Agile Coach and Scrum Master for Wells Fargo.

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• Get new agile teams up and running (both scrum and Kanban)• Create agile training material• Provide training to individuals and groups at all levels in agile practices• Act as scrum master and Kanban Lead for multiple teams• Act as Jira Administrator• Create Agile and Jira User Guides to provide organizational consistency in agile implementation• Provide support for Production Releases• Facilitate team meetings• Work with remote-based agile teams with members based in California across the U.S. and India• Coach and mentor individuals, teams, scrum masters, Kanban Leads, Product Owners, and stakeholders in agile concepts and practices• Schedule and run all agile-related ceremonies and practices• Act as back-up for scrum masters needing to be OOO for extended periods• Facilitate and support improvements in the release management process• Facilitate and support improvements in the product test processes• Establish good working relationships between business partners and technology• Do whatever is needed to keep the organization moving forward, continually improving, producing the highest quality products possible and people and teams on a path to success

• Created agile team from scratch for Infinovative’s SaaS cloud offering• Implemented agile practices for cloud product implementation team• Led coaching and training efforts to become the expert of agile principles and related methodologies and practices for Infinovative Solutions• Conducted initial assessment to identify gaps and worked with Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to create a solution for achieving the desired outcome• Coached team in India to mature agile execution• Worked with internal leaders to begin working on a sustainable Agile process• Responsible for coordinating with stakeholders within Infinovative and customers to align with agile practices, product discovery and delivery• Conducted training sessions for the development team, product owners, and scrum master• Provided oversight to policies and processes using Agile best practices for Infinovative’s AWS cloud-hosted product offerings• Redefined organizational roles and responsibilities and worked with Executive leadership to implement• Developed best practice standards for Agile, Scrum and Kanban teams• Leveraged, mentored and supported business partners in the creation and execution of organizational data policy, strategy, standards, governance, quality, and use programs• Provided direction to executives on best practices for Agile development across applications• Analyzed and advised on operational metrics to maximize team efficiency and balance workloads

Planned/managed project and scrum teams within Legal Technology (LTPS) using agile methodologies. Worked with Product Owners and cross-functional Development Teams to estimate, plan, schedule, develop, deliver new products, enhance and maintain existing IT products. Led virtual scrum teams located in India, Belarus, UK and multiple US offices, ensuring engagement and clarity of iteration and release planning objectives, schedules, priorities and project status, holding daily scrum meetings with each team to assess progress, identify obstacles and work to remove those obstacles. Established new agile teams as needed for assigned projects. Trained new agile team members in agile practices and methodologies. Provided process improvement suggestions to existing agile practices and methodologies. Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint demos and retrospective meetings. Coached and managed scrum teams in establishing product backlogs, creating user stories, breaking epics into more feasible stories, estimating the effort needed to deliver product backlog items, coordinated the dependencies between multiple teams, and creating sprint backlogs via sprint planning activities. Worked with product owners to create, prioritize and manage the product backlog of requirements according to the “value” each item was expected to generate, plan releases, plan iterations, manage team capacity/velocity per iteration, oversee demos, run retrospectives (continuous improvement activities). Collaborated with product owners to manage product/project scope, reporting on project status and helping scrum teams to resolve issues and challenges. Developed mature agile teams, high performing teams, helping people communicate and share information for the benefit of the projects, team motivation and productivity. Used VersionOne; Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server and homegrown tools for managing agile projects; MS Project; MS Excel; MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Visio.

Documented software testing procedures for transitioning software testing activities from teams in Minnesota to teams in India. Owned and managed the Online Services’ Process Asset Library. Identified, defined and documented processes, procedures and metrics for implementing the Capability Maturity Model Integrated, Maturity Level 2. Developed and improved clear and useable processes and procedures for the following CMMI Process Areas: Project Management, Requirements Management, Configuration Management, Process & Product Quality Assurance, Project Monitoring & Control, Supplier Agreement Management and Measurement and Analysis. Developed and led training for CMMI Process Areas. Identified procedures for the Release Management actions for the Novus Suite Architecture.

Defined, monitored and improved engineering processes used in the Armament Systems Division, achieving its CMMI for Software Engineering Maturity Levels 5 and 3. Instructor for classes including Peer Review Team and Moderator, CMMI Overview and Engineering Process Improvement. Chaired the Engineering Quality Review Board and the ASD EPG Change Control Board. Led a Kaizen team at a missile canister manufacturing facility. Led a value stream mapping project.

Applied software engineering design and test methodology, theory, principles and techniques to create, plan and perform software analysis, design, development, documentation and testing. Developed an SQA database while creating new and enhancing old methods for establishing, executing and tracking SQA activities. Participated in software testing, peer reviews and walkthroughs of software work products. Performed audits to attain SEI SW-CMM Level 4. Performed ISO 9001 Internal Quality Audits. Supported the Crusader project (a large weapon system development) which used an object-oriented programming language, Ada 95 and obtained ISO 9001:2000 certification. Helped transition Army Programs to the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 5 for Software Engineering.

Installed, operated and maintained telecommunications computer systems and equipment. Systems Administrator for a proprietary computer network system.

Developed and tailored quality assurance plans, processes, procedures, and forms for multiple projects. Performed process and product audits, inspections and reviews. Performed maintenance of metrics related to the SEI CMM process maturity program. Managed the Process documentation library. Developed tools to support quality assurance activities.

Performed regulatory compliance and professional audits, including the reviews of accounting and financial records and reports, ensuring compliance with State regulations. Supervised and trained auditors. Compliance Enforcement Officer for companies in violation of state laws - monitored their compliance and corrective actions.

Trust Accountant for financial transactions.

Auditor of failed financial and real estate institutions.