SUMMARY

• Passionate about collaborative software development from value driven principles. Have assembled and developed highly efficient agile teams and deployed test harnesses that are effective, repeatable to ensure coverage for mitigating costly risks in production. A proven leader, with strong communication and organizational skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master / IT Release Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned and coordinated Program PI plans in line with business strategic vision and help product owners organize centralized backlog for sprint assignments and events using MS Project and Salesforce. Facilitated multiple daily standup’s for team status and facilitate resolving reported blockers or impediments reported to either be triaged or resolve immediately
• Coordinated and reserved all relevant resources for associated scrum events
• Worked with System Architecture and engineering to understand foundational requirements for each PI
• Ensured that development, test, beta/full production environments are properly configured based on application user test versions
• Negotiate with the teams and management regarding scope changes, republish milestones and associated deliverables
• Coordinate System and Regression testing are planned as part of PI to either be assigned as part of a scrum team task or be assigned separately
• Published DevOps release assignments/rotation
• Coaching Product Owners and Development teams, DevOps regarding team norms, self organization, cadence, sequencing dependencies, system testing and automation
• Scheduled planning activities with Dev, Product and QA team to prioritize backlog assignment for the next release
• Managed releases for over 30 financial products composed of application feature updates, bugs, hardware upgrades, browsers, mobile devices and/or associated integration testing, DB upgrades, etc.
• Communicated release details via release notes to all business units and stakeholders as a deliverable
• Managed post implementation support issues, TRIAGED these issues for prioritization and or resolution as required to ensure that customers can do their work
• Communicated release plans to the business units and external vendors to set expectations so that coordination and training happens and timed appropriately
• Worked with IT Teams and DevOps coordination on existing release related items already in the pipeline
• Prioritized and Applied process improvements taken from post release / lesson learned / retrospective feedback

Scrum Master

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Organized all of Scrum formal events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective) for 2 teams
• Worked with Architecture, Devteam to ensure we sequence development dependencies so Scrum teams do not encounter contentions designing and efficient workflow when work involves common code/threads
• Reported team velocity based on statuses reflected on JIRA for the Discovery website’s (Discovery, AnimalPlanet, TLC, Velocity, ScienceChannel, etc.) scheduled sprint tasks for new features, API feeds, eCommerce, Analytics, published creative’s and videos
• Removed team impediments to focus on completing tasks usually reported in the daily standups
• Evangelized Lean processes, and advocating continuous improvement through retrospectives developing team efficiencies and mitigating risks through continuous testing and integration
• Worked with the product owners in grooming, prioritizing and sequencing backlog to feed the PI (Product Iterations) goals as it related to sprints
• Coordinating associated final verification review and approval from the product owner before marking the sprint done/complete
• Coaching team members regarding Scrum, SAFE framework and associated Values to improve team interaction and delivery effectiveness
• Communicated sprint completion to release management for scheduling via Change Control (Change Advisory Board) meetings
• Participated in the selection of tools for the automated build and continuous application delivery system to maintain and support the development and test environment to match production, including the automation of production deployments
• Headed the planning and automation of product features from regression suite using Selenium testing framework to perform web application testing across various browsers and platforms like Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Led the design and planning of the Quality Assurance strategy for the Confidential online web presence on various browsers and mobile platforms in iOS, Android, Windows Phone etc. for (Discovery, AnimalPlanet, TLC, Velocity, ScienceChannel, etc.)
• Participated in the design of the automated build and continuous application delivery system to maintain and support the development and test environment to match production including the automation of production deployments

Consultant/Proprietor

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Established Networking and hardware peripherals including their preferred Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for medical clinics and facilities, following Health Insurance Portability and AccountabilityAct (HIPAA) guidelines
• Developed relationship and marketing strategies for prospective customers
• Provided and Implemented best practice methodologies that were re-useable for future system enhancements and product updates
• Participated in Analyzing business requirements from business owners so that appropriate testing procedures were created and set in place, ready to be executed for software acceptance
• Wrote test cases and executed functional and regression testing for various applications and reported results to the business

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing Business Requirements and functional specification deliverables for the various products to ensure that appropriate test plans were created, including associated execution estimates for project management
• Developed and Executed Test Cases in accordance with the requirements and specifications, and reported on expected and actual test results
• Performed functional and Regression testing of the application
• Escalated defects to management when it met certain severity criteria
• Tracked the issues in Jira and reviewed issues based on canned reports with the QA Team
• Attended the product walkthrough with product managers and developers as a place to ask questions on requirements specifications