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Los Angeles, California, United States

•Drive technical roadmap initiatives throughout the entire software development lifecycle•Build strong relationships with customers, partners, collaborators, and internal team members across different time zones•Work with Product, Engineering, Data and various collaborators to prioritize and coordinate development efforts to deliver on schedule•Coach, facilitate, and continuously improve the team’s adoption of Agile methodologies while also driving efficient process and transparency•Prepare and establish project plans, documentation, risk mitigation and resource management for cross-team initiatives as well as large waterfall projects with hard deadlines as needed•Works with the project collaborators to develop schedules and establish project achievements•Ensures project progress against defined landmarks and deadlines and actively communicates with key partners to keep them informed on project activities•Facilitate getting the work done practicing servant leadership and encourage discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.•Assist in team development through holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work, and leveraging cross-functional team skills to improve product backlog throughput.•Oversees that user stories are clear and ready for the development team to clearly estimate and work on within a sprint•Leads releases across several teams by tracking fix versions in Jira and working with technical leads for deployments

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Facilitate value-driven sprint planning, daily Stand ups, Sprint review, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.• Shielded the team from outside distractions, impediments, to maintain focus on product backlog project timeline and sprint goal• Tracked team progress in Jira and always converting related metrics as a tool for continuous improvement.• Worked closely with product owners in backlog management and continuous delivery of features. • Worked with scrum masters across team on to manage cross-team dependencies in other to minimize technical dept• Create, maintain, and share metrics, team tools, burn-down and burn-up charts, progress dashboards, etc.• Tracks metrics that are important to the success of the team and its delivery, and to help with continuous improvements• Help to remove impediments and obstructions to the team’s progress• Assists team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and proper sizing of stories into story points providing a solid understanding of the scrum framework to successfully complete projects even in complex situations.• Helps the team to embrace the scrum principles with the aim of building a culture of continuous improvement while remaining focused on delivering value to our customers• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint progress and maintain process documentation and task definition ensuring internal and external communication improving transparency and information sharing• Support Product Owners, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog

Los Angeles County, California, United States

• Scheduled and facilitated scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, product backlogs refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings). • Helped and encouraged team members to make impediment visible regardless of complexity and scaling bottlenecks• Working with Product owner to prioritize epics and stories in the backlog from print to sprint• Proactively communicated issues and risks with the Leadership Team• Coached the Development Team on self-organization and cross-functionality. • Used various techniques for effective Product Backlog management and story estimates. • Helped the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items. • Mitigated conflicts, removed impediments, and helped to foster good practice and principles among team members• Helped team to become self-organized and self-explorative• Conducted variety of Retrospective games to engage team and enhance bonding• Protected teams from over committing• Helped and encouraged teams to self-form and self-direct their own sprint execution and create an environment in which the teams can increase productivity, quality, and predictability

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