Dee Lee
Sheboygan,WI
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
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
4th Grade Teacher
James Madison Elementary School
08.2021 - Current
- Communicated student progress, academic difficulties, or behavioral concerns to parents, guardians and administration using tact and professionalism to improve student academic performance.
- Built positive relationships with parents to involve families in educational process.
- Prepared materials for lessons, assignments, and assessments, and evaluated, corrected and graded student performance to identify gaps in skills or knowledge and set realistic goals.
- Drove student learning by establishing clear classroom plans and group objectives, as well as actionable strategies to achieve each goal.
- Collaborated with administrators on classroom policies, management strategies, and discipline.
- Worked one-on-one with students to determine strengths, weaknesses, and learning patterns.
- Evaluated individual student abilities and created action plans based on current level and desired growth goals to support preparedness for transition to next grade level.
- Developed and implemented discipline strategies to maintain classroom order.
- Provided individualized and diversified instruction to support student comprehension and assist with navigating challenges.
- Helped students develop self-esteem and life skills by fostering healthy conflict-resolution, critical thinking, and communication.
- Created supportive and inclusive learning environments, fostering positive classroom atmospheres supporting student growth and learning.
- Assessed student learning progress and comprehension with routine tests and standardized examinations.
- Assessed student progress by administering tests and evaluating results.
- Adapted lessons to differentiate instruction and meet students' diverse learning needs and abilities.
- Integrated technology and multimedia tools into lessons to enhance student learning.
Scrum Master
Hireworks
03.2023 - 06.2023
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
Bilingual (Hmong) Educational Assistant
James Madison Elementary School
09.2005 - 06.2021
- Instructed small groups of students in common cores such as reading, writing and math
- Demonstrated specific skills and activities for students to improve understanding and take excess workload off teachers.
- Developed and implemented strategies to improve student engagement.
- Collaborated with instructors to develop engaging lesson plans.
- Worked with individuals and small groups in classroom and reinforced material introduced by teacher using bilingual skills when needed.
- Demonstrated flexibility, coped with challenges of rapidly changing world and assisted students lacking language proficiency.
- Assisted students in developing deeper understanding of course concepts by providing one-on-one support.
- Worked expertly and productively with students and parents from diverse ethnic groups.
- Served as translator and interpreter for written and verbal communication to students, parents and staff members.
- Assessed situations and acted swiftly and appropriately and with sound judgment for safety and well-being of students and teacher.
Education
Agile Academy
RemoteBachelor of Science -
Grand Canyon University
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Team Collaboration
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Atlassian JIRA
- Miro
Certification
- ICAgile Certified Professional – ICAgile
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) – Scrum.org
- Early Childhood through Middle School Childhood License
Timeline
Scrum Master
Hireworks
03.2023 - 06.2023
4th Grade Teacher
James Madison Elementary School
08.2021 - Current
Bilingual (Hmong) Educational Assistant
James Madison Elementary School
09.2005 - 06.2021
Agile Academy
Bachelor of Science -
Grand Canyon University