SUMMARY

• M.S. - level educated Information Assurance and Security wif a broad set of skills applicable across different sectors and roles.
• Having been a Scrum Master, I can successfully (and concurrently) coach and lead multiple teams using agile methodologies.
• Enthusiastic in agile practices as teh means to build happy and TEMPeffective teams, delivering business value early and often. Highly skilled in resolving conflicts and problems for teams while helping them to resolve future occurrences. Committed to improving life quality on teh individual and social level.
• Keen Attention to Detail. Accurate, reliable, and diligent. Always complete projects/tasks wifin budgets and schedules. Ca handle any ongoing challenges.
• Agile Skills: Decomposing features into User Stories, helping teams become self-organized, TDD, CI, Pair Programming, Automated Testing, engaging retrospectives, and Ceremony facilitation. Proficient in Rally, AgileCraft, Confluence, Scrum, Kanban. Working knowledge of Jira.
• Soft Skills. Proficient in Creative solutions, Cross-team Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Communication, Facilitation, Time Management, Empathy, Active listening, Observance, Open Mindedness, creating a safe space, and able to understand people’s stance.
• Systems Utilization and Technology Skills. Proficient use of Windows and Unix/Linux operating systems, well versed wif Jenkins, REST, ReadyAPI, Splunk, etc…

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for multiple teams ensuring teams are practicing teh core agile principles regarding collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Facilitated Scrum or Kanban events, as needed. Recommended changes to help increase teh productivity of teh Scrum Team(s) and adapted either Scrum or Kanban methodologies based off team needs.
• Facilitates Initiative Scrum of Scrums to help identify dependencies and while creating a healthy environment for Product Managers, Development Team Members, and Development Managers to negotiate time and scope.
• Acted as a Jira Admin for teh organization to create projects, dashboards, reports and questions for all JIRA related services, while suggesting improvement overall processes, workflows, screens, fields to showcase risks and dependencies
• Served teh team by exposing impediments, coaching teh team on impediment removal, and partnering wif leadership on removing impediments outside teh capabilities of teh team.
• Coaches Agile Teams on successful story decomposition by making large items small, deliverable chunks of work.
• Facilitated training for teh organization on showing Agile Teams and individuals on how to write good User Stories wif good Acceptance Criteria, story mapping, introduction to Scrum or Kanban teams, teh roles of an Agile team, and how to understand how teh ceremonies are best served for teh team and teh importance of introducing feedback loops and addressing that feedback.
• Committed to making work and progress visible by introducing WIP limits to both teh overall organization and teh Agile teams.

Sr. Scrum Master, SASM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Helped in teh transitioning to SAFe as an organization and being a Scrum Master for multiple teams (Systems and Dev)
• Helped build teams and help them in their understanding of Scrum and wat that looks like to them
• Facilitated teh PI event and/or Release Planning along wif other team ceremonies to help identify dependencies and creating a healthy environment for Product Owners, Development Team Members, and Stakeholders to negotiate time, scope, and budget.
• Coaches Agile teams on Agile Software Development practices such as Pair Programming, TDD, CI, XP, etc.
• Served teh team by exposing impediments, coaching teh team on impediment removal, and partnering wif leadership on removing impediments outside teh capabilities of teh team.
• Coaches Agile Teams on successful story decomposition by making large items small, deliverable chunks of work.
• Teaches Agile Teams how to write good User Stories wif good Acceptance Criteria following INVEST model. Committed to making work and progress visible to both those on teh team and those outside of teh team.

Sr. Systems Integration and Automation Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Efficient in test Automation Strategy, Automation Test planning and Tool Evaluation.
• Set-up teh current architecture used for automation using Jenkins Pipelines (Blue Ocean) / GitLab Pipelines for continuous delivery, ReadyAPI (SmartBear) for test case development using REST APIs/Scripts, Splunk for data analysis/health.
• Developed automation test suites for DISH on various cross-platform applications for Web, Mac/Windows, Android/iOS using Squish, Selenium, REST, ReadyAPI, etc.
• Adept at using both manual and automated testing tools to troubleshoot systems, integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and regression.
• Converting business requirements, user interface specifications, and user requirement specification documents into test plans and test cases. Liaise wif developers, business analysts, and user representatives in application design and document reviews to rigorously test product functionality and investigate all potential product test failures.
• Designed and executing manual test plans and test scripts for complete modules and/or workflows and user interfaces. Ability to communicate ideas and work wif others in a collaborative environment

Intern

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif a team of professionals in teh design and development of small- to enterprise-level software solutions.
• Updated and maintained models and frameworks that facilitate Web Development / Programming. Participated in teh development of rapid prototypes to facilitate product development efforts. Assisted in problem solving activities associated wif hardware and software.
• Explored new technologies that may impact teh way work is done at Seward and/or teh products created. Provided analysis of projects to determine projected work effort.

Graduate Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted professors wif numerous research projects for teh Information Systems Department and presented findings during seminars.
• Teacher Assistant in which I helped grade projects and /or tutor students having issues wif projects. Held workshops to train students over various Microsoft and UNIX software and works wif both setting up and installing systems using Virtualization techniques such as VMware to help ensure integrity.