Objective:

• To obtain a Senior role in wif a Cyber Security focused/driven company and continue to provide Agile Coaching while building and fostering teams to become highly TEMPeffective by Agile best practices, principals, and values.

SUMMARY

• 15 years of experience working in the Agile Methodology including Scrum and Kanban Frameworks including Agile Transformations and halping teams mature
• Record of working collaboratively wif team members to improve efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction through automation and process improvement
• Continue to strive for excellence as an Agile Coach and/or Senior Scrum Master using Agile Scrum, Lean and Kanban methodologies, while adhering to Security and Compliance requirements
• Use of Agile Lean concepts by facilitating 5 why’s sessions for root cause analysis as needed
• Trained over 600 employees (including Scrum Masters and Product Owners) for Agile Transformation and advanced Agile concepts
• Trained over 20 Product Owners on SAFe Product Owner training
• Trained over 10 Product Owners on Spotify Agile Model
• Co - taught and presented Agile 101 basics to over 500 people
• Facilitated Quarterly Planning and SAFe Program Increment (PI) sessions and Big Room planning sessions including Roadmap, Feature/Epic and story mapping
• Facilitated numerous collaboration sessions for yearly and quarterly OKRs and KPI’s.
• Presented Agile Topics in large company sponsored conference sessions and lunch and learns
• Assisted and volunteered for Hackathon and Buildfest for innovation while inspiring employees to be creative

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Databases Oracle, SQL

Agile Tools: Rally/CA, TFS, Jira/Confluence, Trello

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior Agile Coach for Agile Transformation using Spotify Model wif focus on Coaching four Squads
• Assist wif Agile Go Live and Sprint zero activities while training Product Owner on all Scrum events
• Ongoing assessment of Agile Coaches Maturity Scorecard and focus on team health surveys to identify gaps in process using Agile/Scrum principals and best practices
• Ongoing coaching using training, mentoring, facilitating, and coaching for 50 team members
• Advocate for Lean Agile thinking and mindset to eliminate waste, reduce cost, and reduce delays in delivery
• Advocate for learning mindset while using emotional intelligence to halp coach and guide all participants in Agile transformation from leadership teams to scrum teams (squads)
• Use metrics and empirical data to assist in making pivotal decisions regarding teams and organizational agility
• Work closely wif Architects and SecOps to ensure security compliance at team level as applicable
• Regular one on one’s wif squad members to ensure driving behavioral shifts in adopting agile mindset

Agile Coach

Confidential, Greenwood Village, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise level Agile Coach for four Value Streams and sixteen Full Stack Scrum Teams
• Assessment of Value Streams using Agile Maturity Matrix to focus on team health and gaps in process using Agile/Scrum principals and best practices
• Ongoing coaching using training, mentoring, facilitating, and coaching for over 500 employees for Global Agile Transformation
• Facilitate regular retrospectives at all levels to foster a culture of continuous improvement and continuous delivery CI/CD
• Use metrics and empirical data to assist in making pivotal decisions regarding teams and organizational agility
• Encourage and coach Scrum Masters to embrace teams to self- organize and feel empowered while empowering and trusting teams to meet short and long-term goals
• Work closely wif Architects and SecOps to ensure security compliance at team level as applicable
• Established Scrum Master Community of Practice and Product Owner Community of Practice to champion an Agile community wifin the organization

Senior Scrum Master

Confidential, Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Senior Scrum Master for two highly visible teams for Federal Student Aid program using Kanban methodology
• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies including planning sessions, backlog refinement sessions, sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Provided metrics to be predictable and report health of teams
• Coached, trained, and mentored Product Owners and new team members as needed on Agile principals and best practices
• Monthly audit to comply wif NIST 800 SP and NIST SP NSA requirements.

Senior Scrum Master

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise level Senior Scrum Master for Product Development Software team, responsible for 3 Agile project teams
• Responsible for all project teams planning sessions, backlog refinement sessions, sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Agile Coach and mentor for newly hired and junior scrum masters wifin EPMO
• Participated in Agile EPMO as Agile coach/evangelist to ensure processes/principals were followed by EPMO and project teams
• Control health of projects by reporting metrics to executives and communicating areas of risk and offering solutions
• Proactively communicated wif executives on all stakeholder issues and implications to project teams

Scrum Master

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for Product Development team responsibilities included growing from 2 teams to 15 Agile teams
• Agile coach and evangelist ensuring agile and lean processes and principals are being followed wif all project teams
• Monitored health of projects by coaching 12-15 teams and team leads on Agile best practices
• Created and delivered customized Agile training to all new hires, existing employee and team leads
• Manage staffing requirements and presented resource allocation reports on a weekly basis
• Administrator for Rally by maintaining the application in addition to performing weekly audits for 15 project teams