SUMMARY

• Seasoned Scrum Master with 7+ years of experience; 12+ years of PMP Project Management experience.
• Delivery of projects by following agile ceremonies and coach, mentor team along the way.
• Experience of adopting various methodologies to implement Agile Framework - Scrum, Kanban, SAFe.
• Expertise in resolving impediments that arise during sprints.
• Delivered programs worth up to $24M with business partners & technical teams based across the globe.
• Prepared and presented many ‘Business Case(s)’ & ‘Return on Investment’ (ROI) artifacts.
• Defined success criteria and created program charters, detailed WBS, resource & financial plans.
• Global resource planning, business analysis, architecture/design, QA strategy, deployment Planning.
• Established the annual calendars for iteration and program increments.
• Driven cross team, ART and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination.
• Driven delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity.
• Implemented key process improvements to ensure optimal productivity across the agile release train.
• Understand domain architecture and upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Facilitated Scrums of scrums.
• Provide daily leadership and coaching to scrum masters, team members to apply scaled agile practices to achieve business success.
• Encouraged scrum/Kanban team and train-level quality practices to apply XP Practices for Achieving High Quality Code - including Agile architecture, and continuous integration.
• Kept track of external dependencies and manage these dependencies while planning.
• Driven agile ceremonies on time e.g. System demo, Inspect Adapt workshops.
• Reported ART status to relevant stakeholders.
• Driven continuous improvements & risk management.
• Execution Responsibilities of the Agile Release Train Manager.
• Facilitated release planning readiness - vision, backlog and facilities.
• Provided input on resourcing at train level.
• Synchronization within and across Release Trains.
• Drive the Product Owners, Product Managers, scrum/Kanban teams to facilitate release planning preparedness (defining and refining backlogs) to ensure that each release train has an actionable, prioritized backlog.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile Certified | Agile Coach | E2E SDLC Management | Communications Management | Financial Management | Product Launch
• SAP Program Manager | Scrum Master Project | Program Management | Strategy Management | Portfolio Management | Cross team delivery
• Servant Leadership | Release Management | Product Owner | Stakeholder Management | People Management | Leadership/Delivery Management
• Risk/Issue/Change Management | Reporting/Communications Management | Financial/Budget Management | Client/Vendor Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serves as Scrum Master for up to three agile teams.
• Program Agile Coaching on SAFe, Agile, Kanban, and Scrum for Product Management.
• Manage and optimize the flow of value through the program using various tools, such as the Program Kanban’s and information radiators.
• Establish, Facilitate and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PI) .
• Aggregate Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency.
• Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings and Escalate and track impediments.
• Encourage the collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects.
• Develop and maintain scorecards. Work with business partners to track and report benefits and impact of the program and disseminate success stories.
• Engage directly with stakeholders to define mission value and prioritize work and build intellectual capital in Agile techniques.
• Help to guide and manage the ART and the teams through the delivery of software and services, embracing and casting the Agile mindset across client spaces.
• Provide guidance in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe and leads Agile delivery teams consisting of a mix of organization and possibly contractor/vendor staff.
• Work with program architects and champions to design deployment roadmap.
• Work closely with team to support resources through their respective life-cycles.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serves as Scrum Master/TPM for Onsite and Offshore agile teams.
• Facilitates Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Responsible for Breaks down barriers and shields the team from impediments precluding engineers from making progress against sprints and deadlines.
• Worked within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
• Managed and tracked team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports.
• Updates Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product and Sprint Backlogs in order to measure & monitor against the team’s commitments.
• Facilitates discussions and manages conflict resolution effectively.
• Engaged with Product Owner, Business Stakeholders, and delivery team to understand Business needs and identify appropriate solutions.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serves as Scrum Master for up to three agile teams.
• Program Agile Coaching on SAFe, Agile, Kanban, and Scrum for Product Management.
• Advising on Program level improvements using a pragmatic and strategic approach.
• Coordinating Business and Technology to merge client data between all lines of business.
• Strategic budgeting on this initiative (2.6 million dollars)
• Establishes and upholds agile values and principles including collaboration, fostering a culture of openness, team self-organization, continuous improvement and flexibility to adapt to emerging business needs.
• Facilitates Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Establishes agile backlog tracking, burndown metrics, and velocity and task definitions.
• Focuses teams to deliver value quickly through iterations.
• Coordinates across other Agile and traditional teams for complex projects.
• Escalates and/or resolves impediments to help your team ship code on regular intervals.
• Tracks and communicates team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Updates Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product and Sprint Backlogs in order to measure & monitor against the team’s commitments.
• Facilitates discussions and manages conflict resolution effectively.

Confidential, AZ

Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Implementing continuous planning with agile/scrum to have better integrations with continuous development for various projects.
• Setup a systems from scratch for continuous inspection to reduce a technical debt and improving software quality.
• Implementing continuous integration and delivery practices for the project in order to improve the software quality, reduce the cost and immediate software delivery.
• Participated in project planning sessions with business analysts and team members to analyze business IT Requirements and translated business requirements into working software.
• Coach the Product Owners in Agile, especially with regards to preparing User Stories and prioritizing the Product Backlog.
• Acted as Scaled Agile Framework Release Train Engineer for Nine high-performance ScrumXP teams.
• Coordinated delivery of development (beta) and production releases that meet quality assurance standards.
• Authored and managed all aspects of scrum documentation including; sprint backlog, burn down, team roster, velocity, ROI, etc.
• Experience coaching, teaching and guiding teams to adopt the Scrum methodology.
• Provide instruction and training to software development teams in the area of agile software principles.
• Ensured team delivered required functionality on time by resolving roadblocks, e.g. access to remotely-hosted source code change control system.
• Ensured demos are prepared for presentation.
• Managed sprint team issues, risks and mitigation plans; work with management team to resolve issues that must be escalated.
• Tracked and communicate team velocity and sprint progress.
• Compiled and presented post-sprint performance reviews, recommends changes to improve sprint performance.
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Business Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developing and sustaining effective new business relationships with accounts/clients and independently handle staffing business & manage the team.
• Analyze performance results to drive improvements in the program.
• Monitor the competitive and changing landscape to help inform strategic planning.
• Develop and implement ideas to streamline and improve the efficiency of our business development processes and systems.
• Dive deep into data. Able to communicate to internal and external stakeholders what is impacting their business.
• Understanding of how content rights are managed and be able to navigate the industry.
• Process focused, able to create and maintain best practices and understand how to develop deep relationships nurture them to success and drive revenue growth.