SUMMARY:

• Dynamic individual seeks a challenging Scrum Master/ Agile Coach position where creative ideas can be fully developed into applicable solutions.
• Over ten years of team leadership, software development, testing, and implementation experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provide extremely high level subject matter expertise - Provide advanced technical knowledge and analysis of highly specialized applications and operational environment, high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, training, and implementation advice on complex problems
• Participate as needed in all phases of software development with emphasis on the planning, analysis, testing, integration, documentation, training and presentation phases (Agile,and SAFe concepts)
• Apply principals, methods, and knowledge of specific functional areas of expertise to specific task order requirements
• Provide advice on esoteric problems which require extensive knowledge of the subject matter
• Design and prepare technical reports, studies, and related documentation, makes charts and graphs to record results, prepare and deliver presentations, training, and briefings as required by the contract

Confidential

Agile Mentor

Responsibilities:

• Assessed the current state of the software development project team, to determine which Agile techniques would be most effective, set up expectations and timelines and articulate goals
• Identify strengths, impediments, opportunities, risks and the migration of these risks which are incorporated in the Mentoring Plan
• Meticulously noted and collected meeting minutes and action item for program, project, and one on one PM meetings which are in turn been used to tailor the Mentoring Plan to each specific project
• Developed coaching/mentoring plan to help achieve Agile engineering processes
• Prepared and presented specific mentoring sessions on Agile to Teams, Project, Program Managers, and Stakeholders based on the work activities breakdown structures
• Implemented the approved plan
• Finalized with an assessment report of the impact of the Agile mentoring and recommendations for improving processes, products, and documentation
• Updated Agile Foundation document on weekly bases to reflect the current state of the project

Confidential

Sr Process Change Agent

Responsibilities:

• Worked under general direction and in partnership with the executives and multiple teams with varying levels of Agile maturity to determine the teams current state processes and developed a plan to adopt Agile or improve their current use of Agile. provide guidance to ensure effective application of Agile principles and applicable standards in alignment with the Agile methodologies - work daily with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Scrum and Kanban Teams as well as Product Manager, executives and others responsible for Agile adoption and execution.
• Conducted Scrum of Scrums with teams located onsite, offsite and offshore.
• Used Agile subject matter expertise to coach new and existing teams on Agile processes, and influenced leadership and associates on the culture change required to shift from a traditional to an Agile methodology and mindset.
• Provided subject matter expertise to the Scrum Masters, Product Owners, other scrum team members, and Product Managers - Continually administer Agile team maturity assessments and developed coaching plans accordingly.
• Fostered an open and collaborative communication framework across teams and levels.
• Assisted executives and other Agile team members in development of the Agile Playbook.
• Provided performance feedback to executives and Agile team members.
• Identified, collected, and reported on Agile Practice metrics and measurements.
• Prepared a variety of communication artifacts related to Agile practice, progress, and plans - Developed and delivered presentations to various levels of stakeholders and executives and facilitates working sessions to identify resolutions to barriers to scaling use of Agile.

Confidential

Scrum Master and Sr Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reporting of risks, impediments, sprint and release progress.
• Facilitated the team in identifying & managing interactivity dependencies within product development.
• Facilitated the estimation of Product Backlog Items and other Scrum activities with an understanding of problem domain.
• Coached Team and implemented different flavors of Agile to get the work done. (Scrum, Lean, Kanban)
• Continuously plan and re-organized resources based on the changing priorities
• Elicited and recorded requirements, enabling an understanding of how the requirements would impact on the methodology selected to complete the project.
• Prepared the end of Project documentation

Confidential

Scrum Master and QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reporting of risks, impediments, sprint and release progress.
• Facilitated the team in identifying and managing interactivity dependencies within product development.
• Facilitated the estimation of Product Backlog Items and other Scrum activities with an undeosrstanding of problem domain.
• Conducted on-going project meetings as needed.
• Created an environment of team spirit and excitement around what is being delivered.
• Proactively resolved conflict between people and if needed escalate appropriately
• Responsible for time boxed (4 week) sprint planning and execution.
• Gathered and disseminated project information on a regular basis, documented team agreements, sprint plans, release plans, and retrospectives.
• Facilitated team progress, with a focus on delivering business value quickly.
• Anticipated and proactive tracked/recorded/removed/escalated of impediments
• Coached Team members on the flavors of Agile.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders and team members to create the Agile Playbook.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led testing efforts for project using onshore - offshore concept.(Testing team consisted of onshore and offshore members)
• Led requirements walkthroughs and JAD sessions to determine testing scope.
• Conducted in depth decomposition of the provided requirements documentations to reveal any requirement gaps (documentation used: irise, idoc, user stories, use cases, and design documents).
• Interacted with multiple teams, projects, and interfaces to access their impact on our delivered functionalities
• Developed and executed detailed test plans, cases, and scripts (Quality Center, Rational RequisitePro).
• Tracked defects, led defect calls and resolutions (Quality Center).
• Created Test Data based on requirements specification (Accessing Oracle dbase using Toad).
• Forecasted potential issues, roadblocks and eliminated them before they occurred.
• Managed and led the translation testing team (on both functionality and language content: Spanish and French)
• Guided junior test members.
• Tested ETL Data Load.
• Involved in the business process reengineering team - laying out the ground work for the transition from waterfall to an Agile testing and developing methodology.
• Taught and consulted teams and new team members on Agile philosophy and processes.

