Liliana Olalde, csm
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Scrum Master
Scrum Master and Scrum evangelist with excellent communication and team leadership skills. Aspire to help others in applying Agile/Scrum methodologies and principles. Works creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment. Guide engineering teams in delivering value and meeting expectations of stakeholders by conducting daily stand ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives to drive continuous improvement. Removing impediments focused, while working with Product Owners and Business Liasons to clarify requirements throughout the iteration.
Signature Competencies
Certified Scrum Master Leading SAFe Certified Continuous Process Improvement
Agile Training Confluence Jira
Agile Coaching Lean Processes Team Performance Optimization Agile Process Mentoring Team Leadership Value Stream Mapping
Scrum Events Business System Analysis
Leadership Impact
HSBC – Arlington Heights, Il.
Agile Lead/Scrum Master
Sr. Analyst/Business Systems
Analyst/Business Systems
Lead Professional Organizational Development (POD) teams to continuous improvement, with recognition as top-performing team supporting transition of other teams to Agile/SAFe methodology.
AGILE LEAD/SCRUM MASTER (Aug 2018 – Sep 2020)
Facilitate stand-ups, iteration planning, iteration reviews, and iteration retrospectives. Lead and coached new PODs in continuous improvement, adapting story point estimation and Agile/SAFe ways of working, and removal of project obstacles/impediments. Support system demonstrations and process improvement planning.
« Leadership Impact «
Evangelized Agile ways of working as the company standard by teaching PODs in Agile/SAFe methodology implementation, including stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Coached the most successful Agile POD and brought other PODs up to speed in transforming from Waterfall to new Agile ways of working, by driving face to face communication as much as possible, maintaining timeboxes and leading the adaptation of story point estimation.
Utilized Value Stream Mapping to identify bottlenecks leading to continuous improvement.
Daily interaction with all leverls of the organization to clarify requirements and drive communication.
Utilized Jira and Confluence to facilitate tracking and reporting of requirments and work in progress/completion.
Collaborated teams in UK, Canada and India during different timezones, based on location and requirments.
SR. ANALYST BUSINESS SYSTEMS (Feb 2008 – Aug 2018)
Managed portfolio of small and large business-critical application projects, test coordination, and process management. Recommended resolution of defects. Managed testing and met project milestones by working with all levels of Business and IT.
« Leadership Impact «
Collaborated with global teams in India, Canada, and Mexico, coordinating all aspects of projects across different time zones, and overcame language difficulties by translating calls from English to Spanish to deliver projects on time and within budget.
Resolved issue with incorrect time charged to projects by staff to prepare accurate budget reports by collaborating with Project Managers in monitoring time entry, keeping projects within budget through accurate time reporting.
ANALYST BUSINESS SYSTEMS (May 2005 – Feb 2008)
Ran PowerBuilder builds in a test-driven manner. Coordinated code deployment and release through production. Gathered requirements, performed impact analysis, resource planning, design, and analysis, and coordinated technical support for production issues. Participated in unit testing, QA, and writing test cases for unit and system integration testing.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems
DeVry University
Certifications
Certiifed ScrumMaster (CSM) - 2018 ScrumAllianceâ
Relevent Coursework
Leading SAFe Certified – Scaled Agile
Volunteer & Leadership Experience
Volunteer Coordinator – Marklund Golf Classic
Recruit ~60 volunteers each year to coordinate annual events, raising approximately $200,000 for local children’s home.
Professional References
Dmitri Golovatch Pamela Mathews
HSBC IT Project Manager HSBC Agile Lead/RTE
2910 Vitual Way 1421 W Shure Drive
Vancouver, BC V5M 0B2 Arlington Heights, IL 60004
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Rupesh Pohare Tammy Kutch
HSBC Sr Test Manager HSBC IT Programme/Project Manager
1421 W Shure Drive 95 Washington Street
Arlington Heights, IL 60004 Buffalo, NY 14203
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IMPACT SNAPSHOT
Willing to go the extra mile
Help overcome project challenges
Team collaboration & support
Agile/SAFe methodology transition
Top-performing team leadership