SUMMARY

• Provide senior direction to lesser experienced Project Managers/Scrum Masters with working experience in many different Project Management methodologies. Proven ability to transform corporations to the utilization of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) as needed. I have multi - year experience in older methodologies (Waterfall) giving me the ability to hit the ground running in the transformational process to Agile
• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale Software, Web development, Data warehouse and minimally Infrastructure projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams. Expert at management initiatives. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments. Able to leverage Agile methodologies on large projects with multiple inter-dependencies and/or threads.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Scrum Master, Agile Evangelist

Confidential, RTP, NC

Responsibilities:

• Work with Architects, Product Owners and developers in the fast paced world of delivering through an Agile/Scrum lens. Also the sole trainer for implementing Agile Kanban when necessary.
• Coach teams throughout Confidential as one of Confidential Agile Champions. Working closely with Confidential ’s agile academy.
• Coaching teams for better productivity. Teams ranged from experienced to beginner levels.
• Adopting Agile/Kanban when needed to facilitate and address issues and defects where applicable.
• Analyze Agile operating data and statistics to identify opportunities, develop action plans, and implement process improvements.
• Translation of business functional requirements into story form to facilitate utilization into scrum methodology.
• Work very closely with product owner to make sure that there is a complete understanding of what is expected of the team and what can be completed. Without over or under stating what will be delivered
• Introduced Agile Kanban as an option to work amongst certain teams.

Sr. Scrum Master, Sr. Agile Product Analyst

Confidential, Herndon VA

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master overseeing team of 8 in delivering eCommerce solutions in a fast paced environment
• Train Business Analyst in the use of Agile Scrum methods
• Lead a team that will be responsible for process assessments, and process design and redesign.
• Analyze Agile operating data and statistics to identify opportunities, develop action plans, and implement process improvements.
• Prepare business process reports for management and customers.
• Maintain and update all the process related reports for reference purposes.
• Develop in-depth knowledge of the organization's business lines and products.
• Recommend innovative business and technical solutions to improve operational effectiveness.
• Utilized Jira Agile to manage and Sprints and defect tickets
• Identify business process challenges by analyzing process data and metrics.
• Identify and analyze business processes to be improved
• Facilitate teams to critically review current processes for effectiveness, quality and simplification
• Develop and implement process solutions to improve operational efficiency.
• Develop process workflows and design in compliance with regulatory requirements
• Provide training programs on new processes as needed

IT Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Program Manager

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Responsibilities:

• Successfully gave Direction acting as Program manager - Agile Program guiding 3 Scrum Teams with the same delivery goal. Great Success was achieved and was asked to train all Scrum teams to work in this fashion.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand- Confidential, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 33 major initiatives
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• IceScrum tool utilization to manage Sprints
• I introduced Kanban into Confidential where necessary

Scrum Master/Sr Project Manager

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated more than 25 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 1 year.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by greater than 35%.
• Authored and persuasively presented proposal to executive team, and directed initiative for a major e-commerce program projected to save $20M per year
• VersionOne Agile scrum tool used extensively to manage Sprints for multiple teams.

Web Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential, Fort Knox, KY

Responsibilities:

• Managed all the communication, co-ordination and status reporting with all the stakeholders
• Introduced Agile scrum methodologies for managing multiple iterations
• Facilitated Daily Scrum, Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews, and Planning Sessions
• Assisted in the migration of DOD enterprise projects into the Agile framework
• Monitored and controlled project scope, cost, schedule and quality.
• Management of all data governance initiatives for the Accessions G2
• Directorate for the United States Confidential .
• Maintained continuous alignment of program scope with strategic military bjectives.

Confidential, Jeffersonville, IN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Duties included supporting financial and payroll operations automating numerous manual processes. Supported the requirements for our Time Management tool for all businesses throughout the US and Jamaica.
• Also assisted in driving the application architecture for SharePoint by designing and documenting applications from onset to completion.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Project Manager/Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• During my years working at Confidential my experience extended from start as a Senior Programmer analyst to working as the Project Coordinator. As a senior application developer I worked on the In Vehicle Information Systems
• (IVIS). This system included specialized traffic information, cell phones, text messaging, email, vehicle diagnostics, and emergency help systems. Upon completion of this system I was sent with the application for deployment to centers around the US working closely with the project manager. My responsibility was to analyze any field testing problems, perform risk analysis and document the processes. The Platform was originally written in an Obsolete
• OS2 platform which was converted to a more up to date development environment.
• This application was successfully deployed throughout the country.
• Upon completion of the deployment of IVIS, I was moved to the Feeder Scheduling
• (FS) team as a project manager/coordinator. My responsibilities included managing a team of developers utilizing mainframe, ColdFusion, asp, Visual C++Visual Basic and some Perl. I led a team of 8 resources through all application development phases adhering to the basic principles of the SDLC. I also performed evaluations and reviews for these employees as their manager. This teams responsibilities ranged from mapping truck schedules to the actual scheduling of the Feeder Trucks. I was then given the added responsibility of leading the integration of Overnite trucking systems to Confidential ’s Feeder trucking systems. I worked closely with upper management of Overnite to ensure that all requirements were captured and understood correctly. I also coordinated the integration of software reuse on both sides. I managed the ETL (Export
• Transport and Load process analysis to ensure that all vital data would be

Confidential, Lou, KY

Adjunct Instructor/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Train students in all stages of Software Programming.
• Programming Logic and Concepts.
• Information Processing and Microcomputer Applications for business.
• Trained students new to computers and students that want to better their abilities using Microsoft Applications including MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, and MS PowerPoint.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Senior Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked at various organizations as Senior Application Consultant. Duties ranged from client side Application Developer to Web Developer, to Internet Information

Services Administrator

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Engineers designing desktop software that included design drawings and calculations. These applications were later converted to Web based applications that I served as there pilot for implementing a web based intranet system forengineers. applications the track the movement of cargo on the mainline and local barging systems. I also served as the team lead for all web based development.