Todd Robertson, Csp, Csm, Pmi-Acp Email & Phone Number

Overland Park, Ks

As a contractor, working at Penton Media, I am assisting in a Agile transformation by: standing up new Scrum Agile teams, providing training on scrum practices, coaching and mentoring teams and team members on Agile principles, assisting in the creation of DevOps and helping scale the organization using SAFe.

Topeka, Kansas Area

Currently creating and standing up three new scrum teams, all of whom are new to the Agile Scrum process, by: implementing a new instance of Jira and training the team on its use; coaching new Product Owners on how to gather client deliverables and prioritize a product backlog; coaching Business Analysts on how to write themes, epics, and user stories; teaching the developers and testers on how to size stories through planning poker; facilitating sprint retrospectives and client demonstrations. Coached delivery executive and program manager on the benefits of the agile framework versus command and control/waterfall practices.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Served as Scum Master to a team of Developers, QA, and a Product Owner by guiding them in Scrum practices to meet project objectives. Coordinated and facilitated all of the Agile Scrum ceremonies: daily stand up meetings, iteration planning, product backlog grooming, sprint retrospectives, release planning, stakeholder iteration review meetings, and team retrospectives. Coached program manager and team leads on successful agile practices.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Stood up two new scrum teams and improved agile practices of a third, distributed team in Bogota, Columbia.

Web properties project manager overseeing the audit of Sprint owned domains and go-to-web marketing initiatives, which involved working with senior management, matrix managing vendors and coordinating project goals with Sprint's IT and DNS departments.

Worked as an IT liaison to finance, marketing and infrastructure services to improve the performance of Freightquote.com and subsidiary company websites by investigating business opportunities and developing information system solutions to meet the needs of the business.

Technical customer liaison for new projects/application enhancements of online mutual fund statements. Tracked and reported project progress and made scope recommendations. Performed Quality Assurance and regression testing.

Project managed new enhancements to the Sales Compensation Database including: facilitating meetings with non-technical and technical project stakeholders, writing requirements, conducting walk-throughs, developing test plans, conducting acceptance testing, conversion/migration coordination, and post-production follow up. Provided Senior Management, Marketing, Sales, and Operation organizations with consistent, accurate, mission critical information in a timely manner as part of Sprint’s SDLC. Managed small enhancement projects to Sprint’s customer Data Warehouse.

Ba, Liberal Arts

Activities and Societies: Alpha Psi Omega

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