SUMMARY

• An Enterprise Leader, Enterprise Agile Coach, Transformation and Change Enablement Lead wif over 15 years experience
• A PMP/CSM/SAFe Program Consultant lead wif experience cutting across teh various phases of an operational lifecycle in IT Consulting.
• 13 years’ experience as an exceptional lead Program/Project Manager, wif experience managing SDLC, Cyber Security, Agile, Web development, Application development, Infrastructure, Financial and Conversion Projects while mitigating risk and managing cost successfully.
• Robust Management career wif strong leadership problem solving, coaching, planning, team building and project management skills.
• Experienced in implementing and maintaining projects in various industries while ensuring they adhere to Governance, Risk and Compliance Standards
• Motivated leader experienced in leading multi - functional teams across all levels of teh organization to drive teh implementation of Client/Business requirements to operational excellence, wif a strong focus on customer retention, revenue growth and Service level management.
• Teh ability to handle complex issues independently and provide necessary feedback and resolution strategies to management.
• A Consulting Professional Agile Leader collaborating wif all levels in house and virtually using distributed Agile and wif clients to ensure successful deployment of solutions to meet client or business needs
• An Agile Coach wif experience coaching teams, Business and Executive Leadership in Release Trains in a Scaled Agile Framework Environment (SAFe)
• Managed projects using different development methodologies such Waterfall to Agile, Agile and Lean
• Several years’ experience as an Agile Coach, Transformation Leader, Scrum Master, Project manager, Product Owner Delegate, Implementation Manager and Testing Liaison in teh Healthcare, Telecommunications, Finance/Banking, Cloud Hosting, Data/Information Management and Content Management industries
• Experienced in Coaching and Enterprise Transformation Confidential all levels
• Exceptionally skilled in Organizational Operational, Change Management and Transformation tools

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Rally
• TFS (Visual Studio)
• IBM RTC
• Unix
• SQL
• Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hartford, CT

AGILE PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Responsibilities:

• Member of teh Agile Center of Excellence and Coach Community of practice to promote consistency in teh adoption of Agile.
• Serve as a member of teh Agile leadership team
• Mentor other coaches and provide organizational strategic oversight to coaching staff and organizational leaders
• Provide training to organization on Scrum and SAFe topics
• Coach Teams, Business Units and Executives on all levels of teh Scaled Agile Framework and Agile to help them identify how to integrate SAFe in their current roles and Scale teh organization
• Assist wif Team DevOps integration into their product lifecycle
• Help Organization identify where DevOps practices can be adopted in a cost-efficient manner
• Actively involved as an embedded coach to teh Team, Program and Portfolio wifin teh organization
• Participate in Coach’s call-in line to answers questions on any Agile related topic
• Coach several Scrum teams and coaches wif various levels of maturity in Agile
• Work wif members of teh Organization daily to refine Features and Epics, decompose User Stories, Update Tasks accurately, conduct teh ceremonies and remove impediments
• Work one on one wif various levels of teh organization to provide individual role specific coaching
• Facilitate teh weekly Scrum of Scrum calls wif teh Release Train Engineer to understand and have visibility into activities and dependencies wifin team
• Act as a liaison between teh Scrum Teams, Teh Executive Management, Stakeholders and Teh Business Clients
• Assist RTE wif facilitation during Program Increment planning Confidential offsite locations as well as aiding participants

Confidential, Hartford, CT

AGILE COACH

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coaching teh members of teh Enterprise Integration and Applications teams on Agile Principles using Scrum and Scaling teh Enterprise using SAFe
• Coach several Scrum teams wif various levels of maturity in Agile on how to implement teh Agile methodology using Scrum
• Work wif Scrum members of teh Scrum Teams daily to refine Features and Epics, decompose User Stories, Update Tasks accurately, conduct teh ceremonies and remove impediments
• Provide oversight direction on blocking issues resulting from dependencies on internal, external and executive teams
• Worked wif DevOps Lead to identify and implement DevOps practices to help teams improve development, testing, Integration and deployment practices
• Act as a liaison between teh Scrum Teams, Teh Executive Management, Stakeholders and Teh Business Clients
• Instrumental in helping executive leadership understand teh Transformation process and how they could support teh teams

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Mobility & Uverse Lead Scrum Master/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated teh servant leader approach while dealing wif Scrum teams to get best results
• Facilitate estimation meetings during using teh relative effort estimation techniques
• Coach team members on Agile principles and Gather/report all relevant Agile metrics
• (burn down charts and team velocity) to product owner and business stakeholders
• Senior Web Application scrum master for Clarify releases, enhancements and maintenance
• Lead/Application Scrum Master/Project Manager for Mobility & U-verse Annual Releases
• Managed over 40 medium to extremely large projects/programs Confidential Confidential. Budgets ranging from $200k - $3M
• Manage Project Budgets and Financials monthly to stay wifin provided financial limits and guidelines
• Managed project teams wif 50-100 members using waterfall methodology or Scrum of Scrums and successfully delivered project goals wif minimal issues

Confidential, Norcross, GA

AGILE COACH & SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Coached teh team on Scrum team composition & organization
• Facilitated Sprint planning exercises such as planning poker and Confidential shirt sizing
• Conducted Release Planning
• Guided team on stand-up protocol and reporting
• Determination of artifacts necessary to support regulatory or compliance activities dat are external to Agile or present impediments in form of dependencies to teh Scrum team
• Management practices for tracking of Technical Debt, backlog and blocked tasks
• Test Driven Development and domain Driven Design
• Promote management best practices for remote teams, team members
• Maintain project, program management interaction, product development interaction
• Collaborated wif external teams to derive working agreements on deliverables scrum team
• Coach individual team members through conflicts, proper use of Agile and impediments

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Scrum Master/change lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead Project Manager for Agile PILOT program for Mobility CRM
• Responsible for setting up Rally tool and assisting SCRUM team in getting familiar wif teh Agile methodology
• Managed teh ITUP Agile activities in PRISM to comply wif ITUP requirements
• Spear headed teh Agile change for teh project team by acting as teh SME on ITUP Agile
• Successfully accelerated teh time to market for 2 critical projects wif a 7-month lead time

Confidential, Lawrenceville, GA

Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Lead Implementation Manager for Confidential & Confidential Mobility 4G and LTE 2.3.1 Calico Network implementation project
• Facilitated daily stand up meetings for Agile projects and tracked Agile metrics such as burn down charts and velocity measurements
• Managed Upgrade windows and Traffic moves from live and Greenfield Confidential & Confidential sites
• Work daily wif Network Engineers and Project Managers wifin Cisco and Confidential & Confidential to build and adhere to Confidential & Confidential processes and procedures.
• Plan and execute activities before, during and after network integration and testing of Confidential & Confidential zones
• Responsible for sprint planning and coaching team members on using rally
• Accountable for budget variances and risk analysis to ensure teh project is on time and wifin budget