Contractor for TN Dept of Treasury• I helped the Treasury pioneer with Scrum and transition teams from a legacy waterfall methodology to developing software with agile principles. This resulted in a value driven delivery approach fueled by constant feedback loops, which saw software being delivered to customers more quickly and needs fulfilled more rapidly.• Project lead and Scrum Master for HR’s Performance Management system, which was built from the ground up, giving Treasure… Show more Contractor for TN Dept of Treasury• I helped the Treasury pioneer with Scrum and transition teams from a legacy waterfall methodology to developing software with agile principles. This resulted in a value driven delivery approach fueled by constant feedback loops, which saw software being delivered to customers more quickly and needs fulfilled more rapidly.• Project lead and Scrum Master for HR’s Performance Management system, which was built from the ground up, giving Treasure greatly improved quality of life features• Project lead and Scrum Master for the Tennessee Investment Management software which handles over 500 million dollars in transactions a day, providing much needed enhancements.• Aided Business Analysts and Product Owners in gathering requirements and engaging with customers, creating design documents and flow diagrams, writing User Stories, and Refining backlogs. • Coaching team members and management on best practices and team dynamics through collaboration. Helped write their Agile Development standards.• Assisted QA in developing testing standards.• Facilitated and conducted Stand-ups, Retrospectives, Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews. Utilized tools such as Lucid Charts and SharePoint to both facilitate and whiteboard the Scrum ceremonies.• Provided organizational tool recommendations to make teams conduct their work more efficiently with major quality of life improvements. Show less

• Scrum Master of two Scrum teams that work on TMS systems (Transportation Management Systems). • Help with Product Ownership duties for a Customer Portal allowing quoting and booking LTL truck loads, document and invoice viewing, and online payments, which caters to a 4 billion-dollar 3PL business in annual revenue, while being its Scrum Master. • Formerly a Scrum Master for a Digital Freight Brokerage system, providing Carriers the ability to both view and bid on loads available in… Show more • Scrum Master of two Scrum teams that work on TMS systems (Transportation Management Systems). • Help with Product Ownership duties for a Customer Portal allowing quoting and booking LTL truck loads, document and invoice viewing, and online payments, which caters to a 4 billion-dollar 3PL business in annual revenue, while being its Scrum Master. • Formerly a Scrum Master for a Digital Freight Brokerage system, providing Carriers the ability to both view and bid on loads available in our TMS, which saw month over month growth of adoption. This platform’s automation abilities reduced the overall workload of our IBO’s exponentially, saving us time. • Works with various teams on SSwS (Scaling Scrum with Scrum) to both ensure the priority ROIs are met in a timely fashion. Show less

Leading MODE's TMS platform quality assurance team comprised of external consultants, both manual and automation testers, for software quality control.• Created test plans and assisted in training team members on application features. • Implemented the 80/20 rule for test cases and tracked metrics for quality software delivery in both Jira, Zephyr, and Confluence. • Our QA team helped others with ticket standards, making sure proper Acceptance Criteria was written along with… Show more Leading MODE's TMS platform quality assurance team comprised of external consultants, both manual and automation testers, for software quality control.• Created test plans and assisted in training team members on application features. • Implemented the 80/20 rule for test cases and tracked metrics for quality software delivery in both Jira, Zephyr, and Confluence. • Our QA team helped others with ticket standards, making sure proper Acceptance Criteria was written along with other features. • I used Selenium based PyTest to develop from scratch an automation suite that provided robust regression testing. • Wrote and structured Load and Stress tests using Locust.io. • I both helped hire QA members as well as QA contractors. • Acted in an advisory role to the development team in Scrum practices. Show less

I create automated tests to ensure accuracy in the software development process along with assisting in normal QA duties, and run database conversions from one product to the other.

12B Combat Engineer and Squad Leader with the 441st Route Clearance Co.

Loaded trailers, oversaw unload doors, quality assurance, and acted team leader from time to time.