Cameron Wallace

Arlington, VA 540-***-**** adgr9h@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Metrics driven Scrum Master possessing problem solving, leadership, and project management skills; as well as a track record of facilitating scrum ceremonies and coaching agile principles.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master, GEICO, Chevy Chase MD. September 2019- Present

Facilitating scrum meeting such as daily scrum, sprint review, sprint planning, and retrospective.

Leading and facilitating cross department product increment meetings.

Analyzing new and complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving the elimination of manual handoffs, introduction of new technology and methodologies, and the adoption of tools which help with process automation.

Leading an Agile adoption initiative for the department. This includes coaching product owners, scrum masters, and team members through Agile principles, core competencies, and delivering value on prescribed cadence.

Leading an effort to implement an automated modeling workflow for the department.

Acting as the Product Owner for our initiative to increase department speed to market.

Acting as the Release Train Engineer for the department’s Product Increment Planning (PI planning).

Working closely with FICO’s product implementation team to satisfy our requirements for our modeling automation tools.

Scrum Master, Potomac Solutions, Washington D.C. March 2018- September 2019

Organized and facilitated all scrum related meetings (stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews, planning, demos, etc.).

Worked with the team to develop project plans, roadmaps and manage backlog.

Engaged in backlog refinement meetings to help with the efficiency of sprint planning.

Tracked and communicated team velocity/sprint progress to stakeholders.

Helped the Product Owner to create and define our product roadmap.

Helped the Product Owner define sprint goals and prioritize product backlog.

Monitored the team’s JIRA board to ensure it accurately reflected the current state of the sprint.

Product Owner/Scrum Master, City Worth Mortgage, Fairfax VA. August 2015-March 2018

Boosted team's average 'loan in processing' life cycle to an average of days 15 by implementing loan processing automation tools.

Created a team JIRA board to cultivate a task-oriented processing workflow.

Increased team production by conducting daily standups, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, and sprint review meetings.

Led new hire on-boarding effort by coaching team members on how to use the JIRA board.

Defined user stories, created story and epic definition of done, prioritized coming initiatives, and define our project roadmap.

Served as the primary point of contact for all stakeholder’s loan origination process.

Introduced Agile principles and Kanban workflow to help the team with accountability and work ownership.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

Communication- Bachelor of Arts May 2015

George Mason University-Fairfax, VA

Fundamentals of Scrum Certification October 2017

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) March 2019

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt February 2020

SAFe 5.0 Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) May 2020

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Obtained fundamentals of Scrum Certification. Obtained Certified Scrum Master Certification. Strong understanding of Agile, leading pair programming efforts. Proficient in Salesforce, JIRA, Azure, Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, and Microsoft Project.