Andre J.

Portfolio: http://www.theperfectafro.com/webportfolio/

Summary:

Government Secret Clearance, Partner Product Director of Engineering with Certified Agile Engineering (CSD)/(AE) (SDLC) Scrum Master and SAFe 5 trained with Project Manager experience. Combined with over 18 years of software development with hands on experience in web layout, design and software engineering trained in the e-commerce world.

Experienced Scrum Master/Technical Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software, on time and within budget. I have demonstrated leadership within a team, while helping the United States Department of Defense improve their agile experience.

Highly motivated Content Marketing Manager / Content Strategist / Content Writer with over 10

years’ experience defining and implementing content and marketing strategies combined with 18 years of web development experience.

Proven Web Content Manager, Web Producer, Web Technologist, and SEO with strong experience with CMS Tools.

I specialize in taking the technical roadmap and working closely with engineering leads, product owners, and business teams (stakeholders) to establish the final product vision in order, to pass down to the final execution strategy.

Head of agile sprint planning meeting, daily Scrum, sprint review meeting, sprint retrospective meeting and keeping a sharp eye the product backlog to burn down technical debt.

Secret Government Interim Clearance.

Sr. Frontend Developer combined with Scrum experience in creating presentations for project planning, negotiating with vendors, running Bi-weekly sprint meetings, budgets and sales funnels. Highly attentive to detail with excellent organizational skills, while being able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and meet strict deadlines. Ability to work overtime as needed.

Excelling at analyzing and monitoring customer/business reports, with the ability to focus on the problem while avoidance any escalation process. Collaborate with other teams to help ensure compliance with company policies.

Solid hands on knowledge with Ms Office, SalesForce, Jira, Trello, HTML, CSS, Jquery/Javascript, TypeScript, bootstrap, and responsive emails templating.

I am ambitious and hardworking, with a commitment to excellence, while being and effective communicator, both written and verbal with excellent people’s skills.

Education:

BA: Speech Communication - 1996

Oregon State University and Portland State University

Technical Skills:

PC & MAC: SEO, LESS, SASS, CSS3, BEM, HTML5, media queries, xhtml/html, ES6, JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, Bootstrap, foundations, TypeScript, handlebars, Angular 5.0, Ajax, Gulp, NPM, RHEL, Require.js, imageX, PHP & MySQL, Word Press, Epubs, Jrun Studio 3.5, Drupal 7, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flex, AEM CQ5, Sitecore,Bright Spot, .NET, Active Server Pages, Pagemaker, Corel Draw, Quark, Amazon Web Services (AWS),Photoshop, Bugzilla, SVN, Git Hub, Bit Bucket, EBOOK, ExtJS and Indesign, Azure-Devops.

Management Skills:

Agile/Scrum/Agile Coach, A-B Optimizely Testing, Jira, Rally, Service Now, Confluence, Trello, project planning, budgeting ALM Essentials, Google AdWords, SalesForce, structure/schedule and staffing requirements. Ms Office Word, Excel, MS Access, Power Point, Emails, Hip Chat, Slack, AWS, Azure Monitoring, Google Cloud, Scanners. Marketing software such as Exact Target, My Emma, Lyris and Sign Language.

Business Stakeholders, DevOps Environment Life Cycyle Problem Solving, Project Plans, Project Management, Agile, Agile Release, Trained Engineer, Resource Allocation, Jira Administration Certification, and Project Delivery.

Certifications:

Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Engineering (CSD)/(AE) and SAFE trained.

SAFe 5 Certification

Udemy: Project Management Certification, Agile PM-402 Enterprise Level PM, PM Certification, Jira Admin and Confluence Certificate Training, Leading Virtual Teams, PM 101, Making Sense of User Stories, and Robust Scrum Product owner.

Udemy: Advanced JavaScript, Angular 5, TypeScript, HTML5 Canvas, GitHub, JSON, and Node.js

Activities and Honors:

Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Engineering (CSD)/(AE)

Project Management training

Udemy

Sales Marketing Award

Celtx screenwriting budgeting film projects scope, budget and CBA below/above the line.

