Matthew Quinlan

Tampa, FL *****

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CSM and SAFe SM certified professional with years of experience dedicated to Agile and it's people focused approach. I'm looking for opportunities to continue my career as a Leader and Manager.

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Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Work Experience

Sr. Staff Scrum Master IV/RTE

The TJX Companies, Inc. - Tampa, FL

November 2021 to Present

• Leading PI planning events and making changes to the PI schedule as needed

• Training new teams on SAFe

• Facilitating Agile training of Interns and Early In Career associate

• Serving as the team leader in Agile and ensuring that committed projects are moving forward.

• Managing 2-3 Agile teams that utilize Scrum and Kanban methodologies

• Facilitating Quarterly training sessions for "Early In Career" new hires to introduce them to Agile concepts and company procedure

• Acting as a Mentor to level I and II Scrum Masters

• Hosting a Scrum of Scrums meetings to help Agile teams thoughour the department identify dependencies

• Working with the PM and PO to prioritize items for upcoming PIs

• Ensuring that committed objectives from the PI are being completed and uncommitted objectives are being analyzed for potential work

• Enforcing agile practices, not only for the team but ensuring that management understands the processes and does not try to circumvent the ceremonies in place

• Hosting Scrum ceremonies for the team and ensuring that the proper procedures are followed

• Working with multiple departments to ensure that all dependent parties have potential work addressed

• Resolving blockers that come up for the team

• Providing weekly updates on our development schedule and analyzing and projects that have gone off track

• Leading deployments for the team

• Gathering the necessary release documents and ensuring that all necessary release forms are filed Tech Project Manager/Kanban Manager/Scrum Master

PwC - Tampa, FL

January 2021 to November 2021

Serving in multiple roles as the department Director’s second in command and working with external teams to resolve high priority issues found in Stage and Production environments. I supervise two teams, one that worked in a Kanban style and one that worked in Scrum.

• Reviewing high priority issues and assigning them out to the proper team members

• Prioritizing upcoming objectives to be placed into our upcoming PI

• Balancing between two teams that work in different styles

• Handling team conflicts in a fast paced and high-pressure environment

• Enforcing agile practices, not only for the team but ensuring that management understands the processes and do not try to circumvent the ceremonies in place

• Hosting Scrum ceremonies for the team and ensuring that the proper procedures are followed

• Working with upper management on the release pipeline to verify that tickets have moved through every environment and no new issues were introduced

• Attending bug triage meetings to analyze incoming issues Scrum Master/Jira Admin

Aspen rx health - Tampa, FL

June 2020 to January 2021

(Contract Position)

• Starting agile practices within the organization and initiating Scrum standards in the form of estimating, planning,

• Operating in a Kanban style to accommodate a slow transition over to a more planned out Scrum process

• Managing the dev resources and removing any roadblocks that would impede their work

• Monitoring individual developer workloads to make sure time is being utilized efficiently

• Hosting daily and weekly meetings to enhance communication across all levels of the organization so that we are all working with the same goal in mind

• Responding to change on a day to day basis in a fast-paced environment

• Communicating with Product Owners daily to track Senior management expectation and requests

• Managing the development team and leading development efforts based on upcoming release schedule

Education

Bachelor of Sciences in Business Administration

University of Central Florida - Orlando, FL

August 2009 to December 2013

Skills

• Certified Scrum Master

• LSSGB Certified

• Advanced Knowledge of Agile Methodology

• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

• Jira

• Agile

• Scrum

• CSM

• Kanban

• IT Product Management

• SDLC

• Test Cases

• Lean (Less than 1 year)

• Confluence

• User Acceptance Testing

• Project management

• Leadership

• Communication skills

• Scrum

• Kanban

Certifications and Licenses

Certified Scrum Master

SAFe Scrum Master

May 2021 to May 2026

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