Joshua M, PSM, PMP

682-***-**** adyhjm@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Multifaceted, goal-oriented Scrum Master/ Project Manager with over seven years’ experience in leading projects in Lean-Agile environments, Scrum, Scrum-Kanban, skilled in Safe 5.0 Scrum and developing strategies to solve complex system problems in fast paced environments. Proficient in Scale Agile working with multiple Agile teams to deliver valuable working increments, product backlog refinement, PI planning, system demos, ART planning, and participating in scrum of scrums.

Methodologies & Tools:

SDLC, Agile, Kanban, Waterfall, Scrum, Mural, TFS, UML, Use Cases, User Stories, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, HP Quality Center, ALM, Azure DevOps, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Project, Wireframe, Figma, Lucid, Sketch, Trello, Asana, SharePoint, JIRA, Rally, Git, Balsamiq, Figma, GitHub, Zendesk, Confluence, Wiki, Rational ClearQuest, Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program/Project Manager

Motion/BNSF Railway Nov 2023 – Present

Provide hands-on facilitation of major scrum ceremonies across multiple development teams; consults and coaches teams to support a smooth transformation to scrum practices.

Coordinate and lead activities that span across functional teams to complete deliverables that fulfill our corporate strategic initiative roadmap.

Manage multiple scrum teams from initiation to execution phase, monitoring project stories and tasks using Agility to ensure the completion of WIPs, deliver value and optimize business needs and performance.

Enable continuous improvements and organizational effectiveness by identifying process gaps, find solutions for technical roadblocks or impediments as they arise.

Establish effective communication and knowledge of business and management principles.

Lead and support the scrum team during program iteration planning to create a healthy product backlog, identify risks, dependencies and articulate SMART Program Increment goals and objectives.

Facilitate backlog grooming meetings, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Collaborate with both members of team and enterprise stakeholders of the business and technology groups to ensure digitization project is on track.

Ensure that risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.

Follow written risk and compliance policies and procedures for business activities.

Engaged with other Scrum Masters of other teams to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

Coached team members on Agile principles and provided general guidance on the methodology.

Scrum Master

PNC Bank Sep 2020 – October 2022

Provide hands-on facilitation of major scrum ceremonies across multiple development teams; consults and coaches teams to support a smooth transformation to scrum practices.

Coordinate and lead activities that span across functional teams to complete deliverables that fulfill our corporate strategic initiative roadmap.

Manage multiple scrum teams from initiation to execution phase, monitoring project stories and tasks using JIRA to ensure the completion of WIPs, deliver value and optimize business needs and performance.

Enable continuous improvements and organizational effectiveness by identifying process gaps, find solutions for technical roadblocks or impediments as they arise.

Establish effective communication and knowledge of business and management principles.

Lead and support the scrum team during program iteration planning to create a healthy product backlog, identify risks, dependencies and articulate SMART Program Increment goals and objectives.

Facilitate backlog grooming meetings, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Collaborate with both members of team and enterprise stakeholders of the business and technology groups to ensure digitization project is on track.

Ensure that risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.

Follow written risk and compliance policies and procedures for business activities.

Engaged with other Scrum Masters of other teams to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

Coached team members on Agile principles and provided general guidance on the methodology.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

MedaSource Mar, 2017 – Sep 2020

Worked with the scrum team and the product owner to negotiate minimum viable product for delivery, making sure User Stories are prioritized and reached Definition of Ready before adding them into a respective Sprint.

Ensured that Scrum/ Agile teams practiced and followed core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, quality, continuous improvement, transparency, and empiricism.

Assisted the team with removing impediment by understanding the control and release processes.

Built relationships with Product Owner and other stakeholders to facilitate team’s interaction with them.

Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and Management.

Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments daily and other emerging risk that stem from business activities and the job role.

Conducted backlog grooming meetings, daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective meetings and improved team velocity through incorporation of capacity planning in sprint planning sessions.

Ensured successful delivery of large impact and cross-functional product initiatives and assisted team in arriving at the definition of done.

Coached and monitored the team through Agile methodology and principles and effectively communicated team progress to management by proving Sprint reports.

Project Manager

Brosnan Risk consultants Nov 2015 – Mar, 2017

Determine and define project scope and objectives Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner.

Developed use cases, workflow diagrams, user stories, acceptance criteria and sequence diagrams to clearly communicate system requirements to business and technical stakeholders.

Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about adjustments, and progress.

Elicited business requirements and translated them into clear functional and technical specifications.

Coordinated multiple Agile and Waterfall projects to ensure tasks and deliverables are completed on time and within budget to meet programs and client’s objective.

Reviewed Ideation & discovery requests. Conducted interviews, surveys, client visits, focus groups, workshops and JAD sessions to gather requirements to understand current and desired functionalities.

EDUCATION

BSC Computer Science National Open University V.I

Cybersecurity Professional Bootcamp New Jersey institute of technology

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master

Project Manager Professional (PMP)

Certified SAFe® Scrum Master

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