Scrum Master Senior

JAN BARNES

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AGILE/LEAN EXPERT & SENIOR SCRUM MASTER

Professional ICF Certified Organizational and Personal Coach. Highly experienced practitioner of any and all things Agile, Lean and DevOps. Solid experience and leadership in Agile methodologies and ways of working from Scrum Master, practitioner, coach and trainer to global leadership and implementation of Agile transformations at small to x-large organizations. Brings innovation, skills development, and service delivery excellence to life across dynamic, fast-paced environments. Core competencies include:

Organizational and Individual Coaching Program & Team Management Technical Reporting Best Practice

Process Streamlining Continuous Improvement Cross-Functional Communication & Collaboration

EXPERIENCE

Professional Organizational and Personal Coach. Agile/Lean Expertise & Consulting September 2023 - Present

ICF-ACC (Certified Coach - International Coaching Federation). COC UBC (Certified Organizational Coach). Scrum Alliance CAL (Certified Agile Leader). Ready to support all levels of engagement – organizations, programs, teams, and individuals.

Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban.

Highly experienced and creative Agile/Lean Professional.

Agility Lead and Senior Scrum Master (across TELUS Digital and TELUS) January 2019 – August 2023

Built and launched an extensive program to grow and expand Agility; drove and was highly instrumental to the timely execution of initiatives across 30+ teams.

●Coaching, refinement and growth of teams; grew organizational level insights into ways of working and harvested and explored data and analytics.

●Increased growth of adoption of Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, community and capability; augmented expansion and refinement of Agility across the teams and supported all levels and areas with developing Agility capabilities.

●Created and taught +12 extensive courses across the organization; courses included such topics as Product Ownership, Innovation, and Agility Leadership; foster competence, morale, and retention of top talent and support deepening of knowledge and career growth of individuals and teams.

●Onboard and collaborate cross-functionally and in interdisciplinary ways with diverse communities of practice to grow collective capabilities and connections in support of sharing across the organization.

●Impart critical learning and had fun sharpening skills in Agility COP and Scrum Master COP.

Agile Coach and Trainer (agile42.com) December 2017 - January 2019

Provided first rate Agile coaching, training and support to teams and leadership.

●Clients ranged from large organizations (government agencies and financial institutions) to small/medium sized public/private companies (IT and non-IT alike).

●Key engagements – WorkSafeBC, Safe Software, Standard Life US.

●WorkSafeBC - 1+ years engagement to support WorkSafeBC with their Agile transformation. Worked with a portfolio of teams and programs as a coach and trainer.

Agile Transformation Lead (HSBC Bank Canada) from June 2006 - November 2017

Senior Manager and Senior Scrum Master

●Launched and Grew an Agile Transformation at a traditional global bank.

●Agile Transformation across 3 major Banking lines of business (Domestic and International 700+ staff).

●Agile methodologies were scaled across teams (Dev and non-Dev), projects, programs, portfolios and the enterprise.

●Coached 70+ teams and 30+ programs and workstreams.

●Coached distributed Agile teams in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, India and China.

●Led Agile COPs supporting Agile methods, Scrum, Product Ownership, DevOps and Tooling (JIRA and Confluence).

●Developed and executed Agile related training material.

●Consulted and guided the Senior Leadership team on Agile transformation and adoption.

●Created and developed internal coaching – HSBC Canada Agile Team Coaches program with +140 graduates globally.

Led the HSBC Global Agile Community Guild which supported Agile Community Guild Leaders globally in six key regions.

●Delivered Agile Transformation across two key product lines – Branch and Contact Centers.

●Program/Portfolio management responsibilities to deploy Branch and Contact Center solutions to six key markets for the bank – Canada, US, Mexico, UK, France and Hong Kong.

Previous IT Experience at other Financial Institutions

●Manulife Financial and John Hancock Financial – Senior Consultant and Software Engineer (Insurance, RRSPs and Pensions)– Front-end JavaScript and Java Developer.

●London Life Insurance and Great West Insurance – Senior Consultant and Software Engineer (Insurance) – Visual Basic and Windows Developer.

CERTIFICATION

●International Coaching Federation (ICF) and UBC – Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and Certified Organizational Coach (UBC -2021/22 Cohort).

●Facilitation - Bikablo training, Training from the Back of the Room (Certified Trainer).

●Scrum Alliance - Certified Scrum Foundations Educator, Certified Agile Leader (CAL1 & 2), Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

●Scrum.org - Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master (PSM1), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO1), CSP-SM, CSP-PO.

●BrainStation – AI and ChatGPT, Digital Marketing, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Python Programming, Web Development, UI Design, UX Design.

●IDEO U - Advanced Design Thinking Certificate, Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate, Foundations in Creative Leadership; Business Innovation Certificate, Designing for Change.

●Lean Kanban University - Kanban Management Professional (KMP).

●Disciplined Agile Consortium - Disciplined Agilist (DA).

●Lean Six Sigma – Green Belt.

●Advanced Designation in J2EE Development, Ryerson University.

●Certified General Accountant Program, University of British Columbia

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Western Ontario, London, ON

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

●2012 to present - Agile Vancouver Meetup

●2021 – Vancouver Agile Mentoring Program (VAMP)

●IFVP – International Forum of Visual Practitioners – Member

●Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership – Member

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