverages reactive micro-services, Cassandra, and Kafka
• Conducting sessions with all teams who had never worked within a scaled framework or used Story Mapping for near and long-term planning
• Working across departments to assist other experiences in their delivery of software by establishing DevOps Kanban and POD Scrum Boards that assist in their success
• Assisted cross department Scrum Masters and Agile coaches to address upcoming needs and goals to improve the Scrum Master and Agile community as a whole

Confidential, Plano, TX

Manager, Agile Transformation & Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• Agile Coach and Scrum Master for Confidential AWS Transformation and JAVA teams for the delivery of all Inbound and Outbound Applications.
• Worked directly with Product Directors and Sr. Managers to coach them on the vital use of JIRA Portfolio for the purpose of strategic planning.
• Delivery Manager for auto-loan prequalification product embedded on third-party car dealership websites.
• Our teams were responsible for platform architecture, security maintenance, and development of software applications.
• Sr. Scrum Master for full-stack engineering team that created scalable, distributed architecture for integrating and authorizing auto-loan prequalification widget on additional third-party websites. Components were deployed in AWS and designed to be able to receive and forward traffic in multiple AWS regions.
• Initiated AWS Shared Technology Scrum Master C.O.P. by conducting weekly sessions to develop the competency of our agile practitioners
• Fostered the transition of engineering practices to achieve ATDD s
• Transitioned teams to adopt Gherkin phrasing for story writing and collaboration

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided Agile coaching of new practitioners in the delivery of iOS Mobile App and Embedded Software Development
• Delivered GAP analysis for the conversion of IT Department to Agile Scrum and SAFe
• Provided and coaching of Agile to Program Managers, and executives

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated SAFe Release Train that included 7-Agile and 1-SDLC teams
• Lead Scrum team to enhance their positive Agile metrics using Microsoft TFS
• Velocity 36 pts. To 44 pts. Per sprint
• Commitment of 77% complete to 98% complete

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated deployments, scheduling of resources, environment readiness, produced pre-release documentation, and authored post-release notes
• Resolved project issues, mitigated risks, and managed scope change requests
• Provided weekly status reporting on project Key Performance Indicators

Confidential, Richardson TX

Co-Leader

Responsibilities:

• Gave weekly to Project Managers for their better understanding of Agile
• Nurtured creativity, enablement, and self-organizing responsibility within the team while embracing excellent quality standards and test-driven development concepts

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with economic decision making by facilitating Epic estimation by teams and roll-up to program level visibility
• Managed release scheduling while supporting the Technical Backlog Owner in updating the day release roadmap

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Established Agile / Scrum management process to help matrix team meet sprint goals using MS Project
• Worked with Engineering (internal and outsourced), Sales, and Executive Management to build, publish, and deliver PHP, Java, and SaaS projects

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Established process descriptions in Confluence
• Managed and reviewed all Change requests that ensured Product Owner and all stakeholders were updated on amendments and strategy

Confidential, Austin, TX

Scrum Master / Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Trained Project Managers and executive leadership on Agile Delivery, Story Mapping, and lean documentation
• Worked with clients to establish requirements for enhancements and new functions
• Established PMO Vendor Relations Plan

Confidential, Houston, TX

Agile Coach / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Team in establishing and documenting processes, policies and procedures
• Developed Critical Policy Initiatives: Employee Handbook, Critical Communications Directive, Continuity of Operations Plan, and General Service Request Policy

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager / Senior Lean Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Presented d Confidential analysis to Senior Management (Directors and Vice-President) from the SharePoint WSS that audited implementation
• Scrum Master for 14-month project team covering North America and Puerto Rico
• Identified Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) in the development of scorecard tracking

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

• Directed SDLC development of MS Excel d Confidential base program for distribution, tracking, and inventory of large-scale Laundry Services.
• Enhanced Visual Basic / MS Access tracking program for employee attendance while reducing issues of over-inventory and backlog.