EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Accomplished Scaled Agilest Scrum Master(SASM) with extensive experience in Agile framework and organizational change leadership practices. Display strong experience in overcoming organizational challenges of transitioning to Agile methodology from traditional project management and development. Demonstrate strong team player and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across organizational levels and effectively deal with a team comprised of both local team members and off - shore team members
• Leverage expertise in conducting analysis to recognize issues and develop effective resolutions; performing scoping to address business and technical needs. Exemplify strong ability to grasp new things quickly, as demonstrated by seamless transitions made between several technologies, tools, and libraries both in development and project management roles.
• Demonstrate ways to employ and model a variety of agile methodologies, practices and tools including techniques for improved communication between management and technical teams, methods for evaluating effectiveness by minimizing technical debt, and methods for assessing most effective forms of delivery to the business.
• Reduce technical debt and create transparency across 5 technical teams utilizing Java, Scala, Pyspark, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, JIRA, Confluence and Remedy.
• Coaching Scrum teams towards more effective user and technical story creation.
• Establishing a more Agile onboarding process for newly acquired developers normally taking 4 weeks to acquire all accesses to 1 week being fully functional and compliant.
• Collaborated with Product Owner to best reflect business priorities on roadmap for better clarity.
• Maximized PI Planning through personal interactions, games, and engaging processes rather than a computer screen.
• Created a platform for QA to best express concerns and expectations to dev teams, PO’s and business clients.
• Trained Scrum team on splitting stories, Definition of ready and Definition of Done practices.
• Increased velocity by 38% through relative sizing, story writing and deploying increments into production more frequently to minimize depreciation and the cost of delay.
• Created transparency during retrospective meetings through games, and building trust across platforms and teams.
• Expertise developing and implementing “Best Practice” policies and procedures that provide full operational accountability, ensure ongoing data integrity and continuously challenging development teams to understand all criteria of project goals and expectations.
• Ability to identify needs, explore options and communicate effectively with clients, management, end users, programmers and technical staff; manage ongoing systems development and facilitate change over process; conduct training and prepare effective documentation.
• Experience with technical writing, editing, testing and publishing military and civilian systems training manuals and user guides.
• Serve as consultant and technical expert on instructional systems design, adult learning theory, principles of education and training, and concepts of blended learning as a strategy for designing instructional and training delivery systems.
• Analyze clients training program for theoretical soundness of design and selection of appropriate instructional methods and learning models currently accepted in the field.
• Lead and participate in design or redesign curriculum development projects to ensure adherence to organizational theory and infusion of emerging technologies.
• Ability to perform detailed process flow analysis whereas identifying and correcting communication and process bottlenecks from order entry through final shipment.
• Expert skill level with most business applications including Word, Access, Excel, and Power Point.
• Assisted the Rand Corporation as primary consultant for both congressional and senatorial projects regarding best practice and procedures within several government programs resulting in house floor acknowledgements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Effectively coach and promote Agile methodology across enterprise scale platform data cloud engineering groups while introducing JIRA, Scrum, Kanban as replacements for waterfall style workstream.
• Conduct daily stand ups, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meetings for scrum teams utilizing best practice methodologies.
• Facilitate scrum methodologies across multiple petabyte scale teams specializing in backup and recovery for digital repositories/data lakes.
• Configured JIRA/Confluence/SharePoint team sites to enhance visibility across multiple silos within the platform.
• Coach executive level stakeholders on executing tracking processes from Clarity to JIRA and simplifying data.
• Organizing and appropriate new teams structure to define and execute organizations needs and goals most efficiently.
• Facilitate Agile adoption for enterprise level financial organization while implementing executive level leadership involvement.
• Conduct daily stand ups, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meetings for scrum teams utilizing best practice methodologies.
• Manage two technical scrum teams consisting of both on shore and off shore developers creating asset, credit risk, exposer and loss forecast data for large scale reporting sourcing.
• Coach teams by tracking progress in JIRA daily, burndown charts, recording team’s retrospectives in Confluence and creating a forum to openly address dependencies and impediments.
• Increase end user report data by re-evaluating QA testers productivity and implementing Test-Driven Development(TDD) while also making end of sprint demos mandatory to include both business users and team.
• Coach new product owners on best practice procedures and created transparency across the Agile Release Train(ART) using weekly scrum of scrum meetings.
• Encourage involvement/communication between technical leads, product owners and release train engineers on as needed basis to mitigate unnecessary regular meetings.

