Desiree Wright Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, US

• Facilitated and coached development team as a servant-leader in implementing Scrum and Agile concepts and principles.
• Served as the voice of transparency, inspection, and adaptation in an iterative development environment.
• Led scrum teams under one product backlog to achieve improvements in team velocity and delivery of backlog items.
• Communicated and collaborated with product owners, upper management, and stakeholders.
• Tracked, escalated, and removed impediments.
• Created metrics to provide the development teams and other stakeholders with feedback.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team.
• Successfully guided three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.
• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.
• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
• facilitated sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives

US

• Mediated conflicts, fostering team and coached individuals improving team dynamics
• Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives, demos and daily work.
• Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers and QA occurred early and often, and removed barriers and blockers for the team
• Assisted product owners and business analysts with backlog creation and grooming.
• Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership.
• Acted as Scrum of Scrum master, coordinating four distributed teams all working on the same product.

Washington, DC, US

• Implemented and maintained Agile/Scrum framework within the organization
• Managed/oversaw multiple software development teams for our PPC products
• Lead teams to meet aggressive software development goals and deadlines
• Advised management on projects to ensure best decisions were taken
• Maintained continuous alignment of project scope through tough environments
• Created detailed reports and reported directly to the CEO on a bi-weekly basis