Samuel Rossi Jr.

215-***-****

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Statement

Experienced Scrum Master driving high impact, iterative improvement and agile methodology implementation leading to on schedule, on budget product delivery and increased efficiencies.

Summary

●Certified Scrum Master with SAFe certification and Business Process Management Training

●6+ years of experience leading national agile team through analysis, design, development, testing and production support

●Proven ability to streamline and improve business processes through agile methodologies

●Currently leading two national service delivery teams for windows support and security compliance.

●12+ years of project management experience.

Core competencies

●Project Methodology: Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Waterfall, Iterative, Kanban

●Version one, Jira, Tableau, Confluence

●Business analysis, project management, process management

●Test Strategy Management

●Adept in leading teams of various sizes

●Excellent ability to multitask

●Innovative problem-solving abilities

●Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Career Accomplishments

●Designed and drove development of in-house inventory and workflow management tool shaving days off weekly workflow

●Used agile methodologies to drive continuous improvement in compliance reporting from vendor provided bi-monthly to in house daily reporting allowing our team to react and correct issues daily

●Implemented multiple agile process improvements over an 18 month period that cut cycle time from 120 days to 60 then 45 and finally 30 days while retaining compliance levels, at the same time during this period the team size was reduced to 50% and volume doubled from @5,000 units to 10,000

●Implement agile management ideals by facilitating exercises such as sprint planning, team standups, sprint reviews and retrospectives

●Enacted delivery upon completion of projects and ensured that delivery adheres to agile practices maintained by the company.

●Oversaw software developers’ progress on applications and applied principles of agile methodologies to keep projects on track.

●Coached team in optimal time utilization through concepts of scrum, kanban and agile management methodologies.

●Led sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings to touch base with the whole team and ensure that all members were able to stay on schedule and discuss and remove impediments

Professional Experiences

Capital One Finance

Large international online bank 2012-2021

Title: Scrum Master

●Managed 24X7 production support team break fix and minor enhancement

●Collaborated with cross functional teams to work through the dependencies and risks. Conducted and participated in scrum of scrum (SoS) to discuss issues, impediments and plan for resolution, work sequencing, prioritization and de-prioritization, risk mitigation, conflict resolution etc.

●Collaborative work mode between operations and development DevOps

●Defined UAT Test strategy, test case creation and execution planning

●Defect and Change request management in a multi-vendor environment

●Managed change request working closely with stakeholders and business analysts

●Reported test execution and progress to management

●Responsible for stakeholder management client interaction and support for development and production systems

●Developed and led a team of 40+ developers and engineers spread across multiple onsite, offshore and nearshore locations for 6 years

●Instrumental in establishing the release management processes.

●Agile methodology (scrum) followed to improve productivity, close coordination with customer teams to address the pain areas, daily dashboard on issue status and constraints etc. introduced

●Implemented estimation techniques like planning poker, expert judgement, T-Shirt size/ballpark estimation at EPIC & feature level, low level estimation (bottom up) at story level, analogous/relative estimation

StarCITE

Multinational SAAS Meeting planning and Spend management Company 2008-2012

Title: Project Manager / Senior System Administrator

●Planned and implemented New Clustered Windows 2008R2 File server with DFS namespaces.

●Planned and completed 2003 to 2008 R2 Active directory Migration.

●Planned and deployed Exchange 2003 to 2007 migration including server and OS configuration with CCR and @ 800 account migrations.

●Assisted with Exchange 2007 RSA SecurID Outlook Web access integration and SSL certificate configuration.

●Completed audit of enterprise mobile account removing redundant and unused lines saving approximately $125,000 a year.

●Created VMware vSphere4 test environment with vCenter Server and two ESXi hosts.

●Planned and Implemented corporate production vSphere 4 environment and migrated 15 legacy systems to VMware.

●Revamped deployment program cutting equipment deployment time in half using pre-configured basic and departmental Ghost Images for laptops and desktops.

Education

●Agile Team Story writing and Version One Training 2015

●Certified Scrum Master 2015

●Certified SAFe Agile: Advanced Scrum Master 5.0 2020

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