Amirica (Amir) Nicholson, Psm Email & Phone Number

Largo, Maryland, United States

• Engineered a system to resolve high-priority project defects, resulting in a 47% surge in defect remediation, expediting project advancement. • Designed and implemented a tailored agile coaching blueprint, fueling a 54% surge in team velocity by program conclusion. • Achieved a 61% velocity increase for a new team in just 4 sprints, applying Tuckman's group development stages. • Proactively identified and resolved impediments using the ROAM process. • Coached and partnered with the Product Owner to refine product backlog for maximum business value. • Facilitated Sprint planning, daily scrum sessions, and retrospectives, fostering cohesive teamwork and alignment. • Leveraged Scrum of Scrums (SOS) to efficiently manage cross-team risks via dependency mapping. • Accelerated cross-functional team performance through regular retrospectives, sharing crucial metrics like velocity, say/do ratio, story completion rate, and burn-up or burn-down chart.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Empowered product owner/business analyst and development team to achieve customer satisfaction.• Executed sprint reporting to team and stakeholders, including metrics such as Velocity, Say/Do, Story Completion Rate, Burn Up or Burn Down.• Facilitated all team ceremonies (planning, refinement, retrospectives) and kept teams focused on achieving their goals and objectives.• Developed user stories for features and tracked tasks in JIRA and Microsoft Project.Served as a neutral arbitrator between roles, individuals and teams during conflict.• Established strong relationships with all project stakeholders including multiple cross-functional high performance team members within the agile framework.

Lake Placid, Florida, United States

• Managed a project plan, a budget, project risks and a project team.• Articulated stakeholder product vision to Agile/Scrum delivery team, using agile methodology and scrum practices, outlined and prioritized work based on business value.• Led team of 10 product developers to highest ranking position in company for product development efficiency.• Communicated and implemented agile coaching and development techniques to increase team’s performance and productivity.• Facilitated Product & Agile workshops and training sessions.• Analyzed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), facilitated agile processes, and collaborated with product owner, stakeholders, and product development team to consistently and effectively meet sprint deadline, and within budget.• Facilitated backlog grooming to achieve enough ready stories for the next sprint and reduced time of sprint planning.• Coordinated and monitored the Scrum process from initiation through delivery

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Utilized JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, excel, and PowerPoint to manage and share relevant communication with team members and stakeholders.• Monitored progress using the sprint report, velocity, burn up and burn down charts• Coached the scrum team and stakeholders where necessary to agile practices as outlined by the Scrum Framework• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.• Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.

Lake Placid, Florida, United States

• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum sessions, and retrospectives, promoting unified teamwork and alignment.• Facilitated backlog grooming to ensure adequate ready stories of upcoming sprint.• Spearheaded and monitored the Scrum process from initiation through delivery• Leveraged JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, excel, and PowerPoint to manage and share relevant communication with team members and stakeholders.• Collaborated with UI/API product developers to resolve all technical issues, bugs/defects.