PROFILE SUMMARY

• Accomplished Servant Leader offering 13 years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects and leading cross - functional teams from design through delivery.
• Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals wif technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate TEMPeffectively wif client executives and their respective teams.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Specialized in team building, agile transformation, agile project, program and portfolio management and agile training/workshop development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile Tools: Rally, JIRA, Rational Team Concert (RTC) and Version One

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, XP, SAFe, ATDD, TDD

PM tools: MS Office, MS Project, Project View, Visio, Confluence, Sharepoint, Planview

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Joined teh project wif a clear vision of meeting extremely tight deadlines and getting teh system stabilized.
• Successfully converted teh team into a high performing agile team by coaching teh team members on agile and setting up teh missing processes
• Managed multiple cross functional teams wif 25 members including 4 Tech Leads, 1 solution architect to turn around dis at-risk project wif extremely tight deadlines
• Worked closely wif Business, key stakeholders, 3rd party vendors, off shore development teams and managed internal workgroups to facilitate timely execution of assigned tasks and deliverables
• Maintained transparency wif teh leadership at several levels including teh Steering Committee by reporting teh exact status & setting teh right expectations
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of statistical data and reporting it timely to teh leadership
• Utilized standard tools and techniques for reporting project performance, including Agile KPIs
• Actively managed Product backlogs, release backlogs and release plans along wif teh Product Owner
• Was responsible for creating and managing project budgets and obtaining funding
• Planned and executed teh biweekly Production releases for teh project
• Organized and facilitated project planning, release planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, story point estimations and demos
• Actively used Project Management and statistical tools like Microsoft Office Suite (Team Foundation Server, MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio), Rally, Sharepoint and Planview to keep teh project on track

Sr Project Manager / Scrum master

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed 4 Agile teams including 2 offshore teams, wifin Confidential, to develop Enterprise webAPIs using RESTful services integrating between Confidential Front end and Altea (new reservation system)
• Key lead in teh design, development and execution of several of teh Confidential website and mobile application releases successfully released between 2014 and 2016
• Actively worked wif teh Mobile application team to identify areas of improvement and implement actions via maintenance updates / releases
• Developed periodic reports to reflect project performance and publicize teh teams’ progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to teh Leadership
• Extensively utilized JIRA to monitor team velocity, product backlogs, and release and sprint progress
• Developed & maintained key project documentation to include teh Release plan, schedule, issue log & risks
• Worked wif Development Center of Excellence (an enterprise Agile Center of Excellence) to design and conduct classroom trainings on various agile topics including Scrum master trainings
• Tracked and reported on all project labor and monitor project costs against teh established budget
• Facilitated monthly ScrumMaster meetups as a knowledge sharing forum for all SMs in Technology dept.

Agile Project Manager

Confidential San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple Scrum teams simultaneously consisting of: Scrum Maters, Product Owners, Functional analysts, QAs and Developers
• Mentored and evangelized scrum to team members and provided constructive performance feedback
• Utilized agile project management tool Rational Team Concert to monitor team velocity, product backlogs, and release and sprint progress
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Facilitated release planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning and demos
• Developed, maintained and provided regular insights into teams’ performance, based on teh interpretation of organizational data, results, and other key metrics as well as Agile adoption metrics for teams

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
• Ensured teh user stories are good, comply wif acceptance criteria and have sufficient business value
• Tracked & reported weekly status, velocity, burn downs and other metrics against goals periodically
• Ensured teh development teams are practicing teh core Agile principals of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Identified & removed impediments, prevented distractions dat interfere wif team’s ability to deliver teh sprint goal
• Scheduled teh Sprint Demos to ensure customer satisfaction

Product Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Product Manager / Owner for various websites in ICAI’s new global standard web portal
• Managed website development and prioritized Product and Sprint backlogs using Rallydev
• Worked alongside teh VP and teh Steering Committee to define long-term roadmap
• Managed development from idea phase by wire-framing user flow, creating Product Backlog and collaborating wif UI designers to develop interface
• Conducted gap analysis to understand teh shortcomings of teh paper based process and evaluated teh benefits of teh new system
• Defined product requirements through 2 major release cycles & managed product roadmap in Scrum env

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif Product Owner on Artifacts like Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndowns & BurnUps
• Coordinated Daily scrums, sprint plannings, sprint demos, and sprint retrospectives
• Provided visibility to team impediments and halped eliminate them
• Guided teh Dev teams to break down large and complex user stories into simplified versions for execution
• Radiated information and ensured team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including teh team itself