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Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis Area

Agile Transformation

Saint Louis, Missouri

Greater St. Louis Area

• Lead enterprise Agile Transformation efforts.• Lead a team in the digital transformation program.• Guided Scrum teams in adoption of best practices of agile execution.• Lead teams responsible for user data security.• Helped product teams meet federal regulations.• Worked with development team, Product Owner and management to implement agile management methodology as the corporate IT process.• Facilitated Story Point meetings, Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Retrospectives, and product demos.• Groomed backlog daily and monitored the development team, QA team, and documentation team to groom the Kanban task board daily• Coached Product Owners and stakeholders in transition to agile methodology by teaching best practices.• Coached team in the benefits of collaboration for project velocity and burndown.• Solved impediments by promoting continuous communication throughout the entire agile team.• Managed burndown metrics and project velocity

Greater St. Louis Area

• Manage release teams consisting of 8 to 10 associates by maximizing productivity• Oversee all aspects of releases including but not limited to setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, monitoring and summarizing progress; utilizing Agile/SCRUM, methodologies to ensure the successful delivery of releases• Plan, manage and coordinate releases in timeboxes using Agile methodologies• Complete timely and consistent release reporting such as: release status; new or outstanding issues, risks, actions and decisions; upcoming or late deliverables. • Produce metrics such as velocity and burndown charts to track and report status• Establish, build, and maintain working relationships with the business relationship manager, initiative stakeholders, release team members, vendors and other departments as necessary to encourage team work and enable effective collaboration• Provide recommendations for process improvements of existing or new processes and serve on departmental sub-committees• Demonstrated knowledge of Agile practices including but not limited to iteration planning, use case development, daily scrums, code refactoring, retrospectives and burndown tracking.• Excellent people management and leadership skills to effectively lead large complex releases. • Motivate and nurture a culture of excellence within the individual release teams.• Adapt to new processes and willingness to take measured risks.• Facilitate and lead teams through effective problem solving techniques to address daily issues• Lead complex releases consisting of interdependent projects that must be coordinated such that they do not conflict with each other but can be successfully integrated into a coherent working software system• Collaborate with the UX, Marketing and Product Development teams on the creation and execution of a product road map• Use technical understanding in products and supporting technologies to identify and communicate risk and technical impediments to delivery

Greater St. Louis Area

Leading C# development on new products

Greater St. Louis Area

Provided high level technical support at an IT firm. Automated common tasks.

Greater St. Louis Area

Tested web applications for bugs and suggested programmatic solutions.

Review and instruct students in detail covering the following subjectsCollege Algebra, Trigonometry and Analytical Geometry and Calculus

Maintained Websites for small businesses.Wrote scripts for both server and client side communication.

Perform computer repair work for numerous home users as a self employed entrepreneur. Build and maintain several PCs, and have intimate knowledge of the latest PC hardware. Install OS, reformat hard drives, and perform optimization/registry work along with virus/spyware troubleshooting/repair. Answer questions related to setup and usage of the computer to improve the customers'

MaintenanceMaintained park rides and go-karts.Customer service.General park maintenance.

Responsible for tracking\dispensing medication to clientsSecurity and wellbeing of clients.

Customer Service.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science And Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa

Associates Degree (Aa), General Studies 2008

Established a base of core educational goals