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Seattle, Washington

Greater Seattle Area

Directed the business planning from conceptualization to long-range goal-setting for a social media start-up company. Defined a product road map for the roll-out of new programs, strategic partnerships, future enhancements, and branding refinements based on the strategy and vision; manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, site performance and operational support load. Took ultimate responsibility for the return on investment (ROI) of the product development effort. Created the marketing plan, advertising roadmap and social media campaigns leading up to the launch. Achievement Highlights as Scrum Master:• Managed full SDLC, from idealization, to discovery, to execution, then to deployment. • Facilitated release planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings. • Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions. • Improved velocity, capacity, and the team’s definition of done accuracy every sprint. • Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. • Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.

Kennesaw Georgia

Developed detailed project plans and estimates based on identified risks and options to transition the company from Waterfall to Scrum. Walked organization through Scrum as an Empirical Process Framework and provided guidance as an Agile coach. Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally. Assisted product owners and business analysts with backlog creation and grooming. Facilitated Scrum team in all aspects of Scrum, including daily stand-ups, release planning, retrospectives, demos and definition of done. Mediated conflicts, fostering team and coached individuals improving team dynamicsAchievement Highlights:• Inherited 40% on-time project completion rate and coached organization on incremental releases to add value by using 2 week sprints.• Advocated adoption of agile methodologies and effectively persuaded leadership to adopt Company-wide. Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on the benefits of Agile and Scrum.• Utilized Scrum practices to help the organization determine what their current velocity was and helped increase velocity every sprint within the first year of agile adoption.• Coached organization and empowered Scrum team to redesign the customer interface of the customer-facing portal and delivered a more user-centered design which improved levels of satisfaction and streamlined processes and increasing web sales 25%.• Facilitated sprint retrospectives and created burndown/burnup reports to present to Senior Executives

Greater Atlanta Area

Achievement Highlights as Product Owner:• Worked with cross-functional teams on Product Development from planning, requirement gathering, development, testing, deployment, and performance measurement. Made and communicated critical decisions consistently with leadership, integrity, quality, urgency and teamwork.• Defined project scope, goals, and deliverables to ensure consistency with company strategy and commitments. Developed crucial functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support service specifications.• Created, maintained, prioritized, and groomed the Product Backlog. Wrote User Stories. Defined Release and Sprint Goals. Communicated continuously with the Scrum Team and Stakeholders realistic and attainable expectations for the Product Release.Achievement Highlights as Scrum Master• Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories.• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.• Coordinated the work efforts of 8 person team for various projects. Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.

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