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Sandy Hook CT PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEEMAIL AVAILABLE LINKEDIN LINK AVAILABLEProfessional SummaryExperienced Remote and Onsite Leader/ Servant. Recently certified SAFe 6 Agile Scrum Master / Project Manager with over 15 years driving projects from concept to deployment by fostering commitments from scrum teams to develop, test and deploy timely business features through consistency, concern for team members and clear timely communications to Teams, Product Owners and Business Stakeholders. Team-oriented individual promoting timely presentations, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively and leading high-performance teams.SkillsBuilding Personal Relationships Honesty Integrity Flexibility Scrum Framework Expertise - Communication - MS Teams - Sprint / Kanban Azure DevOps - Jira Confluence Rally - Rational Team Consort - XP ATDD - Product Backlog Management Team Collaboration
Work Experience06/2024 to 09/2024 Agile Specialist/ Team CoachAlbano Systems Inc. Contractor - Selective InsuranceScrum Master / Coach creating a New team for Agile Release Train for Insurance Capabilities. Created working agreement with new team members coaching on the SAFe ceremonies and expectations for delivering business value every iteration. Increased team velocity in every sprint for one complete program increment. Delivered Multiple Continuous Improvement items extending our overall delivery to business. Conducted Retrospectives every iteration with action items for team improvements. Timeboxed all refinement sessions for features and User Stories ans well as Iteration review sessions with Product Owners and Release Managers.11/2023 to 04/2024 Care GiverResponsible for all necessary daily care for family member with critical health issue. Responsible for administering all medicine, physical therapy, maintenance of all equipment needed. Maintaining detailed records of medicines and their distribution. Responsible for all final details and legal issues.07/2019 to 10/2023 Sr Scrum Master/ Project ManagerCVS Health-AetnaEnhanced delivery capacity for two scrum teams coordinating and tracking budget and sprint velocity, implementing Agile Methodologies and improving communication between cross-functional teams. Implemented new project for Radiation Oncology reimbursement process from inception, clarifying acceptance criteria, formulated solutions for data retrieval and historical tracking with Application Architects. Built clear process for cross team communications using MS Teams and time-boxed cross collaboration meetings facilitating agreements on handoff schedules and signoff for deployment. Standardized Program Increment schedules across multiple Agile trains and coordinate team schedules from daily stand-up meetings, retrospectives and inspect and adapt ceremonies for continuous improvement. Developed strong relationships with key stakeholders across various departments to enhance collaboration efforts on complex projects. Resolving impediments to team progress by proactively identifying issues and facilitating effective solutions. Improved overall project efficiency with effective coordination between development, testing, deployment and support teams during release cycles.06/2015 to 04/2019 Sr Scrum Master/ Release Train EngineerUnitedHealth Group / Optum Technical Conduct Program Management Council meetings. Hosting and expediting Program Increment planning (PI) sessions for clear roadmap. Coordinate weekly ART status review with all Scrum Masters, Program Managers, Business Owners and Stakeholders. Reviewing project milestones, PI health, burn rates and allocations for ART. Worked with Integration and Application Architects reviewing schema and solutions for runway features, User Interface teams and development teams to review code requirements, wireframe mockups, any legal reviews necessary and conduct grooming sessions as needed. Collaborate from Feature concept to PI Planning with Product Owners and Development managers to develop solid backlog of features groomed for future Program Increment Planning. Mentor Scrum Masters in building well-functioning happy scrum teams consistently delivering committed sprint user stories. Verify all PI features have the correct signoff from all Business owners and DevOps Release process is ready for deployment to production.06/2014 to 06/2015 Scrum MasterInsight Global Staffing / UnitedHealth Group Led Agile projects at program level successfully delivering new services and functions for the MYUHC.com Digital client facing application project with 20M budget. Drove Agile process for three scrum teams responsible for team metric improvements and data integrity using Rally (CA Agile Central) tracking tool creating weekly reports as needed for review by stakeholders and project managers.04/2008 to 04/2014 Scrum Master / Project ManagerWeight Watchers International, New York City, NY Successful client facing project with 5M budget leading Agile process as Scrum Master with multiple scrum teams and third-party vendors and in house technical and creative teams building new franchise websites for on demand and scheduled content deployments. Agile Scrum Master working with international and domestic resources to keep company marketing plan synchronized with member meeting printed materials by coordinating sprints and development team assets to quickly deploy a variety of marketing and sales web based mobile MICRO sites in six countries increasing internet visibility and increased revenue.EDUCATIONCertificate Business Systems, Computer Processing InstituteIBM Training Center, Waltham, MAScrum Master/Certified SAFe 6,VME Inc. Phoenix AZProfessional HighlightsProduced high functioning Agile Team following and understanding the SAFe concepts and ceremonies to follow delivering at capacity and at the expected velocity. Established good interpersonal relationships between all team members on shore and offshore. Managed projects with Solution Architects, Release Train Engineers, Business Stakeholders and Product Owners for complete SDLC to develop clear strategies and roadmaps and deliver features for Program Increments Managed projects with Solution Architects, Release Train Engineers, Business Stakeholders and Product Owners for complete SDLC to develop clear strategies and roadmaps and deliver features for Program Increments. Clear communications with ART managers, business stakeholders and teams for clear understanding of the PI commitments and deployment timelines. Track dependencies and team burn down by projects. Work to build relationships among team members to foster honest communication between people which helps team velocity. Developed Medical Copay application from proof of concept to deployment. Leading daily timeboxed meetings working with System Architects and business owners to create a new core project. Working with Application and Solution Architects creating new ingestion and egress integrations interfacing with seven different backend systems and third-party vendors off site. The first of its kind in the healthcare industry saving 16 million dollars annually for the company and members. Completing the successful deployment of the project on time and in budget working closely with business owners on complex testing solutions and shifting budget and resource allocations. Managed the Implementation of a project with a critical challenging timeline for the addition of new API processes to bring back individual and commercial lines of business for increased visibility in the marketplace and increased revenues for Aetna/CVS Health. Mentor teams to follow Agile ceremonies necessary to develop well-groomed user stories that are sized for success using the SMART and INVEST methodology. |
