Sheila (Xinyue) Gu Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Greater St. Louis Area

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies • Gathered requirements, wrote user stories and acceptance criteria.• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile mindset to team members and key stakeholders• Facilitated story estimation session and helped Product Owner on writing product roadmap• Acted as a liaison between technology team, stakeholders and subject matter experts to establish requirements and determine user need• Promoted agile principles by emphasizing scrum values, principles, and events• Continuously learned facilitation techniques and shared findings with the Scrum team• Promoted and supported Scrum through theory, practices, guidelines, and values.• Maintained balance between service and leadership.• Helped Development teams identify bottlenecks, and areas of waste. • Encouraged Development teams to strive towards Technical Excellence.• Coached effective backlog management in service to the Product Owner.• Assisted Product Owner in understanding release health.• Developed partnership with Product Owners to implement strategies of best practices.• Guided development teams successfully through the transition from Waterfall to Agile development.• Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.• Removed impediments and protected team member form interruptions and distraction to maximize productivity.• Encouraged and implemented process improved.• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into the sprint planning session.• Coordinated and participated in estimation meetings to provide high-level estimated story points for backlog items.• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.• In-depth knowledge of projects planning techniques and automated project planning tools.

Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China

• Had vision of business development, promotional item production, and events/festivals.• Actively engaged in and was a driving force in strategic planning meetings with shareholders.• Developed effective business plans, achieved profitability goals and grew business and client retention.• Good connect with stakeholders. Established long-team business relationships, major clients included Bosch Siemens, Samsung, Huawei as well as universities, government agencies and the Chinese military.• Created platform to allow smaller customers to make promotional item orders with manufacturers.• Built local industrial supply chain system to help small business owners attracting high quality clients. • Planned, organized, hired talent, contracted with vendors, etc. for 15 music festivals that were comprised of popular Chinese musicians, with budgets ranging from $200,000 to $5 million.• Helped core team grow from five employees to 3 self-organized departments.

Nantong City, Jiangsu, China

• Invented, patented, and sold medical device to treat teenagers with myopia (nearsightedness) and amblyopia (lazy eye). • Device used traditional Chinese medicines and heat to stimulate circulation in the ocular areas.• Sold over 66,000 units for $600 each, producing them at a cost of $50 per unit. Additionally, sold franchising rights for $6000 per locationWorked with two manufacturers to produce medical devices and procured franchise contracts with 300 stores.• Had a big picture and a strategic vision of the business• Worked with the R&D team and developed a whole product and service system with them• Facilitated marketing eventsOversaw annual marketing budget of $24,000 for online, print, radio, and television advertising.Sold over 66,000 units for $600 each, producing them at a cost of $50 per unit. Additionally, sold franchising rights for $6000 per location• • Donated several thousand devices to individuals through primary schools to students living in poverty who needed such treatments.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor'S Degree, Chinese And Western Clinical Medicine

Activities and Societies: Student Union Presidium, leader of semiannual free medical treatment giving activities