Tara Legette

Houston, TX 843-***-****

adwkw5@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER OVERVIEW

Innovative, hands-on Veteran and IT professional with over 17 years’ experience in Information Technology and Certified Scrum Master with over 10 years’ experience delivering diverse IAM, Strategic, Application, and Infrastructure projects on time and within budget across large-scale customer focused; Information technology, business operations, military, financial and banking domains. Proven collaborative and Servant Leadership skills to produce productive Business Stakeholders interactions while guiding and coaching cross functional teams on Agile development to achieve project goals by improving agile process and delivering products to customers. Enthusiasm, Passion, and excellent interpersonal communication skills to promote team unity and positive energy within a fast-paced environment

SKILLS

Project Management skills

Facilitation Skills

Jira

Jira Align

Azure Devops

SAFe

PI Planning (Program Increment)

Confluence

Kanban/Scrum

Agile Methodologies

Time Management Skills

Coach and Mentor

Conflict Resolution

Communication

Servant Leader

Team Member

Integrity

Intrinsic Motivation

Adaptability

Decision Making

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master March 2022 - March 2023

Ally Bank

Facilitate Daily Scrum/standups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, collaboration initiatives, and Sprint Retrospectives for timely delivery of product

Develop and report key metrics, data visualization, interpret performance trends, evaluate root causes, and support data-driven performance improvement

Ensure stakeholders, collaborates, and other interested parties are well-informed on team progress and activities. Responsible for managing and coordinating the delivery of information and network security systems and/or technology services

Promote collaboration, transparency, and communicate project status in a timely manner to stakeholders

Enable a continuous learning environment, identify ways to strengthen the teams understanding of Agile concepts as they relate to technical capabilities

Motivated and influenced centralized communication and team building, improved team(s) efficiency, and velocity which lead to reduction in the average time necessary to complete a project ahead of time

To ensure smooth delivery of project requirements; track and removes any roadblocks and impediments that may prevent progress.

Influencing team building cohesion using Scrum values (focus, respect, openness, courage, and commitment)

Maintains the team’s confluence, dashboard, and SharePoint page for practices (DoD, DoR, etc.) and JIRA boards/dashboard

Scrum Master Oct 2021 - March 2022

Anthem

Coordinate a cross functional agile environment by facilitating formal and informal scrum events/ceremonies: Scrum/Kanban standups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, collaboration initiatives, and Sprint Retrospectives

Responsible for mentoring and guiding teams through SAFE implementation and Program Increment planning for project Aegis initiative (Avatar, SailPoint, NAIM, Transfer control)

Support Product Owners and team members to stay on schedule, practice a healthy backlog management process and conduct prioritization practices per the DEEP and INVEST principles

Improved my squad’s workflow process velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions to analyze and evaluate performance

Utilizing critical thinking skills to solve problems and suggest improvements within a changing environment to stay within performance procedures and business policies

Organized and conducted periodic 1 on 1 meetings to encourage and find ways to improve collaboration and teamwork and motivate team to achieve operational goals

Utilize technical knowledge and industry experience of IT concepts, strategies, methodologies, architecture, and technical standards to assist with solutions, resolve issues, and apply changes for best practices

Scrum Master/Information Security Analyst Aug 2016 - Apr 2021

Wells Fargo

Facilitates formal and informal scrum events/scrum ceremonies: Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective for teams of 7 individuals for timely distribution of product

●Collaborated with developers for design and development of Wells Fargo Access Request Tool (ART) application - A tool used for Identity Access Management (IAM) throughout the financial services industry and banking for Enterprise Risk Management

●Accountable for facilitating team collaboration on impediments identification, prioritization, and resolution

●Mentored and guided teams through agile software adoption and implementation of scrum values and lean principles

●Adaptable and Self-motivated in learning and research opportunities to stay current with Industry trends and technical standards such as webinars, meetups, conferences, classroom training and self-study

●Collaborate discussions around Transparency, Inspection and Adaption throughout the process in ways that will promote value to the organization

●Provide mentorship and foster team to focus responsibility, self-accountability, transparency, and self-organization

●Utilizing critical thinking skills to solve problems and suggest improvements within a changing environment to stay within performance procedures and business policies

Scrum Master/Information Security Analyst Sep 2006 - Oct 2015

United States Navy- Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing

CPRW-11

●Drive continuous improvement for quality, delivery, and flow to ensure teams are fully functional and productive

●Worked at Enterprise levels to educate and guide management/leadership to build and adopt an agile mindset, towards improving agile processes and predictability metrics

●Strategic Direction led to the transformation of CPRW-11 Aviation Military command from waterfall to agile framework and created agile training/workshop documentation

●Determined the team’s capacity (velocity) from historical data and created Work Break-Down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks)

●Monitor and track Scrum Team/Sprint progress visually and communicate status to senior management through presentation of metrics- Burndown Charts, team Velocity reports, and various communications

EDUCATION

Bachelors in Computer Science -Computer Networks and Security-System Administration

University of Maryland, Global Campus

CERTIFICATION

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Institute (PMI)

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