Brandon Leslie
SCRUM MASTER · AGiLE COACH
Los Angeles, CA
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“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” Summary
Accomplished, committed, and creative Agile Coach with more than 7 years of success delivering IT projects on time and within budget through improved productivity, performance, and cost control. Broad experience leading and innovating “boutique” firm environments. A servant leader with a track record of achieving business goals through Scrum Teams. Skilled at Facilitating the transformation of strategic plans into workable solutions. Adept at leading, coaching, and developing groups of individuals; achieving top-performing teams while considering all stakeholders. Work Experience
Fashionmgr.com Remote
SCRUM MASTER Jan. 2017- Present
• Provide Servant Leadership for 2 distributed scrum teams and contribute to the organization’s agile community of practice.
• Support the SDM Program agile adoption strategy and rollout plans.
• Improve the delivery of software development as per SDM measures.
• Coach teams and stakeholders in improving Agile thinking and Scrum processes.
• Projects: AEM 6.4 upgrade, Conversion from AWS to Microsoft Azure, web application management software designed to help fashion startups organize their collections, styles, components, sales, and product tracking as well as sample management.
• Transitioned 2 teams from Waterfall to Agile Methodology in the 4th quarter of 2018
• Empowered Development Team to remove impediments to deliver continuous value for shareholders.
• Helped Find and manage spikes within the sprint and research efforts to remove unknowns.
• Accessed the Scrum Maturity of the team. Coached and trained them to higher levels of Agile and Scrum effective uses, at a pace that was sustainable and comfortable for the team.
• Provide regular feedback and improvement options around existing agile processes. Vault Consulting Group Remote
BUSINESS ANALYST Sept. 2015 - Jan. 2017
• Facilitated meetings with both internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements for stories
• Created and implemented engaging activities that lead to increased activity, results, and improved employee morality.
• Provided accurate and precise Acceptance Criteria to Dev Teams for DoD (Definition of Done) resulting in more stories being accepted after demos
• I led user story analysis sessions to create elaborate user stories, technical stories, and user journeys on JIRA.
Honors & Awards
CERTiFiCATiONS
2022 Professional Scrum Master, CSM Certification, SCRUM.org Sacramento, U.S.A Education
University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV
B.A. IN BUSiNESS MANAGEMENT June. 2004
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