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Kansas City, KS

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SUMMARY

  • Over 8 years in Information Technology space with the last Six (6) + years as Professional Scrum Master (PSM)/Agile Coach with experience for distributed, collocated, and offshore cross - functional/development teams. Manage multiple Business Agility teams.
  • Facilitate the formation, learning and growth of multiple cross-functional delivery teams in developing a Lean and Agile mindset. Lead teams through Agile Transformation process.
  • Adopt and continuously improve practices and guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream.
  • Servant-leader, andChange Agentwho plays a key role in planning, facilitation, supporting teams, removing impediments, providing team coaching and mentorship.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, particularly in a virtual video environment over Google App (Google Meet) and Microsoft Teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Proficient in JIRA & RALLY
  • Agile Methodologies (Scrum/Kanban/TDD/XP)
  • Agile coaching
  • Conflict resolution
  • Capacity planning
  • Quality Management
  • Data analysis
  • Agile Project Management
  • Team building & mentoring.
  • Software projects (IT Strategy & Implementation)
  • Project risk management
  • Online Conferencing (WebEx, Skype for Business)
  • Web development technologies
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Microsoft Teams
  • User Stories
  • Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
  • Test Driven Development (TDD) Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Kansas City, KS

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate, schedule, and coordinate Product backlog refinement, Sprint Release planning, Daily scrums, Sprint reviews/demos, and Sprint retrospectives.
  • Worked with the Development team and Product owner to maintain a prioritized and prepared backlog, plan upcoming releases, and assist the team in drafting acceptance criteria and test plans. Attend Scrum of Scrum (SOS) to sync with other Scrum Masters.
  • Assist Product Owners in refining and prioritization of user stories in the Product refinement meetings.
  • Use metrics such as velocity, burn down and burn up charts as well as qualitative metrics such as team self-assessments, to keep tabs on the progress of sprints to ensure a positive and predictable sprint outcome after each iteration. Worked as the agent of change and continuously drive towards increasing agile maturity, using KPIs to help the team improve their agile process maturity.
  • Help increased collaboration amongst team members so they can be self-organizing and self-managing themselves. ensuring the team is maximizing its capacity and delivering valuable increments every 2 weeks.
  • Directed and created onsite agile training workshops for business stakeholders and engineering teams
  • Manage Kanban board configuration for one of the teams, enforcing WIP limits and making sure team members understood workflow.
  • Provide extensive guidance to highly performing engineering teams on how to use implement and use scrum processes correctly.
  • Tracked project metrics to judge project progress while managing risks and impediments, stakeholder communication plans, vendors, and other outsourced resources.

Confidential, Kansas City, KS

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinated daily stand ups, sprint planning and all other scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, bug triage meetings, product discovery sessions, etc)
  • Ensured all agile concepts and principles were adhered to by scrum team and business stakeholders.
  • Worked with other scrum masters to Coordinate and synchronize project plans, activities, and dependencies of parallel projects, making sure work was continuously in sync.
  • Implemented company policies, technical procedures, and standards for preserving the integrity and security of data and reports.
  • Removed any impediments that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint goals (internal to the team as well as external, always being available for my teams, responding to off-shore tickets ASAP.
  • Coached team members during daily standup meetings to understand the scope of the work, assess optimism on meeting sprint goals and to understand their shared accountabilities towards delivering committed work
  • Fostered a climate of collaboration between the teams, client executives and deliveryManagers

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