SUMMARY

• Accomplished and results - driven Scrum Master & Project Manager, Business Analyst, Professional Coach and Consultant with over 20 years’ exemplary experience in the implementation of business solutions, business processes and project management gained from Healthcare, Natural Resources, Construction, Airlines, Financial, Direct Sales, Internet Marketing, Confidential, Computing, Food & Beverages, Telecom, Communications, and Professional Services industries within the public and private sectors.
• Proven strong business acumen with broad understanding of business needs, project requirements, problem solving and its strategic direction with ability to identify and implement initiatives to meet strategic goals. I have over 6 years’ experience as a Scrum Master in multiple industries.
• I am adapted at coaching, mentoring, planning, communicating well with others, calling & facilitating meetings, organizing projects & information, fixing problems, providing reports and leadership also meeting or exceeding objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database/Management: SAP, PMA, dBase, Clearcase, Access, DDTS, Dropbox, Innotas, Service Now, Jira, Confluence, Rational Team Concert, Rally, Version One, OnTime

Skilled with: utilizing over 200 applications for creating and customizing application, planning, tracking projects and working virtual or internet environments, with knowledge of SAFe.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential - Irving, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Serving as Scrum Master for the implementation of IT projects due to new, enhanced or integrated functionality as well as the introduction of new product offerings.
• Initiating, planning, coordinating, executing, controlling, and closing project activities with multiple agile teams.
• Defining and verifying scope, developing project plans and timetables, and creating roles and responsibilities matrices.
• Developing work plans for each subproject/department and preparing summaries for management review.
• Executing and maintaining project plans; reviewing, tracking, monitoring and reporting on project status; identifying, tracking and resolving issues by proposing viable solutions.
• Calculating, mitigating and monitoring risks, creating contingency plans and advising management, as appropriate.

Scrum Master & Analyst

Confidential - Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Translated high level objectives into feasible, testable, measurable functional specifications conducted gap analysis and root cause analysis to identify underlying needs and opportunities.
• Acted as an analyst on a scrum team as well as a Scrum Master as needed for requirement gathering for the product backlog and for facilitating sprint meetings.
• Worked closely with the business and IT teams to deliver the project goals while, communicating with the customers Technical Architect teams, Business and Project technical teams.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Scrum Master for Product team with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work for portfolio management.
• Implemented Agile and traditional project manager techniques to scope, plan, budget, and resource programs and projects.
• Worked with the product owner and the stakeholders to understand the scope, suggested improvements to the requirements, etc.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.
• Monitored the project progress and reported the information to stake holders.
• Organized stand ups and scrum events as and when required, ensuring the team adheres to practices and rules also shared knowledge with the wider teams, coached and developed colleagues, so that they adopt, understand and appreciate the scrum methodology.

Scrum Master & Senior Business Analyst

Confidential - Frisco, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Worked with IT and business side to review existing business requirements and formulate the functional component requirements associated with the multiple releases of 10 different software implementation projects for traceability and identifying gaps in requirements and with deferred defects from previous release implementations.
• Providing training, lead teams through agile practices and ceremonies and transition into an advisory role as team maturity grows to influence and change behaviors.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential, Frisco, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Created the AS IS and TO BE process workflows for identifying rules prioritization gaps and improving alignment of Rules Compliance Governance throughout the organization.
• Developed project plans and accountable for the budget, timeline, gap analysis, business requirements analysis and status reporting for each of these integrated partner installations taking into account any Compliance, Regulatory and Legal obligations to align the integration needs accordingly.
• Facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning.

Scrum Master and Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned and monitored project spending/budgeting, and guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget for all Confidential projects.
• Prepared and coordinated project proposals and schedules.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings. Implemented scrum framework and company vision within organization.
• Educated others outside the teams about how the teams are worked and removed impediments to the teams’ progress.
• Assisted with internal and external communication and improved transparency.
• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team

Senior Business Architect and Business Development & Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, analyzed and evaluated project plans for website development and Internet Marketing.
• Worked closely with company executives to define and document company policies and operating procedures.
• Managed the process of implementing cloud based applications for development and operations.
• Transitioned the development teams from waterfall to agile/scrum methodologies.
• Setup scrum teams and agile tracking tool for the Product and Sprint Backlogs.

• Designing, developing and implementing solutions for individuals, businesses and local communities for business development, economic development, organizational development, personal development and community development.