Michael Stayton

St. Peters, Missouri

Email: adipge@r.postjobfree.com

Cell Phone: 314-***-****

Professional Summary

Goal-oriented and hardworking professional seeking career opportunities with a progressive organization that provides opportunities to grow and capitalize on existing skills and abilities in the field of IT Consulting and Project Management. Applicant has extensive history devising and implementing winning network strategies targeting collaboration and communication as well as being a Certified Scrum Master with a solid lean-agile mindset. Applicant has a great track record of accomplishment for consistently delivering results, detailed analysis, creative solutions, and maintaining strong client relationships to create customer loyalty.

Experience working with the product owner in backlog management and the continuous delivery of features.

Prepared the Business Requirement Documents and documented software requirements for applications.

Competent in facilitating team retrospective meetings and helping teams improve in their agile journey

Proficient in facilitating daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint, and release planning.

Expertise in generating the test plan specifying an overview of the testing approach, testing strategy, roles, responsibilities, and scope.

Proficient team coordination skills that enable continuous project delivery on time and on budget.

SKILL SUMMARY

Industry Experience: Telecommunication, Marketing, Distribution and Ecommerce

Competencies: Agile Coaching and transformation, Scrum Master, Product Management, Business Analysis, and Strategic Roadmap Development

Languages: Java, JavaScript, UML, typescript, Angular JS, CSS, Python, HTML, .NET

Software/Tools: Rally, Team Foundation Server (TFS), JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, Adobe Photoshop, SnagIt, SAP, Salesforce, Stipe, Blackthorn, PEGA Systems

Databases: MongoDB, Vertica, Pentaho, MS SQL Server 2005/2008, SQL Developer, Oracle,

ADMI, Amazon web services( AWS)

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Project Essential Training, PMI 2020

Agile Team Facilitation, ICAgile 2019

SAFe 4 Scrum Master Certification, Scaled Agile 2018

WORK EXPERIENCE

Arch Talents St. Louis, MO

Client: HireWorks

Business Analyst Aug. 2020 - Present

Performed competitive analysis to determine the strengths and weaknesses of competitors within the market

Led user story writing sessions with other Business Analyst to split user stories and prepare for sprint planning

Designed detailed mockups and wireframes to create visuals for webpages using Visio and Lucid Chart

Provided day to day mentoring to team members on performance metrics and program processes ensuring team members are performing at an optimal level

Worked with Product Owner to solve business level problems involving key stakeholders

Facilitated meetings and interviews with different stakeholders to elicit and capture their product needs.

Performed gap analysis to identify and recommend action steps to meet project goals

Worked closely with Product Owner to gather requirements from various stakeholders while supporting through the backlog refinement process to ensure accurate prioritization.

Effectively communicated with the development team to ensure alignment and remove impediments.

Worked with distant team members in various time zones to establish working agreements and facilitate meetings.

Arch Talents St. Louis, MO

Client: Abstrakt Marketing Group

Business Development Analyst Aug. 2019 – Aug. 2020

●Worked with multiple programs to coordinate and track releases

●Successfully gathered technical requirements by conducting meetings and interviews with stakeholders.

●Tracked dependencies and risk associated with releases

●Utilized Release Management tools such as ALM to track defects through Prod and Non-Prod environments

●Monitored releases and recorded metrics to measure release health

●Ensured release communication with appropriate stakeholders to ensure visibility and transparency.

●Worked with Product Manager to create detailed wireframes for webpages using Lucid Chart

●Organized and facilitated sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives

●Prioritized business and systems problems and conducted Risk and Impact analysis with the executive members.

●Facilitated meetings to prioritize the user stories for implementation and deliverables for the marketing team’s sprint

●Defined solid acceptance criteria for user stories and helped QA write test cases.

●Conducted project research and provided insights to the marketing manager by running SQL queries with different selection criteria.

●Created/executed SQL queries to verify reports, pull data for clients, and assist in trouble shooting.

●Designed, edited, deployed and tracked key metrics and ROI for web, email, search and social campaigns

●Shared, learned, collaborated with team members and manager to develop strategies, improve execution, and ideas that drive great team results and success

●Worked closely with Regional Sales Managers to develop accounts and territories.

●Assisted team in creating an online sales portal to find higher quality leads and potential clients.

Sprint St. Louis, MO

Business Analyst/Scrum Master Apr. 2018 - Aug. 2019

●Acted as a liaison to educate technical teams about the business and functional requirements of clients.

●Led daily Scrum meetings with the development team to track progress and update the project team with necessary updates.

●Generated Excel-based daily report on customized Pivot Tables on Sprint’s market and custom activation and renewing rate

●Partnered with Product Manager to elicit custom reporting requirements from highly sensitive external customers and converted them into Technical Specification documents for the marketing team.

●Communicated progress to senior management through Burndown Charts

●Gathered requirements and coached Product Owners to improve story writing & requirements gathering process, leading to an increase in customer satisfaction.

●Coached team as necessary to properly self organize and remove impediments.

●Prioritized product backlog for grooming and sprint planning while the product owner was absent

●Coached team to properly estimate stories as well as educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders

●Tracked and made visible the team’s progress, velocity, burndown charts, and other metrics on an ongoing basis

●Led Sprint Planning meeting to prioritize user stories on the sprint according to the roadmap defined by our Product Owner

●Monitored the quality through metrics and mentored the team through the project management processes

Xlr8 St. Louis, MO

Junior Business Analyst Jan 2017 - Apr 2018

●Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprints, and release planning to track progress and update the project team with necessary updates

●Collaborated closely with the product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized

●Led story estimation and backlog grooming sessions with the team

●Efficiently tracked team’s progress including burndown metrics, velocity, and release forecasting

●Worked with the product manager to create detail wireframes for the website pages using VISIO and Snagit

●Used Excel pivot tables to reorganize data into simple user-friendly format.

●Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning

●Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, and team conflicts to maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline

●Developed forms and reports utilizing PL/SQL on Oracle platform

●Expertly promoted the continuous improvement and helped teams increase productivity and foster innovation

●Performed gap analysis to determine the true scope of the system

Maryville University St. Louis, MO

Team Facilitator / Student Manager Aug. 2016 - Jan. 2017

●Served as a facilitator between in-venue, Network Operations Center, management, and customer resources

●Provided feedback for continuous improvement of game-day activities and tasks

●Actively facilitated and managed the performance of game day resources

●Assisted in the identification, configuration, and testing of operational tools

●Facilitated and ensured proper execution of pre-game, in-game, and post-game tasks

●Supported the coordination and scheduling of tasks to be performed at Campus Stadiums and practice facilities

Nine Network of Public Media St. Louis, MO

Intern May 2015 - Jul. 2015

●Controlled and set up high-quality equipment used to successfully conduct interviews

●Utilized apple technology and systems to edit A and B film rolls into a finished product for the company

●Implemented community media initiatives to accomplish short and long term company goals

●Conducted and facilitated interviews with city known leaders on social issues within the community

EDUCATION

MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY St. Louis, MO

Bachelor of Management Information Systems

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