Chris Morgan Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Working to facilitate an agile transformation. Functioning as the liaison between The General and a third-party vendor to ensure timely high-quality delivery of software.

Led and worked within multiple Agile teams to complete projects for clients in the Nashville area. Educated my team about Agile practices in development. Mentored less experienced employees to help them accelerate their learning and effectiveness.• Conducted Scrum ceremonies• Maintained and monitored backlog• Prioritized and assigned tasks• Helped enable cross-team collaboration• Divided work to enable continuous, incremental delivery• Allocated resources to priority assignments• Gathered requirements to clarify user stories• Taught sessions and mentored team members regarding Scrum methodology• Interviewed potential new team members• Mentored and onboarded interns and new hires

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, Fr

Worked on a diverse portfolio of projects filling both leadership and technical roles including Scrum Master, Team Lead, and full-stack developer. Drove projects from concept to conclusion leading strategy, timeline, architecture, and best practices. Site Leader for Cool Sites (see Associations).• Created and monitored delivery plan that enabled regular deployment of new features• Championed and piloted the transition to Scrum for our development teams• Helped our support team begin using Kanban• Delivered status updates to stakeholders• Gave seminars on Agile development practices and the benefits thereof• Led architecture decisions and helped develop best practices for high-visibility projects• Functioned as liaison between management, stakeholders (Product Owners), and development team• Interviewed and participated in selecting new employees• Onboarded and mentored interns• Functioned as team’s SQL Server Subject Matter Expert• Operated as the TFS Team Project Collection Administrator• Delivered projects using C#, AngularJS, SSRS, WinForms, and SQL Server• Regularly gave presentations to various levels of senior management• Created contextually appropriate, scalable source control branching modelsProject Highlights• Led the team that created a software employee toolbox which reduced processing and analysis time for historical data from 3 days to 3 minutes• Created custom solutions used by Apple, Boeing, Mars Chocolate, NASA, the Rose Bowl, Citi Bank, Cal State University, UNUM, and others• Wrote drivers in C# to use Synaptics touchpads as signature pads• Created a desktop cloud-syncing application used daily by hundreds of field engineers

Ikeja, Lagos, Ng

Built and developed a team of volunteers to run several social programs simultaneously. Training, coordinating schedules, maintaining budgets, planning events and projects, and regular public speaking. Learning how to work in a culturally diverse setting with unique challenges was critical. Events were performed up to ten times a week.• Selected and developed a team which needed to be cross-trained and collaborate seamlessly• Worked with diverse group of people with vastly different perspectives and abilities• Coordinated programs with a variety of audiences and objectives simultaneously• Daily public speaking to people with varied levels of education; caused constant adaptation of presentation style and material to ensure clear communication and understanding

Began as an intern, earned a position as a full-time software developer. Worked in a LAMP stack to provide Python-based web applications.Project Highlights• Created full business management solution for multi-million-dollar remodeling company• Built player and schedule management web site for Tennessee Rugby Association• Recreated Microsoft Project and Windows Explorer in a web browser