George Gabriel Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Wa, Us

- Writes features and acceptance criteria based on capabilities and feedback from product manager.- Leads feature level demos to project level stakeholders.- Helps implement changes in team structure to move away from tech dependent siloed teams to full cross functional teams.- Keeps teams' backlog prioritized so that the work that will provide the highest return with the quickest turnaround is always being worked on.- Writes small vertical user stories to ensure stories move across the board rapidly and demos are done frequently.- Reviews demos from team in order to accept stories and prepare them for release.- Coordinates with outside teams and the project team to ensure dependencies are know and releases are scheduled on time.- Facilitates leadership level retrospectives to help bring changes to entire value stream and increase value and productivity.- Reports teams' status to leadership and project team as well as makes dashboard so that all information can be viewed at a glance. - Provides bi-weekly reports to executives showing if the project is on time and within budget.- Helps facilitate PI Planning events. - Facilitates twice weekly refinements, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews, stand-ups across multiple remote teams.- Works with scrum masters and product owners throughout the organization to help remove impediments for my teams and theirs.

Thames Ditton, England, Gb

Leading the agile transformation, working with globally distributed teams in a multinational organization.- Helped the organization make the change from waterfall methodologies to agile practices.- Worked with Sr. Directors to identify value streams within the company to set into ARTs.- Lead daily scrum of scrums with the scrum masters on the ART.- Synced with Directors and VPs weekly to report the status of the project and ensure that everyone was on the same page regarding priorities.- Facilitated daily stand-ups, weekly grooming, planning, retrospectives and reviews with multiple teams who were identified as having the most trouble making the switch to agile.- Managed risks across the organization to ensure work was completed on time and all SLAs met.- Trained others in the organization who needed SAFe training.

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Denver, Co, Us

Vertafore is a top provider of software for the insurance industry. We create award-winning solutions to boost productivity, lower costs and help agents and carriers grow their businesses. At Vertafore we work hard, and we play well together. We’re a mid-sized company of 1,300 so what you do and how you do it, has an impact. We respect and value our team, and we look to bring the best talent together to make our future even stronger.I work on the company flagship product AMS360. I am also the scrum master for a team of five software engineers, an automation engineer, two QA analysts and a product owner. I ensure we follow agile practices and ceremonies and act as a servant leader so the team can get work done in a smooth and timely manner.

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