SUMMARY

• Innovative and analytical leader and scrum master with experience guiding Fortune 500 teams and organizations in Agile/Scrum practices.
• Consistently drive scrum team continuous improvement, support and educate product owners, and provide daily coaching to champion successful adoption and application of agile practices.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, discussions, decision - making, and conflict resolution. Promote collaboration with technical leads and systems architects to achieve high-quality practices and technical delivery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

BI Tools: Tableau, Power BI, Oracle BI Cloud Service, Oracle Fusing Analytics, OBIEE, BI Publisher

Applications: EBS, Hadoop, R, SQL, Oracle, Endeca, Microsoft Team Foundation, Jira, Confluence, Rally, HPQC, HP ALM

QA: Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing

Methodology: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Development Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary software development projects from inception to completion
• Professionally facilitate discussions and drive resolution to issues.
• Work with teh Product Owner to ensure project scope does not increase without appropriate coverage (resource, financial, etc.).
• Work with teh development team on a daily basis to execute assigned projects within deadlines and budget.
• Manage project schedules, identify risks and communicate them to project stakeholders.
• Maintain dependency plan between planned sprints across development, infrastructure, and third parties.
• Serve as teh scrum master for teh project team, as required.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Create an environment in which teh team is continuously learning from teh past.
• Develop a roadmap for teh project team in cooperation with product, development and QA teams.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached teh Scrum Team on Scrum principals and implemented best practices.
• Support and educate Product Owners’ to maintain teh product backlog to facilitate teh sprint planning definition, refinement, and scoping to ensure an actionable, prioritized backlog for each team.
• Working closely with developers to ensure they are not blocked and can execute teh process as administered by teh Scrum Master
• Focused on optimizing teh delivery of highest priority deliverables by facilitating teh Scrum ceremonies (me.e.) Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Coordinated solutions implementation and delivery across multiple Scrum Masters and teams.
• Leveraged leadership talents to protect Scrum team from outside influences and remain focused on goals.
• Analyzed functional and technical specification documents and secured customer sign-off.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Recognized as a key technical subject matter expert (SME) and resource in delivering improvements to company’s business intelligence (BI) strategy, processes, technical architecture, subject area design, and user interface (UI) design.
• Governed teh “Definition of Done” process to ensure fulfillment of product and engineering goals.
• Guided teh team on self-organizing to fill in teh intentional gaps left in teh Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Provided support to teh team using a servant leadership style if possible and leading by example.
• Removed impediments or guided teh team to remove impediments by finding teh right personnel to remove teh impediment.
• Targeted teh delivery optimization for teh highest priority deliverables by facilitating teh Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Partnered with developers to complete BI tasks and ensure execution of deliverables.

Confidential, NC

SENIOR TECHNICAL LEAD - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Designed innovative approaches to view and interact with data for analysis and created POCs to show different visualizations using various BI and data visualization tools (Tableau, OBIEE).
• Maintained System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and documentation required by regulatory standards.
• Participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Removed impediments or guided teh team to remove impediments by finding teh right personnel to remove teh impediment.
• Supporting and educating teh Product Owner
• Working with Product Owners to help manage teh Backlog and write User Stories with Acceptance Criteria
• Responsible for managing teh scrum process with teh coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SOFTWARE ENGINEERL

Responsibilities:

• Developed performance dashboards, score cards, metrics, wat if analysis, prompts, drills, search (using add-ons), reports/dashboards for all teh functional areas including Finance and Change Management.
• Designed dynamic and interactive dashboards/reports with intuitive drilldowns, drill-across and drillable charts using Oracle Answers, global-local filters, and page/dashboard prompts using OBIEE.
• Collaborated with developers on all BI tasks and deliverables in an Agile and Scrum Environment.