Agile CoachÂ Resume Eden Prairie, MN - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

10 years of Software Development Life Cycle experience, including 9 years working with Agile. Hold several certifications in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and Lean Six - Sigma. Active in the greater Agile community.
JIRA / TFS / RTC / Salesforce Release Maps / Road Maps
SaaS / Web / Mobile Apps Architecture / Business Modeling
Healthcare / DevOps XP / Scrum / SAFe / Kanban / Lean
TDD / ATDD / BDD Integration / ETL / HL7 / CCD / X12

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Agile Coach

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Responsibilities:

Used my extensive Scaled Agile experience to prepare RTE’s, SM’s, PO’s, and other leadership for PI events.
Mentored coaches, Product Owners, Scrum Masters in servant leadership principles and continuous improvement.
Trained/mentored/coached all levels of the organization on Agile principles, practices, ceremonies, artifacts, and ceremonies of an Agile enterprise.
Coached waterfall teams through the transition process of becoming a mature Agile team.
Established and mentored Scrum ceremonies, User Story writing and refinement.
Taught Agile methods through workshops, customized training, and 1-on-1 coaching.
Established a means of effective communication and Agile engagement practices for distributed teams.

Agile Coach - Product Owner

Confidential, Altoona, PA

Responsibilities:

Facilitated Agile ceremonies including release planning and release showcases.
Promoted can-do environment of continuous learning and collaboration where self-governing teams adapted an attitude of creativity, innovation, and a quest for improvement.
Worked with other ScrumMasters and development managers to assess the enterprise Agile maturity and to develop a plan to advance it that included the adoption of a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Set-up, coached, and mentored KanBan and Scrum teams to support various projects.
Maintained team transparency by communicating key metrics such as team velocities, business values, defects, and sprint / release statuses throughout the corporation.

Scrum Master - Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Provided leadership and direction to teams in adoption of Agile/Scrum principles and practices on all development projects related to Confidential ’s suite of multi-tenant SaaS solutions for Home Health and related agencies.
Dramatically improved teams’ effectiveness (local and offshore) by focusing on quality stories that were small and specific with well-defined acceptance criteria. Provided direction and training in the basics of Agile, refined team metrics.
Served as liaison between the Technology Department and other business units.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Managed the Web UX, Content Management System, and Telephony interfaces.
Provided systems capabilities/limitations expertise for proposed business projects.
Prepared risk/opportunity assessments and cost/benefit analysis for projects.
Wrote user stories to facilitate requirements meetings with clients and vendors.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Responsibilities:

Technical defect identification and management.
Implementation of defect resolutions.
Developed method to proactively address potential defects and establish solution processes.