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Fairfield, Oh, Us

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Work as a Lead Trainer to educate and coach aspiring and seasoned scrum masters, business analysts, and product owners. Led training for hands-on agile understanding, Scrum and Kanban framework, interview preparation. Main goal is to effectively prep candidates to become Certified Scrum Masters and achieve SAFe certifications.

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Madison, Wi, Us

Worked as an Agile Coach and Sr. Scrum Master overseeing 3 software engineering teams. Oversaw development team that was responsible for key go-lives and ongoing development for client’s both in the US and abroad. Facilitated all agile ceremonies for engineering teams and lead the organization’s transformation to the Agile Kanban Methodology.• Performed the successful merger of 2 acquisitions into Akerna’s Jira and Confluence instances • Lead the transition of 4 engineering teams from a Scrum to Kanban methodology o Performed weekly coaching sessions in the first 3 months of the transition o Coordinated efforts to ensure Jira was properly setup for the new methodology: projects, workflows, roles, etc.• Facilitated daily standups, bi-weekly retrospectives for each of the 3 engineering teams• Ran weekly scrum of scrums and engineering demos across 8 teams• Completed discovery process with an engineering team that led to multiple process changes resulting in an increase of weekly story points from an average of 22.5 to 30.5 for the team• Coordinated testing efforts with QA and engineering team• Supported Product Owner in weekly grooming and costing ceremonies to ensure stories were adequately written and built out• Built out and implemented an equation to more accurately estimate the capacity of engineers without neglecting time off o Avg weekly velocity = [total story points last 3 months] / [total days worked / 5]• Liaison to Director of product engineering and CTO for the progress of engineering teams• Worked with QA team to write test scripts and track fringe case tests. Focus was on Gherkin Statement: Given, When, Then..• Worked alongside PO to craft user stories: As a ___, I want _____, So that ____.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Worked as lead Business Analyst and Scrum Master on multiple key business domains. Oversaw development team that was responsible for key go-lives and ongoing analytics for 25+ locations on Healthcare software across the Midwest. Facilitated all agile ceremonies for development team and was a lead with the organization’s transformation to the Agile Methodology.Communicated and coordinated with other management, product managers and support specialists on product issues. Gathered and documented client requirement, business needs and project objectives via feedback sessions and client meetings.Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprisePerformed gap analyses on reporting needs for the merger of 25 clinics from Cerner EMR to Epic EMROversaw development and maintenance of 1,000+ reports and 30+ self-service analytics toolsProvided recommendation and implemented request triage process that streamlined 10 business domains, reducing duplicate work by over 20% and increasing turnaround time by 25%

Assisted the Product Owner in managing and grooming the Product BacklogFacilitated requirements gathering sessions to understand and document complex business needs, often eliciting hidden requirements and clarifying vague and unclear requirementsFacilitated meetings, whiteboard sessions and workshops to start conversation on user stories and acceptance criteriaAssisted the Product Owner to break down Epics and themes into executable user storiesAuthored user stories following “INVEST” model and assigned acceptance criteriaWorked with team members to define Sprint Delivery Strategy, which included breaking User Stories into “SMART” tasks and estimating them in size and hours in accordance with AGILE methodologyParticipated and contributed on daily standups, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetingsDesigned and produced UI Flow Diagram, Use Case Diagram, Process Flow Diagram, Activity Diagram and Logical Data Model for effective communication.Worked closely with the QA team in defining defect and planning and executing necessary test cases for resolving the defects within the given time box.Facilitated UAT sessions for validation from end users