ELVIS N CHE

Southfield MI ***** (***) -***-**** ad3fu2@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Experience in project management duties including but not limited to: Defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.

Developing and delivering progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation & presentations.

Drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary.

Experience Leading both software development and data analytics projects requiring data migrations. 4+ years working within a SAFe environment and being involved in the following ceremonies/activities: Coordinating team towards preparing and participating in PI planning. Liaising with other scrum masters both in and out of Scrum of Scrum meetings. Determining appropriate capacity and load for PI. Running breakout sessions to ensure features are broken, risks, issues and dependencies are identified. Extensive experience on lean agile implementation including but not limited to Streamlining software development processes to eliminate redundancy.

Exploring possibilities to achieve maximum productivity with the least possible resources. Constantly inspecting processes and creating an atmosphere for Developers to find new and better engineering practices. Restructuring enterprise agile processes to meet changing business demands. Outstanding cloud infrastructure background spanning but not limited to: Managing identity and access into AWS account and permissions to various services. Managing storage against various s3 storage classes. Provisioning VPCs for new cloud environments. Deploying and managing the Jenkins pipeline for CI/CD Knowledge of multiple project management methodologies including: Waterfall, Agile & DevOps. Knowledge of various Agile frameworks: Scrum, Kanban Principles, Scrumban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean, XP and techniques like TDD, BDD. Strong knowledge of all functional areas of software development including system design, frontend, backend and database. 5+ years of Scrum Master experience utilizing for project tracking tools such as: Jira, confluents, Rally, TFS, Version One, Azure DevOps. Extensive Agile coaching experience recommending various frameworks necessary for specific teams and projects. Strong passion for technical excellence. Work History

Sr. Scrum Master 02/2019 to Current

ITC STAFFING – TX

• Coaching product owner: helping them understand their role and how to create cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding

• Assist Product owner to write user stories, prioritize and estimate the stories

• Synchronize with stakeholders to define, understand requirements and version control for upcoming releases

• Utilize aspects of Kanban, XP, Lean, Scrum, and SAFe simultaneously to address complex agile projects across teams

• Coach, mentor and guide agile teams to be self-organized, cross-functional as well as implement agile best engineering practices namely: (rigorous refactoring, continuous integration, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Jira, INVEST criteria, Confluence, Peer Review)

• Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example

• Promoting an empowering team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries

• Help teams in preparation for ART activities, including Quarter release Planning, Art sync, System Demos, Inspect, and adapt

• Organize and facilitate time-boxed events: Backlog Grooming, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospective, and Release Planning. Scrum Master 02/2017 to 03/2018

KEYTECH SOLUTIONS Wisconsin

• Support & coach the product owner, build collaborative relationships effectively in the role as well as communicate extensively with the global community, identify and remove impediments while maintaining a healthy and transparent team

• Function as a servant leader by teaching, mentoring, and facilitating the agile mindset

• Using knowledge of supporting agile frameworks to drive continuous improvement • Facilitate team's progress toward the goal and commitments through improvement in quality, predictability, flow and velocity

• Facilitates ceremonies including daily stand ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, team demos & retrospectives

• Attends Scrum of Scrums

• Focuses on improving team dynamics, performance & management of conflicts all the while an, agile and Scrum principles in all actions

• Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART ceremonies and supports the team and ART estimate, helps coordinate with the other teams on the Agile Release Train

• Provide visibility of work progress using Jira reporting tools for sprint velocity, burndown/burnup charts

• Guide and train project lead engineer in quick decision making, while improving development team level to be self-organize, self-manage and produce high-quality business value which meets sprint goal and acceptance criteria

• Helped teams to solve problems rather than provided solutions

• Utilized JIRA to monitor workflow within a Scrum environment

• Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity charts) to help deliver committed work

• Shield the entire scrum team from external distractions

• Monitor and track the status of iterations/releases and ensure work progress visualization on the scrum board.

Process Improvement Analyst/ Scrum Master 02/2016 to 12/2016 LPX CONSULTING – Dallas, TX

• Develop process improvement procedures to improve operational efficiency

• Led and coached Scrum team responsible for developing software products and automated tools for financial services

• Evangelized Agile Methodology throughout the organization to improve communications between IT, Engineering, Product Management, and Business; providing transparency and obtaining great business value

• Increased team velocity by 15% within the first 3 months of Agile adoption by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily standups, etc.)

• Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 15% and the quality of deliverables by 30%

• Analyze current process standards and metrics in order to provide solutions for improvements

• Perform data gathering, root cause analysis and performance trending in order to develop appropriate process control changes

• Coordinate with Subject Matter Experts to develop process improvement reports for setting forth progress, adverse trends and appropriate recommendations and conclusions

• Inform respective teams on process improvement and reengineering strategies

• Worked closely with the project manager to create compressive action plans concerning resources, time frames and the overall project process. Education Certified

SAFe 5 Scrum

Scaled Agile, Inc

Certified Scrum Master (PSM1 certification), Scrum.org Associate of Arts And Sciences

Indian Hills - Iowa City, IA

Dallas Scrum Meetup – Member Since, 2018

SAFe Agile communities of practice- Membe

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