Gaelle Paul

Hyattsville MD, *****

Tel: 301-***-****

E-Mail: adg1fk@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering software projects in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Offering a proven track record with over 5 years of hands-on Agile experience. Strong ability to lead cross-functional and self-organizing teams. Experienced working with multiple (distributed and co-located) agile teams in healthcare and logistics projects. Skilled professional with great servant leadership skills, excellent communication, critical thinking and in-depth technical analysis skills.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) &

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM1)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS

Software Development Lifecycle

Scrum, Kanban & other Agile methodologies

Planning and implementation

Business Analysis

Project management

Excellent problem-solving abilities

Workflow analysis

Release Planning/QA tools

Microsoft Project

JIRA and Confluence

Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Visio, Outlook

AWS Cloud

EXPERIENCE

Washington Suburban Sanitization Commission (WSSC) 03/2018 - Present

Senior Scrum Master /AWS Engineer Trainee Laurel, MD

●Enabled business customers to pay by using a simple and intuitive platform by creating a web based and mobile application.

●Recommended changes and utilized Scrum and Kanban methodologies to improve efficiency and productivity of scrum team.

●Increased understanding of projects for team members and organization by coaching on user story creation. Identified dependencies and coordinated with product owner, dev team, and stakeholders to support release planning

●Enhanced knowledge of the Agile team by organizing training sessions on agile software development practices, such as pair programming, TDD, FDD, CI, CD, XP and Agile games.

●Facilitated effective communication across teams, product owners and external vendors/stakeholders

●Participated in a scrum of scrum meeting to discuss cross team dependency and blockers

●Worked closely with business leaders to ensure alignment and visibility within the project.

●Facilitated the Inspect and Adapt ceremony with other Scrum Masters

●Organized and facilitated agile scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and bug triage meetings.

●Tracked, escalated and removed impediments daily to allow the team to deliver on committed sprint goals.

●Performed measurement and risk analysis to minimize risks and optimize returns.

●Worked with product owners to prioritize and validate User Stories.

●Helped teams improve velocity by incorporating capacity planning during sprint planning and helping team members improve estimation with planning poker.

●Successfully coached and mentored teams to be self-organizing and deliver product increments with little supervision.

●Proficiency with using the internet and with Microsoft Office products including e-mail, Word and Excel.

●Provisioned EC2 instances in both public and private subnets

●VPC peering with other Accounts allowing access and routing to service and users of separate account to communicate.

Kaiser Permanente 01/2017 – 04/2018

Scrum Master Rockville, MD

●Develop a web application to facilitate members in searching for doctors and clinics, finding dental providers by state, and locating providers for mental health while working as a scrum master.

●Devise and define Quarterly team requirements aligned with departmental and organizational goals.

●Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment.

●Participated in PI, Scrum of Scrum meetings and Communities of practice trainings to find new ways of increasing performance of my team and keeping up to date with industry trends.

●Provided coaching and guidance for 2 teams ensuring they were constantly adhering to agile best principles and practices.

●Facilitated and scheduled sprint ceremony meetings, demos and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative processes were in use.

●Utilized and implemented key agile metrics such as the burn-down/burn-up charts, to measure team performance and ensure team members were working at optimum capacity.

●Worked with Product Owners in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.

●Planned and coordinated testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing.

Artelye Marble & Granite 03/2015 - 11/2016

Business Analyst Baltimore, MD

●Documented digital transformation strategy; current state of the business operations, marketing, sales, support

and storing documents in SharePoint.

●Drafted and maintained business requirements and aligned them with functional and technical requirements.

●Recommended operational improvements and established an effective management control and reporting

system based on tracking and analysis.

●Worked with Management and staff to ensure Projects were carried out following PMP guidelines and

established effective execution strategy and alignment

●Increased productivity and overall performance of project delivery and standard and by consequence revenue

EDUCATION

● University of Maryland, College Park

● Bachelor of Science in Forensic Psychology - Enrolled

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