• Ability to work with relevant engineering teams to ensure DevOps related activities occur as intended• Ensure teams actions are aligned with the project goals / vision.• Build and coach high performing teams.• Lead and manage all scrum related activities for your pods.• Facilitate the daily standup meetings which includes both verbal and email communications to collect and consolidate team updates.• Work across sprints to help facilitate capacity conversations and identify work that may be blocked due staffing/casting challenges.• Help organize, prep, and facilitate planning sessions & estimations for future sprints.• Mentor and develop new Associate Scrum Practitioners added to the group.• Look at key metrics such as sprint velocity, scope, flow and improve the overall pod performance• Flag issues/risks and other key actions that may need to interface with non-agile portions of the company• Manage and activate release plans• Ability to work with relevant engineering teams to ensure DevOps related activities occur as intended• Ensure teams actions are aligned with the project goals / vision.• Ensure Scrum practices are used and improved within and across teams• Foster a continuous learning environment helping teams to inspect & adapt• Facilitate large group discussions

• Managed all aspects of multiple simultaneous fast-paced assigned projects with distributed teams• Designed and maintained project vision, project working standards, and agreements• Developed project roadmap, release plan, resource allocation, funding request, communication plan, risks and issues management plan, test plan, and defect management plan• Managed project scope, budget, project burn charts, presentations to IT/Business, daily standup, agile ceremonies, backlog grooming, and retrospective sessions• Implemented Agile methodology using Rally and Planview tools• Facilitated project meetings (all Agile meetings – Discovery Sessions, Iteration 0, Iteration Planning, Demo & Retrospective, Daily Stand-up, Backlog Grooming); completes project tracking/analysis reports• Tracked, updated, and communicated project status in a proactive manner as it relates to project progress, budget/cost, resource utilization, change requests, issues, risks, and risk mitigation plans• Interfaced with project stakeholders at all levels of management to ensure project priorities are aligned with business needs and expectations• Ensured that appropriate project documentation and deliverables are clearly defined and delivered• Mentored and coached Agile teams to ensure their adoption and successful use of Agile at American practices• Acted as a liaison between business units and 3rd party vendors• Used business analysis techniques for gathering and documenting complex requirements, scoping, interviewing, facilitation, system component design, testing, and implementation

• Led Scrum Team in software product development efforts facilitating agile framework and supporting best practices• Facilitated daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, and product backlog refinement• Facilitated discussions and conflicts resolution while helping team develop tools to self-manage• Utilizes JIRA to track and effectively communication team velocity, burn-down charts, and sprint/release progress to the team• Successfully worked with Agile Coached to introduce Scrum to corporate IT department• Coached and mentored other team members in Scrum ceremonies and educated product owners in Agile• Customer satisfaction on Agile-led projects increased by 33% in the first six months, benchmarked against non-Agile projects.• Facilitates the process of the team defining Working Agreements, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and then ensures those agreements are upheld; ensures the team follows standard processes while identifying opportunities for improvement• Facilitates agile ceremonies: daily stand-up (scrum) meetings, retrospectives, demos, backlog grooming/refinement, backlog sizing, sprint planning• Identifies and helps remove impediments, escalates impediments to product and solutions managers; recommends ways to resolve impediments, and influences leadership to take action on these recommendations• Creates information radiators (burn-downs, velocity chart, etc.), dashboards, and demos to assist with communication and improve transparency; provides metric reports to assist in product roadmap planning• Participates in release planning discussions, helps establish priorities and sequencing required to deliver efficiently, and helps team commit to and complete sprints