SUMMARY:

• Experienced professional with hands - on and work experience in Agile Practices and project management gained over the years, to help support software & application development infrastructure projects and automation better accomplish their work goals.
• Servant-leader capable of delivering multiple projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, leading, facilitating, and coaching multiple scrum & Kanban teams.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of agile principles through, effective delivery techniques while fostering self-management. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a strong determination and commitment to deliverables.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, while applying professional judgment, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications/Tools: JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, Jenkins, Adobe XD, Balsamic, Microsoft Office 2016 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Outlook) & Microsoft Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand the program’s vision and help communicate goals throughout the program
• Conduct research to gain user insights into the use and implementation of Agile methodologies
• Support project visioning and requirements management on Agile and traditional development projects
• Engage business partners to support backlog prioritization based on business value, dependencies, and level of effort
• Provide data analysis expertise in support of business priorities and objectives
• Work as part of a team throughout the software development life cycle
• Work closely with other team members including Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Product Owners, SW Developers, Test Engineers, and other technical staff
• Evolve current best practices and adopt cutting edge best practices for IT delivery as needed
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Designers, Engineers and Analysts to implement enhancements or new applications
• Support clients in managing system roadmaps, project plans, and product and release backlogs
• Facilitate/coordinate business architecture working group sessions, daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
• Identified & Estimated teams workload, deliverables & plan each release
• Managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology
• Leveraged behavior driven development (BDD) and test-driven development (TDD) approaches
• Adopt various Agile process including but not limited to: SCRUM, Kanban, and Lean Software Development, and conform processes to these approaches
• Participate on a team of full stack engineers and automation testers
• Shared best practices and improve processes within and across sprint teams, and mentor more junior developers

Confidential

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing the delivery of a new content management system for SPARGO
• Developing a detailed project plan, with clear milestones, to ensure a successful project delivery, within scope
• Working with product owner(s) and other stakeholders, to define the scope and prioritize project deliverables
• Organizing agile activities, such as backlog grooming/refinement meetings with the Team, to estimate tasks and ensure requirements are clearly articulated
• Managing the project's schedule and allocated resources; includes identifying gaps and helping to fill additional roles
• Facilitating user testing, Monitoring and reporting on the project's progress, Identifying and communicating project risks and managing changes to the project’s scope and schedule

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product owners, scrum teams and stakeholders to ensure project deliverables are on track to be delivered on scheduled/projected milestones.
• Coordinate project plans in matrix setting through proper coordination of internal resources with third party contractors, external teams & vendors for a proper execution of projects deliverables.
• Establish dependencies & communicate project related risks to all projects resources to ensure all planned mitigation plans are properly followed and executed in effort to meet projects deliverables.
• Directly manage all aspects of the project lifecycle from the initiation phases to project close out while ensuring all SDLC phases and iterations are properly planned, implemented and delivered through the use of appropriate agile methodologies.
• Support management on all project planning efforts and its components relating to scope management, Product development and Tracking of all planned work.
• Assist in managing changes in project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques and Perform risk management if needed to minimize project risks
• Work closely with the release manager on production related deployable to inform dependencies between various scrum teams & Outside groups
• Actively assist the team in solidifying each sprint backlog with detailed description and acceptance criteria to enable smooth implementation
• Effectively manage the various stakeholders, project in effort to achieve critical decisions and solutions to help the organization achieve its mission
• Delegate project tasks based on project resources, members' individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels track project performance, specifically to analyze & predict the success completion of short and long-term goals
• Utilize and adopted SAFe framework to facilitate project coordination with other scrum teams - Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train, worked with Release Train Engineer, System Architects and system Team for Infrastructure requirements and to support integration testing,
• Facilitate regular status update meetings with various stakeholders to provide insights on project deliverable
• Monitors, report and communicate the design, development and testing activities on behalf of entire team to clients & stakeholders on project status meetings
• Track and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress and other metrics as needed to the respective program lead
• Train and mentored the team and outside resources on scrum, Kanban and other agile practices

Confidential

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported the Backlog Owner and Portfolio Manager in updating roadmaps based on the health and priority of the stories of the backlog and estimates/sizing
• Scheduled/facilitated sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each sprint. Work with product owners and delivery teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint.
• Communicated committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the backlog owner and stakeholders
• Responsible for adding or removing stories based on burn-down of the current sprint
• Represented the team at the Scrum of Scrums meeting to report progress against burn down

  If deviating from the ideal burn down line then communicate team plan/commitment to get back to the line, report impediments for escalation, identify risks/concerns to the Program Team to help resolve

• Facilitated retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint / project - ensure highest priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed out
• Monitored team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state, including time to be burned and status
• Provided daily communication such as daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and regular snapshots meeting of project velocity and budget burn rate.
• Assisted with defining and creating project and program tools and processes to be implemented and followed across the enterprise
• Enforced practice agile principles such as product demonstrations, retrospectives, and resolve action items. Assist Product Owner with Backlog maintenance
• Managed the day-to-day tactical requests from internal teams and key stakeholders to support a variety of programs.
• Managed all material reviews, requirements and approval processes
• Evaluate and mitigate project risks throughout project to ensure successful deliveries
• Manage and maintain client relationships. Serving as point of contact for all client issues and responding to client requests

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Communicated with management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.
• Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Collaborated and worked hand in hand with project managers to ensure success within my scrum team in relation to the Software development process.
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.