SUMMARY

• Motivated and results - focused Certified SAFe Scrum master with a combined 6 years of scheduling and scrum experiences managing complex and effective projects within the Engineering, Oil & gas, IT, On-Shore, Off-Shore, Near-Shore, Finance, Transmission & Substation Industries.
• Experience using Agile methods and principles in Project Controls; planning and scheduling to deploy and implement scrum projects.
• Possess a combination of project management, team leadership, and Information Technology skills.
• Demonstrated ability to catalyze lucrative results while complying with budget and time constraints.
• Highly skilled at improving performance, and a fast learner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAFe Scrum Master
• Project Management
• SharePoint
• Ecosys
• Kanban
• Process Improvements
• Team Agile Coaching
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• SDLC
• MS Project Server
• Program Increments (PI)
• Agile Tooling (JIRA
• Confluence)
• Oracle Primavera P6
• SAP
• Salesforce Architect/ Admin
• Epic
• Primavera Team
• Agile Team transformation
• Relationship Building

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Golden Valley, MN

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage the distributed agile teams, organize the sprint planning meetings and maintain the Sprint backlogs.
• Coordinate Daily Stand up meetings and ensure the impediments are resolved for the team to deliver the workable product.
• Work with product owners to handle the backlogs and business prioritization.
• Provide Technical and Functional guidance to the team and resolve the queries in order to meet the project timelines.
• Identify the Risks and manage the Mitigation plans.
• Coaching teams in Agile and waterfall frameworks and guide them to follow the Agile principles when necessary.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
• Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.

Confidential, Golden Valley, MN

SAFe Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Participate and contribute to requirement gathering meetings with business and IT partners, and other stakeholders
• Participate in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items with Product Owners and forecast sprint iterations with the Product Owners and concerned business partners.
• Identify areas for improvement and remove impediments through provision of appropriate resources, guidance, and escalation.
• Apply effective SAFe methodologies in managing and collaborating with product owners and architecture teams to ensure alignment on strategy and execution.
• Serve as liaison between the product owner, development team, and management in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met
• Provide training to team members on agile concepts as needed
• Utilized SAFe methods to facilitate, enable, and coach 3 teams to ensure software solution delivery
• Work with Product owners and team members to learn and practice a healthy backlog management and prioritization practices and support Program Increments and facilitate effective Iteration execution.
• Design a team model for continuous assessment and improvement.
• Conduct Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo & Sprint Retrospective meetings and assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Evaluate the team capacity (velocity) from historical data and SDLC control points.
• Keep the teams focused - shield the team from outside distractions and interferences and ensure the correct use of scrum process and ensure that team members understand project objectives.
• Ensure successful delivery of large impact and/or cross-functional product initiatives.
• Support teams with PI Planning and foster relentless improvement at scale.
• Daily administration and support of Salesforce including user setup, design and configuration of Custom Objects, Profiles and Roles, Workflow/Process Builder, Visual Flows, Custom Fields, Validation Rules, Page Layouts
• Improve team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Helping the team complete tasks successfully and on-time, monitor and eliminate team conflicts.
• Monitor the sprint and feature progress and radiate the information to management. Identify and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on a daily basis.
• Accountable for guiding, coaching, training in scrum methodologies and assisting the team in Scrum / Agile principles and driving process improvement.

