Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
Resume:
NINA (NIHADA) BAHTO
Cary, NC 27519
****.*****@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-bahto/
Results driven team leader with extensive Project Management experience. Proven track record leading cross-functional, globally distributed teams. Able to successfully translate technical and business concepts between IT teams and customers. Passionate about leading projects from the ideation to complete product using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Relentless in leading process improvements and customizing tools to facilitate comprehensive tracking and accurate reporting.
Experience
CISCO
TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER / SCRUM MASTER
MARCH 2019 – MAY 2020
Lead globally distributed scrum teams in sprint planning and other agile ceremonies to enable team to successfully complete tasks assigned in each sprint.
Served as scrum master for CICD and Integration/Release teams on business automation project built for large financial company.
Collaborated with other scrum masters on the project to ensure that integration testing is successfully completed and dependencies resolved before the code is delivered to the customer.
Worked with internal teams to ensure tools for continuous integration continuous delivery are implemented and functional to provide seamless code deliveries to the customer.
Facilitated communication between internal and customer CICD teams.
Provided release notes and accompanying documentation to the customer after each sprint
Served as Defect manager for the program and worked directly with the customer to provide defect status and reports.
Collaborated with Jira and Confluence administrator to improve processes and better define issue types to enable more comprehensive tracking and reporting.
Lead the effort in defining the process for device tracking and sharing to ensure that delays in accessing required devices for teams is minimized.
TIME INC
TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
SEP 2014 – OCT 2017
Managed Content Management System supporting 15 production brands (including Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, Real Simple, Southern Living, and Travel and Leisure) .
Collaborated with product owners, sales and marketing teams in defining new features and translated business needs into functional requirements.
Worked with Editorial Teams to design and build innovative editorial tools for content creation, management, and publishing.
Drove improvements to editorial tools, including video and gallery workflows, increasing productivity of editorial teams by 30%.
Acted as a Scrum Master for distributed development team in NYC and Bangalore, India. Increased overall team productivity by 80%, going from 40 story points to over 70.
Successfully lead and facilitated collaboration between distributed (New York and Bangalore, India) development teams guiding them through rapid changes in requirements and helping them to adapt and learn.
Successfully negotiated with brands' owners downtime, allowing software updates and enabling improvements in development efficiencies, decreasing code management process overhead by 40%.
Successfully lead data migration effort for people.com, Time.inc's largest brand.
Oversaw and acted as an adviser on data migration process for www.health.com
Served as administrator for projects using Jira and Confluence.
TECHNICAL PRODUCTION LEAD / PROJECT MANAGER, Instyle.com
FEB 2010 - SEP 2014
Managed the development, maintenance and content syndication initiatives from a technical perspective for www.instyle.com - Team sizes ranged from 3 to 10 depending
on the size of projects and allocation.
Delivered code driven applications, application design, creating technical specifications, establishing technical best practices/standards, and coordinating between Product Development, Editorial, Design and Business stakeholders.
Designed and built innovative editorial tools for content creation, management, and publishing.
Led highly successful InStyle.com migration from legacy Vignette and Word Press based CMS to Drupal based CMS.
SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER, InStyle.com, instylewedding.com, timeforkids.com, teenpeople.com
AUG 2005 – FEB 2010
Developed and maintained products for InStyle.com brand on Vignette 5 / Vignette 6 CMS platforms.
Enhancements, Production Support and New Development for AOL properties produced by Time Inc - Beauty&Style.
Back-filled as developer for people.com and instyleweddings.com
Technical lead for timeforkids.com and teenpeople.com.
AOL
WEB DEVELOPER
JAN 2003 – JAN 2005
IVILLAGE
WEB DEVELOPER
MAY 2000 – JAN 2003
Education
University of Bridgeport
BS Computer Science 2000
Certifications
Scrum Alliance
Certified ScrumMaster – February, 2019
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