About Me:

Energized, active listener, Agile practitioner since 2016 serving in Program Coach, Team Coach and Scrum Master roles.

Knowledge of multiple Agile frameworks SPC (SaFe Program Consultant) ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT, ICP-CAT, A-CSM, SASM, CSPO, POPM, KMP I, KMP II

President of the Agile Leadership Network of Houston board 2020-2024 (https://alnhouston.org/)

Summary: Scrum Master with 5 plus years of experience in implementing and leading Agile transformations within large organizations. Adept at executing Program Increments, fostering collaboration, and ensuring alignment to deliver value. Seeking an amazing organization with an Agile Coach position to contribute my expertise in scaling Agile practices and driving organizational success.

Professional Experience:

Project Administrator-Project SAP FICO-SRM (ERP) 02/2015-02/2016

Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Harris County (Budget 5M)

Waterfall Methodology

Project Administrator-Project SAP FICO-SRM (ERP)

Coordinated blueprint workshops.

Developed course outlines for trainings and, power point slides for course outline training.

Implemented controls and performed audits to ensure compliance.

Followed up with process teams on issues, risks, action items in the project risk register.

Performed resource management-on/off boarding activities-metrics generation.

Results: Created Templates for Project as well as successful training sessions

Professional Development: Joined Project Management Institute

Microsoft Office Client tool (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook)

Planning Increment (PI) Experience: Successful Planning and Participation in over 8+ PI events providing the following:

Inputs

Ensuring the PI is Cadence Based

Key Portfolio Priorities are communicated.

Perform an Organizational SWAT

Developing Sample Agenda Drafts for customization

Reviewing Organizational Hierarchy to ensure the correct team members are in place.

Team Preparation for PI Planning, preparing the Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters

Understand Features, NFR’s and all need inputs are ready for a successful event.

Outputs ensuring dependencies, PI Objectives, and Program Board is transparent.

Clear processes Team Breakouts Scrum of Scrums, Draft Plan Review

Outputs

Feature Delivery for upcoming PI have Milestones.

Dependencies are clear communicated.

Risk is R.O.A.M

PI Objectives are S.M.A.R.T and align with Features.

Confidence Vote for Program and Team

PI Retrospective is held.

Team is empowered and energized to execute successful PI

Productivity Tools: MS Office Azure Dev Ops JIRA Confluence Trello Slack MS Teams

Methodologies/Framework: PMBOK Waterfall SDLC Agile Scrum Kanban Scrumban SAFe® Agility Health

Industry: Food Wholesale Distribution Oil & Gas Government e-Commerce IT Consulting

Professional Experience

SELF-EPMPLOYED-MELANIN LAB 10/2020 – Present

Agile Program Coach, Digital Transformation – Chicago, IL

Program Agile Coach for the Enterprise Services Platform Agile Release Train (ART) from inception to transition. Collaborate with other ARTs and the change management team, leading a group of team coaches to help establish the Agile transformation plan, governed by Lean Agile mindset and principles. Specialized in coaching a team undergoing transition to new organization structure due to merger and acquisition.

Agile Team Coach for the Customer Digital Transformation Agile Release Train (ART) from inception to transition. Collaborate with other ARTs and Platform & Shared Service teams, leading a group of Scrum Masters and Product Owners to help establish *metrics to measure agile maturity and stand-up the Agile COP. Lead and facilitate Agile workshops.

*Azure Dev Ops Client tool daily integration and assistance with teams (migration, daily usage, adoption of tool)

5 PI

35 Sprints

AGILE TEAM COACH, Health Safety and Environment

Energy Corporation, Security Programme – Houston, TX

Agile Team Coach helping teams track accomplishments and measuring maturity with the help of scrum ceremonies and Key Performance Indicators such as cumulative flow diagrams, burn down charts.

oEstablished governance around Minimum Viable Product (MVP) product planning, prioritization, and delivery of value to the customers.

oServed as the Agile Coach for the General Manager heading the IT Business Unit

oSetup Communities of Practice for key roles (SM CoP and PO CoP) to help foster a growth and learning culture.

oEstablish the Agile Playbook to serve as the process governance and coached the Agile teams to adhere to the best practices laid out at the program level.

