SUMMARY:

• Agile Coach with experience in leading teams, groups, and organizations towards better way of working. Experience includes facilitating story writing workshops, story mapping, Agile estimations, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe PI) release planning, product road - map meetings, retrospectives and various Scrum ceremonies, and aiding product owners with stakeholder expectation management.
• Expert in working with large scaled organizations and establishing Agile at scale (LeSS, SAFe).
• Proven track record of success in leading & mentoring Scrum teams.
• Expert in guiding transition from Waterfall to Scrum and Kanban.
• Core skills: Agile estimations, Agile requirements/ Story writing, Agile Release planning and roadmapping, Agile & Scrum, Conflict Navigation, Retrospectives.

EXPERIENCE:

Agile Scrum Coach Lead Consultant

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Brought onboard to improve existing Agile practices across US & UK based development teams in order to reduce delays and improve predictability.
• Gather key leaders together, develop a common understanding of the existing processes and the key challenges.
• Brainstorm ideas with developers & managers and establish practices to improve cross team communication, thereby bringing alignment amongst key leaders.
• Kickstart a cross-team, multi-sprint Agile release planning (SAFe) event to help align program-wide priorities and minimized dependencies.

Scrum Master

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Established clear sprint boundaries of sprint planning and sprint review for all teams.
• Facilitated story writing workshops with product owners, business analysts, stakeholders, and engineers.
• Helped align priorities across teams to minimize dependencies and the concomitant delays by facilitating Scaled Agile Framework release forecasting (SAFe PI).
• Facilitated workshop to co-create Definition of Done, Definition of Ready and Team Working Agreements.
• Kick started the culture of retrospectives by facilitating a hands-on retrospective using Esther Derby’s five stage format.

Enterprise Agile Consultant

Confidential, NY, NY

Responsibilities:

• Help remote and co-located teams with internal and external communication to improve transparency, and provide needed metrics such as velocity in Scrum and lead- and cycle- time in Kanban.
• Make recommendations to teams, product leads, and upper management for adopting customized Agile practices including retrospectives, affinity estimation, story writing workshops, etc.
• Design and deliver customized Agile workshops for product owners, project managers, developers, and analysts to enable the adoption of Agile/ Lean principles and values in order to help teams thrive and achieve their optimal performance.

Confidential, New York, NY

Enterprise Agile Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with DevOps and operations teams to define team- and enterprise-wide guidelines such as DoD, DoR, SM, and PO qualifications and responsibilities.
• Improve teams’ understanding of basic and advanced scrum concepts and practices by organizing and leading brown bag sessions, Agile collaborative groups, Communities of Practice, Agile Working Groups, and etc.
• Collaborated closely with program managers and product owners to consolidate and refine product backlogs into prioritized lists, which were maintained by various stakeholders using various tools.
• Led sprint estimation sessions during sprint planning part 1 and backlog refinement meetings and observed velocity to forecast release dates for major features as well as minor fixes for weekly release.

Agile Team Coach/ Senior Scrum Master

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led monthly and quarterly Scaled Agile Framework release planning events (SAFe PI) for Mobile teams by facilitating Story Writing, User Story Mapping, and Affinity Estimation Workshops to aid product owner with stakeholder expectations.
• Successfully resolved external and internal impediments for mobile teams by working closely with scrum teams, product owners and managers.
• Facilitated and led Scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives, as well as Lean Coffee meetings, and Agile Community of Practice.
• Led Agile Steering Committee sessions for PMO office to promote Agile awareness.

Confidential

Agile Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and delivered a range of Agile sessions adjusted to a variety of familiarity levels.
• Advocated for and subsequently integrated a quality assurance representative into each scrum team, in order to ensure that shippable product was delivered within the sprint boundaries.
• Introduced and facilitated poker game to estimate product backlog.
• Mentored newly promoted ScrumMasters and Project Managers on Scrum roles, artifacts and ceremonies.

Confidential, Bellevue , WA

Agile Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led Scrum of Scrum meetings and coordinated with other Scrum teams on release plans to scale Scrum.
• Coordinated meetings with key leaders in distributed locations to highlight key issues and dependencies, provide statuses, and drive to get decisions under aggressive deadlines.
• Helped teams understand Agile estimation methods (poker card estimation, velocity, etc.)
• Led story-writing workshop to assist business analysts transitioning into product owner role.
• Collaborated closely with product owner to consolidate and refine product backlog.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Built team cohesion and fostered open and honest team communication
• Ensured teams are effectively executing against the highest value priorities by coordinating the prioritization with product owner.
• Worked closely with the product owner on story writing, sprint planning and sprint reviews.

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Co-Founder/ Co-Organizer

Responsibilities:

• Helped established the first Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) meet-up group in Seattle
• Sourced sponsors to host SAFe events
• Organized monthly events and recruited industry experts to present

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with the stakeholders and mobile teams to make significant contributions to refining the product backlog and forecasting release dates for major features as well as minor fixes for weekly release.
• Instrumental in bridging the gap between Nissan and Confidential by leading sprint review sessions with mobile teams to demonstrate the work done and get feedback.
• Advocated and helped maintain team transparency by asking probing questions in retrospectives.
• Consolidated backlogs into prioritized lists, which were maintained by various stakeholders using various tools (Jira, ScrumDo, Trello, Rally, word documents, Redmine, JIRA).

Scrum Master and BI Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated team integration and regarding scrum values and principles upon getting trained as a ScrumMaster.
• Identified technical blockers in stand-ups and resolved the same.
• Acted as ScrumMaster while working as a team member on scrum team to contribute to business intelligence analysis, d Confidential base administration and SQL development.
• Personally maintained sprint burn-down and release burn-down charts.

Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with stakeholders and technical teams to lead redesign initiative by gathering and prioritizing multiple simultaneous technical requirements based on overall priority.
• Assisted PMO and product owners with the scope of requirements and communicated technical gaps in requirements to customers so they can make informed decisions on priority for monthly releases.
• Contributed to root cause analysis as part of process improvement at sprint retrospectives.
• Exhibited knowledge around company products and services.