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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas Area

Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach two cross-functional teams for uShip's core platform by utilizing various Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban. Refine and improve processes across the organization to help drive lean principles and reduce waste.• Facilitate team progress by identifying gaps or possible improvements to help strengthen and improve overall productivity• Effectively and efficiently remove impediments as needed for the team to ensure high productivity• Empowering self-organization and collaboration within the team• Tracking and evaluating team-based metrics to ensure the team is successful• Provide visibility to stakeholders and functional teams of goals, changes, and impediments to provide clear transparency into team• Work with Product Owner and stakeholders to provide clear products that drive towards organizational goals while maximizing value• Identify and manage risks associated with projects to ensure realistic expectations are met• Coach and mentor others within the organization to ensure Agile principles are understood and improved upon• Acted as JIRA administrator to ensure best practices are adhered to and answer any JIRA related questions as needed• Assisted in the creation of a new project tracking mechanism to track capitalized and expensed finances to streamline the process and reduce waste• Successfully led a large multi-team project by managing various dependencies, coordinating between teams and actively communicating to stakeholders using both Agile and Traditional project management techniques.

Austin, Texas Area

* Assisted Program Manager in managing logistics of an innovative cloud-based Electronic Health Record software platform that consisted of 18 cross-functional teams distributed across the United States and Bangalore, India.* Monitored, recommended, collaborated and implemented modifications to existing agile practices to increase productivity and quality across the program.* Created, produced, monitored and effectively communicated agile metrics at the program level* Collaborated and helped implement process for tracking and managing scope through Change Management, capacity planning model for Release Planning and Agile Project Management processes at the program level.* Created and facilitated Scrum Master Community of Practice (CoP) sessions to help coach, teach and mentor 12 Scrum Masters within the program* Served as Role Champion for Scrum Masters within the organization.* Ensure and enhance cross-team communication and interactions by facilitating Scrum of Scrums.* Created and implemented Agile Maturity metrics to identify and target ways to improve Agile practices throughout the program.* Acted as primary Agile Coach and for more than 20 teams in both Scrum and Kanban* Actively work with Product Owners, Business Analysts and stakeholders to assess business strategy to help define and maintain scope in order to achieve maximum value.* Develop and maintain all project artifacts including project charters, status reports, project plans, issue logs, change orders, etc.

Austin, Texas Area

* Lead and coach three Agile teams responsible for delivering innovative technology driven value for an industry-leading Electronic Health Record software. * Effectively plan and facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospectives. * Coach and mentor Product Owners and Business Analysts in story writing techniques and maintaining backlog health. * Effectively remove impediments when necessary to allow team success. * Teach and coach teams in Agile practices and techniques to increase productivity and quality.* Ensure and enhance cross-team communications and interactions by facilitating Scrum of Scrums.

Richmond, Virginia Area

* Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach two Agile teams responsible for delivering value within the Card Portfolio. * Successfully assist organizational transformation to Agile process at the team level within the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) model. * Effectively plan and facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives. * Assist the Product Owner in story writing techniques and maintaining backlog health through facilitation of regular grooming sessions with the team. * Effectively remove impediments when necessary to allow development teams to focus on delivery. * Ensure cross-team coordination. * Maintain relevant agile metrics that help the team see how they are doing and continuously improve. * Coach and mentor other Scrum Masters.

Richmond, Virginia Area

* Plan, coordinate, facilitate and lead multi-team successful release and implementations within an Agile environment. * Successfully assisted in planning, facilitation and coordination in multiple high profile releases within the Digital portfolio. * Effectively plan and coordinate multi-team implementation plans by facilitating technically driven meetings to determine cross dependencies and risks * Acted as Lead Release Manager for three large scale implementations within the Digital portfolio * Create implementation plan for release execution by performing team, including timing and communication necessary for success * Act as Scrum Master within the Digital Release Management team to enable their transition to an Agile team.

Hampton, Virginia

Bachelor Of Science In Information Technology, Business System Analysis, 3.54

Took classes on and off when time permitted while working in the hospitality industry. Took classes ranging from programming & database.

Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma Fraternity