Platoon sergeant/ manager

KEVIN MURPHY JR.

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Phone: 919-***-**** E-Mail: ****************@*****.*** Career Profile

Experienced Agile principle driven and experienced Certified Project Professional Manager. I have worked with multiple teams onshore, offshore and near-shore to deliver high quality products, working applications, and developed self driven teams. Servant leader and client- focused to internal and external clients with results-oriented skills. I have over nine years of experience coaching at the team level, using agile principles and values to deploy and implement high quality projects and outcomes. Experience/Skill

- Leadership & Mentoring teams - Relationship Building

- Process Improvements & Program Increment - Use Agile and Engineering processes

- Team Agile Coaching - Managing IT/ Warehouse Efforts

- Training at team level - Agile team transformation

- Scrum Master - Automated testing

- Scrum (JIRA, Confluence) & Kanban - Project Management Highlight

Certified Project Professional manager with over nine years of experience.

• Experience managing risks and dependencies in a scaled agile environment and participating in agile ceremonies in a scaled agile environment.

• Enthusiastic personality that motivates and cultivates high-functioning and independent teams.

• Critical thinker and problem solver, able to find solutions to complex problems through analysis and innovative ideas.

• Ability to work independently, resolve issues proactively and meet timelines.

• Ability to work with a cross-functional team, responsible for improving business processes and providing value to the functions, they support.

• Ability to communicate with top management, provide reports that demonstrate project progress per sprint with burn-down charts and average story point velocity.

• I have coached many struggling and both collocated and offshore new teams, and helped them achieve high performance measured by faster development, better quality and fewer rollbacks on industrial goals. Professional Experience

Field Artillery and Target Acquisition ( Project Management Professional / Data Analysis) May/2013- Present

US ARMY

FORT DRUM, NY

• Work with 17 distributed agile teams to deliver valuable and innovative products in the Provider, Group-Salesforce, Enterprise Service Portfolio area, and Claims and EDI transactions.

• Team up with Product Owner to maintain and coordinate communication of project progress to clients throughout each project by visualizing work on Scrum boards.

• Act as the bridge between the Product owner and delivery team, helping both parties to align to a common goal while managing stakeholder/Owners expectations.

• Teaching, coaching and mentoring agile team members on manufacturing processes and provide constructive feedback. Train and transform teams to implement agile and coach and mentor teams on SAFe core values.

• Help to build a safe environment and strong relationship within teams so problems can be raised and dealt with professionally.

• Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiative.

• Work with PO to review PBIs to ensure requirements are accurately captured, stories are well written and teams have a shared understanding of stories in the backlog.

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies including the Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning and Retrospective Discussions(After Action review) and sprint review as needed.

• Capture and help teams continuously identify and learn from retrospectives by tracking and implementing retrospective action items in subsequent sprints.

• Tracked and radiated information on team level metrics to enable discussions on continuous improvement and set team expectations for high performance.

• Ensure that the team/teams remain in rhythm to continuously deliver customer and business values.

• Help teams execute effective sprints by organizing and facilitating regular backlog refinement(prioritizing) sessions with a focus on clarifying and adding details to PBIs and ensuring that stories(review) are ready to be actioned on by the development/ delivery teams.

• Lead weekly and month. 100% inventory layouts and accountability for over Two hundred million dollars worth of equipment.

• Assisted with the ordering, prioritizing, receiving, documentation, and quality assurance of all equipment ordered and received.

• Additional logistics skill from prior job titles available upon request. Education

• Current: Liberty University – AA Military History Certification

• AFATDS Operator

• Joint Fires Observer (JFO)

• Target Mensuration Operator (TMO)

• Collateral Damage Estimate (CDE)

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – International Scrum Institute

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) – International Organization for Project Management (IO4PM)

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