SUMMARY:

• Energetic, passionate and award winning Senior Scrum Master with talent for leading, managing, and mentoring highly technical teams.
• Broad and rich experience driving product and project implementations and continued process improvements through critical situations and aggressive timelines.
• Experience leading initiatives and projects simultaneously, while ensuring consistent tactical operations and activities.
• Seeking to utilize experience and exceptional work ethic in an organization that values strong technical acumen, creativity, and results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: SQL, VB, HTML, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Outlook, WindowsMicrosoft .NET, XML, Linux Red Hat Server, SnagIt, Ruby on Rails, SalesForce, iOS, Android, DropBox

Tools: Segue Silk Performer, Rational Robot, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Mercury Test Director, HP Quality Center, PVCS Tracker, Empirex, StarTeam, SharePoint, Quick Base, Siebel, Selenium, Pivotal Tracker, OnTime, Jira and Assembla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Scrum Master

• Facilitate 3 scrum teams in which one of them is twice award winner for most innovative produce from CES (Consumer Elctornic Show) 2015 and 2016.
• Leverage talents and expertise to serve as Scrum Master and integrate agile principles into team practices and work products.
• Drive quality and continuous delivery through team coaching and overall support.
• Actively seek and participate in Community of Practices.
• Facilitate teamwork and continual improvement of agile practices.
• Demonstrate keen ability to make critical decisions in consideration of data and frequently changing information.
• Successfully lead and facilitate bi - weekly engineering roundtable meetings to remove any impediments to engineering teams.
• Mentor Junior Scrum Masters and provide scrum of scrums bi-weekly meeting form to address any agile process improvements and roadblocks.

Lead QA Engineer/Scrum Master (Consultant)

• Orchestrated and facilitated daily scrum meetings.
• Managed team of 3 QA Engineers and 1 Automation Engineer in 2 week agile sprint cycles, testing mobile application for iOS and Android as well as full client and advisor facing web platform.
• Wrote test strategy and ensured team executed to the test plan.
• Determined appropriate testing environment for items depending on data, impact, and form factor and code implementation approach.
• Worked with various groups including Product Owners, Marketing, Finance, Operations and Development to identify and prioritize key functions within their application areas.
• Served as release manager for deployments to staging and production environments.

Lead IT Project Manager (Consultant)

• Initiated and delivered large-scale multi-million dollar projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies for advisor facing platform in Microsoft .Net framework and multi-tier SOA architecture.
• Successfully delivered all projects worked on time and on budget through clear and effective communication, project schedule maintenance, risk/issue resolution with Senior Management and relationships built with the project team members.
• Served as liaison between Business Units and Technology Teams to ensure business requirements were clearly understood and implemented to meet needs.
• As a senior member of the PMO, trained and mentored junior PMs on best practices and defined processes.
• Identified and prioritized multiple Business Unit work orders and defect maintenance support items for inclusion in project scope.
• Managed day-to-day tasks of Business UAT on large-scale projects.
• Gathered and maintained all SDLC audit required documentation for projects.

IT Project Manager

• Managed the end-to-end lifecycle of new development projects as well as maintenance efforts using Waterfall methodology.
• Prepared and communicated weekly project status reports to Senior Management and Business Stakeholders
• Managed all areas of project including planning and estimation, risk, budget and resources.
• Successfully implemented multiple projects simultaneously with average budgets of $600K and 6-month project durations. Projects involved the management of resources across multiple departments that included Analysts, Developers, User Interface Designers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Release Engineers and Business Users/Sponsors.
• Managed production defect maintenance releases for my domain of applications in 2007 and 2008. Averaged 85 defect fix resolutions in production each quarter.
• Gathered and maintained all SDLC audit required documentation for projects.

Senior QA Engineer,

• Test Lead for numerous testing projects including maintenance and Push Messaging system.
• Created test cases by investigating and gathering information from the Business, Development and IT Teams as written requirements and specifications did not exist.
• Demonstrated ability to test multiple projects simultaneously and meet required deadlines.
• Leveraged technical proficiency to troubleshoot remote systems.
• Functioned as Test Lead for team of 5; successfully completed release for Fire Fox Browser conversion.