Kendall Elling, A-Csm Email & Phone Number

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota

St. Louis Park, Minnesota

Roseville, Minnesota

Oversee multiple geographically dispersed teams and facilitate Agile processes to ensure continuous improvements and work alignment. Serve as cross-functional Scrum team coach, mentor, and cross-trainer. Track Agile metrics and communicate progress to Senior Management. Participate in Scrum Agile Alliance conference as well as DevOps and Agile training. Coordinate and facilitate planning and demos as well as sprint/release planning meetings, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.Selected Accomplishments► Coached team responsible for a market leading enterprise data protection solution for installation. Meet aggressive timelines, prioritized backlog, and identified areas of responsibility better suited for other teams.► Team oversight resulted in velocity pivot from first sprint at 19 to 5th sprint at 130; broke stories down into manageable chunks and minimized redundancy.► Received Team Award for market leading enterprise data protection solution not previously available; created new install package that improved customer experience for both product installs and/or upgrades while advancing data protection capabilities.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Promoted to serve as Lead Scrum Master; delivered continuous improvements across hardware installations (Agile); supervised onshore and nearshore consolidation support team; partnered with Infrastructure Engineering teams.Selected Accomplishments ► Transformed process to automatic server decommissions from traditional Waterfall to Agile methodology. ► Ensured the fulfillment of multiple, concurrent projects and respective components, including: appropriate margin targets, well-defined project scoping, and in-place risk mitigation measures; cultivated practice reputation as a leading-edge provider of solutions.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Promoted to coordinate complex multi-platform schedules; mentored new team members and contractors; resolved interdependency challenges; intersected with other teams and application areas.Selected Accomplishments ► Achieved guideline of less than 5% failure rate ► Ensured Microsoft-SMS packages were deployed on schedule as a result of excellent negotiation and problem-solving skills.

Promoted to follow up and coordinate across code integrity resolution and consistently merge issues; trained team members and contractors.Selected Accomplishment► Successfully deployed all major and minor releases, leveraging expertise in Dimensions and Tivoli.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Promoted from Senior Support Desk Specialist (Client-support) to handle change management and software distribution; trained TTS personnel in use of product version control system, Tivoli development with processes, as well as standards and procedures for common operating environments.Selected Accomplishment► Managed multiple Consulting Services opportunities, from lead generation through to opportunity win; generated substantial repeat business by establishing and cultivating lasting client partnerships.