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| | Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateSummaryResults driven Scrum Master for both custom development and SaaS software teams. Empowers teams to reach their potential through a servant leader approach and guiding them to self-sufficiency. Champion and coach on best practices within the team, and to the company. Drives process improvement and transformation from Waterfall to Agile. Builds relationships with Product Owners, Engineering, and other stakeholders to maximize team performance. CSM, PSM, SFC and SPOAC certified.Candidate's Name
Sprint Status MetricsRemove ImpedimentsSAFe, Kanban, ScrumContinuous ImprovementTeam BuildingSAFe PI PlanningImproving Backlog HealthServiceNow, Jira, ConfluenceCloud-based (.NET, Java) ApplicationsScrum Master, Elevance Health Care April 2022 - PresentCoaching on principles of openness, courage and providing an open and transparent environment so the team can grow into experimentation.One team responsible for data ingestion processing and dissemination of health care data. A second team provided ingested data for business analytics and BI for health care data.Assisted team to remove impediments by standardizing the release processes.Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of product backlog.Developed and maintained information radiators for the teams.Scrum Master, Bank of the West September 2021 March 2022Led technical Java-based scrum teams in high quality, cloud application delivery. Leading the team in the transformation of waterfall to Agile, including migration from project plans, story writing, relative sizing, backlog refinement, retrospectives for continuous improvement and sprint planning.Coaching two teams; one to enhance the Employee Experience for HR department, and one implementing Health Checks across the organization.Guiding these teams and managers in the adoption of the Agile mind-set, values and principles.Discover and remove impediments to the team.Make sure stories are ready for development; right-size, and acceptance criteria, testable.Led successful Innovation and Planning Sprints and User Story writing workshops improving backlog health.Coached team on sprint planning and improved delivery predictability.Led successful Innovation and Planning Sprints and User Story writing workshops improving backlog health.Scrum Master, Whole Foods Market October 2020 May 2021Coaching two teams to enhance security across the corporate network. Guiding these team in the adoption of the Agile mind-set, values and principles. Leading the team in the transformation of waterfall to Agile, including migration from project plans to story writing, relative sizing, backlog refinement, retrospectives for continuous improvement and sprint planning.SAFe, Kanban and Scrum, Best Practices.Led Scrum ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint and release planning, demos, reviews and retrospectives.Successfully coached in resolution of internal conflicts through honest and healthy communications.Coached team on sprint planning and improved delivery predictability.Led successful Innovation and Planning Sprints and User Story writing workshops improving backlog health.Scrum Master, Kanban Facilitator, Phillips 66 May 2020 Sept 2020Led four high performing teams, Scrum and Kanban. Building a web-based SaaS application tied to a CMS for content, Salesforce for customer documentation, plus an infrastructure team enabling the Java-based web platform. Coached team on Agile principles and provided guidance on the Scrum and Agile mindset and methodologies.Led successful Innovation and Planning Sprints and User Story writing workshops improving backlog health.Coached team on sprint planning and improved delivery predictability.Led successful Innovation and Planning Sprints and User Story writing workshops improving backlog health.Velocity and burn down metrics reporting.Scrum Master, ExxonMobil March 2019 April 2020Built two high performing teams, as part of a SAFe Agile train, building custom development for Cloud-based applications while driving toward a stabilized platform.Led teams in SAFe PI Planning, coaching on backlog prioritization, scrum of scrums, risk and dependency identification.Worked with the Scrum team to determine the minimum viable product for delivery.Improved team planning and capacity predictability by Candidate's Name .Track release schedules with road-map to keep on track and document deliverables.Scrum Master, Accruent Oct 2018 Feb 2019Responsible for two teams transforming existing products to Java-based web applications. Coached team on Agile principles and provided guidance on the Scrum and Kanban methodologies.Discover and remove impediments to the team.Make sure stories are ready for development; right-size, and acceptance criteria, testable.Velocity and burn down metrics reporting.Drove automated unit testing, TDD and continuous integration to reduce technical debit.Education, Certifications and TrainingBachelor of Arts, University of Texas, AustinCSM - Certified Scrum MasterPSM I - Professional Scrum MasterSFC - Scrum Fundamentals CertifiedSPOAC Scrum Product Owner CertifiedAtlassian Suite, Jira, Confluence, Azure Dev Ops, Trello, RallyMicrosoft Project, SmartSheets, Basecamp, HipChat, Ah.io, SlackLean, Kanban, Scrum, XP, Agile, TDD, SDLC, WaterfallLayer 1, 2, and 3 Networking Infrastructure802.11, IP, ATM, Private Line, VPNSeries 7, 63, 22 licenses (inactive) |