SUMMARY:

Certified Scrum Master with Project Management, Interactive and Web development experience in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. Specializing in Agile and Lean frameworks and approaches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Proficient with JIRA
• VersionOne
• Microsoft Word
• Excel
• Project
• SharePoint
• PowerPoint
• and Outlook. Skilled with Trello
• Adobe Creative Cloud suite
• including Flash
• Dreamweaver
• Premiere and Photoshop. Familiarity with Rally
• Pivotal Tracker
• LeanKit Kanban
• HTML
• Java and Visual Basic for Applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Agile Coach

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Responsibilities:

• Make recommendations to management on improving agile practices, systems and team performance.
• Coach, train and mentor management and team members on Agile, Scrum, and Kanban practices
• Create presentations and documentation to explain Agile practices and techniques to IS department personnel.
• Configure JIRA projects and confluence templates to be used by multiple agile teams .

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Confidential, Glendale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Scrum Master for three teams that maintain identity and access management services to employees throughout the company.
• Make recommendations to management on improving agile practices, systems and team performance.
• Coach, train and mentor team members, individually and in groups, on Scrum, Kanban and Agile practices to help teams perform better and be more self - managing.
• Maintain team and project information and metrics in Jira and act as department administrator for the tool.

Scrum Master/Agile Coach (Contract)

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Served as Scrum Master for up to three cross-functional teams developing and modifying applications to serve automotive industry data and reviews to the general public through mobile and Web applications. Facilitate standard scrum meetings and act as servant leader to the team.
• Coached, trained and mentored team members, individually and in groups, on Scrum and general Agile best-practices to help teams perform better and be more self-managing.
• Maintained team and project information and metrics in the VersionOne agile ALM tool.
• Consulted with and make recommendations to management on improving agile practices, systems and team performance.

Sr. Analyst (Agile Project Manager)

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Responsibilities:

• Coach and coordinate a team of up to 30 engineers, QA specialists and analysts developing health and fitness Android, iOS and Web applications in Agile principles and techniques, using the Kanban method.
• Monitor and adjust WIP limits to reduce multitasking, ensure team members are fully utilized and improve flow while avoiding overload.
• Monitor and improve team metrics such as cycle time
• Mange team financials in Oracle's Primavera Project Manger
• Administer team's JIRA cloud instance.

Project Manager

Confidential, Fountain Valley, CA

Responsibilities:

• Implement Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban to organize and improve output of a department that maintains public-facing Websites.
• Lead Scrum teams in the role of Scrum Master, conducting Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Coached other personnel and Product Owners on Agile practices.
• Assisted Product Owners and stakeholders in writing User Stories
• Manage departments Jira instance, setting up projects, adding users, modifying worfklows, configuring Agile boards
• Produced status and progress reports for upper management.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Plan and manage the requirements, schedule, budget and resources to develop web sites and other interactive media through local agencies, including performing QA checks on products.
• Consult with clients on process improvements, Agile frameworks and applications, systems and tools to improve collaboration and project information visibility.
• Served as Director of Creative Marketing for the Los Angeles chapter of the Project Management Institute, including social media promotion and the production of podcasts interviewing thought-leaders in traditional and Agile project management topics.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Santa Monica, CA

Responsibilities:

• Manage schedule, budget and resources for development of Ruby-on-Rails, iOS and Android applications for external clients using Agile Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
• Coordinated and managed Iteration Planning, daily stand-up and Demo meetings for globally-distributed development teams and clients.
• Coached other personnel and external client Product Owners on Agile practices.
• Assisted clients in writing User Stories
• Used JIRA Agile to track product defects and tasks for teams.

Project Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed schedule, budget and resources for development for SaaS training and evaluation systems for ethics and compliance, including the conversion of Learning Management System courseware templates to versions that could be viewed on mobile platforms such as the iPad.
• Coordinated network operations teams on infrastructure projects including an upgrade to the company ’s Disaster Recovery system and the selection and implementation of a replacement defect tracking tool and a new Project tracking/Agile Application Lifecycle Management tool.
• Coached other personnel on Agile practices and presented training to general staff on frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban to improve productivity and organization.
• Managed projects using project management and Agile ALM tools such as Microsoft Project, Rally, VersionOne and LeanKit Kanban.
• Led Story Writing workshops to elicit broad and specific product goals from Product Owners and Analysts and train them in how to wrote User Stories
• Led Scrum teams in the role of Scrum Master, conducting Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Project Manager

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed schedule, budget, requirements and resources for development of systems for managing content and digital rights for systems to deliver movies and TV shows over the Internet (Flixster and Ultraviolet) using waterfall and Scrum frameworks.
• Led Scrum teams in the role of Scrum Master, conducting Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Coordinated with and assigned work to offshore development team
• Wrote requirements in the form of User Stories and created wireframes and prototypes to clarify requirements.
• Created budgets and wrote proposals for projects.

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential, Beverly Hills, CA

Responsibilities:

• Manage schedule, budget and resources for development of Facebook-integrated Adobe Flash games using Agile Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
• Coached other personnel on traditional project management and Agile practices.
• Presented training to general staff on Agile frameworks.
• Assisted Game Designers in converting traditional Requirements/Game Design Documents into User Stories
• Used JIRA and GreenHopper to track product defects and tasks for teams.

Project Coordinator

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote documentation for Interwoven TeamSite-based Content Management System and produce training videos, using Camtasia, to communicate the processes to domestic and international IT personnel.
• Wrote requirements and Use Case documents for functional, distributor-facing sites.
• Create Information Architecture documents such as site maps, flowcharts and static and interactive wireframes with Visio and Axure for financial transfer processes and an employee intranet.
• Coordinate translation and localization of content for international versions of web sites.

Producer

Confidential, North Hollywood, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed schedules, specifications and Information Architecture diagrams for modifications to sites that service users of Disney ’s mobile phone service and Corporate Web sites.
• Evaluated and drove the adoption of a new software definition tool and processes to provide more interactive and accurate wireframes to developers.
• Coordinated with SEO department to improve Search Engine rankings of new and existing sites and ran and analyzed Omniture reports to determine site performance.
• Taught workshops in Photoshop and MS Access.