Sephara Garcia M.Sc., PMP, CSM.

Northern Virginia 240-***-****. adrn6a@r.postjobfree.com

Certified Project Manager and Scrum Master.

Self Motivated Project Coordinator with 3+ years of experience in the Information technology domain with a zeal to provide leadership experience across software, web services, online payment, testing, incident management. I have a focus in planning, strategic capacity/cost projections, establishing project scopes, goals, and objectives in various system and application implementation projects. Collaborate with technical and non-technical management to identify and gather requirements/business needs for IT-oriented products while developing business goals, statistics and KPI measurements to the eventual implementation.

Core Competencies

● JIRA/ Trello/ Rally/Asana

● Project Management

● Strategic Planning

● CI/CD

● SDLC

● Scrum / Agile/ PI Planning

● Methodologies

● Technical Product Management

● SaaS / Salesforce/ ServiceNow

● Slack/ MS Teams

● Shared Visioning/ Empathy Maps

● Risk Management

● Business Analysis

● Power BI/ SQL/ Tableau

● Resource/ Budget Management

● Sharepoint/ MS 365

Procter and Gamble (P&G) October 2021 - Current (Full Time) Program coordinator/ Scrum Master - REMOTE

Worked in close collaboration with company stakeholders and vendors to plan and coordinate the release of project deliverables and release life cycle.

● Involve self-sufficient management of our weekly releases, in conversation with business stakeholders and technical resources in a multi-vendor environment.

● Manage product releases and product development operations;

● Execute on the product vision

● Support product backlog population and maintenance in concert with the Product Owner;

● Prioritizes and leads grooming of the product backlog;

● Provide support to the business for product issue identification and resolution.

● Communicate and collaborate with Product Managers and Owners

● Support the product roadmap by aligning product iterations to support the strategic vision

● Plan for and showcase value delivery for the business stakeholders with each iteration;

● Provide subject matter expertise and consultation as necessitated by the business;

● Conduct analyses necessary to support strategic development and decision-making.

● Ruthlessly prioritize while balancing the needs of users and stakeholders;

● Work to generate consensus about the path forward with internal team members and external stakeholders.

● Identify and eliminate the risks that can delay or impact the release

● Maintain their Release Plan - be concerned with planning, tracking, release, deployment, communication, and risk management, transform the Release Management lifecycle to a truly agile, mature, automated process.

● Manage daily release requests and incidents through ServiceNow and report the status

● Attend change management meetings and Release management meetings weekly or as-needed basis.

TMDA (Tranquil Multi Dynamic Advisory) August 2020 - September 2021 (Full Time) Sr. Project Control Analyst - Mclean, VA

● Work with Program Manager, Contracts, Business Development, Accounting, and Pricing to review project setup for all new programs to ensure accuracy

● Prepare detailed EACs and ETCs for assigned projects and review on a monthly basis with leadership team

● Submit monthly accruals for assigned projects

● Review monthly project revenue and costs, validate accruals, time charging, and ensure accuracy of invoices for revenue and labor/non-labor costs

● Review, analyze, and propose recommendations with actual versus budget/forecast per project

● Prepare and present monthly program review presentation to management

● Monitor project for funded and total contract value as it relates to backlog and notify project managers and contracts when achieving targeted contract funding levels

● Review and reconcile unbilled balances, accounts receivable, and accounts payable on a monthly basis

● Identify “at risk” funding and work with the project manager and contracts team to mitigate

● Perform analytics on projects to identify trends and solve for historical and future issues

● Calculate incentive awards/bonuses applicable to assigned projects

● Assist project managers as required related to financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting

● Assist project close-outs

VSO (Virtual Service Operation) January 2019 - August 2020 Contract Supporting IBM Business Analyst/ Scrum Master - Remote

● Responsible for moving the Integration team from Waterfall to Agile transformation.

● Define Sprint Goals & follow up with the team to reach Sprint goals in every sprint.

● Coached team members on agile processes, best practices and facilitated adopting development in a fast paced agile environment.

● Provide coaching and guidance to different teams on how to implement agile best practices in existing projects.

● Partnering with other teams Scrum Masters to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams.

● Introduced & led Scrum of Scrum meeting among other tightly coupled teams to track, escalate and remove impediments.

● Lead stakeholders demo meeting to ensure customer feedback.

● Managing production deployments and work across the teams to ensure smooth delivery.

● Work with other teams to deploy the latest code on production & verify production validations by Business Analysts & product owners.

● Managing production deployments and work across the teams to ensure smooth delivery.

● Work with other teams to deploy the latest code on production & verify production validations by Business Analysts & product owners.

● Raising & following for Change Requests for Production deployment.

● Worked with team on improving team velocity by incorporating capacity planning (into story points) into sprint planning sessions and utilizing agile scrum practices.

● Manage sprint backlog, work prioritization, assignment, and User stories/defect tracking in JIRA. Certification and Educational Credentials

Scrum Alliance - Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

PMI - Project Management Professional (PMP)

COMPTIA - Security+

The Catholic University of America - Masters of Science in Business Management Trinity Washington University - Bachelors of Arts: Political Science and Communication

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