Confidential, Mendota Heights, MN

PM / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Backlog Grooming, Scrum Daily standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Coordinated and participate in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items
• Drove transparency by communicating on the sprint status, milestones impediments, risks and release
• Empowered the teams to self-organize, improve the productivity of their sprint and ensured that the team delivered a potentially releasable increment each sprint
• Determine the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Breakdown structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions
• Assisted product owners in feature decompositions, User story validation
• Monitored the project(feature) progress and radiated the information to stakeholders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on a daily basis.
• Removing and escalating impediments to ensure team progress to sprint commitments
• Identify and address Agile and Scrum anti-patterns
• Coordinate and monitor the Scrum process from initiation through delivery and Coach Agile Teams to be more effective.
• Ensure successful delivery of large impact and/or cross-functional product initiatives.
• Help support Program Increment execution after PI planning.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Jnr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the Project Manager, Project Controls Manager, Financial Analyst and applicable vendors for the alignment and forecasting of project financials based on actual cost and schedule performance as reflected in the Project Schedule
• Monitor the amount of time spent on proactive project creation vs. reactive bug fixes.
• Help create strong lines of communication and reporting back to franchise leaders about progress.
• Help to shift priorities when unexpected deadlines come up to make sure the projects that are paused are the least vulnerable and are resumed afterwards.
• Help the team stay organized and accountable and refine who's working on what at all times. We want the best devs doing what only they can do, as much as possible.
• Acts as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on the timely delivery of the project goals.
• Lead and coach all Scrum ceremonies and continue driving the adoption of Scrum core values across the organization.
• Manage the release process by coordinating with developers, stakeholders, and QA to ensure a smooth process.
• Schedule and facilitate ceremonies, daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, retrospective, etc.
• Work with Product Owners and Managers in Development and Operations to properly manage backlog refinement and sprint allocation.
• Effectively inform Product Owner, stakeholders, and other interested parties of the scrum teams progress and activities.
• Be an ambassador for organization on the adoption of PM platforms and tools such as JIRA.
• Promoting development best-practices to the Delivery Team and the larger organization.
• Defining Velocity: Organize hours/time spent on different kinds of work and per dev. and help give accurate estimates of scope for new projects

Confidential, Bellaire, TX

Project Controls Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with TCR and the contractor to in corporate the proposed construction sequence
• Interact with project team and task managers to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan.
• Capture environmental/siting/outage request dates in schedule
• Maintain schedule forecast by gathering activity update information from all functional groups as needed
• Provide schedule analysis updates to project team, alerting of schedule risks and issues that could delay milestones
• Ensure all major milestones and critical path activities are met as defined in the vendors’ contracts and in accordance with the project/program timeline commitments. Ensure the detailed engineering deliverables are incorporated into the plan.
• Ensure that all In-service dates are met by mitigating anything schedule wise that could push the ISD dates out
• Collaborated with the Project Manager, Project Controls Manager, Financial Analyst and applicable vendors for the alignment and forecasting of project financials based on actual cost and schedule performance as reflected in the Project Schedule
• Worked in collaboration with Project/Program Management team to drive consistency of the project scheduling approach to facilitate accuracy in project execution, reporting, cost analysis and forecast.
• Provided weekly Earned Value Reports for every Project.
• Provided monthly Reports using SAP to know the actual amount of dollars spent
• Updated Project schedules to reflect progress against baseline
• Collected plan updates on weekly basis
• Balanced financial information from SAP reports with the budget reflected on the project plan
• Analyze current Salesforce technologies used within the company and determine ways to improve
• Assess the system architecture currently in place and work with the CRM Team to recommend solutions to improve it
• Link Salesforce to enterprise data/tools for additional reporting and dashboards

Confidential

Project Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining Logic, Status updates, CPM Analysis, and forecasting.
• Built project budget - Included time & expenses for site teams, time for project manager, travel expense for PM site visits, tooling, and other miscellaneous charges.
• Maintained daily status report consisting of daily progress, list of personnel onsite, safety issues (if any), and special issues or situations that needed to be addressed, along with future look-ahead.
• Created weekly campaign budget updates each week of the campaign. Itemized labor costs, personal expenses, tooling charges, etc. for the first week of the campaign.
• Recorded work orders into the turnaround database and maintained accuracy between P6 and WO’s.
• Worked with Turnaround Coordinators to develop Pre-TAR Activities.
• Analyzed schedules for completeness. Communicated with Operations or Turnaround Management Team when issues/edits were found.
• Worked closely with the Material Coordinator to ensure the purchase and delivery of materials met the T/A milestones.
• Attended turnaround planning meetings and presented planning and pre - turnaround status concerns.