Scrum Master for 10 years+

Software Engineer 20 years+

Secret Government Clearance (November 2019)

Technical Skills:

Agile/Scrum, A-B Optimizely Testing, AWS, Jira, Trello, project planning, budgeting, Google AdWords, structure/schedule and staffing requirements. Ms Office Word, Excel, MS Access, Power Point, Emails, Scanners. Marketing software such as Exact Target, My Emma, Lyris and Sign Language. PC & MAC: SEO, LESS, SASS, CSS3, BEM, HTML5, media queries, xhtml/html, ES6, JavaScript, jQuery, Confluence, Node.js, Bootstrap, foundations, TypeScript, handlebars, Angular 5.0, Ajax, Gulp, NPM, Require.js, PHP & MySQL, Epubs, Jrun Studio 3.5, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flex, AEM CQ5, Sitecore, Bright Spot, Active Server Pages, Pagemaker, Corel Draw, Quark, Photoshop, Bugzilla, SVN, Git Hub, Bit Bucket, Amazon Web Services (AWS), EBOOK, ExtJS, Indesign, and Azure-Devops.

IBM, Huntsville, Al May 2023 to Present

(Compqsoft)

Technical Scrum Master for U.S. Army Materiel Command Logistics Data Analysis Center (LDAC)

Accomplishments leading the way by guiding a new team of developers to combine two military software applications into one enterprise software technology stack.

Used agile principles to turn around a team that was 65% behind of project completions to 35% delivery improvement rate.

Coaching the team on how to write user stories and understanding the definition of done (DoD).

Mastery of team facilitation using the Scrum framework and removing impediments to allow workflow to keep moving up the stack for on time delivery.

Coaching the team on how to correctly estimate story points and to give better estimate on hours to stay on track of project scope, while improving team metrics.

Having a clear understanding of team talent to combine efforts to deliver software development work using Bamboo, Bitbucket, Denodo, Angular, Java, and MySQL

Conducted all Agile ceremonies Daily Standups, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives.

Kept the team together with solid team moral and chemistry by having 1:1s and group activities.

DCS, China lakes Ridgecrest, CA June 2020 to July 2022

Agile Coach/Scrum Master for Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) D.O.D. (Department of Defense), Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS)

Billion-dollar government contracting company for the United States.

Accomplishments creating an Agile library of coaching plans for leadership and team levels while assisting Boeing in improving the delivery of software and hardware processes. Coached business owners to have timely epics prepared in Jira to work with the Program Manager so that Project Owner can have a healthy backlog for incremental team delivery on every phase level. Proudly led the organization on Agile journey of change that led to 43% improvement on timely delivery of work culture.

Agile Coach for multiple teams on the art to support weapon delivery for testing for F/A-18 and EA-18G IPT.

Provide support to the Chief Enterprise Architect, the Release Train Engineer (RTE), and Senior Leadership. Coordinate intra-team, external-team, cross-ART, and cross-functional cooperation to facilitate synergy and success across the Program.

Coached Scrum master’s to become SAFE Agile delivery leaders and improve their sprint planning, daily scrums, Scrum of Scrums, and retrospectives.

1:1 meetings with Scrum Masters and Product Owners to build confidence on how to have private coaching instructions with team members to build confidence in work ethics for self and team improvements.

Coached IPT to understand metrics and deliver work counted for the cleans 5000.

Held bi-weekly SAFE training and Agile coaching courses for the IPT Government, with over 100 attendees in each class session.

Coaching lab techs, hardware, and software testers to ensure the software is installed promptly once the hardware has been delivered to be tested and updated from cloud services for AWS for dynamic spawn of new servers for load balancing.

Attend Program-Level Ceremonies and Reviews brief Team status during Quarterly Program Increment Planning sessions.

Submit weekly and monthly status reports and deliverables. Develop and deliver working level and senior leadership briefs.

