SUMMARY:

My goal is to secure a dynamic, challenging opportunity that contributes to the outstanding success of a business via 15+ years of Information Technology experience in a Fortune 500 Semiconductor Company, Retail, Energy, and Government sectors.

SKILL:

Elicitation Skills: Requirements gathering, needs, risks, assumptions, mockups, wireframes, prototyping, As - Is—To-Be, BPNM, SIPOC

Communications Skills: Written and verbal, empathy, respect, open-minded, building consensus, listening

Analytical Skills: Gap analysis, process mapping, risk assessment, DMAIC

Computer Skills: SQL queries, Visio, Excel, Jira, Confluence, Xray, Rally, Google Analytics

Systems Administration: Windows, Sun/Solaris, Red Hat Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu 16, Oracle, SQL Server, SharePoint

Agile Scrum Skills: Servant Leader, Coach, Referee, Team Building, CSM, CSPO, User Stories, DSU, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives Kanban, SAFe, Nexus Framework

Quality Assurance Skills: Test Planning, Test Cases, Test Sets, Test Executions, Traceability Matrices, Regression suites, HP UFT, Tricentis TOSCA, IBM RTC

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Santa Fe, NM

Responsibilities:

• Developed requirements, use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, test plans, test sets, test executions, test cases, for functional test
• Agile coaching of scrum ceremonies, Daily Stand-Up (DSU), Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective Meetings
• Utilized open source tools for development (Git, Jira, Xray, Confluence), burn-down charting, velocity, Scrum board customization, test management
• Multi Agency Enterprise implementation of a Unified Worker Web Portal design using LifeRay.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Santa Fe, NM

Responsibilities:

• Shared vision with Developers and stakeholders for the Federal Aid Cost Tracking System (FACTS) for time, effort and mileage expenditures for federal grant work conducted by NMDGF employees.
• Worked with stakeholders throughout the seven divisions of the organization to understand the market, the customer and the business needs.
• Implemented a systematic roll-out with an August timeframe for full-agency deployment across seven divisions of this $65 million e-commerce bureau.
• Markedly improved upon existing business processes within the ADC organization by moving cost and time tracking online (web-based) optimizing the time to reimbursement of millions of grant dollars for the Agency and improving the standards of data quality.
• Prioritized Backlog (PBIs) for each sprint iteration (SBIs) to create a weekly timesheet, easily adjusted to track monthly times and federal grant project work.
• Agile coaching of Scrum ceremonies, Daily Stand Up (DSU), Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings for two scrum teams. Maintained scrum board and produced daily burn-down and burn-up charts.
• Utilized Axosoft software for Portfolio tracking, escalated, removed impediments, protected Team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Leadership in mentoring, training, teaching, and Team collaboration
• Utilized Google Analytics to look at conversion rate, average order value, unique purchases, and quantity of products sold, also for a snapshot of acquisitions, behavior, and conversion data for high traffic periods during the Big Game Draw Hunts each April.
• Selected the top-three vendor candidates from Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation for evaluation, RFP development and subsequent RFQ procurement.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, ALBUQUERQUE, NM

Responsibilities:

• Gathered stakeholder requirements for Confidential 's Life-Cycle Management Program to phase-out 89 MS Windows Server 2003 Operating Systems
• Upgraded systems to next iteration of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 or Server 2008 R2 to enhance security and retain support of Enterprise Windows Server Operating Systems for the Data Center.
• Elicited and gathered stakeholder requirements for the EASE (Energy Accounting Scheduling Expert) system, a mission-critical application for Confidential Power Operations and for Confidential at the corporate level.
• EASE system must be migrated to an updated platform and the system architecture redesigned.
• Upgraded to a stable version of AIX to improve stability, and to meet NERC CIP and NERC 693 Reliability compliance.
• Elicited stakeholders to gather requirements to replace expiring leased EMC VMAX Tier 1 storage with a top-performing, capitalizable solution.

Scrum Master

Confidential, RIO RANCHO, NM

Responsibilities:

• Conducted source data analysis/profiling where necessary to support ETL design for Intel's Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) database migration project.
• Worked closely with ETL developers and stakeholders to assist them with their agile development life cycle.
• Elicited user stories from subject matter experts (SME), and with Product Owners, prioritized the user stories.
• Scrum of Scrums Representative meeting to communicate progress, impediments, and any needed cross-team coordination
• Agile coaching of the Development Team for sprint planning, breaking user stories into sprint tasks, estimating the effort required to complete each task, assigning owners, and committing to the overall plan for each iteration of the engagement.
• Utilized Rally for Agile development tracking, burn down charts and velocity values.
• Ten plus years of extensive and diverse experience in quality assurance of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) specializing in Quality Assurance Process and Methodologies authored Software Test Plans, Structural, and Functional test cases
• Database Migration Test Plan, End-to-End Test Plans, Performance Test Plans, Regression Test Plans, Security Test Plans, User Acceptance Test Plans/Cases, and Traceability Matrices to ensure the project software operates as designed.
• Experience in different project methodologies - Waterfall, and Agile SCRUM. Test Automation tools- Load Runner, Quality Center, Rally, RTC, and Jira.