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San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

- Responsible for overseeing the development of features and remediation of bugs for multiple applications.- Worked hand in hand with the Product Managers, Tech Leads, Developers, and other Key Stakeholders to deliver on our roadmap commitments.- Facilitated transparency through frequent and relevant communication of project/team health and status with management and outside stakeholders.- Coordinated all sprint ceremonies including standups, roadmap sessions, planning, and retrospectives.- Keep the team focused on the task at hand, identify and remove impediments, call out risks early and often, and protect the team from uncontrolled scope changes.- Created a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.- Defined, provided, and interpreted agile metrics to effectively plan and track sprint commitments and delivery.- Helped organize inter-team dependencies, coordination, and cooperation.- Trained, coached, and evangelized Agile mindset, frameworks, and practices.- Planned and executed existing initiatives and new projects in an agile organization.- Supported the team with their continued agile journey and maturity of the Agile Approach and Provided agile coaching and mentoring to the team.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Facilitated meetings of the scrum/scaled agile ceremonies.- As a Lead Scrum Master, managed two Scrum Team (MEGA Requirement Team and Oz Scrum Team) and managed one team (Oz Core Tea) for Kanban- Closely worked and facilitated Daily / weekly / by weekly Stand Up, Backlog Refinement, Sprint - Planning, Retro, Sprint Demo at team Level as well as Program Level, Ran PI Planning for Oz Team, Breakout Session, etc. - Worked in Scaled Agile Environment - SAFe/Scrum/Kanban frameworks.- Led increment & sprint planning sessions, daily scrum, backlog refinement, and sprint retrospective meetings.- Ensured that IT Project delivery teams follow scrum values and agile practices, mentored, and motivated the teams to improve processes.- Supported the teams/ART's efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other teams.- Led the role in coordinating work with other teams to improve flow and throughput.- Frequently represented the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), or run the Scrum of Scrum meeting, and/or other program level ceremonies to plan, execute, and improve the work & operating models.- Supported the Product Owner and Product Management areas in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.- Assisted in removing team-level impediments and resolve conflicts

Columbia, Maryland, United States

- Responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum within one or more teams, by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.- Navigated the complexity of delivering software in large, cross-functional environments.- Experience in the Digital Health in Agile project- Eliminated impediments by engaging the right stakeholders within the organization or partner organizations.- Supported the team/ART in addressing and eliminating these issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Iteration or PI.- Assisted with internal and external communication and improves transparency- Exhibited and infused the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader to nurture a Lean-Agile Mindset in the team, leadership and the program.- Provided input and led the initiatives to improve business agility in the team/program/enterprise.- Identified and drove the culture change required to improve agility within the teams and ART's.- Responsible for facilities workflows in scrum events, etc. - Guided internal Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles- Closely worked with Product Managers, Product Owners and Engineering Team.- Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.- Worked with the Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support the product teams.- Managed AWS Cloud Migration and Modernization of application Projects from Scrum perspective with three teams. - Responsible for resolving and escalating impediments, managing risk, helping assure value delivery, and driving program level continuous improvement.- Responsible for the planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of value for the agile team - Facilitated the preparation and execution of release planning for the RTE.

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States

- Guided cross-functional team members through the problem-solving methodology, reducing the amount of support staff needed by creating transparency in IT operations. - Design and facilitate workshops to encourage learning and professional development, empowering employees to deliver twice the business value, and product delivery in half the time.- Possess an Agile mindset, accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and - Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching multiple Scrum team

Bloomington, Illinois, United States

- Managed project life cycles, risk, resources, schedules, etc.- Manage and track changes to scope, priorities, schedules and resources- Performed vendor management and Tracked and managed vendor deliverables- Managed project schedules, budgets, risks, issues status updates etc. during the project life cycle- Maintained and managed high standards of communications and documentation, including status, timelines, scopes, change orders, burn reports and forecasting, etc.- Facilitated Sprint estimation, Sprint planning meetings to identify product backlog items to be worked in a sprint and to estimate level of effort of development activities.- Led daily standup meetings, track progress by keeping the sprint backlog up-to-date, and help to remove impediments.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

- As a Scrum Master / ADL coached and mentored multiple teams toward self-organization, implementing and practicing Agile Principles.- Worked with Product Owners to ensure backlog items are properly and fully defined prior to acceptance into a sprint. - Held teams accountable for meeting sprint commitments; enabled teams to adhere to the process framework ceremonies.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

- Managed the technical components of the work estimates throughout the project life cycle through assigned staff. I- Identified the technical resource requirements and ensures that the requirements are entered into the time reporting system for reporting and tracking.