SUMMARY:

• Extensive knowledge and/or experience as an Agile Coach, Trainer, Scrum Master, Agile Lead, and Program Manager in Airline, Government, Real Estate, Banking, Healthcare, Communications, Oil & Gas, High Tech and Manufacturing Industries
• Proven Agile Coach utilizing the Scrum, Kanban and SAFe methodologies at large organizations with complex systems
• Experience facilitating Scrum of Scrum with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Sponsors and other key Stakeholders to effectively communicate schedules, risks and dependencies
• Familiarity with Agile tools to support iterative tracking and development
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum philosophy, removing impediments and fostering self - organization. Capable of bringing enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in ever changing environments
• Good knowledge in Solution Facilitation, Feature Planning, Scheduling & Budgeting, Vendor Management & Business Development
• Strong Analytical and enunciation skills with the ability to present solutions that address requirements and mitigate risk. Good knowledge in Multi-tier and Cross-platform environments
• Excellent interpersonal, management and communication skills . Exposure to various consulting aspects pertaining to project life cycle and Team management
• Oversee a variety of planning and project management assignments within several cross functional teams and countries ranging from $1MM - $20MM

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: Oracle 7- 11, Cassandra 2.0.12.200 Data Stax Enterprise 4.6.1

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Project Management: MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Brainmap, GoogleDocs, Agile, Scrum, Rally (Agile tool), Kanban, SAFe, JIRA, and AgileCraft

Tools: SQL, PL/SQL Java, STS, Tomcat, Solr 4.10.2, Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Dallas,TX

Agile Coach/Consultant

• Coach Teams as a Thought Leader to evolve into a high-performance team through their daily work and interactions, including efficiently managing Scrum of Scrums, Agile process improvements, consistency across program wide Multi-Continent Teams, empower Teams to transition from Scrum to Kanban based on the need. Incorporated SAFe principles as needed
• Guide/Coach PRM and POs on proper job description and task-enablement. Improvement in meeting productivity as part of continuous process improvement during Agile Ceremonies
• Actively promote Community of Practice (CoP) by planning Kickoff for 3 Communities and executing the most extraordinarily successful CoP kickoff for Technical teams involving 175 in-person and 250+ on Webex with 2 Sponsors (Senior Directors) and 7 champions by incorporating SAFe principles
• Using servant-leadership model drove cultural change towards innovation using metrics-based delivery
• Influenced the leadership as a Change Leader on eliminating or circumventing road-blocks and waste efforts to bring about an organizational change thru the journey of transformational enterprise adoption of agile practices
• Interview candidates for other positions within DCE
• Facilitate learning by hands-on workshops, training classes, meetings, and Team-building activities
• Discover and nurtured opportunities for cross-pollination and identify waste and areas of improvement
• Help create autonomous, self-organizing, empowered, and continuously improving Teams
• Educated leadership and Teams on Scrum, Kanban and SAFe principles
• Collaborated with other Coaches to develop Data Quality Dashboards and metrics
• Attended Inceptions and completed Inception Facilitator training to train POs and PRMs in proper execution of epic breakdown, feature finalization and effort estimation

Confidential,Alexandria,VA

Lean & Agile Coach/ Management Consultant

• Championed enterprise adoption of agile best practices through seminars and presentations with a goal of CI/CD and SAFe implementation
• Optimized the realization of goals related to Agile ceremonies for multiple Scrum Teams including daily stand up, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and release planning
• Strong leadership and communication skills to facilitate and capture features/capabilities related to project goals
• Broached and resolved difficult to discuss topics including productivity, morale, metrics, measures and accountability. Report generation for CIO’s office to keep pace with overall progress and impediments
• Interacted with team members to solicit their viewpoints in resolving issues and addressing training accordingly
• Aided in improved techniques for story writing, backlog grooming and release planning dependencies
• Facilitated prioritizing the process improvements and value-stream alignment
• Negotiated with teams on a pragmatic approach for TDD and automation of test cases and execution
• Maintained high levels of enthusiasm and rapport with upper management including Product executives on planning and smooth delivery with self-organizing teams
• Provided training and learning sessions at the Team and Program level

