SUMMARY

• Experienced Agile Coach; SCRUM Master; Project Manager; Excellent user interfacing skills; Business Systems Analyst; experienced in requirements gathering both one on one and in JAD sessions; understanding of all phases of the development life - cycle (SDLC - Agile, SCRUM, RUP, Waterfall); and established technical abilities within the IT industry.
• Client interfacing skills; interpreting the user and IT needs into vision, strategy, approach, implementation and release plans.
• JIRA; Microsoft’s TFS (Team Foundation Server); SQLServer; Balsamiq; Confluence; ORACLE DBA; SQL; SQL*PLUS, PL/SQL; MS Office; MS Project; Dimensions; SharePoint; Rational Tool Suite; Mainframe including: TSO, COBOL, JCL,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Nashville

Responsibilities:

• Defined and built consensus on an Agile SDLC, working with the IT Department and the PMO to finalize the process
• Formed; Coached, and Trained the SCRUM teams
• Implemented Agile and SCRUM; sized User Stories, creating Sprints, added User Stories to Sprints; SCRUM Master for multiple SCRUM Teams
• Used JIRA for defining User Stories, creating Sprints, adding user stories to sprints, tracking Sprint progress; facilitated daily stand-ups; User Story Sizing sessions; Sprint Planning sessions; Sprint reviews; and Sprint retrospectives

Confidential,TN,

Responsibilities:

• Coached management and teams in all things Agile,
• SCRUM Master 8 - 12 person SCRUM Teams,
• Projects were on-line eMarket, Shopping,
• Conduct daily stand-up, sizing meeting, planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospective,
• Tracking, mitigating, and eliminating issues and impediments,
• Working with clients and end users gathering and documenting business requirements,
• Used TFS,
• Managing User expectations,
• Weekly reporting to Senior Management,

Confidential, TN,

Responsibilities:

• Working in an Agile / SCRUM team environment, SCRUM Master,
• Projects were for tablet based insurance,
• Tracking, mitigating, and eliminating issues and impediments,
• Facilitated daily stand-ups, sizing, planning, sprint review, retrospective,
• Used TFS,
• Working with clients and end users gathering and documenting business requirements,
• Facilitating JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions,
• For Mainframe applications: Worked with IT to develop and document Technical specifications from business requirements,
• Created and worked toward project plans and budgets,
• Managed User expectations,
• Adjusted project plan, budget, workload for changes in scope to project,
• Weekly reporting to Senior Management,

Confidential, NH,

Responsibilities:

• Coached Product Owners and teams in Agile processes and procedures,
• Project Manager / SCRUM Master on Development Projects,
• Facilitated Daily Stand-ups, Sizing, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives,
• Used TFS,
• Worked with internal / external customers and vendors to define requirements for new and system modifications to Fuel Management, Financial and Credit Card Systems,
• Created the User Story Product backlog from requirements,
• Worked with QA team to define testing requirements and test plans,
• Created Project Plans to track progress and cost benefits working toward budget,

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Coached teams in Agile and the best ways to implement Agile,
• SCRUM Master for two SCRUM Teams new development efforts,
• Gathered Business Requirements from stakeholders, create user stories,
• Used TFS,
• Ensured the User Stories had detailed requirements for sizing,
• Created Wireframes from the user requirements to further define requirements,
• Coordinated QA, UAT testing,
• ICD-9 to ICD-10 Conversion,
• Worked within the organization to generate processes and structure within the WEB Team / IT organization,
• Developed standardized templates for project documentation (BRD, FRD, Use Case, etc.),

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed project plans, schedules and budgets; maintained staffing levels, using MS Project,
• Leaded SOA projects within the banking industry,
• Managed vendor projects plans and schedules
• Facilitate JAD sessions (user requirements meetings) and document requirements from those sessions producing user stories and storyboards; made presentations at all levels and kept management advised of status; developed detailed specifications for the development teams and produced business and process flows diagrams in Visio for the entire design,
• Developed data models and database schema for the back-end ORACLE databases. All requirements where added to ReqPro; connected to a CR and all code modules had to have a CR assigned for development,
• Created use cases from the user stories and assisted in user testing of developed applications,
• Agile: Defining sprint content, facilitating meeting sessions, and tracking progress with developers, users, testers and BAs,
• Wrote SQL queries to validate data while performing research and analysis,

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Defined the Agile Process, Cocahed Product Owners and Analysts to define and prioritize the Product Backlog,
• Worked with customers, clients and stakeholders to determine and document user requirements,
• Coached SCRUM Teams,
• Used TFS,
• Created detailed Use Cases to help valid user requirements,
• Removed roadblocks,
• Acted as SCRUM Master,
• Facilitated ceremonies; i.e. Daily Stand-up, Sizing meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective,
• Recruited and managed staff including performance evaluation,
• Managing vendor project plans and schedules,