SUMMARY

• Outstanding record of highly focused, Agile/Agile transformation capabilities with emphasis in Scrum and application development at Confidential, medium sized and small companies.
• Exceptional Scrum practices and delivery with talent for establishing and communicating vision, motivating and empowering teams and individuals to achieve remarkable sustainable results.
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and enacted by all team members.
• Efficiently guides self - organizing teams, facilitates ceremonies including stand-ups, planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives.
• Ensures that the Scrum team adheres to Scrum theory and practices.
• Skilled in using Agile practices beyond Scrum and leveraging pragmatism gained through real world experience.
• Evangelist of agile/scrum principles that encourage team members to meet, improve and exceed client expectations.
• Led enterprise Agile/Scrum development of adaptive content feeds for iOS and Android mobile applications for Confidential .
• Launched Web properties using Agile/Scrum for Fiserv, a financial technology solutions company with over twenty thousand employees (NASDAQ:FISV). Fiserv.com and bankintelligence.fiserv.com.
• Developed and launched Web properties with the Agile/Scrum methodology for Bank Intelligence Fiserv, a financial technology solutions company with over twenty thousand employees (NASDAQ:FISV). Fiserv.com and bankintelligence.fiserv.com.
• Developed and implemented Agile/Scrum product roadmaps, backlog, Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective for Autotrader mobile app projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Guides management team on the selection of candidate projects to be executed in Agile.
• Working as a servant-leader specifically on the integration of Dell Boomie, Sharepoint, and Kimble PSA project.
• Guiding the team in the use of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).
• Coaches sponsors, managers and team members in Agile/Scrum.
• Supports product owner write clear, concise stories/acceptance criteria and clear verbal communication to Scrum team members.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily Scrums).
• Inserts development team processes where needed as Scrum gaps allow.
• Enacts change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 40% and the quality of deliverables by 90%.
• Empowers teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality skills.
• Protects team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs.
• Support queue is addressing and resolving user issues within 24 hours over a response of 40 hours.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups.
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.
• Tracks and communicates team and project/product progress to management team.

Confidential

Owner / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led multi-platform content distribution engagement for Confidential, the largest broadcasting system in Mexico and Latin America.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies for mobile application projects (Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Sprint Planning) in two-week iterations.
• Led team self-organization of on-shore, off-shore Scrum team.
• Led Scrum of Scrums.
• Removed impediments and identified mitigating risk during each sprint.
• Tracked and managed team velocity, sprint burndown metrics and release progress in Version One.
• Facilitated release planning.
• Interfaced with senior management to report burndown and project progress.
• Implemented and fine-tuned Jira with Jenkins integration.

Confidential, GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led Agile/Scrum Master efforts for the development of car dealership B2B and B2C mobile iOS/Android apps.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating successful size and complexity planning.
• Guided multiple teams in Scrum best practices.
• Mentored product owner in the communication and organization of mile stones.
• Implemented backlog, user story writing and issues tracking in Jira and Confluence.
• Effectively tracked impediments against user stories.
• Enabled self-organization of on-shore, off-shore Scrum teams.
• Interfaced with senior management to report burndown and project progress.
• Implemented and fine-tuned Jira with Bamboo integration.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Enabled team self-organization of on-shore, off-shore Scrum team.
• Managed multi-platform content distribution project for the largest news website in the World ( Confidential and company brands).
• Resolved complex issues and show stoppers by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads.
• Educated the product owner in user story syntax and acceptance criteria.
• Mentored the extended team on the Agile/Scrum framework and best practices.
• Managed Agile project reporting with Rally.
• Implemented and fine-tuned Jira with Jenkins integration.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Introduced team members including product managers, project managers, and BAs to their roles in a Scrum managed environment.
• Implemented backlog, user story writing and issues tracking in Jira and Confluence.
• Implemented and fine-tuned Jira with Jenkins integration.
• Worked with application managers, stakeholders & system level subject matter experts to drive the efforts of the project team for retail based project.
• Acted as Scrum Master for ongoing development projects.
• Managed Agile project reporting with Rally.
• Provided technical & professional leadership, guidance, & training to project team members