SUMMARY STATEMENT

• Experienced Agile coach / scrum master wif extensive noledge on agile transformation wif teh goal of attaining true business agility.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Agile / Lean practices
• Coaching/ training /mentoring
• Business process Improvement
• Facilitation / Reporting
• Team management
• Empathy/ Active listening
• Change Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile Framework: Scrum, Kanban, XP, TTD, BDD, SAFe, LESS, LEAN

Tools: Jira, Version One, Visual Studios, confluence, Jamboards Slack, Trello, Skype for Business, Hangouts, Microsoft Project, Office, Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Coach/ Scrum Master

Confidential, Plano Texas

Responsibilities:

• Coach agile teams on agile mindset, principles, behavior, values, approaches, and self organization.
• Coach Scrum Masters on servant leadership principles to enable increase in team productivity, continuously improvement and collaboration.
• Promote business agility by instigating change and continuous improvement to increase teh productivity.
• Train development teams on metrics for monitoring and communicating key agile performances (burn - down, burn-up, cumulative flow, and velocity).
• Develop metrics for agile maturity, value delivery and team TEMPeffectiveness and work wif agile leads and technology managers to apply them
• Work wif teams on data migration to varied platforms
• Facilitate teams on building UI/UX features to enhance user experience
• Facilitate scrum events ( Sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-ups)
• Negotiating teh project scope and translate requirements into stories for PBI
• Facilitate teams and enterprise towards release management and implementation.
• Prevent and eliminate impediment and assist teh team to meet sprint goals

Scrum Master

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Coached and trained senior leadership on teh adoption of agile and guided teh organization through teh various stages of its agile transformation journey.
• Established, encouraged and supported teh Community of Practice to halp engage, educate and create opportunities for sharing wif one another, learning from one another and contributing ideas dat could improve teh way we worked.
• Fostered a collaborative, cross-functional environment in which to build great products, solve customer needs, and continuously improve
• Collaborated and facilitated activities to foster agile transformation to meet business agility.
• Identified needs and trained delivery team as needed on agile/lean practices
• Worked closely wif product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery.
• Develop and maintain team standards, tools and best practices to reduce development time.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Performed process improvements and implementation of new methodologies for software development and project management.
• Facilitated teh creation and prioritization of Product Backlog, establishing Sprint goals and Sprint Backlog during teh Sprint Planning Phase.
• Removed any impediments and re-prioritize Sprint Backlogs as required
• Managed risks and dependencies to remove impediments to rapid progress Product Release.
• Managed team capacity, maintaining velocity and sprint metrics.

Scrum Master

Confidential, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed team capacity, maintaining velocity and sprint metrics.
• Collaborated wif teh Product Owner to provide maximum business value.
• Addressed impediments, risk, dependencies on every sprint
• Introduced Estimation technique (Poker Planning) to assist teams understand teh complexity of user stories.
• Coached and trained agile teams to TEMPeffectively use teh Scrum framework.
• Managed software development life cycle and ensured all work was completed wif regards to business recommendations.
• Reduced development time by developing and maintaining team’s standards, tools and best practices.
• Facilitated and managed all scrum ceremonies and related performance metrics.
• Prioritized product features tasks and develop user stories
• Communication and managing team’s velocity and sprint / release progress.
• Manage technical conflicts wifin teh development life cycle

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage technical conflicts wifin teh development life cycle
• Used waterfall best practices to ensure requirements are delivered on time, scope and budget.
• Developed statement of work (SOW) and other related contract documents.
• Defined and documented detailed project requirements, constrains and assumptions along wif stakeholders.
• Ensured stakeholders involvement and management throughout project life cycle.
• Managed and coordinated work wif various departments to ensure project milestones are met and communicate project status to stakeholders
• Performed integrated change control processes.
• Led Change Control Board, developed processes to ensure changes were TEMPeffectively tracked, reported and implemented wif minimal disruption to project scope.
• Developed and maintained contractor relationships in order to support bid solicitation, review and award of contracts.
• Prepared and maintained construction schedules working wif field operations to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Managed all project noledge areas to ensure projects are delivered on time, scope and budget.
• Continuously monitored and controlled projects throughout teh project life cycle.