SUMMARY:

• A leader, who will be able to provide disciplined coaching, strategic enterprise transformation planning and support, and organizational change management services.
• Who share a passion for solving the challenges associated with implementing agile at scale.
• A solid track record of agile transformation, training and mentoring teams and senior leadership at the enterprise level.
• Coaching and mentor agile team members on agile standards and standard methodologies; ensure consistent best practices acrosswork - streams for the last 10 years.
• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information for continuous improvement.
• Train teams and conduct workshops in the application of agile and lean principles in software and IT application
• Coach Key roles such as scrum masters, product owners and engineering managers to become more effective problem solvers.
• Build a community of agile champions practitioners and enthusiasts that promotes learning by sharing
• Facilitate a culture of openness, transparency, and experimentation, and honest introspection, continuous improvement, learning and sharing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: SAFe Frame work Scrum, SAFe 4.0, Rally, Jira, Kanban, XP, TDD, PMBOX, ITIL, Green & Black Belt SAFe upholds four Core Values: alignment,built-in quality, transparency, andprogram executionCoach/ Trainer:

Tools: SharePoint 2007, MS Project, MS Office suite, Salesforce.com (CRM), Team Foundation server (TFS), Quality center, Rally Life cycle management

Technology: Microsoft ASP.Net, C#, VB.Net, SQL server. Oracle, Java, Open source, Web Logic, MAXIMO Asset Management7.0, SAFe 4.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Coach/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Transferring skills and knowledge of guiding to teams on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to become self-organized
• Leading a team of over 20 ageists, of scrum and SAFe initiatives, including a full SAFe 4.0 of over 200 people, and also provided executive coaching and enterprise strategy
• Partner with Product Management to achieve maximum project return on investment and meet project objectives
• Create and maintain release burn downs, velocity projections and project forecasts in order to create project visibility and enable timely project adjustment
• Ensures Sprints are delivered on time, adhere to quality standards and meet customer expectations.
• Responsible for overall management of assigned projects, including coordination across departments/divisions, status monitoring and reporting, and stability of projects.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Scrum Master/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coached new SM and trained global teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
• Conducted Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Decreased Scrum cycle time by 85% through grooming and planning improvements
• Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
• Maintain and report against relevant metrics (i.e. burn down and velocity, etc.)

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Scrum Master Coach (SAFe)

Responsibilities:

• Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
• Worked with Senior Management, Business & Release Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning.
• Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team thru the project management processes.
• Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Championed Agile concepts & methodologies outside of the software development teams, leading to the adoption of Agile
• Led and coached Product Owners to improve story writing & requirements gathering process, leading to an increase in customer
• Aligned expectations for all projects / deliverables by establishing and managing cross-functional stakeholder teams representing 100+ end-users
• Worked with multiple agile teams to foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement

Confidential, Bronx, NY

Sr. PMO Director / Scrum Master/ Coach

Responsibilities:

• Lead and sustain the transformation to a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), for a multi-year, multi-hundred million dollar transformation.
• Defining processes, staffing, roadmaps, tool selection and enablement, training, train enablement, etc. full lifecycle of agile engagements (Scrum and SAFe) delivery model at Medical Center with faster, incremental release of business capabilities. Develop a standard agile framework that includes training, adoption and alignment on methodology.
• Establish standards, tools, libraries and development resources around leading edge practices. Ensure standardization to reduce complexity costs as well as sharing of best practices.
• Spearheaded implementation of Scrum transformation for the Order Fulfillment Group. Partnered with leadership to understand business goals, build an implementation plan, develop and conducted training (JIRA + Scrum basics) and implement Scrum across 10 teams in six month period.
• Led program management activities for multiple geographically disperse teams for organization Medical Center in a newly established SAFe framework. Ran all Scrum ceremonies at a team and program level across multiple projects to monitor progress, manage risk and provide transparency to stakeholders.

Confidential

Sr. PMO Project Manager/ Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Project Manager and Scrum master, implemented the scrum framework while coached scrum teams and managed and prioritizing the product backlog.
• Coached the agile team (Product Owner and Lead Developers) along with Business Analysts.
• Creating work items in the TFS, grooming and creating user stories, prioritizing and determining story points based on the complexity of every user story.
• Tracking burndown to determine velocity, as well as providing PMO support in managing project schedules and plans, budgets and project executions.
• Facilitated sprints (sprint planning, demos, and daily stand-ups). Worked with the Product Owner in prioritizing user stories in the product backlog (backlog grooming).
• Used various agile tools such as TFS, Rally and JIRA.
• Reduced product pipeline defects by 75% through TDD (test driven development).
• Managed sprint backlog, tracked and produced key metrics (e.g., burndown, burnup, cumulative flow, velocity, etc.).
• Implement transformation drivers, goals, priorities, and metrics with internal stakeholders and the Enterprise Agile Coaching Team.
• Responsible for coordinating with the Enterprise Agile Coaching Team across sites to understand progress, identify issues and ensure we are presenting cohesive solutions.
• Coach internal stakeholders in approaches for handling transformation blockers and opportunities.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver two weeks training programs in (Prince2) that provide knowledge and confidence to assist all project managers ensuring that assigned projects are defined, developed, tested, documented, and implemented following policy and standardized time lines.
• Setup PMO Structure (Work Streams, Steering Committee, Reporting Requirements); Dashboard Development, Maintenance and Reporting; Milestone Integration and Dependency Planning; Issue/Risk Tracking, Negotiate with functional managers regarding resource availability, workload, and performance to obtain commitment from users, vendors, and systems to implement assigned projects.