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Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States

• Collaborates with PO to ensure that product backlog is groomed, prioritized, and also making sure that the next iteration is planned for based on customer’s needs.• Documentation of outcome of all ceremonies, especially retro, identifies patterns and suggests solutions.• Partner with key stakeholders (Agile Coach and Team Lead) in backlog prioritization as well as tracking and reporting metrics, providing visibility to the team and stakeholders, ensuring a data-driven approach to decision-making.• Build and leverage effective alliances across other teams and the technical and business communities. Ensured every team had an assigned POINT OF CONTACT from the DevSecOps team, and always followed for any feedback• Ensuring the creation and sustainment of Jira artifacts like epics and user stories, and all requirements for deliverables in the Statement of Work.• Ensuring the project kick off meetings for contracts with clients are held, and necessary considerations taken and implemented for any given contract to run smoothly

Skills - Scrum . Jira . Confluence. · Conflict Resolution · Critical Thinking · Team Building · Cross-functional Team Leadership · Agile Leadership Experience in the Mobile application development process Making sure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.• Making sure teams’ cross functional coordination (analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often.• Recommending improvements and assists in changes to best practice. Removing obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution and providing customer positive feedback• Tracking & managing product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity and task breakdown• Supporting the Scrum Master activities including running daily stand ups, sprint planning, grooming, Planning Poker and retrospective and reporting iteration progress• Implementing Agile best practices to facilitate, enable & coach multiple teams in a hybrid environment• Encouraging the collaboration between teams and System & Solution Architects/Engineering• Ensuring user stories are sized according to sizing guidelines, maintained a guideline for estimations and published among the team as part of coaching• Assisting the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirements.• Making sure the development team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals.Worked with 1 team through Salesforce Data Conversions, and 2 others on the mobile application for the releases of new versions of the app and several hotfixesHelped team with release plans for the mobile application

Minnesota, United States

* Lead one or more Agile scrum team(s) following the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology while integrating with our traditional SDLC processesCompetency in developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences• Tracking & managing product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity and task breakdown• Supporting the Scrum Master activities including running daily stand ups, sprint planning, grooming, Planning Poker and retrospective and reporting iteration progress• Implementing Agile best practices to facilitate, enable & coach multiple teams in a hybrid environment• Encouraging the collaboration between teams and System & Solution Architects/Engineering• Ensuring user stories are sized according to sizing guidelines, maintained a guideline for estimations and published among the team as part of coaching• Assisting the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirements.• Making sure the development team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals.• Coaching the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices.

Florida, United States

Influenced, educated, and coached team members, on Agile values, principles, and practices related to process, technology, and/or product. Work across functions and business units on the deployment and implementation of new and changing regulatory requirements. Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint-ready.• Assisting PI Planning readiness by fostering the preparation of Vision & Backlogs and Pre- & Post-PI Planning meetings• Encouraging the collaboration between teams and System & Solution Architects/Engineering• Coordinating with Product & Solution Management, Product Owners and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment• Improving the flow of value through value streams using the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.• Ask thought provoking questions, removing impediments, and making issues and problems visible.• Making sure the development team is working on the right issues in order to achieve Sprint goals.• Coaching the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.• Making sure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.• Making sure teams’ cross functional coordination (analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often.• Recommending improvements and assists in changes to best practice.• Identifying and managing issues and jeopardizing with a clear grasp of the challenges/options until resolved.• Possesses excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams with diverse personalities, during high pressure scenarios, within extremely tight deadlines.• Being aware of Agile technology practices (e.g., Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration).

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba

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