Description
Summary Agile Scrum specialist with nearly 20 years' experience building and supporting high-performing agile software development teams throughout product lifecycle. Experience with various Agile methodologies including Scrum, SAFE, and blended approaches. A believer in continual-improvement for both process and product, informed by a rich, technical Software QA Engineering background. Scrum Master / Project Management Skills: * Project Management - proven record managing multiple, multi-million dollar software projects concurrently, both for private companies and federal government contracts. - Scrum Master - facilitation and leadership of Scrum planning meetings, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily standups, impediment resolution, Scrum of Scrums, backlog grooming, backlog management, scrum board ownership, product tool management and dashboards - Change Management - management of changing requirements, deliverables, expectations while project under development. Owner of communication of changes up and down chain - Release Management - management of nested interdependencies into release planning and project scheduling. Experienced creating processes for integrating parallel development efforts in a risk aware manner while respecting project deadlines - Scaled Agile Project management - experience working on complex, multi team parallel development projects with interdependencies and cross-team gating factors. - Change Agency - experience transitioning and training teams to work under new-to-them project management methodologies. - Team Management - QA Engineering Team Management experience, including Training, mentoring, performance management, KPI presentation, Resource Allocations, hiring, budget planning, etc. - Mixed model/ distributed team project management - onshore/offshore/international