Heather Spindle Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia Area

Work with one onshore team that was transitioning from Kanban to Scrum. Help them to maintain sprint time boxes so that they complete their work they committed to within the sprint. Work with a second offshore team to help complete a highly visible project. Jumped in and helped out where I could with my technical background to meet a very tight deadline. For both teams, facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives with the team. Work with the BA/PO to facilitate grooming and demos, as well as help maintain backlog and prioritization. Update Sprints and help keep user stories up to date in Jira as well as helped team navigate and learn to use Jira with ease. Take care of any impediments so that the team can focus on their tasks. Report velocity, sprint, and release progress for better transparency. Work with other Scrum Masters and RTE to prepare for and facilitate a multi-location PI Planning. During PI Planning worked with teams to best align work with priorities of the train.

Richmond, Va

Transitioned and coached a new team from Waterfall to Agile, with both onshore and offshore teammates. Facilitated all ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, pre-planning, sprint planning, retrospectives, refinement, and demos. Maintained sprint user stores and tasks in Rally. Assisted product owner with creating and maintaining user stories, backlog, and prioritization. Took care of any impediments so that the team can focus on their tasks. Reported velocity, sprint, and release progress for better transparency. Coached other less experienced Scrum Masters and Product Owners with role responsibilities and how to use Rally.

Richmond, Virginia

Migrated letters into OpenText Exstream. Helped Exstream team transition from Waterfall to Agile. Created 100+ Design Layout Records (DLRs). Collaborated with business to update letter verbiage. Helped migrate 600,000+ statements to OpenText ExStream and a new print vendor during the same project.

Glen Allen

Maintained web systems for internal and external sites, including Sitecore and SharePoint. Performed Scrum Master duties for the BAU within the Web Team. Helped transition the Web Team from Waterfall to Agile from grass roots to one team for all projects and BAU to 5 teams. Facilitated daily scrum meetings and two week sprint planning for BAU teams. Maintained task board in TFS and worked closely with the Product Owners coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation. Ran Kanban scrums for admin teams for a year, including prioritization and grooming. Ran the Server 2003 project for the web team. Organized, tasked jobs, and budgeted time which resulted in approximately 50 web servers either decommissioned or upgraded saving the company $5,000 for each server decommissioned. Ran the Datacenter Consolidation project for the web team. Organized server bundles, tasked migration weekend testing, and worked with the business explaining what was happening and down time. Migrated 127 servers in 12 move events

Glen Allen, Va

Developed and maintained internal and external sites, mostly SharePoint.

Built online ticketing system for sand and gravel plants. Also upkept most of IT systems.

Answered computer questions and problems over the phones for Circuit City customers.

Masters

Bachelor