OLIVER GOMES

**** ** ******, **#*, Woodhaven, New York 11421 • 917-***-**** • adjlhs@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

As a Scrum Master, to coach multiple software delivery teams in an Agile environment and to ensure that the team produces the highest quality software possible providing tangible value to customers. Through Servant Leadership, organizational, and motivational strengths, work with the Scrum Teams to maximize their potential while promoting self organization. Remove impediments, enhance collaboration, and ensure teams deliver value to the organization through optimum utilization of communication, technical, and organizational skills. Skills

Strategic Planning & formulation

Resource Staffing

Enterprise Resources Planning

Complex problem solving

Vendor & Contract negotiation

Budget preparation & monitoring

Vendor Management

Operations

Coach Agile Team

Manual Testing

Agile ceremonies

Agile/Scrum

Customer Service

Change Management

Process Improvement

Collaborative Leader

Relentless Improvement

SWOT analysis

SAFe

Facilitation

SQL

PI Planning Process

Technical Expertise

Process : Agile Scrum,SAFe,XP, Kanban,Lean and Waterfall Databases : SQL Server2008 r2, Oracle (7i, 8i, 11g, 12g) Tools/Software : MS Office 97 2013, HP ALM v12.5,HP UFT v12.52, SELENIUM_2, JIRA Confluence

Work History

Greater New York Nursing Services – Brooklyn, NY

Scrum Master 01/2019 to 07/2020

Transitioned and trained the development team from Waterfall to Agile

Implemented the project management discipline and streamlined the reporting for development changes to 50+ applications.

Trained 32+ Resources on integrating Agile methodology, and the diverse SDLC processes to ensure accurate delivery timelines and early detection of issues thus enabling discussions around the project triple constraints (costs, schedule, and scope).

Successfully launched VersionOne, HP ALM and Agile Scrum Methodology.

Managed 5 15 concurrent small to medium scale upgrade projects totaling $1 M w/ 15 resources.

Successfully managed to grow the team from 1 to 9 resources within a short span of 4 months to help the company achieve its strategic objectives of upgrading all legacy clients, 6 months ahead of schedule. Resulting targeted revenue helped the company meet its Q2 & Q3 financial targets.

Act as Scrum Master for teams, providing a learning environment to maximize team efficiency and overall business value

Facilitate all Scrum related rituals and ceremonies (Daily Stand Up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective etc.) while maintaining all Scrum artifacts (Iteration backlog, Program Increment, etc.)

Challenge, coach, and guide the organization using Agile and lean principles, experimenting with processes and tools that encourage continuous improvement

Facilitate the teamʹs progress toward team goals, continuously engaged in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.

Focus the team on daily and Iteration Goals in the context of current Program Increment (PI) Objectives

Collect metrics to provide teams and the organization with relevant feedback on velocity, quality, and overall impact of our efforts

Support the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope A1Wireless4U – Howard Beach, New York

Scrum Master 08/2015 to 01/2019

Work change agents and can influence mind set and behaviors, including those of senior leaders

Coach and support people to adjust to and embrace changes to their ways of working

Facilitate the teamʹs progress toward team goals, continuously engaged in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity

Passionate about Agile principles and are excited to embed them across the organization

Apply innovative and creative thinking in order to solve problems and get things done

Intellectually curious and love learning new skills and capabilities, e.g., Agile principles

Courageous and will be comfortable challenging, advising, and coaching Product Owners, Development Teams and Senior Leadership

Support the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope BBC Media Action – Headquarters in London,United Kingdom Head of Operations/Project Manager, 05/2011 to 06/2015

Oversee all human resources projects which include full cycle recruitment, onboarding, performance management, salary administration, employee relations, safety and health and other core operational functions of the organization Prepare HR policy and procedures handbook for different country specific programs considering organizational values, country specific employee laws and donor compliance Manage all operational matters which include large scale procurement, prepare RFP, vendor selection.

Prepare contracts and billing preparation for vendors Quarterly departmental budget preparation, compare actual expenditure with quarterly budget, budget adjustment Involvement in proposal writing of different USAID, UKAid and other donor funding projects, building consortium to bid for donor funded projects Ensure donor compliance of existing projects, annual audit and evaluation Being a member of senior management team

(SMT), contribute in decision making process of the organization. Pathfinder International – Headquarters based in Boston, MA Director of Operations/Project Manager, 07/2006 to 04/2011 Implemented USAID funded projects in various locations being the project management lead with regards to day to day activity implementation and management matters relation to the project. Successfully implemented the 3 year duration project with overall responsibility for assuring that all assistance provided under the award was technically sound and appropriate for the needs to be addressed and for adequately managing and supervising the work of all country office and field staff, consortium partners and sub recipients.

Certification

Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master

.Education

Masters in Business Administration: Human Resources Management – December 2006 Bachelors of Arts: November 1991

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