Scrum Master Time Delivery

Joi R. Allen, MA, BEd, CSM

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Innovative, results-driven and dedicated Scrum Master with over 15 years (teaching) experience with 5+ years of experience in Agile, Scrum and Kanban teams. A servant leader committed to encouraging, developing and maintaining open lines of communication between stakeholders. Familiarity working with global teams with strong experience in the implementation of Scrum.

Achievements

• Lead, trained, and coached the organization in Scrum adoption

• Defined the vision and roadmap for Agile/digital transformation strategy

• Experience in maintaining the Kanban board for maintaining the Kanban items and make sure that work items flow through the Kanban system and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives and process re- views

• Experience with software development processes and procedures.

• Worked on removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams. Identified and acted on areas for improvement in team effectiveness

• Participated and facilitated in Scrum of Scrum meetings to coordinate dependencies and mitigating risks across various Scrum Teams.

• Strong ability to adapt and promote stability within teams while shielding them from outside distractions. SKILLS

• Servant Leadership • Teacher • Effective Communicator • Coach

• Facilitator • Mentor • Agile Values & Principles • Motivator

• Advocate • Release Planning • Project Team Coordination • Lean Thinking

• Active Listening • Scrum Framework • Stakeholder Negotiations • Critical Thinking

• Solution Oriented • Team Engagement • Conflict Resolution • Sprint Planning

• Impediment Eliminator • Agile Mindset • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Feedback EDUCATION

Master of Arts Bachelor of Education

Ohio State University University of Toledo

Columbus, OH Toledo, OH

CERTIFICATIONS

ü Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance

ü EC K-12

EXPERIENCE

Fort Worth Independent School District: 09/2018 – 09/2022 Scrum Master / Department Chair

• Evolved 2 cross functional teams in developing and deploying mobile and web applications for 2 educational programs.

• Served my team on 4 different projects from initiation to releases, while facilitating all activi- ties ensuring completion of the project.

• Identified and resolved impediments to the team’s workflow to enable a smooth process and on-time delivery while collaborating with other Scrum Masters.

• Sustained relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure full understanding of their needs, and expectations of the project, while effectively communicating release progress to ensure transparency and alignment.

• Coached business owners, product owners and IT managers to ensure that project scope is fully defined, managed, and controlled.

• Effectively collaborated closely with the Scrum team to define and meet the team's Definition of Ready

(DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD).

• Provided regular and ad-hoc status reports to customer leadership teams and desired stakeholders. Tarrant County College District: 09/2016 - 06/2018 Scrum Master

• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.

• Influenced Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.

• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and impediments and keep projects on track.

• Promoted and influenced the Agile culture focusing on empiricism, collaboration with customers, adapting to changes in requirements and continuous learning.

• Partnered closely with test leads and provide the updates related on targets, issues, concerns and future release plans.

Adjunct Instructor 03/2015 - 09/2016

• Created and managed student individual learning plans (IEP's) to define student learning objectives and educational strategies.

• Applied instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.

• Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement.

• Delivered effective and differentiated classroom instruction to range of students with intellectual dis- abilities.

• Demonstrated sensitivity toward and respect for myriad of diversities represented in student popula- tion, colleagues and service area.

• Adapted curriculum to provide individual, small group or remedial instruction to meet needs of indi- vidual pupil.

• Provided individual mentoring and special tutoring to struggling students which improved student performance by defining clear goals and communicating performance metrics.

• Prepared instructional materials for group and one-on-one use to comply with established curriculum.

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