Scrum Master Software Development

Location:

Melissa, TX

Salary:

130000

Posted:

March 30, 2025

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Nancy Burnett

• Melissa, Texas ***** • Telephone: 469-***-**** • Email: ***********@****.***

As an innovative Scrum Master, my mission is to assist organizations in accelerating their digital initiatives from strategy and design development, testing, implementation, and data intelligence. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a high level of knowledge with agile software development principles and ceremonies. I have a passion for developing and supporting great teams. I am a Leader, Coach, and Mentor for multiple development teams in a commercial, sales development organization. I have a strong sense of urgency and ownership while working collaboratively with both internal and client-facing technical customers. I am eager to join a company in which I can continue my career of driving value through test-driven development.

• Leadership and Coaching

• Team Development

• Excellent Communication Skills

• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework

• Whiteboard

• Loan Documentation Analysis Expert

• Microsoft Teams, Skype

• Time Management

• People Building

• Google Drive, Dropbox

• Validation of Income and Key Assets

• Risk Management and Mitigation

• High-Risk Application Evaluations

• GitHub

• ZenHub

• Jira

• Zoom

EDUCATION and CREDENTIALS

Bachelor of Business degree candidate with a double major in Business Administration and Finance

Dallas Baptist University - Dallas, Texas

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Remote Underwriter Denver, Colorado

Home American Mortgage 09/2021-02/2025

Review Conventional loan for risk assessment in compliance with investors, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac standards; Analyze Income, Condo, PUDs, and 2-4 Units; Audit loan documents for HDMA Compliance and perform compliance reviews on Conventional Loans. Identify and recommend alternative loan restructuring/loan requirements as needed.

Underwrite various products, within designated lending authority level @ $1,000,000.

SAR and Direct Endorsement Certified.

Review and analyze documentation, including but not limited to 1003, credit report, income, asset, purchase agreement, collateral review, and title report, etc. to make an informed lending decision.

Document lending decisions and completes required screens in company’s system of record.

Review conditions submitted on loans and sign off on conditions at resubmission.

Effectively notate rationale behind credit decision at all times.

Works closely with internal and external customers/team members to answer loan-specific underwriting questions, discuss specific conditions or documentation requested, and resolve problems as necessary.

Run, reads, and interprets AUS Decision Findings.

Provide active feedback to senior management on various topics/loan files.

Apply internal guidelines and investor guidelines to the credit decision process.

Prioritize deals in Workflow queue in order to minimize turnaround time.

Performs other duties and projects as assigned.

Review documentation for compliance with internal and regulatory guidelines.

Senior Underwriter Tampa, Florida

Ascentus One December 2020–March 2022

Act as a servant-leader to core team members with regards to all aspects of the Agile/ Scrum framework

Facilitate Scrum Daily Stand Ups with supporting DevOps Teams

Mentor all aspects of Agile/Scrum methodologies with team members and stakeholders

Continually evaluate the team Agile process capabilities

Coach/implement process improvements in a constructive and collaborative manner

Excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, people and team building skills

Ability to apply Scrum estimation techniques/strategies to development efforts.

Work with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information.

Establish cadence for sprints and facilitate the core scrum ceremonies and best practices (Planning, Retrospective, Refinement, Review/Demo, the Scrum of Scrums, release planning workshops, and program inspect and adapt workshop);

Serve as Scrum Master and team coach for squads/teams in a program/portfolio.

Responsible for the continuous improvement of Agile practices in an Agile program. Identify and provide trainings to promote Agile maturity

Underwriter Dallas, Texas

Southwest Funding/Broker Direct – Contract October 2020-January 2021

Helped to start up new department. Needed expertise to ensure coordination, and collaboration across multiple teams to ensure delivery of high value to the customer.

Utilize Agile tools such as Jira, GitHub, ZenHub and Whiteboard for planning and tracking work performed by teams.

Identify organizational roadblocks that limit team productivity and quality, and provide meaningful feedback to the team, so we can improve, innovate, and move forward.

Knowledgeable in scaling agile and can assist large complex platforms and products in adopting agile principles and practices.

Mentor, Facilitator, Teacher, and Coach

Communicate organizational impediments to leadership, clear impediments for the team.

Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team.

Ensure coordination and collaboration across multiple teams to ensure delivery of high value to the customer.

Build effective partnership with the Product Owner and provide mentoring and support especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and release planning, aligning delivery expectations with all stakeholders

Senior Underwriter Irving, Texas

Veterans Home Loans June 2020-October 2020

Analyze Self Employed, Investment/Rental and all types of Conventional loan for risk assessment in compliance with investors, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac standards; Audit loan documents for HDMA Compliance and perform compliance reviews of Conventional Loans. Identify and recommend alternative loan restructuring/loan requirements as needed.

Underwrite VA products, within designated lending authority level up $1,000.000 with 2.nd signature

Review and analyze documentation, including but not limited to 1003, credit report, income, self-employed applicants, rental, asset, purchase agreement, and title report, etc. to make an informed lending decision.

Document lending decisions and completes required screens in company’s system of record.

Review conditions submitted on loans and sign off on condition(s) at resubmission.

Effectively notates rationale behind credit decision when necessary.

Run, reads, and interprets AUS Decision Results.

Provide active feedback to senior management on various topics/loan files.

Senior Underwriter Addison, Texas CU Members December 2011 – November 2016

Helped to ensure all Team events took place, within the time span. Each Sprint was productive and kept within the timebox to maintain customer satisfaction and complete all work as done:

Underwrote 6-7 loans per day via DU, LP or manual underwrite.

Cleared conditions on various files underwritten via FHA & Conventional.

Made calls to Broker concerning alternative programs (Wholesale/Retail);

Products: Stated, Full, 2nd liens, Piggyback, Cash Out, Community/97%-100% LTV.

Full credit, income (S/E), assets, title and collateral review of all loan files.

Permanent & Non-Permanent Resident Aliens.

DE/Conventional Underwriter Dallas, Texas Bank of America May 2007 - December 2011