Scrum Master Agile

OCTAVIA OGLESBY, CSM

Apex, NC ***** 919-***-**** ************@***.*** www.linkedin.com/in/octavia-oglesby-0713baa Agile Scrum Master, Project, and Program Management I am a successful Agile Scrum Master, Project, and Program Management practitioner through my ability to relate and connect with colleagues, clients, and customers internal and external to the technology and business units in my roles. I am a team builder, collaborator and transparent leader that looks to empower, include, motivate, and inspire others in a common direction to achieve the goals and needs of the Business Unit and enterprise. CORE COMPETENCIES

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Functional Quality Assurance Program Leading Safe Scaled Agile Framework CA Agile and JIRA for Agile Projects Project and Program Management Business Analysis – Requirement Gathering Stakeholder Engagement Process Improvement

Risk Management and Analysis Functional QA Testing Program Service Lead Stock Plan Service

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fidelity Talent Source at Fidelity Investments 1/2022 - Present Agile Scrum Master – Project and Program Manager

Work Place Investing – Workplace Consulting, North Carolina

• Delivery Model implementation. Execution and continuous improvement

• Leading, coaching mentoring the delivery, model processers, agile scrum, Kanban, and Hybrid approaches

• Project work prioritization in coordination with Data leadership and Senior Consultant’s

• Project planning engagement (ick-Off and recurring) for forecasting resource availability for future work

• Manage/Facilitate Team Meetings and kick-Off and recurring)

• Manage, /Leadership updates on project progress, risk, issues, and escalations

• JIRA Agile Project Scrum board and associated features for work flow management, reporting, and documentation.

• Agile/scrum ceremonies

• Team retrospectives

Fidelity Talent Source at Fidelity Investments 12/2020 – 12/2021 Agile Scrum Master – Project and Program Manager

Fidelity Center Applied Technology (FCAT) North Carolina

• Leading, coaching and mentoring the Agile Scrum methodology.

• Scheduling and facilitating Agile Ceremonies with documentation for continuous improvement.

• Partnering with the Business Unit teams in the understanding their needs for new technology or improving existing processes.

• JIRA Agile Project Scrum board and associated features for sprints, reporting, and documentation.

• Business user and stake holder engagement to pride updates and capture feedback for product improvement.

• Product Testing

• Meeting planning and facilitation internal and external to the project.

• Project Status updates at the monthly and quarterly intervals to the FCAT PMO for reporting in the senior management level readout.

Software Guidance Assistance at Credit Suisse. Durham, North Carolina 2/2019 – 12/2019 Agile Scrum Master - Project Manager

Enterprise Security Services Organization – Measurable Security Team

• Leading, coaching and mentoring the Agile methodology.

• Scheduling and facilitating agile Ceremonies with documentation for continuous improvement.

• Project Management tracking and reporting,

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• Atlas Program., Project, program repository maintenance.

• Responsible for JIRA Tool use for Agile Projects Scrum and Sprint Management.

• Production Release Planning

• Production Release notes.

Cisco Systems Inc., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Project and Program Management/Scrum Master

Employee Services IT, 3/2015-12/2018

Scrum Master for Agile team, Program management with stakeholder engagement, customer experience and cross function technology team dependency engagement. Use of the ServiceNow tool for registering portfolio applications, planning service deployments, and detailing release planning. Key accomplishments Program Web application re-designed, Compensation Equity manage change for awards for employees and executives that required cross functional engagement and alignment to synchronize multiple systems.

• IT Program Service Lead, Stock Plan Service

• General Data Protection Regulation – Personal Identifiable Information review

• User Feedback Analysis for improvement actions

• Agile process implementation with geographical disperse and co located teams.

• Business Requirements Analysis

• Quality Assurance Testing

• Software Change Management communications.

• SOX Controls - Sarbanes Oxley Changes and reviews without control failures.

• Coordinating Security Remediation of Infosec Findings with portfolio Cloud Service Providers. Cisco Systems Inc. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Project and Program Management/Scrum Master 11/2011-3/2015 Global Tax and Customs IT - Tax Administration US, Planning, collaborating, and integrating multiple cross function teams within Global Tax and Customs in support of large-scale services programs changes.

• Trained Agile Scrum Lead 2015

• Successful implementation of Waterfall and transition to Agile development.

• Coaching and mentoring Agile principles and practices,

• Integration and direction to multiple Agile Scrum teams working on large scale cross functional services projects. Working across teams engaged in enterprise level strategic changes and alignment with core services.

Cisco Systems Inc. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina IT Project Manager – Invoice-to-Cash Solutions IT 11/2008-11/2011 Planning, collaborating, and engaging with cross functional organizations where there are dependencies in systems integrations. Reporting team progress to completion, mitigate risk, issues and remove impediments.

• Successful implementation of waterfall and transition to agile development

• Integration and direction to multiple Agile Scrum teams

• Working across multiple cross functional organizational teams engaged in enterprise level strategic changes and alignment with core services.

TEK Systems at Cisco, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina IT Project Manager - Invoice-to-Cash and Quote to Cash IT 1/2007 – 11/2008 Integrating multiple teams into organizational quarterly release through strong release management methodologies and practices,

• Release Management

• Management Reporting – Project status and engagement needs. Octavia Oglesby ************@***.*** Page 3

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MILITARY SERVICE

United States Air Force, Security Specialist

United States Air Force Europe Tactical Air Command United States Air Force Strategic Air Command

EDUCATION

Bachelor Science Business Administration

North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, NC

CERTITIFICATIONS

Scrum Alliance Agile Certified Scrum Master

Cisco Security Ninja Greenbelt

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