SUMMARY

• Experienced and accomplished Scrum Master & servant - leader capable of delivering medium to large scale projects on time and on budget by TEMPeffectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching various Scrum teams.
• Expert at driving and driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Scrum
• Agile
• Servant Leader
• HIPPA
• AS/400
• JIRA
• VersionOne
• Rally
• SQL
• SDLC (Waterfall & Agile)
• Task Meetings/Retrospectives
• Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings
• Project Management
• Story-Based Management
• Cloud Analytics
• Microsoft Azure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Agile Coach/ Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building noledge and skills to facilitate the Agile Transformation.
• Led strategic Release Planning and Iteration Planning sessions.
• Work closely wif development teams and stakeholders to ensure dat MDM effort is focused on supporting the creation of business functionality dat stakeholders need.
• Define and manage metadata pertaining to MDEs (primary source of record for MDEs, Lifecycle of MDEs, How systems access MDEs).
• Coached DevOps Engineering team in writing code, integrate systems and build configurations to drive and innovate around server-based platform across organization.
• Coached DevOps team and implementing process to leverage open technology such as Docker, Git, Jenkins, Linux, AWS Cloud, Javascript, Kafka, MongoDB & Zookeeper.
• Engaged wif DevOps & Software Engineering team in the design and development of software tools to reliably manage application delivery.
• Led DevOps team to improving the predictability and reliability of software releases wif the implementation of automated build, test and deployment tools and processes.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and coordinate project team members and influence members to take positive action adopting Agile practices.
• Facilitate and lead daily stand ups for organization to resolve impediments
• Lead teams in using Agile Methodology including Scrum, Kanban & SAFe to improve team TEMPeffectiveness.
• Drive Scrum methods by identifying, preventing and eliminating potential issues and roadblocks across partner teams.
• Set up PI planning meetings.
• Conflict management.

Lead Agile Coach/ Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential, Carrolton TX

Responsibilities:

• Coached DevOps Engineering teams and Scrum Masters, Stakeholders, Managers and Executives on Agile Values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.
• Coached DevOps team on using continuous integration, continuous deployment, and automated testing.
• Utilized strong coaching and mentorship skills in building a collaborative, productive and engaged team environment for the DevOps Engineering team.
• Coached and mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed wif strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency.
• Coached leaders and teams through the transformation and provided the necessary training and references to enable the ideal management ad team structures.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies to champion idea of self-organizing teams in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) wif compliance to change & Release management processes.
• Positioning team to succeed by removing impediments while protecting Scrum team
• Coach & Train Scrum team members to efficiently utilize Scrum Framework.
• Using Microsoft Project & JIRA Created and updated detailed project budgets and resource estimates.

Lead Agile Coach/Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile Scrum methodology throughout the organization to improve communication between departments; to provide more transparency across the departments and to obtain great business value in short turn around.
• Gatheird requirements and wrote user stories.
• Coached other product owners on requirements gathering and story writing process.
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
• Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Resolved a complex infrastructure issues by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads wifin Central Security Group.

Lead Agile Scrum Master/Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and sprint planning also work wif development team to help wif daily standup when needed.
• Educate and reinforce scrum framework and agile methodology to team members and stakeholders.
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Analyzed existing reports and defined business requirements and business process flows and conducted JAD sessions wif PM, SMEs; facilitated interviews wif end users and hospital administrators to collect business requirements.
• Involved in the full HIPAA compliance lifecycle from GAP analysis, mapping, implementation, testing for processing of Health Insurance Claim.
• Responsible for preparing Business Required Document (BRD), Functional Required Document (FRD) and then translating into functional specifications and test plans.

Business Analyst & Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned the teams from Waterfall to Agile. Walked through the Definition of Done and provided guidance as a Scrum Master.
• Conducted backlog reviews, planning sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for teams during sprint cycle.
• Led daily scums to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or concerns in an Agile Scrum environment.
• Analyzed and Optimized ETL process
• Develop project plans and gain approval from management for execution of assigned plan initiative.
• Develop Data Analysis/report wif Extensive database or Microsoft Excel
• Using Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing to initiate Corrective Action Report (CAR) on operational non-compliance.
• Time and cost efficiency analysis; materials and process design evaluations.

Business Analyst/ IT Implementation Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in project planning and status meetings to learn how company manages projects and support business.
• Developed tools for needs assessments based on feedback.
• Created business analysis tools & generated business strategies for immediate implementation.
• Provide financial, analytical and industrial engineering support to airport location across the country and countries services are used.
• Managed PCI remediation project.
• Created monitoring controls and audits.
• Provided input on redefining control structure.
• Provided user provisioning services for AS400, including managing approvals
• Ensured change requests are approved prior to implementation
• Reconciled users for network cleanup to terminate obsolete accounts
• Created and maintained employee/contractor database

Agile Business Analyst/data Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely wif IT personnel and business partners to identify and maximize opportunities to improve products services and program business processes
• Reviewed and created detailed documentation of business systems and user needs, including workflow, program functions and steps required to develop or modify application programs.
• Assisted in developing and maintaining business & financial reports and IT work/databases which was required to support the various lines of business and specific projects.
• Consulted wif IT personnel to determine business, functional and technical requirements for specified applications.
• Developed chart-holding facilities and assisted in training staff. Assisted various projects from start to finish through SDLC process.
• Participated in code Reviews, System Testing and UAT followed by production verification, postproduction testing and support.
• Performed internal & external reporting, cash management, cost reduction & efficiency
• Using data modeling, data structuring, report development and analysis, and using SQL skills to put together healthcare claims data and manage care plans.
• Created and Executed SQL Queries for Ad Hoc Report.