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Vestal, Ny, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Championed the implementation of Scrum methodology while acting as Scrum Master, applying advanced Scrum practices (CSP-SM) and Scaled Agile techniques (SAFe SCP) to drive improvements in team efficiency, leading to a 60% reduction in time to market and 40% fewer escaped defects within the first 6 months.• Established and maintained the product roadmap, collaborating directly with the C-suite to ensure strategic alignment, resulting in the successful release of 10+ features tailored to B2B and B2G clients, boosting product adoption and user engagement.• Streamlined work item prioritization and delivery processes, cutting cycle times from 40+ days to 6.2 days within 90 days, driving a measurable increase in team throughput.• Developed OWASP training materials, including video tutorials and live sessions, to enhance secure coding practices. Integrated OWASP best practices into QA frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, improving vulnerability validation and fostering a security-first culture.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

• Coordinated cross-functional, high-stakes, multi-team strategy sessions to expedite the delivery of Covid relief payments within a 2-week timeframe, utilizing Advanced Scrum Master (A-CSM) and Product Owner (A-CSPO) certifications to ensure alignment and efficiency. Spearheaded the rapid development of multiple services and user interfaces to deliver a system ahead of schedule, providing relief payments to over 2 million recipients.• Oversaw efforts to develop an IAM platform that expanded capabilities to include MFA, SSO, and combined RBAC/ABAC, resulting in significantly improved franchisee satisfaction. • Supported the lifecycle of 10+ maintenance products and launched 2-4 new TaxTech/FinTech products per year, utilizing Scrum Product Owner methodologies (CSPO) to ensure that product development remained customer-focused and adaptable.• Generated process flows, feature maps, user story maps, and UI mockups using Axure RP and Miro to better communicate requirements to developers, stakeholders, and education group, enhancing alignment and reducing feedback cycles.

Tampa, Fl, Us

• Guided agile transformation from Waterfall to Scrum for a 45-person development team, reducing delivery times from annually to monthly and increasing team productivity.• Conceived and implemented CI business strategy, transforming a bi-weekly, 48 man-hour validation into a 4-hour fully automated process, leveraging Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Hyper-V to streamline the CI/CD pipeline while mentoring team members on best practices.• Engineered a fully automated regression suite, reducing a 2-month manual regression testing cycle to a 96-hour automated process, significantly improving release predictability and reducing QA overhead.• Orchestrated release plans, product roadmaps, and feature schedules for 20+ automation initiatives, improving stakeholder alignment, resulting in smoother release cycles, reducing approval times by 20%, and aligning cross-functional teams for coordinated releases.• Facilitated keyword-driven testing framework, enabling manual testers to create automated tests, reducing test creation time by 65%, decreasing reliance on specialized automation engineers, and empowering testers to contribute directly to automation.