Experienced Engineering Leader and Scrum Master with a proven track record in leading Agile transformations and enhancing web development projects using Python, JavaScript, and React. Known for improving product quality and release reliability significantly, alongside boosting team efficiency and sprint capacity. Expert in fostering cross-functional team collaboration and providing impactful technical mentorship. Adept in stakeholder management, with a focus on delivering projects that exceed expectations.
Hi, I’m
Amanda Aguilar-Miller
Salt Lake City,UT
Summary
Overview
4
years of professional experience
3
Certifications
Work History
O.C. TannerSalt Lake City, UT
Engineering Manager
10.2022 - 12.2023
Job overview
- Implemented code review practices, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to enhance product quality, reducing defects, and improving release reliability by 25%.
- Established strong communication channels with the Product, QA, and UX teams, leading to better alignment on requirements and smoother handoffs between teams.
- Evaluated current systems' security protocols and identified potential threats or vulnerabilities.
- Provided technical mentorship to junior team members through one-on-one interactions or group training sessions.
- Led software teams in optimizing test plans and improving test designs.
- Analyzed workflows and established priorities for daily operations.
- Developed processes to create high-quality products and customer satisfaction.
- Monitored compliance with coding standards across all projects within the software engineering department.
- Set annual objectives, bonuses and pay adjustments and mentored team leads in resolving conflicts and managing priorities.
- Managed risks and worked with cross-functional team leads to produce deliverables and meet customer requirements.
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring deadlines were met within budget constraints.
O.C. TannerSalt Lake City, UT
Scrum Master
01.2020 - 12.2023
Job overview
- Tracked Agile metrics, like velocity and sprint burn-down, to identify areas for improvement, ensuring on-time delivery and high-quality outcomes that satisfied business and client requirements.
- Led Agile transformation across four teams as an Agile Coach, focusing on adopting best practices, and fostering strong communication between development, design, and QA teams.
- Increased sprint capacity by 25% and reduced manual updates by 30% by implementing customized Jira board automations tailored to each team's workflow.
- Organized quarterly planning sessions to align client priorities with product roadmaps, ensuring projects remained on track, and stakeholders were kept informed of progress.
- Facilitated A/B testing and feature rollouts, boosting client feature adoption rates by 15%, and helping refine user experience.
- Provided Agile training and mentorship to team members and new Scrum Masters, building Agile competencies within the organization.
- Provided guidance to Product Owners regarding Agile principles and best practices for managing product backlogs.
- Produced thorough, accurate and timely reports of project activities.
- Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plans.
- Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
- Kept project teams on-task with proactive control of budgets, schedules and scopes.
- Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.
- Developed training materials to educate stakeholders about agile methodologies.
- Encouraged continuous process improvement initiatives through retrospectives.
- Conducted application review meetings with end-users to document and gather business needs and translate into functional requirement documents.
- Monitored milestones and deliverables to stay ahead of schedules and proactively spot potential roadblocks.
- Completed thorough risk assessments and deployed management and response strategies to prevent roadblocks.
- Developed detailed project plans and estimates based on identified risks and options.
- Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translate into product backlog.
- Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
- Kept up-to-date with industry trends in agile software development methods.
- Worked closely with sales teams to ensure client satisfaction from acquisition to proposal phases.
- Organized meetings between stakeholders from different departments to discuss potential solutions or strategies.
Education
Scrum Alliance
Certification from Certified Scrum Master
11.2023 - 11.2023
University Overview
- A certification that underscores my expertise in Agile practices and leadership.
Bottega TechLehi, UT
Certification from Full-Stack Software Engineering
08.2019 - 11.2019
University Overview
- Comprehensive coursework covering front-end and back-end technologies, emphasizing practical application in software development projects.
Skills
- Agile Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Web Development Technologies (Yarn, HTML5, Nodejs, JavaScript, API's, Python, Typescript, CSS, Frontend Development, Git, Apollo GraphQL, SQL, Nextjs, React)
- Technical Mentorship
- Project Management (JIRA, Confluence, Figma, Pendo, LaunchDarkly, Miro, FullStory, Tableau)
- CI/CD Pipelines
- B2B & B2B2C
- SaaS
- Functional and Integration Testing
- Backlog Management
- Risk Identification
- Customer requirements analysis
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Requirements Gathering
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certified Yoga Teacher
Timeline
Scrum Alliance
Certification from Certified Scrum Master
11.2023 - 11.2023
Engineering Manager
O.C. Tanner
10.2022 - 12.2023
Scrum Master
O.C. Tanner
01.2020 - 12.2023
Bottega Tech
Certification from Full-Stack Software Engineering
08.2019 - 11.2019