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Chicago, Il, Us

Remote

As an Agile Consultant I empower others through data, communication, and best practices.- Leveraged data to communicate capacity and trajectory.- Collaborated with cross functional, distributed teams.- Encouraged Kaizen mentality and best practices.

Remote

As a Scrum and Change Leader, helped to mature team on Agile Methodologies and Principles including engineering practices/DevOps -Established team agreements including Working agreement, Definition of ready and definition of done for team-Experience working with distributed team in multiple time zones . Adept in resolving team conflict and creating self-organized teams-Created metrics dashboard to show improvement in productivity , quality and predictability of scrum team-Helped the POs to create detailed user stories with acceptance criteria -Enabled the team to handle dependencies across teams and program using Scrum of Scrums

Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

As a Scrum & Kanban Master, I worked with multiple Agile teams towards continuous improvement and advocate for positive team structure and method changes. -Facilitated daily scrum sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.Removed blockers for the teams.-Coached Product Owners and Developers on Refinement, Agile best practices, and Agile Project Management-Advised on efficient workflows.-Lead the transition from three Scrum Teams to three Kanban Teams and two Scrum Teams.-Tracked and displayed team velocity, throughput, and other metrics in and out of Jira.

Chicago, Il

As an Agile Project manager and engineer, I supported an Agile environment using tracking tools, AWS, SQL, Linux, and proprietary DevOps tools. -Facilitated time-boxed Retrospectives, Reviews, and Daily Stand-Ups with, US, UK, and Australia.-Demonstrated functionality to customers and guaranteed communication between the internal and external teams.-Planned and actioned tasks in a rapid Kanban setting.-Advocated continuous improvement through action, peer reviews, and mentorship.-Coached 1-on-1 and in groups on process and proprietary tools.-Scripted and deployed automation freeing engineer hours.-Ensured constant communication and improvement process.Investigated, debugged, and resolved incidents.-Held ceremonies as needed.

Austin, Tx

As an Agile Release Manager, I had the responsibility of ensuring communication of changes to Maven applications and guiding in our Waterfall transition.-Facilitated scrum meetings including planning, backlog refinement, daily touch points, review and retrospective. Held the team to timeboxes.-Protected the team from changes in scope in the middle of the sprint. Ensured backlog is ready for next 2-3 sprints.-Removed impediments from our release path.-Leveraged retrospective to improve on process including automation, reducing technical debt, improving the quality of user stories.-Facilitated team organization through metrics and tracking.-Resolved conflicts using empirical data.-QA (1 month) - ensured data validity in APIs and web content.-DevOps (14 months):-- Created new product environments. -- Deployed code to servers and kept detailed records. -- Assisted with troubleshooting of server-side issues.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Informatics Of Cyber Security

Technological solution creation, critical thinking, process learning. A focus on cybersecurity and problem solving. Skills: Scrum.

Bachelor’S Degree, Theatre & Drama

Traditional acting, directing, and performance techniques. A focus on vocal and physical communications. Skills: Communication, team.