Deborah K. Paris

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Summary

Deborah Paris is a Scrum Master. She has more than 20 years of experience as a Senior Business Analyst/Project Lead gathering requirements and writing functional specifications. She has 10 years experience in Business Process Analysis and Workflow review as well as Agile Methodologies. She can read and write HTML and has experience with XML. Her experience includes Six Sigma, RUP and RAD. She has 3 years experience with ACH, e-banking and e-payment systems, including design and development. She has experience with data mapping, data mining and warehousing to facilitate migration and improve system performance. She has 10 years of experience with Quality Assurance and 8 years of extensive UAT. She has over 10 years experience with Financial Services from SunTrust, nBank, SouthStar Funding, Financial Freedom, ADP, Fortent, Fidelity National Information Services, S1 Corporation and Axcess Financial. She has 2 years of experience with IVR/Telephony and VOIP in setting up call centers for the Transportation Industry. She has 11 years of Agile experience; 9 years of experience as a Scrum Master and 6 months Agile Coach/Scrum Trainer experience. Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner and Agility Health Facilitator. She has 5 years of Service Now experience and Change Management/Release Management. She has 6 years of experience in assisting companies with transformations and migrations. She specializes in analysis of existing systems before transformations begin to minimize and mitigate gaps or potential challenges.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Experis Enterprises

Scrum Master December 2022 – September 2023

Working with clients to implement Agile practices. Bi-weekly releases of developed code, establishment of release process for the team to ensure releases were successful.

Coaching team members to improve Agile adoption

Use of Jira for story writing, sprint planning, and metrics for reporting to stakeholders

Berlitz Corporation, Princeton, NJ (Consultant)

Business Analyst /Scrum Master/Agile Coach October 2021 – September 2022

Working with the business to capture requirements for new features for the online learning platform (cloud based development) for the installation of Salesforce and integration with NetSuite.

Process improvement documentation and implementation

Agile coaching to foster an Agile work environment

BCG, Boston, MA (Consultant)

Scrum Master August 2021 – October 2021

●Scrum Master/Agile coaching for newly formed development teams, aiding in the adoption of Agile

●Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives and planning of sprints; coaching in story preparation.

●Mentoring of new team members

McGraw Hill, Columbus, OH

Scrum Master/Project Manager/Release Management (Consultant) April 2021 – August 2021

●Scrum Master/Agile coaching for newly formed development team; mentoring new team members

●Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives and planning of sprints; coaching in story preparation.

●Release management of weekly and monthly releases as well as hot fixes through Service Now.

AEP, Columbus, OH

Scrum Master/ Project Manager (Consultant) December 2020 – March 2021

Scrum Master/Agile coaching for transition to Agile for 2 development teams

Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, focusing on development of product backlog and story writing/refining sessions.

Preparation of burn-up, burn-down financials for presentation to governing board. Budget management/resource allocations for 2 projects.

Anthem, Mason, Ohio October 2017 – October 2020

Scrum Master (Consultant)

●Scrum Master/Agile coaching for transition to Agile for 8 development teams at various stages of maturity.

●Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives and planning of sprints; coaching in story preparation and PI events, using Jira and AgileCraft/Jira Align.

●Mentoring of new team members during migration from one vendor to another; assisting the team in working through the forming-storming-norming-performing process.

●Communication to leadership on challenges team faced during the IBM migration; loss of knowledge base caused impact to velocity for all teams.

●Worked directly with Product Owner to groom product backlog

●Upkeep of Jira boards, extraction of data in Jira from sprints for reporting to leadership; confluence space for document storage and sprint planning.

●Change Management through Service Now for releases.

●Guiding the teams through release management and workflow for compliance;

●Supporting teams during annual audits.

●Certified Agility Health Facilitator and SAFe 4 Practitioner

Winsupply, Moraine, Ohio February 2017 – October 2017

Scrum Master (Consultant)

●Scrum Master for 3 development teams

●Trained product owners in preparation of user stories for sprints. Collaboration between business teams to establish goals and objectives for projects.

●Assisted development teams in organizing and meeting goals. Removed blockers.

●Implemented the change to scrum and educate team on process

Axcess Financial, Cincinnati, Ohio July 2016 – January 2017

Scrum Master/Agile Trainer (Consultant)

On contract to financial services company

●Scrum Master for 2 development teams

●Worked with business to develop user stories for sprints. Collaboration between business teams to establish goals and objectives for projects; working with Product Owners to prepare and refine story backlog.

●Training of individuals in Scrum and Agile; implemented change to scrum and educated teams

●Member of Scrum Brain Trust to provide coaching to other Scrum Masters and training of Scrum methodology to employees.

●Facilitated daily scrums and planning of sprints

First Transit, a division of FirstGroup America, Cincinnati, Ohio June 2011 – July 2016

Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Master for Transportation Company (Consultant/Permanent)

Company offering transportation services and solutions for a mobile society

●Analysis and development of Transit Dashboard --- collecting of data from many diverse systems for display of KPI’s at a local and regional level; training of staff on use of dashboard and serving as key point of contact for enhancements and future development. User Acceptance testing (UAT), enhancements, and training of users during roll-out of the new management tools. Scrum/Agile project framework, including sprint planning and story grooming.

●Analysis of RFP’s for transit bids; Requirements gathering, working with upper management and other departments for collaboration on bid responses. Preparation of technical proposal responses. Development of new technical offerings, such as smart cards, integrated systems. Development of business process in-house for RFP/MAC processes.

EDUCATION:

Kent State University,

B.S., Business Communications

Community Involvement

Non-profit organizations in Lebanon, including St. Vicente de Paul and the Lebanon Food Pantry

Member of IIBA – Cincinnati Chapter

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