• Embody and promote Agile principles while continually mentoring the organization with respect to the scrum framework.• Facilitate all scrum events (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective) as requested or needed.• Collaborate with the Product Owner for backlog management, verify the backlog order, and ensure the Development Team is engaged in active backlog refinement.• Coach and mentor the Development Team in self-organization, self-management, and empirical product development.• Provide transparency to the organization through burn-down charts, communication with internal and external stakeholders, and focusing on incremental improvements.• Assist the Development Team with removing impediments, reducing dependencies, and managing risks.• Embrace servant leadership and be willing to be disruptive to increase the effectiveness of Scrum within the organization.• Promote, maintain, and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion, and leadership• Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training

• Servant leader and Agile coach for multiple scrum teams • Assist product owner with managing the product backlog, sprint backlog, release burn-down and prioritizing requirements for sprint• Facilitate daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and monitor daily burn down• Encourage self-organizing, cross-functional scrum teams to boost efficiency and ensure successful iterations• Encourage the team to come up with reusable elements while continuing to utilize best practices • Remove roadblocks that prevent team from making progress and shield team from outside forces• Provide the team with constructive performance feedback, when needed, as related to adaptation of Scrum and Agile principles• Publicize teams’ progress and success to make sure they are highly visible to product owner and stakeholders• Continue to establish more effective cross departmental communication between development and business management• Provide presentations, recommendations, and updates regularly to the Director of Software Development and VP of Technology• Motivate the team to come up with a quality ship-able product while meeting product goals• Track and report status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis• Ensure task completion to specification, on time, and within budget• Represent the team when reporting overall project status, possible risk and suggest solutions• Manage projects in both Agile and Waterfall development environments• Facilitate Scrum of Scrum for local, international and vendor teams• Define project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies

• Coordinate all testing, including test scenario development, execution, and defect reporting. • Implement automated test framework.• Interim Scrum Master.

• Scrum Master for team of students who develop video games.• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies.• Remove impediments, build metrics using burn-down charts, sprint velocity, and delivery progress.

• Analyzed user stories, clarified acceptance criteria, provided story points, and estimated tasks.• Designed, developed, and executed manual tests and documented defects.• Interim Scrum Master for teams on an as-needed basis.

• Solely responsible for all aspects of testing the product, Line of Defense.

• Developed the testing processes for both internal and external testing teams.• Evaluated and managed the budgets.• Developed a solid defect tracking workflow in JIRA.

• Managed on and offshore test team. • Liaison between platform developers and business unit stakeholders. • Developed and executed test scripts/scenarios for functional, integration, and regression testing. • Generation of quality metrics for reporting of product health up to executive staff.

• Hired, developed, and managed highly skilled team of 30 Quality Assurance Analysts. • Successfully met aggressive compliance objectives and goals. • Managed budget and purchasing for all QA department equipment and software.• Created relevant defect reports and quality metrics for executive management.

• Managed Quality Assurance team in all day to day operations, to include budgeting, resource management for the Madden Football and other game projects. • Managed QA processes for the end to end production of the majority of the EA sporting titles released.• Implemented “Work Smarter, Not Harder” practices, significantly increasing QA efficiency by intelligent design of test scripts to reduce redundancy.• Primary involvement in hiring and training QA personnel and resource forecasting and budgeting. • Worked closely with star talent, such as John Madden and Tiger Woods during game production.

• Managed team of 26 QA analysts• Coordinated day-to-day operations, including resource management and purchasing.

• Worked as part of the production team for the Madden 2001 PC title. • Authored detailed design documentation. • Tracking and loss management of assets tied to production deliveries. This resulted in significant savings to the company, by reducing asset loss.• Assumed role of project management of smaller initiatives.

• Led teams of 10 to 50 Quality Assurance professionals for a variety of gaming titles. • Managed all hiring and necessary termination of team members.• Managed all task allocation for assigned team.• Identified training needs and delivered high quality instruction to team members.