Perspecta, San Diego, CA Nov 2019 to June 2020

(job ended because we lost the contract)

Scrum Master for Cybersecurity D.O.D. (Department of Defense) NMCI

Billion-dollar government contracting company for the United States Navy and Marines for the US Public Sector of Business of DXC Technology for NGEN (NGEN-X).

Accomplishments teams on how to not over-commit when waiting on work from outside vendors and communicating with transparency of work in the pipeline that led to over a 40% reduction in rollover rate of commitments to understand how to bring in work once everything was ready if the teams could not make partial delivery to show clients.

Scrum Master to facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, Scrum of Scrums, retrospectives, and software demos for the government’s top-secret cybersecurity. Developing Agile culture from waterfall to scrum teaching and leading by example. Sharing agile ways to stakeholders and developers to improve movement with full implementation, Drives Software Security Delivery, Agile Release Engineering, Conflict management Experience, Risk and Issue Management, and project closure.

Taking pride in understanding the true definition of done for final signoff from the PO, SLM, and ACE.

Working with several virus protections, hardware, and RedHat servers to make sure that the development for the Department of Defense task was completed and protected most safely with 10-layer encryption.

Team focused on Nipper, network Ip routing, server installations, and working with vendors such as Norton antivirus, McAfee, Aura, and more.

Daily standup was done on skype and used Team Foundation Server for ticket tracking for teams and management.

Hands-on creation of new teams joining the SAFe framework.

Provide support to the Release Train Engineer (RTE), and Senior Leadership. Coordinate intra-team, external-team, cross-ART, and cross-functional cooperation to facilitate the success all team needed across the Program.

Product Owners in meeting their duties and responsibilities and managing the Product Backlog.

Attend Program-Level Ceremonies and Reviews on behalf of the Scrum Team and brief Team status during Quarterly Program Increment Planning sessions.

Submit weekly and monthly status reports and deliverables. Develop and deliver working level and senior leadership briefs.

Lead assigned Scrum Team in prioritizing features, user stories, and identifying team velocity.

Work with Product Owners to identify priorities, participate in Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement, and lead team daily stand-up meetings.

Working with DevOps operation teams in Googles serverless cloud (FaaS) architectural model for deployment.

Lead assigned Scrum Team in prioritizing features, user stories, and identifying team velocity.

Work with Product Owners to identify priorities, participate in Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement, and lead team daily stand-up meetings.

www.v1.co, San Francisco, CA Nov 2018 to Nov 2019

Partner Product Director of Engineering/Scrum Master

· E-commerce tech design and production for new businesses and products that leverage the partner's core assets to grow faster and scale relationships. Developing responsive components for marketing teams in a controlled environment with 30 developers for eCommerce domain and sales.

Accomplishments coaching stakeholders how to make epics and working with their roadmaps to complete a finished product. Using the agile framework,I successfully helped the company improve performance, productivity, efficiency and profitability of organizational operations on early delivery.

· Scrum Master to Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, Scrum of Scrums, retrospectives, and software demos. Sharing agile ways to stakeholders and developers to improve movement with full implementation, Drives Software Delivery, Agile Release Engineering, Conflict management Experience, Risk and Issue Management, and project closure.

· Working side-by-side at a high level with stakeholders to discuss product feedback with two-way communication by writing reports, slack channel tracking monitoring the workflow for final sign-offs, and conducting demos for the partner's products in production for approvals with estimation and planning.

· Taking pride in the listen-to-more approach and asking the questions of “why?” with SMART impact values for the SAFE values alignment, built-in quality, and transparency for building a program of execution to represent the fundamental beliefs that are key to SAFE's effectiveness from the entire organization business building.

· Duties to meet with cross-functional teams and project managers to discuss business needs to meet business goals in 2-week sprint cycles along with 1-on-1s with engineers and monitoring the release management flow. Building a safe environment for the working to trust without blame to work together as a team.

· Schedule creation, tracking, status reports, cost management, deliverables, and final closeout.

