Jade S. Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD) - Serving as the Factory/Operational Technology Modernization Project Manager / Scrum Master, a Digital Business Infrastructure servant leader responsible for partnering across multiple disciplines to facilitate information system solutions, standards and best practices that evolve Digital Technology (DT), Operational Technology (OT), and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) jointly with Operations Engineering. Partnering across leadership to ensure Digital Business Infrastructure executes through an overall culture excellence. Responsible for status reports, gate reviews, and communication to business points of contact and DT Leadership - utilizing AI-powered platforms to support each scrum team. Coordinating and maintaining internal and external communication with partner organizations and DT Leadership. Providing technical and analytical guidance to project teams. Responsible for planning and coordinating technology projects and other DT enablers to ensure business objectives of programs and functional areas are accomplished. Drives the overall strength and resiliency of the Digital Business Infrastructure and works with other Project Managers and Scrum Masters across RMD DT to establish best practices and promote a culture of a Lean-Agile excellence.Works with Operations Engineering stakeholders and business partners to ensure the effective implementation and reliable sustainment of Digital Technology solutions. • Responsible for the implementation and sustainment of Agile methodologies and frameworks on assigned teams.• Contributing expertise to the RMD Digital Technology Lean/Agile communities of practice. • Helping personnel embrace core values, and adopt key principles or practices of Lean-Agile. • Serving as a Project Manager as required to ensure projects are completed on schedule, within budget and reports results to customers, Digital Technology leadership, and functional organizations.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Supported the maturity of two teams working on a multi-year initiative for crew scheduling and recovery. Worked with teams to develop and maintain a crew scheduling and recovery system that meets SWA operational and regulatory needs. Lead development initiatives across crew technology. Participated in a SAFe environment – actively involved in PI Planning sessions, and managing cross dependencies between teams on the Agile Release Train. • Performed other job duties as directed by Team Leaders.• Identified challenges, created awareness within team, organized and facilitated planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings• Served as the team’s radiator, ensuring necessary internal and external communication, while improving overall transparency. Continuously mentored and coached others

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

• Coached /Trained Multiple Cross functional WaaS (Wellmark as a service) Enterprise Teams - Authorization & Authentication Asset Team – all web security/SSO integrationsBI Delivery Information Product Team - Business Objects & Power BI reporting needsSupported Wellmark Technology division to transition multiple WaaS cross functional teams from waterfall to agile. Supported up to 20 team members across multiple geographic locations. Coached and mentored onshore and offshore development teams, scrum masters, team leads and product owners new to agile transformation and framework. • Mentored and trained over 100 + Scrum Masters, Teams and Agile Coaches • Provided training on the Facilitation of daily scrum meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, sprint retrospective meetings, and back log refinement.• Tracked, Identified and removed impediments in support of development team’s progress.

San Mateo, California, Us

Supported the Product Management office in transitioning from waterfall to agile. Coached and mentored multiple onshore and offshore development teams, scrum masters and product owners new to agile best practices and scrum framework. • Created annual training and conducted multiple training sessions for Scrum Masters and teams related to Agile best practices. Sessions were attended by over 100 + employees.• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, sprint retrospective meetings, and back log refinement.• Mentored and coached scrum teams on Relative Estimation and User Stories.• Tracked and made visible teams progress, velocity, sprint burndown charts, release burndown charts and other metrics and information radiators on an ongoing basis.

Houston, Texas, Us

Acted as Scrum master for multiple distributed sprint teams, resolving impediments, conducting standups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and creating tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts. • Coached over 5 + teams within Product delivery team to deliver all projects using Agile Methodology. • Worked directly with senior management teams to identify, analyze and document business requirements based on client needs, and vision.• Performed gap analysis to compare all elements of existing “as is” with desired “to be” processes.• Utilized use case, workflow, activity and sequence diagrams to define functional requirements for the development team.

Irving, Tx, Us

Interacted with business managers to identify and develop business requirements and transformed them into technical requirements (Mapping Document) and ultimately responsible for delivering the solution.• Coordinated with the Product Owner in identifying and prioritizing user stories to identify those that would make up the Product Backlog.• Created and documented acceptance criteria, estimations, and prioritization of product backlog.• Introduced the Scrum values and implemented the methodology across teams.

London, Gb

Organized and led release planning for a delivery group of multiple scrum teams. Assigned to a product feature group resulting in a creation of a product road map. • Utilized JIRA to track team progress.• Met goal of addressing and resolving impediments within 24 hours.• Managed sprint backlogs, iterations as well as facilitating daily standup meetings.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Delivered projects on time and on budget; Effectively collaborated, facilitated, led and coached Scrum teams and organizations. • Supported development teams, and financial associates.• Conducted daily scrum meetings via email in the form of Daily Status Updates.• Removed impediments in order to support local and remote personnel.