Scrum Master

Experience:

Scrum Master

Raye IT Consulting, Washington DC, June 2024-March 2025

●Worked as a federal contractor for Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on delivering high-quality product in a timely fashion, using the latest Scrum methodologies.

●Worked with two Scrum Teams of varying maturity to coach, mentor, and facilitate Scrum best practices.

●Integral part of teams delivering the USAJOBS and Scholarship for Service web sites.

●Facilitate Scrum events and PI Planning for all teams.

●Work closely with the RTE to plan future PI Planning events.

●Run Feature mapping workshops for team leadership to build out our Feature roadmap

●Coordinate with the entire USAJOBS leadership team on a frequent basis to plan ahead and keep everyone in leadership up to date with what is happening at the team level.

●Use of Azure DevOps to handle all build pipelines and deliver after the end of each Sprint.

Senior Delivery Manager

Oddball.io, McLean VA, June 2022-January 2024

●Worked as a federal contractor for VA and OPM on delivering high-quality product in a timely fashion, using the latest Scrum methodologies.

●Coach and mentor Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts and other Scrum Masters in Scrum practices

●Facilitate Scrum events for all teams

●Run Feature mapping workshops for team leadership to build out our Feature roadmap

Scrum Master

Mortgage Connect LP, Moon Township PA, April 2021-April 2022

●Served as Agile Coach for the Org as other teams began their Agile journey. Created strategy for migrating the enterprise away from Waterfall and to a full Agile environment.

●Helped oversee a move from Axosoft to Azure DevOps for planning and build pipelines.

●Created an Agile Center of Excellence to ensure Scrum standards and foster an environment in which Scrum could thrive throughout the Enterprise.

●Collaborated with the Training department to create first class training materials for teaching Agile & Scrum to the Enterprise.

●Created and facilitated a coding “book club” for the Developers to learn and level up their skill set collectively.

●Shortened release cycles, while increasing the value added for our internal users, with a reduction in the defect rate.

●Spearheaded having an innovation day once per quarter, where the Developers created some ideas that were immediately polished and sent to production.

Senior Scrum Master

The Hartford, Hartford CT, February 2020 – January 2021

●Run SAFe PI Planning once per quarter

●Coach and mentor Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts and other Scrum Masters in Scrum/SAFe practices

●Run Feature mapping workshops for team leadership to build out our Feature roadmap

●Working with Rally to align the board with SAFe 5.0 best practices.

●Served on management team to develop and utilize a Maturity Matrix for all Agile teams.

Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Subway – Franchise World Headquarters, Milford CT, March 2017 – Jan 2020

●Facilitating all Scrum ceremonies for teams.

●Removing impediments and facilitating organizational change to foster an Agile work environment.

●Updating and providing key metrics to management as needed.

●Creating and presenting training materials on Agile/Scrum for teams across the enterprise

●Working with teams using Azure B2C to create an amazing customer experience and identity management.

●Use of Azure DevOps to manage dashboard and enable better data-driven decision making.

●Lead enterprise development effort to transform intake of online ordering across platforms, including PI Planning and extensive use of Jira to track progress across systems.

Software Engineer / Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Ledge Light Technologies, New London, CT, Feb 2016 - December 2016

●Refactoring software to improve performance and testability

●Working with municipal clients to define and improve custom software solutions

●Agile implementation: introduction of key Scrum ceremonies and serving as Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Software Engineer / Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Whelen Engineering, Chester, CT, Mar 2015 – Jan 2016

●Updating and maintaining legacy C# and ASP.NET systems for internal use.

●Architecting, designing and developing new AngularJS, Bootstrap & WebAPI 2.0 system to replace legacy software.

●Refactoring existing software to updated patterns for improved performance and scalability.

●Implementation of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

●Implementation of comprehensive unit testing as part of the refactoring effort.

●Mentoring and training team on Agile & TDD.

●Migrated team to using Azure DevOps and lead the development team on how to best track PBIs and tasks.

Senior Software Engineer

Release Train Engineer / Scrum Master

SourceMedical, Branford, CT, Feb 2006- Jan 2015

●Designing and coding ASC and Specialty Hospital solutions, including registration, billing and interop modules, using C# and Caché.

●Designing and coding EHR/EMR functionality for use in ASC & Specialty Hospital environments.

●Served as Scrum Master and Release Train Engineer for several Agile teams, including running PI planning for the enterprise.

●Lead role in introducing Scaled Agile Framework practices to Engineering.

●Responsibility for all full software builds & patches for release.

●Implemented CI/CD for internal use, including nightly automated builds that were pushed from Dev to Test so QA always had the latest code to test against.

●Coaching and mentoring development staff on implementing design patterns, writing good unit tests, and Test Driven Development.

●Technical lead and coordinator for several teams, on shore and in Ukraine, for implementing Meaningful Use 2014 requirements.

●Leading on automation of manual processes to improve quality and reduce development time.

●Refactoring legacy .NET code to updated design patterns for improved scalability for Enterprise usage

●Reporting on code and quality metrics to senior management, including defect and code coverage analysis.

●Working with engineers, business analysts and product management to develop specifications and designs based on customer and regulatory requirements.

Certifications

Scaled Agile Framework Agilist June 2014

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) April 2015

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) December 2017

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I) December 2018

Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I) March 2019

Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) April 2019

PMI-ACP July 2019

Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) December 2019

Certified Scrum Professional – Scrum Master (CSP-SM) March 2023

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Author

Practical Scrum – A User’s Guide January 2020

Other

Jeopardy! Contestant December 27, 2018

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