TORRANCE JONES

Bellwood, Illinois ***** 312-***-**** ad0vpo@r.postjobfree.com

LINKEDIN

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced and enthusiastic Consultant with a track record of success across various industries. Possesses exceptional interpersonal, problem-solving, and analytical skills to provide advice and expertise to client organizations improving business performance. Experienced in all aspects of operations, strategy, and finance. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development, and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Agile Scrum SAFE Waterfall Backlog Refinement Daily Stand-ups Estimations Release Management Business Intelligence risk and change managements International Trade Leasing Domain FMCG Ideaboardz

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Office

Visio

Jira

Kanban

Confluence

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Powerpoint

WORK EXPERIENCE

Consultant/ Scrum Master /contractor 08/2019 to Current

Crystal clear agility Chicago, Illinois

Create an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration.

Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Guiding assigned scrum teams to self-organize, ensuring and supporting empowerment of the team.

Collaborate and coordinate with other scrum masters in a multiple agile team environment.

Resolving or assisting in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas.

Exhibit confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems.

Scrum Master 08/2021 to Current

Linacare Holding

Worked closely with the developers working on Web Orchestration and Java APIs to integrate it with different applications.

Manage the scrum team activities to deliver on committed deliverables.

Assist the Product Owner with Product Backlog refinement.

Coordinated with the scrum team during each Sprint towards a shippable product release working closely with the Product Owner to make sure each user story in the Sprint Backlog was worked on.

Works with the program manager to create plans and roadmap for the applications to be developed.

Scrum Master 10/2020 to 07/2021

Fitzsimmons Hospital Service

Completed planning, execution, tracking, and reporting tasks for agile management.

Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example with a focus on operating from personal responsibility and demonstrating the organization's culture concepts.

Support and educate the Product Owner/Business Lead especially with respect to refining, ordering, and maintaining the product backlog.

Remove impediments and guide the team to remove impediments to enable the team to progress.

Support and educate the Product Owner/Business Lead especially with respect to refining, ordering, and maintaining the product backlog.

Scrum Master 10/2012 to 09/2020

Rotech Healthcare

Assisting Product Owners in the execution of their respective Agile Projects and coordinating software deployment.

Assess the agile health of the team and organization and coach the team to higher levels of fluency at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.

Led and directed scrum events and ceremonies.

Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.

Lead scrum team by performing agile ceremonies and handling/ completing deliverables on analytics.

Project Lead/Scrum Master 05/2011 to 09/2012

RML Speciality, Place

Educated and guided the teams as they navigated the tools Jira and Confluence.

Examined that the teams adhered to the DOR and DOD requirements.

Guide the teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.

Effectively guided scrum and Kanban teams.

Creating working agreements, establishing and helping the teams by all means to achieve their Sprint Goals.

Led retrospectives with the aid of invention games.

Project Manager 05/2001 to 05/2011

Various Hospitals

Create and implement care plans and modalities, lowering healthcare expenditures, and identify potential pulmonary hazards in patients based on diagnosis.

Evaluated, analyzed, and interpreted patient data to address conditions and difficulties with associated treatment plans, and met individual respiratory care needs.

Controlling and process invoicing claims for all project-based expenses.

Professionally manage engagements with account team partners, focusing on balancing quality, cost and schedule, while exceeding client expectations.

Serve as contact for client finance relative to financial management of the account.

Assists in the resolution of conflicts regarding resources, deadlines, and standards.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science: Healthcare Leadership National

Louis University Louis

LANGUAGES

English: First Language

English: C2

Proficient

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1)

AWS Certified

SAFe

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