· Updating Trello cards and Jira tickets with the product backlog and Jira components.

· Wrote reports based on stakeholders’ feedback from the product meetings to share with management to create a plan of action on any needed topics necessary to satisfy the partner’s needs promptly. Created power points presentations, and financial funnels, worked from smart sheets, speaking in front of large groups to explain companies’ roadmaps.

· AB testing for multiple product pages and page tracking by every user touch movement through Heap.

· Tools for development and communications were Slack, Tello, Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, Heap, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Lambda JavaScript code driven for AWS, Amazon Simple Storage S3 bucket for hosting images, GraphQl, MS Office, BEM, CSS3, React.Js, Node.js, Gulp, imageX and HTML5. Used Docker for image load balancing to cache images to run build times faster.

Working DevOps team in time management on timely building of a bare OS configuration for the infrastructure of service (IaaS). AWS dynamic spool of servers based on bandwidth to expand for download speed for infrastructure as code in cloudformation.

DevOps culture of collaboration with frontend development teams, QA and Operations in an agile framework for increased deployments for releases to increase business value.

www.citrix.com / www.logmein.com, Santa Barbra, CA January 2015 to Nov 2018

Sr. Lead Frontend Web Developer/Scrum Master

www.citrix.com / www.logmein.com Billion-dollar e-commerce sales domain as a product leader in the tech industry for video conferencing software that includes, goToMeeting.com, goToAssist.com, xenMobile, goToWebinar, Citrix Workspace Cloud, logmein, goToMyPC.com and more.

Accomplishments successfully built web and mobile landing pages for marketing teams that gain profitability in record sales.

Senior frontend developer working in a Agile Scrum environment along with sharing Scrum duties and shared Scrum of Scrums, on Adobe CQ5 platform, Bright Spot and SiteCore. Developing responsive templates for marketing team in Environment with a team of 20 developers.

SAFE practices with core of the team to stakeholders with Portfolio, Value Stream, Program and Team in helping help dictate behavior and action for everyone for the team success for more solutions.

Responsible for leading daily Scrum ceremonies backlog grooming, Sprint planning, team demos along with retrospectives. Managing the product backlog while working closely with Project Managers.

Working close with vendors to hire contractors while staying a quarterly budget for estimation and planning.

Duties to meet with cross-functional teams and project managers to discuss business needs and to meet business goals in 2-week sprint cycles.

Created power points presentations, financial funnels, spoke in front of large groups to explain companies’ roadmaps along with changing updating content on the company’s website. AB testing for multiple product pages. Simultaneously writing code with the developers and designers to help meet hard deadlines.

Core sales understanding product, place, price, and promotion using A/B test feedback from customers responses to influence better product change.

Jira, GitHub, Google Adwords, MS Office, Confluence, Hip Chat, Optimizely, BEM, CSS3, Jquery, Node.js, Gulp, and HTML5.

DevOps culture writing code and committing code commits for auto builds, and integration testing.

Negotiating with vendors, running bi-weekly sprint meetings while working closely with stakeholders and project managers along with keeping the team from outside distractions and interferences.

Submit weekly and monthly status reports and deliverables. Develop and deliver working level and senior leadership briefs.

www. moagency.com, Burbank, CA April 2014 to August 2014 (contract)

Scrum Master/Project Manager & Web Developer Manager (Talener)

Scrum Master & Developer for one of the top creative companies in the United States. Creating a state-of-the-art interactive web design for the entertainment industry such as XBOX and EA Sports. Television networks such as NBC, ABC, FOX and more. Creating high traffic pages for almost every major film distributor for blockbuster motion pictures.

Accomplishments managed the web team and facilitated the work from management while overseeing its successful, timely delivery that led to a more finical accounts from current clients. The body of work allowed the company to sign new clients, bringing in more money dollar for dollar.

Responsible for leading daily Scrum ceremonies backlog grooming, Sprint planning, team demos along with retrospectives. Managing the product backlog while working closely with Project Managers.