Confidential

Project Manager/ Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planned, defined, and managed the Model Office scope.
• Model Office: The process of setting up a new business unit during and after a software implementation or reorganization (i.e., Resources, Training, Tools, Processes, Procedures are identified and acquired in a predefined timeframe and sequence).
• Documented existing business process workflow and procedures.
• Wrote functional requirements for prospective software vendors.
• Led GAP analysis where the software vendors indicates their matches or misses towards the functional requirements.
• Finalized vendor selection.
• Organized, scheduled, and conducted software training for the users/tester (pre-modified software)
• Acted as Quality Assurance liaison between software builders/vendors and current business
• This insured that the “to be delivered” software is still in accordance with the business needs (functional requirements) - ongoing process.
• Managed additional requirements, review projects, and maintain project plans in order to have and maintain control on the high and detailed level of the project.
• Learned the acquired software data structure and data manipulation methodology.
• Analyzed portfolio/products to fit them best in the acquired software data structure.
• Coordinated and conducted software training for the users/testers on the modified software.
• Result, software and business knowledge transfer.
• Defined the testing scope (test plan, cases, scripts).
• Wrote and updated test plans, cases, and scripts based on business and functional requirements.
• Delegated the execution of the test scripts to users/testers.
• Led the effort of Interfacing/Interacting between software vendor and business units to localize, analyze, reproduce, and fix bugs/problems.
• Constantly researching for tools, new views, and expertise (local and international) to aid in the delivering of a better product.
• Reported project status and possible challenges to superiors and subordinates.
• Performed data integrity and validity testing after data migration.

Confidential

Senior Consultant/Business Analyst/QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed requirements and design review projects, and maintain project plans.
• Interfaced/Interacted with development and business units to localize, analyze, reproduce, and fix bugs/problems.
• Wrote and updated test plans, cases, and scripts based on business and functional requirements (using RequisitePro).
• Performed regression, unit, and system testing to insure the continuity of the process (Mainframe and Client/Server applications).
• Created and Maintained test scripts that validate the expected against actual test results using MS Access dbase and SQL.
• Reconciled financial reports.
• Recorded and tracked all bugs/problems using Remedy (problem tracking system).

Confidential

Senior Consultant - Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led, managed group of testers, analysts, and developers in order to improve user interface and customer satisfaction.
• Managed and met customers’ needs with the changing technology.
• Prepared and analyzed testing plans based on specific business requirements and real live scenarios in a Client/Server environment.
• Performed unit and integrated testing on clients' websites.
• Researched various requirement documents to determine process flow.
• Developed, maintained, and upgraded WebPages in ASP with SQLServer7 and ACCESS back-end.
• Performed business analyst duties.
• Wrote functional, data, systems requirements, and database specification documents (using use case methodology).
• Conducted Software Quality Assurance (SQA), White Box, Black Box Testing.
• Used TestDirector for requirements and test plan (Mercury Test Tool).

Confidential

Senior Consultant Programmer/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and supported the existing COBOL mainframe batch systems.
• Analyzed, designed, unit and system tested, and implemented new system enhancements on the mainframe using COBOL II, JCL, DB2, CICS, and IMS.
• Analyzed and fixed bugs coming from the UNIX feeds that used PRO-C, INFORMIX, and ORACLE.
• Conducted production support (Lead person). Quickly diagnosed causes of systems failures and malfunctions to ensure highest operating efficiencies, reliability, and quality performance standards.
• Supervised, managed, informed, and aided team members on production problems and new projects.
• Developed and maintained functional and technical requirements documentation.
• Manipulated data to produce reports based on clients’ needs.
• Scheduled jobs using Control-M, CA-7.
• Tested Billing codes and rates

Confidential

Project Manager(Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Managed and monitored product and inventory availability, accessed daily proceed information using queries.
• Managed accounts payable, lobbied for venture capital for current and future projects.
• Knowledge of “Grote Beer administratie” system.
• Maintained and expanded client base (Mainframe and Client/Server).
• Designed product and sales tracking system program for company’s computer system.
• Managed software and hardware acquisition.
• Conducted research, organized and analyzed data, documented suggestion for company’s current and future software, and hardware needs.
• Led team of ten people.
• Managed internal projects.