Scrum Master Project Manager

SR. SCRUM MASTER OCTAVIUS LEGREGORY **.*********@*****.*** 404-***-****

OCTAVIUS LEGREGORY

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EDUCATION

Clark Atlanta University – Atlanta, GA

BSE – Business of Science in Engineering – Aug 2009 Southern Methodist University – Dallas, TX

MSIEM – Master of Science in Information Engineering and Management – May 2011 INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION(S)

SAFe Scrum Master (CSM)

Project Management Professional (PMP)

IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

SAFe Product Owner / Product Management (PMOP)

EXPERIENCE

Genpact Global Service

SR Scrum Master III (Technology Development & Implementation Project Segments) November 2019 – Current, Remote

• Served as Agile Project Manager, responsible for managing dependencies between the Scrum Teams /third parties (Risk Management, Quality Assurance, Software Development vendors).

• Servant leader and people manager with experience of managing internally/offshore teams of 40 to 60 people projects each year while maintaining adherence to budgets upwards of $2 Million, schedule and scope requirements.

• Broad experience, across functional and technical areas, designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining large scale projects in payments domain.

• Currently managing Jira tool Scrum report, Scrum Epics/user Stories for various teams, Daily Standup meetings, Sprint planning.

• Planned and coordinated 100% of aspects of a given technical project from initiation through delivery.

• Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.

• Guided several inexperienced product owners through three different release plans in the span of six months.

• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle, realizing 45% reduction in program selection errors over 10 months.

• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.

• Responsible for using agile scrum methodologies for software build activities when guiding teams and developing solutions while using agile practices that include guiding, coaching, and training.

• Fluently communicate with internal/external customers such as stakeholders, customers, etc.

• Responsible and confident when facilitating and ensuring deliverables with agile scrum framework/ceremonies (release planning, sprint planning, product owner/ product management backlog refinement, scrum daily stand-ups, sprint review/demo, and sprint retrospectives).

• Responsible for creating and contributing agile productivity improvements through mentoring, resolving impediments, and tracking 100% metrics (measuring team delivery, maturity, and performance).

• Managed 5 on and offshore project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills. PROFILE STATEMENT

Innovative Project Manager and Certified Senior Scrum Master with 13 years of experience. Currently seeking new career opportunities. I demonstrate the ability to people manage with proven leadership skills in identifying and developing career strengths. I assist organizations in accelerating their digital initiatives from strategy, application and design to development, testing, implementation, and data intelligence. Professionally, I demonstrate universal servant leadership, communication, and organizational skills. I am understanding of Project management and Scrum master tools, technique(s) framework agile methodologies, best practices, software development and ceremonies.

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE

• Microsoft Office (All Programs)

• Oracle Data Management

• JIRA Align

• VersionOne

• Middleware

• TCM Tools

• TestRail

• LeanKit

• Jenkins

• GitHub

• Terllo

• JIRA

• XP

RELEVANT SKILLS

• Agile Methodologies (Scrum,

Kanban, Crystal, TDD, LeSS,

Nexus, Lean & SAFe)

• Servant Leadership & Cross

Collaboration between on &

offshore teams

• Program / Product and IT service

management

• Software Development Lifestyle

(SDLC)

• Agile Development and Best

Practices

• Objectives and Key Results (OKR)

• Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

• XP Organization Management

• Agile Frameworks

• Change Management

• Risk Management

• CI/CD Pipeline

• Governance

• Confluence

• DevSecOps

Résumé

SR. SCRUM MASTER OCTAVIUS LEGREGORY **.*********@*****.*** 404-***-**** Bank of America Corporation

SR Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master (Finance Manufacturing & Technology Development)

January 2014 – October 2019, Plano, TX

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

• Responsible for crafting and maintaining portfolio level reporting, leading a collaboration of junior scrum masters, scrum masters, and project managers.

• Ensured 3 project teams lived Agile values and principles and followed client-required processes and practices.

• Assessed each Scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.

• Ensured 3 project teams lived Agile values and principles and followed client-required processes and practices.

• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and offshore.

• Collaborated with Product Owner, team members, technologists, and other Scrum Masters to define solutions and drive progress.

• Working knowledge of waterfall and traditional project management practices to integrate waterfall teams and venders into the Agile portfolio and encourage steady transition into adopting Agile practices.

• Hands on with developing concise functional knowledge of team domain areas, and appropriate understanding of the roles, business deadlines, technical, and regulatory operating environment.

• Responsible for performing team and portfolio level delivery and release Planning, capacity, and velocity projections.

• Oversaw the design, development, and tracking record of finance implementation of work plans to determine the required tasks, resources, and accomplishments.

• Responsible for creating schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports.

• Analyzing portfolio management decision process through the creation of project charters, scope documents, risk assessments, and budgets (including both capital, expense, and O&M tails for projects).

Merrill Lynch

SR. Scrum Master (Finance Manufacturing & Application, Technology Development) January 2010 – December 2013, Dallas, TX

• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums, and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.

• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.

• Provided extensive guidance on agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.

• Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.

• Ensured 100% of goals, scope, and product domain were understood by the Scrum team

• Planned and coordinated 100% of aspects of a given technical project from initiation through delivery

• Coached 20+ on and offshore teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhered to the Scrum framework

• Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across 4 cross-functional teams

• Used Agile methods and processes to coach 4 product owners through complex problem-solving and solution strategies.

• Responsible for ensuring team management, achievement and delivery of project scopes, timeline(s) of all documentation, tracking and reporting metrics (including user stories, project progress, resource utilization, change requests, issues, risks, risk mitigation plans, test scripts, test results).

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