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Bayonne, Nj, Us

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Facilitated key Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.• Took ownership of the daily standup meeting, ensuring team members were assigned stories, story statuses were updated accurately, and stories were elaborated upon.• Identified and resolved impediments for Scrum teams directly or through appropriate escalation channels.• Led a Scrum team through the planning, development, and testing phases of a large-scale software development, implementation, and integration project.• Collaborated with Technology and Product Leadership on comprehensive release planning.• Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Terraform and Ansible as part of CI/CD automation.• Monitored and optimized CI/CD pipeline performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks to enhance efficiency.• Worked closely with DevOps teams to integrate Agile practices, ensuring seamless collaboration between development, operations, and other stakeholders.• Supported the implementation of DevOps principles and practices within the Agile framework, promoting automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.• Collaborated with product owners and stakeholders to prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals.• Provided insight into the team’s progress towards achieving PI objectives during ART syncs (Agile Release Train).• Ensured that PI objectives and team commitments were well-defined and communicated, fostering a sense of ownership and accountability among team members.• Tracked and communicated team velocity, sprint/release progress, and interfaced with product owners regularly to manage product backlog and sprint activities.• Utilized strong problem-solving skills to address impediments promptly, preventing delays in project timelines.• Ensured meticulous tracking and reporting of all Scrum activities on a daily basis.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Applied effective collaboration, facilitation, and coaching skills as a Scrum Master/Agile Enthusiast to support teams in their agile transformation journey.• Demonstrated high emotional intelligence and advanced interpersonal skills, resolving conflicts and setting boundaries while maintaining a positive outlook.• Acted as a shepherd of Agile tenets, promoting transparency, inspection, and adaptation within the organization.• Committed to exceptional results, driving continuous improvement, and fostering a collaborative culture within the team.• Organized and facilitated Scrum/Kanban team events, ensuring the integrity of the agile mindset and working towards a high-performance culture.• Interacted significantly with product owners and maintained regular contact with all levels of management.• Collaborated with Product Owners and cross-functional development teams to support continuous value delivery on their Agile journey.• Taught, coached, and mentored Product Owners and teams on user story creation, prioritization, estimation, and product backlog grooming, aligning with organizational goals.• Led efforts in creating and collectively owning valuable data to support the teams in their pursuit of relentless improvement.• Resolved or escalated blocking impediments as necessary and coordinated dependencies between teams with other Agile practitioners.• Worked with management on effective team design and ensured development teams were working efficiently towards Sprint goals.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to proactively identify and address dependencies, ensuring a streamlined and efficient development process.• Facilitated cross-functional coordination early and often in the development process.• Recommended improvements and assisted in changes to best practices, fostering an environment of continuous improvement.• Worked with an agile mindset on large-scale, technically complex projects and utilized tools, including Azure Boards.

Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States

• Facilitated Agile processes and ceremonies including requirements definition, scope, and delivery in development teams, ensuring adherence to Agile Scrum and Kanban principles.• Worked closely with agile teams, business, and leadership to resolve team-level impediments, manage risks, and drive continuous improvement throughout the delivery teams and lifecycle.• Collaborated with Product Delivery Owners to prioritize user stories within a product backlog, ensuring alignment with team roadmaps and highest priority work items.• Provided hands-on coaching to support the adoption of agile practices, identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities.• Strong communicator, worked closely with other delivery/application teams to support the implementation of working software.• Executed Agile Scrum Team execution and feature completion tracking for multiple Scrum Teams, ensuring alignment with execution goals.• Supported the Product Delivery with the creation, refinement, and prioritization of user stories, creating metrics for team performance and backlog health.• Worked with in-house and external Scrum Teams to remove impediments, manage dependencies, and ensure timely completion of sprint deliverables.• Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, demos, retrospectives, and ensured the proper use of Agile processes.• Escalated and assisted in the resolution of impediments, encouraging and guiding the adoption of Agile policies and procedures.• Participated in scrum-of-scrums (SoS) to manage and remediate dependencies across multiple product/application teams.• Acted as a servant leader for multiple teams and their stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture. • Provided coaching on Agile practices and methods for assigned Scrum Teams, supporting the implementation of improvement areas identified in team retrospectives.

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States

● Led the team through the adoption of Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.● Worked closely with stakeholders to manage expectations during the transition period, emphasizing the benefits of Agile in terms of faster delivery, increased flexibility, and improved responsiveness to changing requirements.● Introduced and implemented Agile tools and frameworks such as Jira and Scrum, streamlining project management processes and enhancing team collaboration.● Orchestrated seamless project communication by providing daily scrum notes, sprint reviews, iteration burn-down reports, and snapshots of project velocity and budget burndown charts.● Facilitated comprehensive project planning and Scrum-related meetings, ensuring efficient daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and demos.● Customized team training to adopt either Kanban or Scrum methodologies based on project requirements and user stories.● Successfully met project needs within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment transitioning to Agile.● Delivered requirements under the Agile Scrum SDLC methodology within a fast-paced release schedule.● Proficiently crafted User stories and Acceptance Criteria to meet project objectives.● Adapted to an Agile, Scrum, and sprint environment, accommodating changes in requirements and feature sets.

Bloomington, Illinois, United States

• Collaborated with senior analysts and stakeholders to elicit and document IT requirements, ensuring a clear understanding of business needs.• Assisted in the translation of business requirements into functional specifications, contributing to the design and development of IT solutions.• Participated in requirements gathering sessions and workshops, gaining hands-on experience in capturing and prioritizing user needs.• Contributed to the creation and maintenance of project documentation, including requirement documents and process flows.• Worked closely with development teams to ensure a shared understanding of IT project objectives and user requirements.• Utilized Agile methodologies, attending sprint planning meetings and daily stand-ups, providing status updates on IT project tasks.• Collaborated with QA teams to define and execute test cases, ensuring the quality and reliability of IT solutions.• Engaged in user acceptance testing (UAT), validating IT solutions against specified requirements and providing feedback for improvements.• Gained exposure to IT project management tools such as JIRA, assisting in tracking and managing project tasks and issues.• Demonstrated a proactive and adaptable approach to learning new IT technologies and tools.• Contributed to the development of user documentation and training materials for IT solutions.• Worked closely with IT stakeholders to gather feedback and incorporate changes into IT project deliverables.• Assisted in analyzing data and generating reports to support IT decision-making processes.• Maintained a focus on continuous improvement, actively seeking opportunities to enhance IT processes and practices.