SUMMARY

• PMI - PMP, Certified Agile Project Manager (ICP-APM), Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM), Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), Certified Agile Team Facilitator (ICP-ATF) who is skilled strategist with ability to plan and manage various size projects by aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive effective product development, process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communicator leveraging managerial, technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with teams, clients, management and executives.
• Agile/Lean enthusiast who fortifies his theoretical knowledge and learning by applying Design and System thinking principles with empirical trial and error experimentation, leading by example, and challenging the status quo.
• Highly experienced in multiple Predictive/Iterative/Adaptive Lifecycle Product Development/Project Management methodologies and frameworks.
• Highly motivated, organized and results and detail oriented with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Proven capability of adapting to new and fast changing technologies.
• Have successfully been engaged in agile product development, omni-channel solutions, user-centered design, prototyping, analytics, data-driven solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: Waterfall, RUP, Agile (Scrum), Kanban, XP

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose

Requirement Management Tools: JIRA, Rational Requisite Pro, SharePoint, Peregrine

Prototyping Tools: Axure RP, InVision

Defect Tracking Tools: MS TFS, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Test Director

Business Applications: Microsoft Office Suite - MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Project Management Tools: MS Project, SmartSheet, Confluence

RDBMS: MS Access, SQL Server

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Programming Skills: SQL, HTML, Java Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Agile Project Manager/Agile Team Coach

Responsibilities:

• Leading the overall approach for the membership program and product delivery, including major time frames and the definition of its major deliverables to address and meet the desired goals and outcomes of the key stakeholders/customers.
• Defining product scope, goals and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management, portfolio managers and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicating program/product expectations and progress to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion to ensure key issues are aired and resolved.
• Coaching, mentoring, motivating and supervising product team members and vendors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability.
• Developing and delivering progress reports, metrics, proposals, presentations.
• Ensuring measures are taken to increase quality and mitigate risk, including risk analyses, impact assessment, code reviews, test planning and execution, fallback plans, and deployment plans.
• Acting as an advisor, and building and maintaing relationships across the wider stakeholder community.

Environment: Agile (Scrum), Kanban, SalesForce (CRM), SmartSheet, MS Office, MS Visio, Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence), Google Analytics.

Confidential, Roanoke, VA

Agile Project Manager/Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coaching 2 teams to reach their full Product development potential by using Agile/Scrum, Kanban principles to frequently deliver business value.
• Coaching teams on how to get most of out self organization and how to independently and methodically come up with solutions.
• Removing impediments, as well as guiding/teaching the teams how to remove impediments by themselves for self-sustainment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where opinions are welcome and appreciated, and problems can be raised without any fear of negative connotations.
• Guiding/Partnering with Product Owner in a thought-provoking process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
• Coaching the Product Owner with his role especially on User Story writing, as well as grooming and maintaining the Product Backlog to elicit end-user generated solutions and strategies.
• Facilitating planning of work without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work, but empowering the team to make and act on decisions.
• Coaching teams on benefits of built-in quality through XP recommended practices and facilitating it’s addition to Definition of Done and Way of Working.
• Worked with internal stakeholders, primarily with Store Systems and Operations, to identify business needs, gather requirements, develop user stories and acceptance criteria, and proposed business solutions.
• Created easily interpreted user stories and acceptance criteria based off of requirement gathering sessions/user story workshops.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to ensure user requirements, stories, and acceptance criteria are well understood.
• Worked with the UX team to ensure final UI/UX met the requirements and business needs.
• Identified end to end requirements for all systems and business units that may be impacted.
• Coordinated with architects and developers to design technical solutions.
• Coordinated user acceptance testing with business users.
• Communicated limitations or challenges with existing or proposed requirements/processes.

Environment: SAFe, Agile (Scrum), Kanban, XP, SalesForce (CRM), TDD, BDD, MS Office, MS Visio, BPMN, MS TFS, Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket), Jenkins Build Server, JAVA, Java Script (AngularJS), InVision, Google Analytics, Tealium.