SUMMARY

• me have a broad and efficient interpersonal skill driving my adaption to great work ethics, principals, and good practices that can generate positive added values.
• Proficient at implementing technological goals and agile methods while keeping in mind business initiatives needed to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable.
• Currently seeking a position as a Scrum Master/Cybersecurity Vulnerability Analyst, bringing a combined 8+ years of experience as a highly - skilled, certified professional scrum master - servant leader, and cybersecurity vulnerability assessor.
• Adept at providing effective servant leadership in fast-paced environments.
• me am an enthusiastic, commercially aware, positive role model, and me bring a positive attitude, and enthusiasm to work environments, while also creating awareness and applying expert judgment to unnecessary impediments that may have the propensity to adversely impact the agility of the project or job objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Jira, MS Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, SharePoint, Visio, MS Project, etc. Confluence, Zenhub, Miro

Cybersecurity tools: Nessus, Wireshark, FTK, Autopsy

Other Tools: Final Cut Pro, Adobe CC Production suite, Davinci Resolve

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coaches team to implement Agile best practices, standards, and mindsets.
• Help optimize team operations to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Help team initiate story pointing, help create team’s Definition of Done, Definition of Ready and team’s working Agreement
• Guides the team in establishing consistent User Story estimates that promote team predictability.
• Attend some product discovery meeting wif PO and senior developer
• Help groomed and tidy up the product backlog
• Help guide team towards agile best practices and principals
• Help and enable team remove impediment necessarily
• Facilitates all scrum ceremonies and coach team about their necessities theirof
• Ensures that deployment risks are communicated to Product Partners as needed.
• Use Miro, Confluence, MS teams for effective communication needed to enhance team productivity and commitment to the sprint goal
• Use Zenhub tool to track and monitor critical metrics needed to maintain a healthy sprint

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring their’s full team engagement.
• Facilitate and coordinate User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.
• Identify and remove impediments in every phase of Sprint / escalating as necessary to management.
• Create an impediment backlog to keep track of team’s impediment at the Scrum of Scrum.
• Lead collaborative charter and story map sessions to determine product scope and priorities.
• Develop/maintain metrics that help the team see how they are doing (me.e. backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition).
• Perform the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices
• Ensure that every member of the team have information needed to support and meet sprint commitment.
• Monitoring the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.
• Work wif Product Owners in creating and maintain the product backlog.
• Coach Scrum teams on how to create clear and concise user stories wif well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Implement Continuous improvement opportunities to support the overall objectives.
• Support the team on transitioning and adapting Agile.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised wifout fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, wif an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Facilitated Sprint ceremonies to include the daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings wif Scrum teams and stakeholders.
• Supported Product Owners wif grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.
• Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.
• Guided and Coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Developed team understanding of incremental delivery, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Facilitated crucial conversations wif teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize.
• Coached Scrum teams on how to create clear and concise User Stories wif well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Ensured development teams are practicing the core agile principals of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Facilitated user story estimation workshops
• Assisted the Product Owner to continually keep a sufficient set of features prioritized.
• Used Jira to track team progress and delivery performance, manage transparency through relevant JIR dashboards and metrics for continuous improvement to communicate project/team health and status
• Utilizing Jira to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.
• Removed impediments that prevent a team from completing the work it has negotiated for a given sprint.
• Coaching product owner; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented
• Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring their's full team engagement.
• Coaching product owner; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
• Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
• Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress.
• Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.
• Guiding scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating.
• Monitoring the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.
• Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.
• Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.
• Coach the team for continuous improvement at a sustainable pace for the organization
• Collaborate wif internal and external stakeholders to communicate transparently
• Work closely wif the Product Owner to define, plan, and maintain the product backlog
• Uses agile project management tools to track team adoption and adherence to procedures and best practices
• Delight internal and external customers through frequent delivery of high-quality software
• Facilitate timely delivery through effective team collaboration, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Embraced a servant leader role across scrum teams and supported them by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies.
• Actively seeks and participates in a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training and independent study to further develop self and community
• Sustained an environment of collaboration and safety that creates value for the members

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Vulnerability Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Use network analysis tools to identify vulnerabilities
• Review and define requirements for information security solutions
• Develops risk-based mitigation strategies for networks, operating systems, and applications.
• Utilize a structured analytical process to identify physical, information, personnel, and operational protection gaps that could provide an adversary wif insights into CPI/critical information
• Guiding the development of information security standards, guidelines, and policy
• Compiles and tracks vulnerabilities and mitigation results to quantify program effectiveness.
• Work wif technology owners to validate the policy compliance profiles Review the policy compliance scan results wif stake holders
• Prepare audit reports that identify technical and procedural findings and provide recommended remediation
• Organize network-based scans to identify possible network security attacks and host-based scans to identify vulnerabilities in workstations, servers, and other network hosts.
• Identifies potential vulnerabilities to cyber and information security.
• Reviews, conducts and evaluates routine sampling, surveys, data and findings.
• Monitors operations to identify and rectify problems.
• Evaluates adequacy of controls and corrective measures and identifies and make recommendations to higher level employee on determinations of alternate measures.
• Conducts limited analysis, integration, categorization, and summarization of cyber security data and develops briefings, information papers, and reports.
• Familiarity wif networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, etc.)
• Familiarity wif concepts of Penetration Testing