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Wilmington, North Carolina, United States

Facilitates Agile transformation, optimizing backlog grooming and sprint planning processes, resulting in enhanced team efficiency and accelerated project delivery.Collaborate with Product Owners and other scrum masters across teams to apply, implement, and enforce Scrum principles and practices through workshops. Assist the Product owners with backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, and release planning Facilitates backlog grooming to achieve enough ready user stories for the next sprint and reduce the time of sprint planning. Plan for IP (Innovation and Planning) iteration. Ensure user stories have design documents, descriptions, AC (acceptance criteria) Utilize JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Excel, and PowerPoint to manage and share relevant communication with team members and stakeholders. Monitor progress using the sprint report, velocity, burn-up, and burn-down charts.Support a web app team. Tech Stack: MongoDB, Express to create backend code, React to create the interphase (UI/UX). Node. JS. With front-end developers using JavaScript, and HTML. Backend developers using Python. Linux Server experience. Facilitates Stakeholder Alignment sessions and supported the implementation of scrum events including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Review, Retrospectives, Refinement, and Release Planning. Utilize Rally to monitor and track project progress iteratively. Provides coaching and training for scrum teams to facilitate the organization's agile maturity.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Coached the scrum team to adopt effective communication strategies and interpersonal skills, contributing to improving team performance. Managed 2 teams of developers, QA’s and BA’s by using Scrum principles to maximize productivity and produce viable products on an iterative basic.• Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as Daily Stand-Up, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives to ensure daily collaboration, reflection, and continuous improvement.• Used Azure DevOps to track User Stories, Features and Epics and guide software development from inception to completion. • Utilized Kanban board and delivery plans to organize work in progress, visualize release dates and identify dependencies weeks in advance.• Owned the submission of change tickets through ServiceNow and ensured a successful release at the agreed upon deadline.• Removed impediments that hindered the team’s progress and growth while staying connected to stakeholder’s goals and requirements.• Helped mature organization through workshop trainings on basic to advanced scrum principles held twice a month.• Maximized tools in Azure DevOps to track metrics like velocity, cumulative flow, capacity, and burn-down charts

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Manage project and deliverables, stakeholder involvement, risk, dependencies and communicate blockers, escalate as needed. Collaborate with technical teams.▪ Used several tools such as Jira, confluence, and Kanban Board to track key Scrum metrics: working software, time to market, customer satisfaction, burndown chat, velocity, burnup chat, lead time and cycle time, happiness index, team collaboration to help deliver committed work.▪ Supported multiple teams simultaneously. Coordinated all Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, retrospectives, Reviews, and Backlog Refinement. ▪ Supported Data team by integrating multiple data sources, leading to the development of a comprehensive analytics platform. Server API, Testing and Automation, and utilizing database and reporting tools to analyze data for supporting operational decisions. Skilled in integrating data, creating specialized reports, and providing insights to enhance services.▪ Maintaining documentation, collaborating with other teams, and managing dependencies.▪ Experience taking teams to agile maturity; from forming, storming, and norming, to performing.▪ Collaborated with PO in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, estimation, and establishing Acceptance Criteria. Introduced working agreements to promote transparency. ▪ Experience working with cross-functional teams; UI/UX, backend, frontend, and data. CI/CD▪ Knowledge; Unit Testing, SIT, Regression testing, QA, UAT. Knowledge of TDD, BDD

Maryland, United States