Scrum Master/Project Manager Resume , Conway, AR - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Create strong agile development teams that deliver above and beyond customer expectations while meeting the organizational requirements and staying true to the vision of the Agile manifesto.
Ensure quality, agility, teamwork and communication while encouraging creativity, individuality, and innovation.
Coach self organizing, self managing teams that thrive in a test driven agile development environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Conway, AR

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed multiple high profile, high risk projects simultaneously. Key player in the pilot project to bring the scrum framework into Confidential . Worked with up to 5 teams in multiple states and countries simultaneously. Project budgets ranged from $50,000 to $800,000. Created highly motivated teams that exceeded company performance objectives and exceeded team goals.
Facilitated up to 5 teams simultaneously consisting of developers, testers, technical writers, and release engineers to create a harmonious and agile symphony of productivity. Increased profitability through highly trained, efficient and motivated workforce.
Resolved team conflicts.
Ensured all team members had appropriate tools and resources to perform the task at hand.
Trained and motivated scrum teams to increase velocity by 35% over 6 months.
Developed expense budget of approximately $1M per quarter, with detailed justification for each line item.
Met project budget 85% of the time and 10% of the remainder were justified based on scope change.
Decreased emergency changes and Bugs in production by 10% to 60%
Responsible for removing blockers and creating support from leadership.
Acquire and present the appropriate metrics data.
Used various tools to lead and coach scrum teams.
Used Version One for centralized planning and reporting.
Used Jira for centralized planning, reporting and defect management.
Used ALM for defect management and automated testing.
Used Source Forge for code management.

Confidential

Installation Engineer

Responsibilities:

Spearheaded a trail team to create a “gated” process for ALL development to go through installation and regression testing prior to the production installation.
This became the standard and reduced installation errors and missed downtime windows by over 98%. Responsible for installing all products as well as documenting the installation procedures.

Confidential

Logistics Manager

Responsibilities:

The role is based on Microsoft’s SDL model. Primary focus was stewarding software from development into production.
This included hardware and 3rd party software acquisitions, running beta testing, and implementing/coordinating change management.

Confidential

System Engineer/DBA

Responsibilities:

Managed, installed, and maintained a windows network consisting of 5 domain controllers, 140 NT Servers, and 30 SQL Databases.
Designed and optimized hardware solutions, including Storage Area Networks.