Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Scrum Master / Agile Coaching Frederick, Maryland, United States

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Summary

I am a pragmatic and result-driven servant leader with a focus on building strong cross-functional teams and customer-centric products. Enthusiastic to face challenges with dedicated individuals that thirst to find solutions to complex problems. I am a recognized leader and scrum coach with 6 years of experience challenging project teams to streamline their approach to deliver more value and functionality for a greater return on investment and customer satisfaction. I have used measurable metrics to track the progress of engineering teams which led to an increase in value delivery from 60 to 90%. I streamlined backlog refinement which reduced scope creep from 60% to 20% and saved time used in sprint planning by about 60%. Strong consensus-building and negotiating skills, driving influence through cross-organizational relationships. Effective communicator, able to gain consensus and champion change across the organization by identifying improvement areas for a more effective and efficient process. Efficient in working with offshore teams, co-located and distributed teams, motivating them which leads to an increase in value delivery to the business. Successfully led the initiative to transition from traditional project management methodologies to Agile through the Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and adjourning processes. This led to an increase in the teams output, and faster and higher-value delivery to the customer. Proficient in Jira, Confluence, Miro, and Azure DevOps tools. I have continuously delivered value to businesses using frameworks such as SAFe, Scrum, Lean, and Kanban depending on the complexities of their projects. Developed a quarterly planning model named Integrated Quarterly Planning (IQP) which increased alignment on releases between business stakeholders and engineering teams from 40% to 90% and as well increased collaboration and alignment between engineering teams with regard to cross-team dependencies and risk from 40% to 80% leading to increase in value delivered to the business and a massive ROI.

Expectations

A great work culture that fosters growth, teamwork, inclusiveness, and diversity. I would also like environments that reward hard work and has integrity as their watchword. Customer centricity cannot be undermined as well.