SUMMARY:

• I am a certified Scrum master with many years of experience leading and facilitating software development teams in the delivery of software products.
• I have coached teams to transition from traditional project management methodologies to adopting Agile principles and processes.
• I am proficient in leading Scrum teams in conducting all scrum ceremonies and producing scrum artifacts.
• I am highly organised, delivery focused and valued for the passion I put into my work.
• Driven by success, I am invested in team s, focused on company goals, and take the time to understand and deliver on the needs of key business stakeholders.
• I take ownership whether this means tackling problems or coaching teams through problems.
• I have a ‘Can Do’ attitude towards work and empower others to do their best work through coaching and mentoring, so they can contribute their best work towards the success of the team.

SKILL:

• Facilitator/Servant Leader
• Detail oriented with excellent communication and organizational skills
• Risk and Issue Management
• Manage Agile projects from product conception through release.
• Collaborate with Software developers, product owners, and all stakeholders to understand the expected product functionality and customer requirements.
• Ability to promote self - organizing and Agile practices through empowering and enabling teams.
• Matrix management and coordination of large multifunctional teams by maintaining the backlog, burndown charts, velocity analysis, etc.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities for concurrent initiatives effectively
• Proficient in Jira, Rally, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project
• Experienced servant leader, facilitator, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency.

EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• A servant leader who enables teams to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via effective Lean-Agile practices.
• Facilitates all sprint ceremonies within the Scrum Framework - Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Backlog Refinement, Mid and Retrospectives.
• Ensure team understands the purpose and principles to all Scrum ceremonies, ensuring team is value focused throughout each iteration.
• Acts as a change agent to support continuous improvement of the team and optimize delivery.
• Develops and implements continuous improvement plans. Challenges the “norm” and develops and executes improvement plans in the areas of quality, predictability, and flow.
• Partners with the delivery manager, technical lead, or other stakeholders to understand and advocate for achieving technical best practices.
• Collaborates with Global Technology project managers and product owners on feature-based financials (estimates and spend detail).
• Support cross-team dependency identification, tracking and resolution.
• Works with the product owners on a continual basis to refine and prioritize backlog.
• Participates and significantly contribute toward Agile Release Train (ART). Participate and Plan in ceremonies, such as Agile Release Train Synch, Scrum Master sync, PI planning and Inspect and Adapt sessions
• Utilizes CA Agile Central and other Confidential approved delivery tool and adheres to established standards and guidelines.
• Support and guide teams to achieve sprint and release goals.
• Mentor other Scrum Masters and participate in the community of practice.
• Support the Team to align with the companies DevOps initiative
• Facilitate definition of done negotiations enabling higher product quality and continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD).
• Improve my craft within the Agile community and bring best practices to my team and the Confidential Agile community.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the introduction and adoption of Agile values, principles, methods and practices.
• Responsible for adapting and promoting Agile practices and facilitate all related ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, release planning, demonstrations and retrospectives.
• Coach team members on Agile principles and provide guidance on scrum methodology.
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coach the team and organization to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Foster communication and productive relationships with Product Owners, team members and other stakeholders.
• Manage sprint activities and releases, proactively identifying and resolving impediments to ensure sprints stay on track and project teams remain efficient and effective;
• Monitor team activity and guides workload commitments by maintaining the backlog, burndown charts, velocity analysis, etc.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for globally distributed software development teams that were diligently applying Scrum principles and practices for all scrum ceremonies and activities.
• Facilitates high performing, self-organized Scrum Team, guides software delivery from user story creation to implementation, leverages appropriate software delivery practices to continuously improve software delivery, efficiency and quality.
• Performs peer-to-peer coaching and metrics reporting.
• Act as Scrum Master for assigned Scrum teams, facilitating all ceremonies.
• Assist in removing team impediments, and track and maintain all required metrics.
• Proactively and reactively remove impediments. Ensure root causes are addressed.
• Shield the team from external interferences that can jeopardize sprint goals
• Ensures effective and efficient meetings such as stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, release planning and retrospectives
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Collaborating with team members to in corporate best practices across all phases of the process in the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Identify risk-related issues that require escalation to management.

Junior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide support to project managers across multiple projects of various sizes.
• Perform important administrative functions for the project manager, which might include updating the project schedule, taking minutes at meetings, making phone calls, responding to e-mails and writing progress reports for the project team.
• Provide update reports on progress and maintain project documentations
• Act as a point of contact for stakeholders.
• Provide consistent and periodic project status reports to senior management
• Assist with coordinating cross-functional meetings to create project plans, and other project documents as needed
• Assist with overall project management, including scheduling and communication of status and tasks.