Scrum Master Project Coordinator

PROFESIONAL PROFILE

Project Manager and Agile Coach, with profound knowledge of global project management entailing strategic planning and project integration. A recognized leader with the ability to facilitate and train scrum teams in the use of new technology tools and products. Demonstrates the ability to strengthen relationships with internal and external organizations, and senior stakeholders to deliver systems, build trust, and achieve project deliverables. Focused on the successful management of processes, tools and reporting solutions to deliver seamless outcomes. Proficient in PRINCE2 methodologies, and Agile and Scrum approaches.

CORE SKILLS

Scrum Methodologies Project Management Change Management

Software Development Business Analysis Technology Management

Agile Environment Process Improvement Stakeholder Engagement

EDUCATION

Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma

BSc Biological Sciences

CERTIFICATION

Certified SAFe Scrum Master

Project Management Professional

WORK EXPERIENCE

SAFe Scrum Master

Fidelity Investments

Remote

May 2018 to Present

Key Responsibilities

Communicate with clients, stakeholders, digital designers, and developers to establish requirements.

Direct cross-functional teams to achieve the timely and full life-cycle delivery of digital data projects and high-quality solutions in line with the budget.

Cooperate with the Head of Digital to ensure financially viable project delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.

Facilitate the daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and other meetings as required by the team

Employ Agile software development practices and utilize the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform.

Contribute to team ceremonies to evaluate team health and performance, and capacities and work items regarding timelines and client estimates. • Monitor project progress, priorities backlog items, summaries project functionality, and translate project items into user stories and tasks.

Facilitate the team breakout during Program Increment (PI) Planning to coordinate alignment with other teams

Collaborate with Business Owners and stakeholdsers to review PI Objectives

Facilitate UAT and construct strategic solutions to bring value to the company. • Deliver business improvement digital platforms, and steer financial reporting.

Facilitate discussion during backlog grooming and sprint planning to achieve user story size and development plan respectively

Improve transparency by publishing agile metrics with velocity chart, sprint burndown, scrum board, and release burndown charts

Promote cross function to ensure task completion and delivery of features

Coordinate with other Agile teams to resolve cross-team issues and resolve dependencies

Communicate status, risks, barriers to relevant stakeholders and leadership

Work effectively to identify and remove outside influences and impediments.

Project Management

Pinnacles Technologies

Columbia Maryland

January 2016-2018

Responsibilities

Ensure the development and coordination of stakeholders across functions.

Develop product transition and rollout schedules and manage work activities to ensure conformity to the schedule.

Manages vendor relationships to ensure high level of quality.

Lead teams of technical resources in the delivery of high quality IT solutions that meet business needs.

Develop performance and quality measures for product management activities and provide tracking and periodic reporting on these measures.

Engages productively and effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Motivates stakeholders and forges consensus around program goals and objectives.

Develops and implements communication strategies to improve transparency and promote awareness of program areas and issues.

Integrates change management and change control practices into the program as required.

Develops written and oral correspondence of outstanding quality.

Develop and manage budgets and resourcing plans, and track performance against these budgets and resourcing plans.

Meets legal, regulatory and policy mandates.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Scrum Master

McKesson Healthcare

Baltimore, Maryland

July 2014 – May 2016

Responsibilities:

Led cross-functional teams in the delivery and representation of software and data migration pr ojects.

Cultivated stakeholder relationships, and supported the proactive management of key contacts, as a point of contact, to ensure the resolution of complex business issues.

Trained and directed staff in the use of agile frameworks.

Employed and updated Jira, Confluence, SharePoint Scrum and Kanban boards. • Chaired agile ceremonies inclusive of daily scrum stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, showcases and sprint reviews.

Inspired the team in Agile to achieve successful project delivery and continuous improvement.

Coach waterfall teams through the transition process of becoming a mature agile team

Promote and evangelize Agile across the organization and coach individuals and teams to embrace agile mindset.

Coach development team to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum

Conduct scrum ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review and Retrospective.

Guide newly agile teams on how to get the most out of self-organization and ensure teams enact the Agile principles, values and framework.

Created multiple internationally distributed Scrum teams and introduced JIRA as a working tool.

Facilitated backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives and stand-ups.

Re-engineered business processes and led the introduction of new Agile methods.

Delivered Agile coaching and presentations to gently introduce new ways of working, and to mentor and empower junior development team members.

Project Coordinator

Deloitte

Richmond, Virginia

May 2010 to May 2014

Key Responsibilities:

Facilitated backlog grooming, sprint planning and retrospectives, and stand-ups as the Scrum Master.

Worked with multiple product owners to deliver the strategy and product roadmap, and to create backlogs: ensuring that Sprints were prepared ahead with fully defined user stories.

Responsible for management of assigned IT projects; this includes initial bid/quote, initiation of project, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and successful delivery of project within parameters set forth.

Management included, but is not limited to, procurement and budget control, evaluation of risk to ensure project meets budgets, deliverables and scheduling.

Manage data collection to schedule reviews for budget and resource allocation. Scheduled all team planning meetings and assign appropriate personnel for client requested troubleshooting.

Define project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.

Coordinate Hybrid IT Project Teams from implementation-thru-delivery of complex infrastructure projects leveraging SDLC processes against Waterfall and Agile projects.

REFERECE

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