Accomplished Scrum Master and Product Owner offering 14 years of experience, including 8 years of progressive roles in the Agile/Scrum SDLC rare blend of analytical skill, sales success, and management capabilities. Innate talent for leveraging technology and automation to eliminate inefficiencies and optimize use of available information. Superior skill in translating complex and abstract ideas into sound, easily understood technical directions. Excellent team leader skilled in managing people and processes while developing motivated, high performing staff eager to take on challenges and work collaboratively to contribute to the organization's growth plan.

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Product Owner/Scrum Master

Acted as the client's visionary when in the Product Owner role. Responsible for the right product being delivered on or before time and under budget. Maintained ROI and other business use requirements, as dictated by clients, stakeholders, and management. Create, maintain, prioritize, and groom the Product Backlog. Write User Stories. Define Release and Sprint Goals. Communicate continuously with the Scrum Team and Stakeholders realistic and attainable expectations for the Product Release. As a servant leader in the Scrum Master role, consultant managed the Scrum Process and ensured the team adhered to good Agile development principles. Well versed in the Agile Manifesto. Helped the Scrum Team by removing impediments and external distractions. Facilitates meetings sprint planning, retrospective, review, daily stand-up . Ensures a collaborative culture exists in the team. Assists the Product Owner and Team on improving the Agile development process over time.

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• This project consisted of the integration of all client billing into one centralized process. Also, the Scrum team was coached by the Scrum Master on Agile Development principles, as the team was converting from the Waterfall development method. In this Scrum of Scrum, the Scrum Master worked with the team tasked to incorporate existing billing codes solely used for government and institutional clients into the larger network of personal customer billing. This Scrum utilized Rally, AT T Connect, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Skype to link a team of 10 remote located developers. Team members were disbursed throughout the US, Brazil, and India. As Scrum Master time management, meeting coordination, and culturally diverse communication skills were essential in ensuring the Sprints were completed on time and produced a unit of shippable product. The Scrum used TDD Test Driven Development practices along with Agile development principles to complete this project in 5 months and 1 week as opposed to the requisite 8 month time frame originally outlined by the Stakeholders. This saved the Scrum of Scrum definitive time and an as yet immeasurable amount of money.
• Scrum Master/Product Owner/Agile Business Analyst for 5 Secondary Market

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• where the projects consisted of software development for the automation of file QA review for audits based on new government regulations. These projects required a conversion from the Waterfall methodology to the Agile/Scrum SDLC. The consultant worked extensively with Vendors and the CIO's to upgrade and or replace existing software, while using the Scrum Team to customize the software to fit the Customer and Stakeholder requirements. The SaaS software suite offered by the firm to its clients for property, client, and asset management was revamped to adhere to more stringent privacy, leverage, and OSHA protocols. And said software changes resulted in the Designing Implementation of a new Scrum Sales Process based upon product changes due to new regulations.
• As Agile Business Analyst for Bank of America, performs annual end user UAT for their 3mm Retail Sales Software integration with HR Scheduling Software.
• As Product Owner, worked closely with the CIO and VP of Client Administration to double the client book in 2013 for UHS Pruitt by implementing Scrum Sales Process, this correlated into a 37 increase in revenues, while decreasing Operating Expenses by 12 . Implemented a customized version of Salesforce.com to track clients and prospects while complying with new stricter HIPAA, Medicaid and Medicare governance.

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• Scrum Coach for a total of 23 sales professionals, who have increased revenue for the business owners by an average of 52 utilizing a Scrum Sales Process. Scrum Master for the implementation of Salesforce.com as the CRM.
• Product Owner for Askox Capital Management Pioneer Capital Advisors to prepare for their 2012 Commercial Mortgage Investment Audit. Management of a 4.4mm 13 month project to replace their client management system, asset management system, and investment/trading platform. This projects original budget was 7.5mm and was slated for 18 months until completion, therefore Product Owner was able to reduce the budget by 41 and cut the release time by 5 months. ACM managed institutional clients and provided a web based SaaS subscription for all of said clients' needs. PCA is an advisory firm to high net worth individuals and trusts, which ACM managed. ACM utilized Wells Fargo, Bank of New York and HSBC as clearinghouses for its trading system. The Product Owner worked with the CEO's and CIO's of Askox, Pioneer, and its clients vendors to reduce the original 5 software suites and 2 middle-wares down to 2 software suites, resulting in a 26 reduction in their annual IT budget, increased speed of client acquisition and communication between financial institutions, centralized reporting simplified external audit tracking, and allowed the firm to add day trading to its product offering because of increased accelerated computing capacity. This reduction in software also allowed for added storage on the client's mainframes, therefore eliminating the need for Cloud storage thereby mitigating the risk of privacy regulation violations.
• Scrum Master for Pulte Homes implementation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM for their 1000 member home sales team.

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Product Owner

Managed a 171MM loan portfolio with