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Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

• Led Agile transformation initiatives in financial services, ensuring compliance with industry regulations.• Implemented the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to enhance collaboration and efficiency across teams.• Managed end-to-end data migration projects with seamless transitions across systems.• Coordinated with cross-functional teams, including data analysts, developers, and business stakeholders.• Collaborated with Azure architects for integration of data migration processes.• Implemented CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps for automated testing and deployment.• Ensured scalability, performance, and reliability of Azure-based data pipelines.• Provided leadership in implementing Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.• Implemented risk management strategies to maintain project integrity.• Facilitated collaboration among cross-functional teams to achieve project goals.• Worked closely with internal and external stakeholders to align project outcomes with objectives.• Promoted Agile best practices, transparency, and accountability.• Developed and maintained metrics reports for project status, budget, and schedule.• Presented comprehensive reports to enhance transparency and decision-making.• Acted as a change agent, implementing continuous improvement initiatives.• Coached and mentored Scrum teams to foster a culture of continuous improvement.• Established strong communication channels with stakeholders in the financial services sector.• Ensured adherence to Scrum processes, aligning them with the unique challenges of financial projects.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Advocated and coached Lean/Agile principles to guide teams in transitioning from a waterfall model to Scrum.• Led the migration from Excel-based stories to JIRA-based backlogs, oversaw story migration, and conducted training.• Developed a custom JIRA dashboard for executive management, streamlining project status access.• Facilitated various Agile meetings, including stand-ups, sprint planning, stakeholder demos, and retrospectives.• Collaborated with product owners to prioritize backlogs and fostered a cultural shift towards Agile principles.• Ensured Test-Driven Development (TDD) and introduced weekly Agile discussions.• Prepared Product Owners for demos and provided insights into team progress in achieving objectives.• Collaborated with other Scrum Masters to identify cross-team dependencies.• Guided teams in embracing innovation and minimizing technical debts.• Promptly resolved impediments to ensure successful sprint completion.• Tracked cross-team dependencies and proactively addressed them.• Facilitated program increment planning meetings involving senior management and various stakeholders for the next program increment.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Collaborated with healthcare professionals, product owners, and development teams to enhance communication and streamline processes, contributing to the successful implementation of healthcare software solutions.• Managed two teams, each consisting of seven members, as a dedicated Scrum Master.• Specialized in Scrum Master responsibilities, overseeing ceremonies, sprint planning meetings, complexity point estimations, future story analysis, task breakdowns, and retrospectives for each sprint.• Took charge of Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog grooming, burn-down charts, velocity reports, and release plans.• Conducted product demonstrations for product owners.• Proficiently used tools such as Jira, demonstrating strong experience in the agile lifecycle, tracking, and process management.• Assumed responsibility for Project Management activities throughout the project life cycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closing phases.• Coached the team in utilizing JIRA for tracking use case mapping to estimations, executive briefings, reporting of Scrum metrics, burn-up charts, and process improvements.• Achieved a significant increase in team performance, with the team executing 80%-90% of user stories over multiple sprints with either steady or increased velocity after the burn-in period.• Initiated and reviewed migration plans, resource plans, and technical transition plans. Developed a blueprint to be followed by all future migration projects.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States

• Led Agile transformation for an e-commerce team to enhance the online shopping experience using Scrum methodologies.• Facilitated Agile ceremonies and ensured collaboration among cross-functional teams.• Skilled at accurately evaluating complex situations and finding successful solutions.• Managed system engineering workload, tracked priorities, and maintained project timelines.• Collaborated with teams, resolved impediments, and promoted continuous improvement.• Worked with Product Delivery Owners to prioritize and align with roadmaps.• Provided hands-on coaching on Agile Scrum and Kanban principles.• Effective communication with other delivery teams for successful software implementation.• Ensured execution alignment for Scrum Teams within the Product Delivery framework.• Tracked feature completion for multiple Scrum Teams and managed user story prioritization.• Collaborated with in-house and external Scrum Teams, removing impediments and managing dependencies.• Arranged and facilitated Agile meetings, demos, and retrospectives, promoting adherence to Agile processes.• Supported the adoption of Agile policies and procedures and coached on Agile practices.• Implemented improvements from team retrospectives and aligned with the definition of done (DoD) framework.• Participated in scrum-of-scrums (SoS) to manage dependencies and act as a servant leader across product/application teams.

Wheeling, West Virginia, United States

• Actively participated in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, gaining hands-on experience in the Agile framework.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product owners and developers, to understand and translate banking requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.• Contributed to the creation and maintenance of the product backlog, ensuring alignment with banking industry priorities and project objectives.• Assisted in facilitating grooming sessions, refining user stories, and prioritizing backlog items to support the Agile development process.• Gained exposure to Test-Driven Development (TDD) and participated in user acceptance testing (UAT), contributing to the validation of banking software solutions.• Worked closely with senior Agile Business Analysts to document and communicate project progress, fostering transparency within the team and with stakeholders.• Demonstrated a proactive approach in adapting to Agile methodologies, leveraging Agile project management tools such as JIRA.• Collaborated with team members to understand and navigate banking processes, contributing to the successful delivery of banking solutions.• Engaged in knowledge-sharing sessions to enhance understanding of banking industry regulations, compliance requirements, and best practices.• Contributed insights and ideas to improve Agile processes within the banking context, supporting the team's continuous improvement initiatives.