Confidential

Lead Scrum Master/SAFe Agilist

Responsibilities:

• Conduct daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective for scrum teams utilizing several methodologies.
• Introduce and recommend strategies like Continuous Integration(CI) Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development(TDD), Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP) to drive and maximize project performance and minimize delivery timeframe.
• Facilitate Product Owner responsibilities when needed while maintaining business alliances and updating management on product roadmap progress and scope.
• Manage 2 technical teams to include 20+ personnel from 3 of the largest technical companies globally to provide on time projected goals for the largest company/retailer globally.
• Reduce technical debt and create transparency across 5 technical teams utilizing Java, Scala, Pyspark, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, JIRA and Confluence.
• Manage 20+ technical experts from three Fortune 100 companies to successfully integrate security nodes and protocols from a 3-billion-dollar acquisition while minimizing technical debt and finishing months ahead of projected goal.
• Support process improvements to better align organizations with fundamental best practices and procedures.
• Facilitate Scrum of Scrum meetings for on and offshore technical and management teams.
• Protect scrum/technical teams from distractions by removing impediments at all levels.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to manage scrum/technical team dependencies and ensure project goals are met.
• Partner with Product Owner and Business Analyst to ensure corporate wide understanding of project goals, scope and time tables.
• Delegate work flow evenly among teams for best possible outcome to stakeholders.

Confidential

Scrum Master(SASM)/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Initiate protocol for Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and safety training curriculum for law enforcement agencies across the United States and contributed to Executive Order 13688 of the Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition Act.
• Format daily stand ups to provide updates to team members regarding work flow.
• Coach team members through sprint retrospectives on how we could improve future tasks.
• Reduced time and money to over 350 agencies through agile coaching, scrum practices and creating transparency.
• Protect scrum/technical teams from distractions by removing impediments at all levels.
• Design, implement and instruct Vehicle Safety and Operational Training Protocol to 600+ federal, state, county and local law enforcement entities throughout the United States resulting in POST credit for students.
• Meet weekly to update and collaborate with executive/senior level management to determine course material/curriculum around each agencies specific objectives/requirements to include PowerPoints, hands on discussion/explanation, and end of course evaluations.
• Collaborate with state agencies to include 1033 Program Managers and staff, Federal Law Enforcement Standards in Training Managers to assist in across the board best practice policies and procedures safety regulations.
• Aid state government officials in the acquisition of equipment through the 1033 Federal Program by means of statistics, cost value initiatives, and documentation/verification of training.
• Handle equipment transfers logistically from issuing depot to acquiring agency to include routing, roadway maintenance, trouble shooting, and department initiatives.
• Supervise and manage training team with travel, course material, evaluations, policy and procedures.
• Assist in media relations of several police agencies including two state universities and one large metropolitan school district regarding value/needs assessment of equipment acquisition.
• Direct team movement from home station to client’s location including travel, training, filing required paperwork and meeting quality assurance mandates.
• Train Military and DoD personnel as directed by the Government on the MET Egress Program, PEO STRI, PM Ground Combat Tactical Trainer (GCTT) has a requirement for CLS, which consists of MET Egress Training Equipment Maintenance, and New Equipment Training.
• Present classroom theory and hands-on instruction that encompasses organizational maintenance and all operational criteria of the MRAP Series of vehicles.
• Develop and prepare course curricula, lesson plans, student guides, and audio/visual aids in support of lesson material and examinations.
• Assist and support a System of integration of Government furnished A & B Kit components including the Underbody Improvement Kit (UIK), Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS), Boomerang, Rhino and SPARKS onto MATV variants IAW Government furnished Level III TDP Installation Instructions.
• Conduct maintenance tasks for MRAP series of wheeled vehicles in as directed by the Government.
• Advise and assist in performing maintenance of wheeled vehicles.
• Instruct and coach personnel in technical matters on performing maintenance of MRAP wheeled vehicles
• Maintain proficiency in troubleshooting procedures.
• Conduct and assist unit personnel in operator and maintenance procedures at field site.
• Support Training at MRAP University as a lead instructor on all variants.
• Install/Test MRAP Upgrade/Retrofit Kits.
• Conduct On-Site Training at CONUS or OCONUS locations.
• Battle damage repair/component repair.
• Capability/configuration, retrofit, sustainment maintenance.
• De processing and QA checks, GFE installs.
• Joint MRAP life cycle collaboration as directed by JPO/Government.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Director of Acquisitions

