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Seixal, Pt

Agile Skills:• Performed in Agile scrum roles (scrum master, coach, release train engineer) for nine of the past thirteen years. In some engagements, also provided overall project management.• Have basic and advanced Agile certifications (A-CSM, CSPO, SAFe Agilist).• Led large-scale Agile teams utilizing Agile SAFe techniques. Experienced the evolution of the scaled processes and tools.• Facilitated advanced Agile planning or product increments using story mapping and table planning.• Led story grooming (sprint refinement) for next and next plus one iteration across multiple teams.• Facilitated daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning.• Provided vigorous removal of impediments or roadblocks.• Experienced in using Agile tools such as Jira, TFS, VSTS, Trello. Also, managed teams without any specific Agile development tools.• Reported standard and ad hoc team metrics via PowerBI, Excel, Jira.Project Management Skills:• 20+ years project management, including 9 years program & enterprise initiatives.• Led multiple large-scale, complex projects involving enterprise solutions.• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communications skills.• Adapted communications to the needs of various stakeholders.• Managed the schedule, resource, and scope pillars to deliver needs on-time.• Used problem-solving techniques to determine the problem and develop a solution.• Applied strong analytical abilities to technical and business solutions.• Developed well-structured project plans following sound techniques and experience.• Well-developed organizational skills have provided the foundation to track projects.• Built productive, highly motivated and trusting relationships with team members.• Engaged effectively with stakeholders and executive leadership teams.• Delivered well-designed presentation using proven communication concepts.• Managed enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple technical/ business groups.• BS/ MS Engr., MBA

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Led multiple teams facilitating scrum. Worked to continually improve team productivity. Coached teams. Mentored new scrum masters.

Stafford, Tx, Us

• Provide project management support to high-level enterprise re-platform project.• Led development and coordination of partners of a new product line to bring on new customers.

South Jordan, Ut, Us

• Scrum Master for multiple teams that are developing a web application for healthcare analytics.• Facilitating SAFe (Scaled Agile) practices in program environment.

Bayport, Minnesota, Us

• Led an experienced scrum team to enhance and maintain and major online hub application for external dealers. Released due to COVID-19 workforce reduction.• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, and removed roadblocks.• Based on initial observations and team feedback, developed an approach to enable team to better focus on sprint execution and thereby be more productive. The approach started with the product road map.• Coached team and product owner on making transformative changes to the way they organize and plan their work.• Created shared Teams SharePoint pages that effectively communicated team assets, provided a stakeholder request portal, and application support pages.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Led a high-priority, enterprise project for automated server builds. Included 21 dependent deliverables from 9 internal partners.• Started up an enterprise initiative to upgrade LINUX and Windows servers.• Worked with scrum team to manage and deliver on their external dependency needs.

• Led local and remote teams on a large re-platform and re-branding of ecommerce site for Barnes & Noble Press. The effort included a complete UI overhaul with advanced user features.• Transitioned team to a more formalized scrum framework with daily scrums, refinements, demo’s, retrospectives, and planning. • Established a road map that synched scope and timeline.• Integrated best practices for Agile testing and development.• Coached team and product owner on Agile best practices.• Developed a deployment plan for systems, data migrations, and customer migration.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

• Led Agile start up team for an SAP IBP configuration for the Salt Business.• Facilitated scrums, demo’s, retrospectives, and planning for an internationally distributed team.• Established project backlog, tracking, and metrics in new VSTS tool. • Exported team sprint data to PowerBI for producing dashboard metrics.• Developed communications plan and delivered concise communications to project stakeholders.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Led teams on several large, high-profile infrastructure projects to upgrade patient monitoring systems and hospital labs.• Partnered with external vendors and on-site medical staff to implement their products and manage their tasks.

• Launched a multi-national Salesforce.com implementation. • Led new, geographically distributed Agile scrum team in a complex Salesforce.com implementation.• Provided scrum set up, training, and coaching to new Agile scrum team.• Facilitated the daily scrum, sprint demo’s, retrospectives, planning, and removed roadblocks for the scrum team.• In addition, performed project manager responsibilities for developing the overall plan and leading activities external to the scrum team.• Completed a large migration of SAP applications and data to Oracle Exadata.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Performed the leadership and facilitation activities of a SAFe: Release Train Engineer for a scaled Agile group of three to five scrum teams. The scrum teams developed the core functionality for a large, multi-purpose search platform.• Facilitated daily scrum-of-scrums (SoS) and weekly backlog refinement (grooming) meetings. Managed stakeholder requests and backlog development. Provided estimates, timelines, and progress updates to impacted stakeholders. Provided escalation for removing roadblocks.• Led quarterly incremental planning sessions across the three to five scrum teams.• Developed a feature backlog that together with high-level estimates provided a road map for future planning and a tool for analyzing priorities.

Basel, Basel, Ch

• Led three geographically distributed scrum teams that were new to scrum for a large program that reset the model and migrated bio-technical data. The primary purpose was for regulatory track and trace of all plant materials that were in research and develop.• Facilitated daily scrums and other scrum ceremonies (sprint review, retros, planning) and removed team roadblocks.• Provided Agile coaching to scrum teams that were new to Agile scrum.• Participated in scrum-of-scrums for progress communications and issue escalations.• Worked closely with lead architects to drive high-level solutioning and domain learning.• Collaborated with vendors to provide hardware systems and packaged applications such as Informatica MDM and Data Quality, IBM Data Stage, and RedHat JBoss platform.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Led a single large scrum team on several projects that migrated online legal and business research applications to a new platform. • Facilitated the daily scrum, sprint refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and planning. Removed team roadblocks. • Coordinated the team’s development across a larger scaled Agile and operations delivery approach. • Facilitated backlog hydrations (creating backlog stories) with team.• Tracked and reported team progress and metrics.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Initiated and led two very large, $5+ million, projects that are part of large program to re-platform and enhance delta.com.• Collaborated with business and tech teams in Minneapolis, Atlanta, and offshore.• Worked with external vendors to establish business requirements.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Led eight large migration projects and one program over the five plus years. Projects were centered on the legal application for KeyCite and some content migrations. The largest program was over $10 million (18-month duration).• In mid-2007, obtained team Agile training and subsequently facilitated two Agile scrum teams.• Facilitated the early scrum development using only physical scrum boards and Excel spreadsheets.• Assisted the teams’ transition to Agile scrum by facilitating training, backlog hydration, and scrum set up (environments, automated testing, tools).

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Led multiple large and small projects to enable the systems for person-to-person money transfer.• Managed from beginning to end a large Multi-Currency program that enabled customers to obtain a guaranteed exchange and receive amount in other currencies.• Reported progress and obtained direction from CIO/ CFO executives.

Bloomington, Minnesota, Us

• Led large program for remediation on non-IT assets for millennium program.• Led data warehouse and analytics program for sales and research. Program crossed five enterprise domains and reported to executive leadership.• Played a key role in assisting management in the development of the PMO organization.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace Engineering, Minor In Mathematics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics