Gina Saucedo
Agile Scrum Master
Celina,TX
Summary
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
USAA, RTE
Plano, Texas
01.2022 - Current
- Drive continuous improvement via facilitating workshops; assess the agility level of the program and push teams to improve
- Lead and facilitate an ART of 12 teams through PI planning
- Coach Scrum Master’s, Product Owner’s, and other Account Executives to practice Agile principles
- Understand fundamentals of software development processes and procedures in an agile development environment
- Encourage continuous improvement at the program-level by facilitating ART ceremonies such as retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt workshops, System Demo’s, Scrum of Scrums, and constant demonstration of improving Agile maturity
- Servant leader working to improve, monitor, and escalate team impediments at the ART level
- Monitor and make suggestions upon review of agile metrics with the ART train
Scrum Master
USAA
Plano, Texas
01.2015 - 12.2021
- Primarily responsible for facilitating scrum ceremonies to encourage team collaboration, review team metrics, and escalate team impediments
- Coached Scrum team to help boost team productivity, story predictability, and self-efficiency for 5 teams in 2021
- Led and coached Product Owner to improve story writing, feature creation, and requirements gathering which led to an increase in customer satisfaction
- Provided key performance metrics to the management on the deliveries and benefits realization of change implementations
- Prioritizes work within an agile team and maintain a backlog of future work for consideration/prioritization
- Take responsibility for the development of ongoing enhancements, create and prioritize user stores with the agile teams
Business Intelligence Intern
USAA
Plano, Texas
05.2014 - 08.2014
- The internship experience at USAA has provided ample knowledge about pair programming, collaboration, and the Salesforce platform
- As Scrum Master, some of the impediments that we overcame were related to approval processes, system administration, and workflow design
- The application we developed using Apex (a proprietary language similar to Java) was successfully pushed to production
- Led demo presentations with clients to demonstrate the application functionality and to ensure business requirements were met
- Conducted in-depth research to grant access to group-specific functions through permission sets
- Utilized an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool within Datastage to retrieve and manipulate complex sets of data
- Played a vital role in organizing the celebration at the conclusion of the internship
- This included compiling an expense report, booking of activities, and venue location.
Education
MBA - Commerce
Texas A&M University - Commerce
Commerce, TX 06.2020 - 12.2021
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems
The University of Texas At Arlington
Arlington, TX 08.2010 - 12.2014
Skills
Teambuilding
Planning and Coordination
Project Management
Customer interaction
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Self-Motivated
Development team trainings
Time Management
Risk identification
Computer Skills
Certification
Certified Release Train Engineer: Scaled Agile, Inc.
Timeline
USAA, RTE
01.2022 - Current
MBA - Commerce
Texas A&M University - Commerce
06.2020 - 12.2021
Scrum Master
USAA
01.2015 - 12.2021
Business Intelligence Intern
USAA
05.2014 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems
The University of Texas At Arlington
08.2010 - 12.2014