Azure Dev Ops Client tool daily integration and assistance with teams (migration, daily usage, adoption of tool)

3 PI

18 Sprints

AGILE TEAM COACH, IRSM Information Risk and Systems Management 11/2018 – 12/2019

Chevron Corporation – Houston, TX

Agile Team Coach helping teams track accomplishments and measuring maturity with the help of scrum ceremonies and Key Performance Indicators such as cumulative flow diagrams, burn down charts.

Established governance around Minimum Viable Product (MVP) product planning, prioritization, and delivery of value to the customers.

Served as the Agile Coach for the General Manager heading the IT Business Unit

Setup Communities of Practice for key roles (SM CoP and PO CoP) to help foster a growth and learning culture.

Establish the Agile Playbook to serve as the process governance and coached the Agile teams to adhere to the best practices laid out at the program level.

Implement an Agile team maturity model for key roles and conducted bootcamps and learnings.

Participated in the Agile Center of Excellence (ACOE)

Azure Dev Ops daily integration and assistance with teams (migration, daily usage, adoption of tool)

Azure Dev Ops Client tool daily integration and assistance with teams (migration, daily usage, adoption of tool)

3 PI

18 Sprints

SCRUM MASTER & PROJECT MANAGER 07/2016 – 11/2018

Sysco Corporation – Houston, TX

Scrum Master with experience working in SAP CRM Sales, Marketing and Service modules, and collaborating across cross-functional teams (i.e., Operations, Sales, Marketing, Security, Infrastructure, and Data Management) to drive achievement of organizational goals and milestones. Supported technology-focused services and processes on the product team including development, release management, production monitoring and support, while coaching the team resources to adapt to enterprise-wide agile transformation to establish high-performing teams.

Through coaching and facilitation, ensures the team follows Agile processes (e.g., self-directed problem solvers) and ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Estimation, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Grooming & Review/Demo)

Helps team set realistic objectives for Feature and Sprint delivery timeframes.

Identify and help mitigate risks to the attainment of Feature and Sprint goals.

Active partner with Agile Practice, business, and leadership to resolve any impediments to the team’s progress and ability to deliver in specific iterations.

Track and monitor team’s progress toward Program and Sprint objectives via Agile Progress Reporting Charts (e.g., Burndown Charts) and deliver input to status reports.

Project Manager who helped with full life cycle of new technology initiatives across multiple upstream R&D engineering disciplines, to include change management and training.

Servant led a Customer Digital Experience team to produce a single-sign application for customers for 36 sprints.

Helped introduce automated regression testing into our sprint to increase product time to market by 6 months.

Managed a team of 8 individuals for an $800,000 upgrade of a proprietary web application development tool; successfully delivered the project in 6 months.

Mentored and trained team members and new hires on software and company policies

Managed and tracked quarterly release process for deployment of new functionality into PRD

Drive customer issue escalation resolution to decrease backlog of customer issues.

PROJECT MANAGER

Servant led a Customer Digital Experience team to produce a single-sign application for customers for 36 sprints.

Helped introduce automated regression testing into our sprint to increase product time to market by 6 months.

Managed a team of 8 individuals for an $800,000 upgrade of a proprietary web application development tool; successfully delivered the project in 6 months.

Mentored and trained team members and new hires on software and company policies

Managed and tracked quarterly release process for deployment of new functionality into PRD

PROJECT ANALYST 11/2014 – 04/2015

Hess Corporation – Houston, TX

IT PROJECT COORDINATOR 03/2013 – 10/2014

Chevron Corporation – Houston, TX

Education

Bachelor’s Degree University of Houston in pursuit

Associate Degree Community College of Philadelphia

SaFe Program Consultant (SPC®) SAFe®

ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) ICAgile

ICAgile Certified Professional Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT) ICAgile

ICAgile Certified Professional Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT) ICAgile

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) Scrum Alliance®

Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM®) Scrum Alliance®

SaFe Program Consultant (SPC®) SAFe®

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM®) SAFe®

SAFe Product Owner/ Product Manager (POPM®) SAFe®

SaFe Program Consultant (SPC)

Kanban Management Professional (KMP I & KMP II)

References can be provided upon request.

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