SUMMARY:

IT Program/Project Manager/Scrum Master with proven ability to plan and execute tactical and strategic business plans, build teams and alliances, and initiate partnerships to drive teams to deliver on high profile change. Manage multiple, high visibility projects simultaneously.

EXPERIENCED AND COMFORTABLE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

• Scrum Master/Servant Leader - Scaled Agile/JIRA
• Agile Coach
• Communication & Relationship Management
• Financial Modeling & Cost Benefit Analysis
• Technical Project Manager - Waterfall/MS Project
• Program Increment (PI) Planning/Iteration Planning (IP)
• Requirements Analysis
• Risk Analysis & Mitigation Planning
• Issue Management & Resolution
• Resource Management
• Testing & Quality Assurance Management
• Implementation Scheduling & Management
• Business Validation Planning
• Process creation, refinement & optimization
• Managing Cultural Change
• Vendor Negotiation & Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• SAFe Scrum Master responsible for transforming the team into an Agile attitude using the Scrum framework for this effort.
• Mentor, educate and market the benefits of Agile to the new team.
• Facilitate the PI (Program Increment) Planning Sessions. Partner with the business to clarify user stories.
• Understand how the team uses JIRA and their responsibilities in JIRA.
• Establish and maintain artifacts: product backlog/sprint backlog/finished work.
• Iteration/Sprint Planning.
• Track total story points (sprint load) to a particular iteration/sprint against team velocity.
• Facilitate the appropriate ceremonies: sprint planning/story grooming/daily standup/sprint retrospective.
• Leverage Wiki site to provide information, documentation, and overall health of this effort.
• Provide story summaries and burndown charts for each sprint.

Confidential

Technical Change Manager/Project Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Agile Coach: Mentor, educate and market the benefits of Agile to the Ref Data Quality team, business partners, and IT executive management.
• Identify Scrum Master, Developers, Test Engineers, and BA.
• Created new Scrum Board and required component to separate the work effort.
• Moved Ref Data Quality Working Group’s sub-tasks into the Scrum Board.
• Groom imported sub-tasks converting these into stories.
• Teach new team how to enter important information in each story: acceptance criteria, description, overview, IPO (Input, Process, Output), and provide data mapping documents.
• Teach new team how to determine story points, team velocity, and sub-task estimation.
• Educate team to establish and maintain important artifacts: product backlog/sprint backlog/finished work.
• Teach new team members how to track total story points (sprint load) to a particular iteration/sprint against team velocity.
• Facilitated the appropriate ceremonies: sprint planning/story grooming/daily standup/sprint retrospective. This will transition to the new team.
• Teach new team members how to leverage JIRA stories and reports for status (burndown charts, sprint report, etc.).

Confidential

SAFe Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Mentor, educate and market the benefits of Agile to new team and business partners.
• Facilitated the PI (Program Increment) Planning Sessions. Partnered with the business to clarify user stories.
• Set up Scrum Board, Epics and Stories in JIRA and setup physical Scrum Team Room.
• Lead Agile Team. Serve as mentor to new team.
• Trained others in JIRA and their responsibilities in JIRA.
• Established and maintained artifacts: product backlog/sprint backlog/finished work.
• Iteration/Sprint Planning.
• Tracked total story points (sprint load) to a particular iteration/sprint against team velocity.
• Facilitated the appropriate ceremonies: sprint planning/story grooming/daily standup/sprint retrospective.
• Leveraged Wiki site to provide information, documentation, and overall health of this effort.
• Provided story summaries and burndown charts for each sprint.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the onboarding of DMP, GPBS, CED, MIS, PAX, and PAR to Horizon, had SDKs (software development keys) for the AITs in JIRA to initially start the project.
• SAFe Scrum Master responsible for the project.
• Set up Kanban Boards (3) for front-end AITs, Middleware AITs, and back-end AITs.
• Use Kanban Board framework for this effort to allow the developers to manage their own work.
• Ensure the department meet the commitment to complete the adoption.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• SAFe Scrum Master responsible for the first fully “Agile” environment effort.
• Set up Scrum Board, Epics and Stories in JIRA and setup physical Scrum Team Room.
• Identified Scrum Team. Serve as mentor to new team.
• Educated line of business in Agile using a Scrum framework.
• Identified the Product Owner. Facilitated the first PI (Program Increment) Planning Session. Partnered with the business to create user stories.
• Learned JIRA and trained others.
• Established and maintained artifacts: product backlog/sprint backlog/finished work.
• Iteration/Sprint Planning Ceremony for each story within a feature, tracked total story points (sprint load) to a particular iteration/sprint against team velocity.
• Facilitated the appropriate ceremonies: sprint planning/daily standup/sprint retrospective.
• Provided story summaries and burndown charts for each sprint.
• Leveraged Wiki site to provide information, documentation, and overall health of this effort.
• Embraced Confidential SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and tools (JIRA).

Confidential

Technical Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create a migration factory to be used to migrate ~3K databases from Oracle XX to Exadata boxes with the Oracle 12c family.
• Developed a repeatable process using 300 databases to be used for the remaining ~2700 databases. Served as both Program Manager and Scrum Master responsible for the pilot migration of ~300 databases from the legacy Oracle application and servers to Oracle 12c products and services on the Exadata boxes.
• Identity Remediation Project (for Wealth, Brokerage and Retirement line of businesses)