Responsibilities:

• Supervise team in researching, analyzing, implementing, reviewing and submitting applications for a GSA Schedule 073 contract using Government Submission of Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) criteria.
• Evaluate market share opportunities within our schedule to forge our company into the marketplace with proposal price listings above and beyond market expectations.
• Maintain contracts ranging in dollar value to over $1 million+ and range in scope from providing fuel, grease, chemicals and lubricants for DoD and military services.
• Substantiate vendor procurement concerns/issues through GSA mediation and other various forms of defense acquisition protocol.
• Identify and analyze acquisition process problems, trends, and emerging needs. Formulate and justify new statutory initiatives to address unique problems, to meet newly emerging acquisition needs, and to resolve critical procurement process problems.
• Pre-Award, Post-Award and Termination Activities such as: analyzing requirements, recommending revisions to statements of work/specifications, determining the appropriate type of contract, establishing milestones, procurement planning, conducting post-award and contractual terminations, initiating briefings with contractors to ensure full understanding of terms, handling modifications, resolution of issues related to non-compliance, and the termination process.
• Develop, implement and analyze data requirements for planning and measurement systems.
• Analyze performance of procurement activities against various procurement indicators and goals.
• Assist in tracking/monitoring contract actions to ensure compliance with GSA policy, administrative procedures, regulations, and statutes.

Confidential, CA

MRAP NET Instructor

Responsibilities:

• Present classroom theory and hands-on instruction that encompasses organizational maintenance and all operational criteria of the MRAP Series of vehicles.
• Develop and prepare course curricula, lesson plans, student guides, and audio/visual aids in support of lesson material and examinations.
• Conduct maintenance tasks for MRAP series of wheeled vehicles in as directed by the Government.
• Advise and assist in performing maintenance of wheeled vehicles.
• Instruct and coach personnel in technical matters on performing maintenance of MRAP wheeled vehicles.
• Maintain proficiency in troubleshooting procedures.
• Conduct and assist unit personnel in operator and maintenance procedures at field site.

Confidential

Supply and Logistics Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Direct day-to-day operations including distribution, logistics, shipping/receiving, accounts payables, and inventory management for mission critical aircraft parts.
• Assign to Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during Operation Southern Watch to ensure mission capability functions at optimum levels.
• Research and resolve operational and customer service issues.
• Provide movement control support for the surface and Air movement of cargo and personnel through the U.S. Military Transportation System.
• Responsible for receiving, validating and processing all Transportation Movement Requests (TMR), Joint Movement Requests (JMRs) and Air Movement Requests (AMRs) for the personnel and equipment transiting, originating and terminating assigned MCT Area of responsibility.
• Coordinate between several governmental entities to ensure efficient, timely and cost effective support to the customer.
• Identify and troubleshoot problem areas in movement and recommended solutions to management.
• Work closely with customers to ensure desired movement objectives, priorities and that schedules are met and communicate to management.
• Provided 24-hour, 7-day a week customer service to two sortie generation flights supporting 27 KC-135R/T aircraft.
• Verified, processed, and tracked issue requests and mission capable parts (MICAPS).
• Was in command of a 20 person team who monitored, organized, and inventoried mission capable aircraft parts valued at 18 million dollars of warehouse stock levels for administrative, air base defense, and classified equipment.