Created the Agile environment as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach while working as a Senior frontend developer. Duties on Adobe CQ5 platform, Bright Spot, .NET, Rally, and SiteCore. Developing responsive templates for the marketing team in the Environment with a team of 20 developers.

Managed teams full lifecycle of projects in the code base of html5, bootstrap, css3, Jquery, JqueryUI, PHP, Node.js, Gulp and Require.js for responsive design and other projects with Angular.

Scrum leader for standups meeting in an agile and daily scrum setting using HP ALM Essentials. Logging the status for project flows and who was responsible for each project. Organized data and model information for use in key decision-making.

Full planning, implementation, and project closure.

Encouraged team collaboration and motivated individual employees through positive reinforcement and technical recognition while monitoring the release management flow.

Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences. Leading by example and to resolve conflict.

Working close with vendors to hire contractors while staying within budget.

I created the agile culture from the ground up and trained the company along with stakeholders on how to adapt to scrum methodologies and showing team Journey presentations.

Responding to change overflow plans, customer collaboration, contract negations with new vendors to meet budgets, training people on ticketing tools.

Collaboration with stakeholders and offshore meetings.

Raised the level of motivation for the team as to follow the roadmap to release after a clear vision has been set in place to start sprints and run team standups.

Managed budget for contractors

Monitored feedback loop from customers on product releases.

www.fox.com, Playa Vista, CA July 2013 to April 2014 (contract)

UI Web Developer (Prosum)

Frontend UI Developer for Fox entertainment known as a worldwide leader in its brand Fox FX, 21 Century Fox, Fox Television and msn.FoxSports.com

Accomplishments successfully completed a new sports web platform allowing sports content writers to write and publish their content 24hrs daily for the news.

Using Adobe AEM Cloud for DevOps culture writing code and committing code commits for auto builds, and integration testing. Image dams, test server, qa servers, and live servers.

Java environment on a CQ5 platform taking rich UI designs and developing a full lifecycle of projects in HTML5, CSS3, Jquery, Bootstrap and Java for responsive design working in an agile and daily scrum setting with Jira task updates.

www.us.toshiba.com, Irvine, CA October 2011 to July 2013

Scrum Master & Lead UI Web Developer

Lead UI Developer for US Toshiba e-commerce sales division one of the top 50 companies in the world.

Accomplishments introduced the organization to the Scrum framework, leading to a complete 360 turnaround in end-over-end delivery for 60% improvement.

Developed a new customer-facing website for parts and replacements for online products.

Developed business new look and feel web portal using media queries with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 in on a Java platform.

I was the first to incorporate Scrum daily standups for the agile environment.

Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives and software demos. Sharing agile ways to stakeholders and developers in ways to improve movement.

Advised management about engineering concerns for in-development projects to meet hard deadlines.

Transfer old Bugzilla ticket system to migrate into new Teamsite.

Created the Agile environment as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach while working as a Senior frontend developer. Scrum duties teaching PM and PO how to follow the Agile way of scrum and how to build teams that would scale development for the product road maps. This improvement allowed the team and stakeholders to follow the project and 2 week sprint full of task to make sure the team would make the deadlines and to control time by giving push back to any work or roll it over based on lack of resources or under/over estimating the effort of work.

www.wk.com, Portland, OR January 2010 to September 2011

Web Developer

Wienden & Kennedy the world’s largest full-service, creatively driven advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon. We have offices all around the world, including Amsterdam, London, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, São Paulo and Delhi. Building complete websites for Coke, EA-Sports, Nike(www.nikebetterworld.com), Converse, Target, Dodge, Old Spice, and Levi’s.

Accomplishments successfully completed a multi-million dollar Coke Cola commercial and web campaign for the Super Bowl.

Duties where building cross platform websites at and high-level using Word Press, SVN, CSS3, CSS, HTML5, Jquery, Javascript, Ajax & PHP along with Photoshop and language translations.

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