Confidential,Washington,DC

Agile Coach

• Demonstrated product features to very large audiences (90+) including Chief of Office of Transformation Coordination, CIO, and Branch Chief
• Coached teams on effective execution of the Agile framework and its best practices in a repeatable and consistent manner. Reiterated alternatives including SAFe, Scrum and Kanban
• Developed and evaluated teams’ measures and metrics on code quality, business value, innovation and process discipline
• Engaged with multiple teams and the Product Owners to define “Definition of Done”, “Definition of Ready” and procedures not defined at the program level. Supported the teams and Product Owners to ensure the backlog has sufficient prioritized user stories with a “ready” status
• Developed a structured approach to maintaining artifacts, Test case count (TDD), pipeline break reports
• Articulated user story grooming at planning sessions that were driven by feature/capability
• Prioritized user stories based on sequencing, UI vs. backend role and scope of user stories
• Scheduled and facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, sprint grooming, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective meetings. Used Agile scrum methodologies for managing multiple iterations
• Utilized Portfolio Wall to guide the teams within the program regarding dependencies based on the value-stream and SAFe practices
• Monitored build pipeline thru various stage gates (CI/CD)
• Worked with OIT code review team to develop processes for fast feedback and work with team members to address the findings using Redmine

Confidential,St. Louis

Agile Coach/Scrum Master/Trainer

• Started & transformed new Agile teams from waterfall system, while adapting to the team culture
• Acted as a Transformation and Execution lead for multiple streams of work
• Worked with program leaders to drive the definition of “Done” and refinement of the program backlog
• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the Scrum Masters at the team level
• Created value-stream mapping and cross-value stream coordination and collaboration
• Served as an escalation point for impediment removal for the Scrum Masters
• Maintained metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level progress and quality
• Acted as a liaison to assigned Tech Leads and Project Managers to manage dependencies between the program teams and third parties, release managers, and among multiple development teams
• Worked cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution
• Prepared Burn-up, Burn-down metrics and velocity charts. Created new user stories in Rally with acceptance criteria and other features. Tracked backlog and added value by using Agile practices
• Synchronized Planning with Delivery by aligning business initiatives with IT capabilities
• Exhorted and succeeded in implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Hands on experience with communicating effectively and driving the Agile teams and product owners to a consensus with the main driving forces being “speed to market” and “quality of solution”
• Kicked of ceremonies including kickoff, planning, internal demos, external demos, retrospective, story planning and backlog grooming
• Developed plan and successfully created CoP (Community of Practice) among members and Stake Holders
• Facilitated learning through workshops, training and Team-building activities

Confidential,Towson,MD

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

• Was part of full life cycle from blueprint, configuration, realization, testing, go-live activities and post production support including user-exits in Java
• Generated high level functional requirements (sort of epics) that were later on groomed to produce user stories.
• Collaborated, facilitated, lead and coached 10 Scrum teams
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, grooming, development, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enacted change and continuous improvement by increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally by managing backlog as well as commitments.
• Prepared burn-rate/velocity reports, bug reports, with a goal of optimizing throughput
• Offered “Brown Bag” lunch sessions to help Team Members in their professional development

Confidential, Minneapolis,MN

Agile Consultant

• Establishing strategies for contingency planning and risk mitigation
• Developed test cases alongside user-story estimation for supporting migration and data cleanup
• Provided support including Month end and Year end closing Activities. Participated in strategy and status meetings. Balanced stake holder demands with IT execution rate/ease-of-build to provide realistic solutions
• Brought order to the complexity using strong time management skills, and collaborative efforts
• Developed consensus around Community of Practice (CoP) among members and Stake Holders