Rico Kelly, CSM
Phone 706-***-**** • E-mail: ***********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A Seasoned Scrum Master with over 2 years of combined leadership and technical experience in the Tech industry, and over 2 years of experience as a Scrum Master; with an in-depth knowledge and experience serving scrum teams to deliver incremental value to the business. A servant leader who mentors his team on Scrum values to enable team to be high performing and self-organized.
Experience in implementing different Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban XP,).
Vastly experience in building organizational agility by ways of stakeholder training and coaching.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability in promoting healthy business relationship between teams, customers and all levels of management
CORE COMPETENCIES
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Cloud Computing
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Process Improvement
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Leadership
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Product Management
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Agile Tools (Jira, Rally)
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Communication
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Scaled Agile Framework
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Project Management
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Agile Methodologies
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Conflict Resolution
TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE
•SDLC Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban
•Project Management Tools: JIRA, CA Rally, JIRA Align
•Documentation Tools: SharePoint, Fuze, Bullhorn
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Soliant Health, Atlanta, GA May 2018- Present
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
Helped to transform the technological environment of Soliant Health by implementing agile practices.
Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as Daily Scrum Meeting, Sprint Planning, Sprints Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
Served as a servant leader for scrum team and promoted relationship building with stakeholders and business owners
Improved team’s work life balance by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning.
Fostered strong Scrum values and created an environment to help the teams become self-organized and continued to explore ways for improvements
Promoted relentless improvement during retrospective and ensured improvement ideas are prioritized and incorporated in the next sprint.
Participated in Scrum of Scrum meeting to effectively communicate the outcome to scrum team and ensured team is aligned with other scrum teams working on the same product
EDUCATION
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Advertising and Communications 2018
CERTIFICATION
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)