Experienced Agile Coach/Release Train Engineer/Scrum Master, supporting Scrum & Agile teams, coaching an Agile Release Train and Agile Teams in relentless improvement, continuous learning, leading, motivating, and mentoring the ART to achieving a valuable program execution. Experienced in bringing teams together to achieve a shared goal. Capable of delivering small, medium, and large-scale software development projects by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching the teams and updating the program leadership.

Areas of expertise include:

Coaching/People Management

Mentoring

Problem Solving

Leading program execution

Developing teams

Creating transparency

Risk identification

Planning and implementation

Smartsheet/SharePoint/WIKI

Confluence/Power BI/Tableau

Customer requirement prioritization

Excellent written and oral communication

Agile methodology

Teamwork

Agile View/Agile Plan intake form

Performance analysis

Continuous improvement

Mural/Miro/Slack/Teams

Technical / Soft Skills:

Expertise in SDLC – Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban and Waterfall.

Strong command of project management tools – JIRA, JIRA Align, Rally, ADO and MS Office

Excellent people skills and ability to collaborate with diverse teams.

Strategic Planning & Execution, Process Optimization, Change Management and Release Management.

Break Project into Attainable Progress Goals.

Identify Areas of Improvement

Professional Experience

Bank of America – contract – Atlanta, GA – January 2023 – June 2023

Agile Coach/Release Train Engineer

Facilitate Program Increment Planning, the ART Sync, Scrum of Scrums with five scrum teams, Coach/RTE connect weekly and Stakeholder review pre-release.

Collaborate with other Trains and Stakeholders to ensure program alignment and prompt product delivery. Same with the product team for clear business needs.

Facilitate System Demo and Inspect and Adapt session post Program Increment.

Monitor Releases, ensure releases are well coordinated and post calendar events are properly overseen.

Coordinate and facilitate OpCo (Operating Council) working sessions for proper requirement gathering, prioritization and approval of all Epics to ensure Epic readiness prior to PI Planning

Review team metrics per iteration and provide overall Train metrics to the program.

Work closely with the teams on Epic readiness, team capacity versus load predictability.

Collaborate with other RTEs to ensure transparency, foster continuous improvement, and improve customer centricity.

Identify bottlenecks for Teams of Teams and facilitate all hands workshop to review and remove them.

Ensure Strategy and execution alignment by collaborating across ARTs, coordinating dependencies using Agile View, which serves as the program board.

Help create and coordinate training/coaching sessions for continuous learning.

Create and develop quarterly and ad hoc reports using JIRA.

Help determine how scope change can affect the ART.

Cox Automotive – Salesforce contract - Atlanta, GA

Snr. Release Train Engineer – June 2022 – December 2022

RTE to an Agile Release Train of five Scrum Teams, PI Core teams, product management team, business, and stakeholders (110 people in the ART).

Collaborated Program Board review, PI planning and organizational readiness.

Facilitated Innovation and Planning sprint/Program Increment Planning events.

Identified risks and dependencies and helped teams ROAM the risks.

Coached and mentored Agile teams, on best practices.

Ensured effective communication across workstreams and leadership on the program level.

Coached teams to adopt the Agile mindset and foster customer centricity.

Communicated newly refined features and enablers to the workstreams as agreed on the program level.

Coached scrum teams on continuous improvement in salesforce implementation and data migration

Facilitated Scrum of Scrums and community of practice meetings across workstreams

CRICKET WIRELESS – CONTRACT - Atlanta, GA

Snr Scrum Master/Release Train Engineer – September 2021 – May 2022

Successfully pre-planned and facilitated Innovation Planning, (IP) and Program Increment (PI) Planning events with over 145 ART members.

Communicated newly refined features and enablers to the teams.

Helped the teams identify their program predictability measure.

Facilitated Scrum of Scrums, ART Sync, Stakeholder collaboration, and SAFe / Lean-Agile CoP ceremonies.

Coached and inspired six scrum masters to exercise relentless improvement and continuous learning, thereby increasing velocity and quality.

Helped align the scope of work with the right resources by re-structuring scrum teams to be cross-functional and identifying where Kanban teams would achieve better efficiency.

Partnered with executive leadership to expand SAFe / Agile practices to other programs and help bring in and pilot Agile maturity tools to measure team health and maturity.

Helped scrum masters identify and resolve dependencies.

T-Mobile – Contract – Atlanta, GA Scrum Master/Release Train Engineer - June 2017 – September 2021

Scrum master for two scrum teams, also responsible for leading an ART of six Scrum teams and 45 Core PI members as a Proxy RTE for 1 year.

Managed project scopes to ensure delivery is compliant with scope commitment across the Release Trains

Responsible for all aspects of scrum process, including but not limited to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, user story refinement, and sprint retrospectives. Responsible for coaching and training newly hired and recently promoted scrum masters.

Assisted Product Owner in implementing backlog grooming methodology across all scrum teams.

Delivered agile metric reporting using burn up charts and team velocity metrics.

Identified impediments across workstreams and helped the ART ROAM the risks as applicable.

Sprint – CONTRACT - Atlanta, GA

Scrum Master – July 2014 – May 2017

Scrum Master supporting one scrum team developing a mobile app redesign.

Facilitated product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meeting.

Worked with the Product Owner to ensure we continually use efficient product backlog practices.

Facilitated & Coach scrum team delivering Sprint Service software using Continuous Deployment Platform (CDP)

Provided coaching and training around Agile methodologies to include Scrum, Lean & Kanban.

Provided guidance and support in developing Agile processes and best practices.

Provided leadership and Agile coaching to increase team performance.

Provided guidance and coaching to enhance collaboration with offshore teams.

Removed team impediments & obstacles to ensure team continued delivery of features.

Wintsec Technologies – Atlanta, GA

Project Coordinator – September 2004 – June 2014

Communicated with clients and team about project expectations and goals.

Collaborated with clients, finance teams and other team members on budgeting.

Managed deadlines and progress across the team to ensure the project was delivered on time and on budget.

Organized third-party providers and vendors to deliver elements that could not be produced in-house.

Oversaw the delivery of projects and adjusted as necessary to ensure they were delivered to specifications and ambitious standards.

Supported all project managers with all requirements as regards on-going projects.

Certifications

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 6 SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 6 Lean Management Portfolio enablement (LPM)

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 6 Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 6 Scrum Master (SSM)

LinkedIn Learning (PMF) Project Management Foundations

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

Scrum Fundamentals (SFC)

Educational Background

KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science – (BSc) Organizational and Professional Communications - ongoing

The POLYTECHNIC

Associate in arts – (AA) Secretarial Administration

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

Agile Leadership Certificate

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking Certificate

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