SUMMARY

• Over 12 years of experience of IT and Agile experience. Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5.0), SAFe Agilist (SA), Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), and Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
• Train teams in Agile methodologies and oversee the development of agile teams ensuring TEMPeffective outcomes for the organization.Responsible for guiding teams through the Agile implementation process; encouraging teams and leadership to embrace the agile methods;
• Educated and mentored team members and developed agile adoption strategies. Increase collaboration, predictability and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.

PROFESSIOAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/RTE |

Confidential, North Carolina

Responsibilities:

• Launched new Agile Release Trains (ART).
• Responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features for the Program and the value delivered by Agile Release Train (ART).
• Guide and coach teams on the Agile Release Train on Scrum practices and develop their understanding of Agile principles.
• Focused on serving the needs of the train to drive performance and growth.
• Define norms/agreements for the ART and enforce the agreements, such as the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done.
• Coordinate and facilitate Program level and ART ceremonies; Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, and Inspect and Adapt.
• Facilitated PI Planning events, including managing the time boxed agenda coordination key reviews and decisions ensured results are recorded on the Program board.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager, ensure the program has a healthy product/program backlog and execution strategy.
• Facilitate dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the ART.
• Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments.
• Provide status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART.
• Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.
• Mentor and coach Scrum Masters and development team.
• Reported out metrics that provided visibility to stakeholders on the ART progress.
• Ensured ART adheres to Enterprise Change Management Standard regarding releases and deployment events.

IT Manager /Scrum Master

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and SAFe Scrum Master (SSM).
• Participated in the Agile Transformation and Agile adoption; ability to effect change at all levels as a SAFe Agilist.
• Coached teams to embrace Agile values and principles and implementing Agile practices.
• Coached Executives, Leaders, Managers and Teams on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in the practices.
• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies, including the daily stand - up, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Review, Iteration Planning, Team Demo, and Iteration Retrospective.
• Train and guide teams in estimating the team’s velocity, calculate team metrics, and assist the team to use the metrics to guide relentless improvements.
• Maintain the team’s work items in the appropriate tools, such as Jira and Confluence.
• Support the Product Owner in the communication of priorities and scope, develop roadmaps, and execution.
• Created an environment where the Agile teams feel valued, supported, and empowered to make discussions.
• Mentored and provided hands-on support for all teams continually offering feedback and strategies for improvement.
• Resolve impediments and protect the team from distractions.
• Monitored sprint progress and progress towards release plan using release burn-down/burn-up charts.
• Created an environment where the Agile teams feel valued, supported, and empowered to make discussions.
• Managed risk, dependencies and addressed critical bottlenecks/impediments.
• Provided strategic-level leadership regarding information security risk and recommended innovations which anticipate the future directions of the business.
• Ensured daily operations within Enterprise Information Security align with sound risk management practices.
• identified and assessed key risks and controls and developed TEMPeffective test plans for engagements.
• Identified and appropriately escalating operational risks that exceed risk appetite.
• Led and provided strong guidance and direction to the security engineering teams.
• Developed and implemented program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics.

Scrum Master & Agile Coach

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Launched new Agile teams, transition from Waterfall to Agile development.
• Accountable for managing and optimizing the flow of value for the Agile Release Train.
• Provided coaching and training at the program and team levels on Agile, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, ATDD, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Demo, Retrospectives, etc,).
• Empowered teams to self-organize, self-manage, and grow cross-functionally.
• Created a culture of relentless improvement within the teams to focus on continuously improving its solutions, products, and processes; Plan, Do, Check, Adjust (Inspect and Adapt).
• Collaborated closely with the Product Owner (PO) with respect to managing the product backlog.
• Work to remove all impediments and obstructions that impact the team’s productivity and progress.
• Managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.
• Created and reported metrics (burndown, burnup chart, velocity, etc.) and communicated the team progress to the Product Management and Stakeholders to give visibility into the ART progress.
• Created Product Roadmap and delivery deadlines, breaking down high level business objectives into workable deliverables/Epics into executable user stories.
• Conducted conflict resolution session with the team focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.
• Identified risks, dependencies, and potential issues and proactively looked for solution to address the risk in advance.
• Safeguarded the scrum team from outside interference and distraction, so that the team can remain focused on delivering the best value to the business.
• Performed various agile roles, including Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, where needed.
• Managed program level cadence and program level ceremonies (PI Planning, Scrum of Scrum, PO Sync, Inspect and adapt, IP Sprint)
• Facilitated PI Planning events, including managing the time boxed agenda coordination key reviews and decisions ensured results of planning are recorded.
• Ensured Agile teams adheres to Enterprise Change Management Standard in regard to releases and deployment events.

IT Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical advice, guidance, and recommendations on IT systems for Confidential .
• Ensured that all network and system components are properly installed, configured and maintained.
• Ensured application compliance in support of information security & information assurance policies, principles, and practices.
• Developed project plans; provides functional and/or technical guidance to team members.
• Enforced policies and procedures to ensure information systems reliability and accessibility and to prevent and defend against unauthorized access to systems, networks, and data.
• Conduct monthly threats, risk, and vulnerability assessments and reported security findings to Leadership for awareness and provided sound security solutions as remediation plan.
• Performed installation, upgrades, and maintenance for the ARMY Human Resource Systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAFe Program Consultant (SPC5), SAFE Agilist (SA), SAFe Release Engineer (RTE), SAFe Product Owner/Product
• Manager (PO/PM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Product Owner (CPO), ITIL
• Foundation, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+, Microsoft Certified IT Professional Certification
• (MCITP), Microsoft Certified Technology Technician Certification (MCTS), Microsoft Certified Enterprise Desktop
• Administrator (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Enterprise Desktop Support Technician, Microsoft Windows 7 Configuring,
• MS Office Suite (XP, 2003, 2007, 2010, Office 365): MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS Project, MS
• Visio, MS-Access, Project Management, SharePoint, Citrix, Jenkins, GitHub, AWS Cloud, JIRA, Rally, Version One and