Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach Resume
Bentonville, AR
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Results driven Agile professional with over 15 years of proven leadership experience in the Military and IT industries. Highly organized and efficient in fast - paced multitasking environments. Serve, build, and empower teams to accomplish objectives with creativity, enthusiasm, and humor. Trained in Agile Methodology and transitioned from military leadership to civilian leadership to be a servant leader and change agent.
TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS SKILLS:
Agile Processes and Mindset
JIRA Expert
SAFe 4.5
Mentoring / Coaching
Confluence
Scrum
Servant Leadership
Microsoft Office Suite
Kanban
Critical Thinking
Visio
Project Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Bentonville, AR
Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach
Responsibilities:
- Regularly support 20+ UX designers/researchers with over 10+ projects in 10+ business areas
- Function as a project manager and Agile consultant for the UX team
- Evangelize Agile mind-set and practices for fast UX research-led design results
- Facilitate Scrum/Kanban practices for team alignment
- Track metrics for value driven decision making
- Lead relentless improvement through onsite Agile workshops/
- Conduct workshops on best Agile practices
Confidential, Lafayette, LA
Scrum Master Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a change agent for the organization in adopting and transitioning to the Scaled Agile framework from Waterfall methodologies to build high quality products and high performing teams.
- Lead Agile teams at different maturity levels to identify areas for continuous improvement to include: automated testing, quality code reviews, backlog grooming improvements, and process delivery improvements.
- Serve as a leader and coach through standing up new Agile teams and achieving 100% committed vs. completed Program Increment Objectives.
- Took the initiative to create a collaboration and visual platform for integration developers across 17 teams to break down dependencies and elevate the program velocity by using retrospectives, team agreements, knowledge sharing repositories.
- Create standardized information radiator used across the program for total transparency into the program health to inform decision making.
Confidential, Bentonville, AR
Scrum Master Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Lead teams through 5 complex projects consisting of 50 - 60 team members (Onshore and Offshore).
- Liaise between the business stakeholders and the development team managers and directors.
- Provide guidance to troubled teams struggling with meeting tight deadlines on critical deliverables.
- Provide project direction as a Servant Leader to teams with consistent leadership turnover.
- Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog, project timeline, and deliverables.
- Tracking performance issues through routers, firewalls, and network servers.
- Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.