Corri Coulter
Petaluma,CA
Summary
Certified Scrum Master and accomplished, enthusiastic, passionate servant leader with 10 years of success growing healthy, self-organizing software development teams. Communicates effectively with all levels of management. Persuasive, and articulate, combining business acumen with innate leadership abilities to identify, expand and refine processes for small and large teams and companies.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Scrum Lead
Lululemon
12.2022 - Current
- Support and guide a backend platform team, using both Kanban and Scrum, on how to manage their flow, how to adapt to changes quickly and efficiently, and continuously improve
- Provide release management support during production deployments
- Facilitate successful and collaborative multiple day, Quarterly Planning sessions
- Manage risks associated with our development projects through proactive identification and mitigation strategies
- Develop and iterate on quarterly roadmaps with the team and program management
- Advance the adoption of program retrospectives as a way to improve enterprise level, cross team initiatives
Scrum Master
Invitae
05.2019 - 09.2022
- Coached teams across the whole of the company, from the customer-facing, web development teams, to molecular biologists and medical genetics interpretation platform teams
- Assisted teams with release planning and became the facilitator of biweekly cross-functional release planning meetings
- Organized and facilitated Quarterly Planning
- Mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on benefits of Agile and its frameworks
- Responsible for upholding a psychologically safe environment for teams to thrive in
- Processed pain points and openly discussed external impediments so we could act on them
Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
05.2018 - 05.2019
- Facilitated the agile adoption process of a large, non co-located team working on a complex AI/Machine Learning project with a tight release schedule
- Coached the team through all of the Scrum fundamentals by way of virtual and in-person learning sessions
- Successfully brought the team to an understanding of Scrum metrics so as to improve productivity by making appropriate sprint commitments
- Tracked team KPI's and overall team health and communicated out to management weekly
- Communicated with project stakeholders, executive level management, product managers, PMO and cross functional teams about roadblocks, dependencies and risks
Scrum Master
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
08.2016 - 05.2018
- Successfully assisted a few teams with their Agile adoption over a period of three months and evangelized the benefits of scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
- As a true servant leader and with dedication to refinement, estimating, commitments and planning, the teams were able to release two large, complex projects pre-holiday peak
- Master of scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily stand-ups
- Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility
- Communicated with project stakeholders, executive level management, engineers, product managers, program managers and other cross functional teams about roadblocks, dependencies and risks
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY05.1997
Skills
- Agile Best Practices
- Leadership
- Team above Individual
- Release planning
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Scrum Training
- Kanban Training
- Project Management
- Atlassian Suite: Jira, Jira Plans, Confluence, Jira Align
- Miscellaneous apps: Miro, Loop, Slack, Agile Poker, Retrium, Trello, LucidSpark, PagerDuty
Certification
Certified Scrum Master, CSM, Scrum Alliance
Timeline
Sr. Scrum Lead
Lululemon
12.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
Invitae
05.2019 - 09.2022
Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
05.2018 - 05.2019
Scrum Master
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
08.2016 - 05.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Marist College