SUMMARY

• As a highly motivated Agilist, with unique experiences and extensive knowledge to deliver high value software solutions that contribute to the success of our technology initiatives in an agile environment.
• I am a strong motivator, coach and influencer with effective servant leadership and communication skills capable of transforming any team to become highly productive, self - organizing and value driven.
• Have a strong background in Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile technology delivery team, and Web/ mobile applications, leveraging Agile development techniques and practices for delivering High value products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Techniques: TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Kanban, FDD

Agile Framework: Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFe

DevOps Approaches: FDD TDD, TDD, CI/CD, AWS environment, Backend teams

Continuous Integration Tools: Team City, Jenkins, VSTS

BI Tools: Tableau, SSIS, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, Google Analytics

Configuration Management: GitHub, Visual Source Safe, Jenkins

Processes: CMMI, ITIL, and Six Sigma Lean tools

Continuous Deployment Tools: VSTS

Project Management Tools: JIRA, VSTS, Nexus, PPRT, Remedy, CRQ

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coach two new teams to adopt agile values, principles, and Practices.
• Guiding an API agile team and Accounting and processing agile team to enhance and stabilize Services use in the bank and by our partners.
• Provides overall guidance for team adhere to Agile principles and practices.
• Arrange, facilitates and schedule meetings, demos, and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use.
• Ensure user stories are prioritized and delivered.
• Work with Product manager in request intake and prioritization
• Drives quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity.
• Facilitate team transparency by escalating impediments and share progress by team to appropriate channels.
• Actively engage in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.
• Plans and coordinate testing environment deployment and application/ system integration testing.
• Guide team in self-organization
• Encourage and motivate teams to focus on iteration goals.
• Guide the team to Creating a culture of empowerment and continuous learning.
• Guide the team to create a healthy and stable product for our customers and partners.

Confidential, Dallas. TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned, Cordinate, and delivery of project that delivers businss objectives.
• Communicate work objectives, cordinate delivery, manage risk, comply with change standards, manage project budgets provide end to end visbility into the health of the project.
• Ensured project stays in the scope of delivery objectives, as well as defining timelines, milestones, dependencies
• Deliver technical solution to resolve business needs
• Work with key stakeholders such as Project sponsors, execution lead, product owners, delivery lead
• Architects analyst and developers to understand business needs and priorties and achieve it .
• Partner with the front line unit to document project objectives and outcome and how the work will be planned and executed.
• Identified and Ensure the people, process and tools that is needed for this change or project is available.
• Ensure the stakeholders and required approvers are enagaged throughout the change executive phase.
• Review and Approves the build, test and deloyment readiness at the GoNo/Go.
• Confirms that he project has acheived expected outcoms and deployed solution are performing in the business as usual (BAU) enviroment.
• Utilize agile tools including Jira to facilitate the teams daily stand up, iteration planning, backlog reviews and retrospectives as part of the SDLC

Confidential

Scrum Master II

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coach 3 distributed team responsible for enhancing the company’s digital platform.
• Mentoring team members to perform product owner and scrum master roles to achieve self-organization and grow team cross functionally
• Serves as a scrum master to 3 teams and as a coach to the organization at large, educating them on scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.
• Coaches the Scrum teams on story estimation, task definition, Definition of Ready & done while ensuring high value requirements are delivered faster.
• Proactively identify and remove impediments that could serve as blockers
• Provide support to the teams using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
• Ensures that development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Motivate and protect the teams from external disturbance to ensure they stay focused on delivering potentially shippable product increment every week.
• Help build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear
• Facilitate discussions and help resolve conflicts
• Assists Product Owner in ensuring requirements are better expressed as independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small and testable user stories
• Encourage team knowledge sharing and collaboration through designs sessions, programming pairing, code reviews, around knowledge silos to reduce risks
• Research ways of becoming more agile and sharing the knowledge with the teams

Confidential

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled and facilitated scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, product backlogs refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings.
• Ensured the Product Owner knew how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value
• Coached the Development Team on self-organization and cross-functionality;
• Used various techniques for effective Product Backlog management and story estimates.
• Helped the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.
• Mitigates conflicts, remove impediments and help to foster good practice and principles among team members

Confidential

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall delivery of development projects.
• Headed a 7-member startup team focused on launching a cloud-based web interface with social media integration.
• Promoted the scrum framework to various departments within the university by helping them understand Agile principles, Values and practices.
• Led workshops to define team agreements and definition of done and revisited on a frequent basis
• Performed various project administration tasks, including coordinating meetings, taking meeting minutes
• Forwarding communication releases and performing maintenance of project tracking logs
• Provided regular project updates and managed project schedules, documents and prepared presentations to the top management about the project health.

Confidential, Dallas TX

Financial Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed financial information obtained from clients to determine strategies for meeting client’s financial objectives.
• Met with potential clients and developed a personal planning analysis based on the financial, personal and professional goals.
• Performed need analysis and assisted with client financials such as budget reconciliation and management.
• Developed and serviced an extensive network of clientele and helped them manage risk and reach their financial goals.
• Developed and maintained client bases, keeping current client plans up-to date and recruiting new clients on an ongoing basis.
• Acquired and maintained over 100 new clients and businesses within 2 years