Ada Musheyev
Richmond Hill,NY
Summary
Highly accomplished servant leader, with broad experience in successfully delivering large-scale software, web, and mobile development projects and programs.
Results and efficiency focused leader with a broad background in technology consulting at Fortune 500 companies.
Known for collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching Scrum Masters, Product Managers, and multiple development teams.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
CORE COMPETENCIES
- In-depth knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and other Agile frameworks.
- Ability to lead Agile transformation initiatives.
- Strong facilitation and coaching skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Expert at driving the adoption of agile practices, removing impediments, and fostering self-management.
- Trusted advisor guiding customer- centric development and implementation of OKRs and KPIs Fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
- Experience with tools: Jira, Rally, Confluence, Mural, Visio, MSOffice, GSuite, Lucidspark, Canva, and Figma.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Skills
- Agile Transformation
- Agile Coaching
- SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean Agile
- Program/Project Management
- Change Management
- People Management
- Leadership
- Customer Centric
- Design Thinking
- Team Building
- Continuous Improvement
- Creative Problem Solving
- Story/Impact Mapping
- Release Planning
- Attention to Detail
- Process Improvement
- Employee Coaching and Mentoring
Work History
Agile Coach/Program Manager/Delivery Lead
Capital One
12.2019 - Current
- Spearheaded and oversaw program delivery for 30+ mobile developers, scrum masters, designers, and product managers.
- Lead lean-agile transformation within program, modeling lean-agile values, principles, and practices.
- Drove improvements in delivery resulting in 25% growth in customer engagement.
- Ensured actions to achieve OKRs were completed resulting in increase from 700K to 1.3M customers.
- Led continuous process improvement culture resulting in 60% reduction in time to market.
- Directed meetings to align Product, Tech, Design, and Agile Team Leads and managed action items.
- Ran internal Innovation Center and successfully held 3 Hackathons.
- Developed and delivered Agile Training for engineers, designers, and product teams, achieving 30% productivity gains.
- Guided program work refinement and prioritization, facilitated planning meetings.
- Identified program obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team.
- Established milestones and objectives based on input from functional areas and stakeholders.
- Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.
- Met with program stakeholders on regular basis to assess progress and make adjustments.
- Facilitated program Agile maturity assessments and led improvements discovered in process.
- Facilitated and led PI planning and scrum ceremonies.
- Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
Agile Coach/Sr. Scrum Master
Cox Automotive
11.2016 - 12.2019
- Successfully coached all levels of Agile organization.
- Resolved problems that arise when scaling Agile, removing impediments at organizational level.
- Led organization-wide Agile Center of Excellence, and provided guidance in on- going activities.
- Coached and mentored product managers in grooming their backlog, roadmapping and prioritization.
- Developed and delivered Story Mapping, Impact Mapping, Gherkin training.
- Established and facilitated program-level Agile planning sessions and events.
- Led Agile Assessment and subsequent overhaul of production support workflow.
- Managed and led enterprise improvement of production tech support process achieving savings of 60% of dev time.
- Led agile ceremonies, such as stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint refinement, sprint reviews and sprint planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Evangelized agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
Agile Coach/Sr. Scrum Master
Cablevision
01.2015 - 11.2016
- Managed group of Scrum Masters, as organization-wide strategic Agile coach.
- Provided training and certified 6 leadership members to become SAFe Agilists.
- Coached teams to higher levels of maturity at a pace that was sustainable and comfortable for team.
- Assisted with product backlog maintenance, story mapping, prioritization, and resolution of defects.
- Successfully carried out agile transformation training for different teams to ensure smooth migration to SAFe/Scrum/Kanban methodology, resulting in teams responding to change easily with efficient delivery.
- Provided scaling expertise to align multiple agile teams, facilitate quarterly planning with large groups, manage portfolio backlog of epics and features, and guide decision making with Product, Senior Leaders, QA, and Architects.
- Implemented scaled agile organization of teams around product delivered to customer.
- Brought teams together in scaled agile to plan, execute, and learn to deliver more consistently and quickly.
- Drove relentless improvement through Inspect and Adapt workshops, and assessing agility level of ART and coaching for ART growth.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
Agile Coach/Sr. Scrum Master
DISNEY ABC TELEVISION GROUP
04.2013 - 01.2015
- Managed multiple scrum work streams of complex TV Broadcast software development projects.
- Onboarded LOBs into the transformation process.
- Coached teams on the values and practices of Agile and Scrum/Kanban.
- Led projects with resources in multiple locations, onshore and offshore, including external vendors.
- Acted as Jira Admin, providing comprehensive Jira training to the team members and new employees.
- Took primary responsibility for relationships with product & business stakeholders within and across teams to better plan for and prioritize work.
- Facilitated Scrum/Kanban ceremonies: refinement, release/sprint planning, standups, demos, and Retro sessions.
- Guided Product Owner and development teams on release planning and implementation.
- Supported Agile Coach Lead and collaborated with scrum masters within the Enterprise Agile Transformation Office.
- Evangelized agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Scrum Master
VALTECH SOLUTIONS, INC
12.2011 - 03.2013
Project Manager/Scrum Master
NATURE PUBLISHING
07.2011 - 11.2011
Project Manager/Scrum Master
CLEAR CHANNEL RADIO, INC
01.2011 - 06.2011
Project Manager/Scrum Master
TURNER BROADCASTING, INC
11.2009 - 04.2010
Web Project Manager
NBR, Inc.
New York, NY
2003.08 - 2009.11
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management/Data Communication
Touro College
New York, NY06.1997
Master of Science - ComputerScience
The State University of Economics
Tashkent, Uzbekistan06.1987
Certification
- CSM Scrum Master
- CSPO Scrum Product Owner CSP Scrum Professional
- SAFe SPC
- ICP-ACC Agile Coaching ICP-ATF
- Agile Team Facilitation ICP-CAT
- Coaching Agile Transformations CAL-E
- Certified Agile Leader Essentials CAL-O
- Certified Agile Leader for Organizations
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quote
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett