NAME: DENIS ACHO
CONTACT
Phone: 240-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Professional agile scrum master with over 7 years of experience in various facets of agile project management. Knowledgeable in applications of scrum, waterfall, and agile methodologies, and skilled in developing processes that facilitate continuous development, continuous delivery and shorter product time to market. Effective in building a safe and trusting environment where conflicts can be managed in a healthy way without fear or blame. Previously coached teams ranging in size from 5 to 9 people and successfully completed projects. Dedicated to applying principles of agile management to projects, tasks and goals.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Scrum Scaled Agile Framework
Agile Project Management Software Development Life Cycle
Agile Methodologies Automation Relative Estimation
Requirement Analysis JIRA
Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings Software Development
Transition management. Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Lean Software Engineering.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Scrum Master
Bide's Technology Silver Spring MD May 2020 - Present
•Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills.
•Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
•Demonstrated strength in working with JIRA..
•Facilitate scrum ceremonies; grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives and daily stand-ups.
•Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes.
•Communicate with a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical.
Scrum Master Jan. 2019 - May 2020
Frontline Community Service MD.
•Planning and driving scrum team’s work and remove impediments which will prevent successful Sprint closure.
•Innovation focused context switching, iterative roadmap.
•Excellent time management skills and prioritize activities appropriately.
•Willing to Learn Some Tech lean agile processes
•Strong facilitation ability. Work in Large group.
•Forecasting sprint iterations with the Product Owners and concerned business partners.
•Managing/controlling scope and coaching individuals in Agile processes and tools.
Agile Project Manager/ Data Scrum Master May 2017- Jan. 2019
Capital Care Inc. Silver Spring MD
•Providing strategic direction during the implementation stages.
• Managing client expectations by ensuring the delivery of the highest quality service
•Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes.
•Guiding collaboration on test efforts from strategy, planning, development and execution.
• Helping teams to clarify goals and ensure activities are on-track and focused.
•Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them.
•Conducting sprint Demo and Retrospective and acting on client feedback.
Project Manager Oct. 2012 - May. 2017
Bide's Technoloy, Silver Spring, MD.
• Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.
•Producing stage plans, highlight reports, risk logs, requests for change.
•Providing strategic direction during the implementation stages.
•Engaged in creating a system that eliminated errors during quoting, enhancing the customer experience.
• Conducted detailed process analysis to understand how business practices are supported by technology • Maintained monthly publication of the CIO Dashboard to ensure visualizations are consistent with the CIO Dashboard guidelines.
• Plans, executes and finalizes projects according to strict deadlines, delivering projects on time and within budget .
•Responsible for providing written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards and project updates.
TOOLS & CERTIFICATIONS
• Software Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Trello, Jira, TFS
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Project Manager Professional (PMP) - Current Studies : Database Administration. (DBA)
EDUCATION
• Environmental Science BSc.