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Denise Raffel-Melli

Fort Collins,Colorado

Summary

Accomplished Senior Scrum Master with a proven track record at OpenText and Hewlett-Packard Inc, expertly leading teams to deliver high-quality software using Agile methodologies. Skilled in Agile Coaching and Stakeholder Management, Have built several high-performing software development teams, fostered collaboration across departments, achieving low turnover and successful project milestones.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Scrum Master

OpenText
Fort Collins, CO
01.2013 - 07.2024

Created a high-performing software team developing a FinOps application that let you manage your cloud spend on any of the four major Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, GCP and OSI. I successfully influenced our worldwide teams to shape this product as a certified Scrum Master. I am also certified in SaFE methodologies as we have teams all over the world. I worked very closely with Product Management to optimize what our team would deliver.

I was also the people manager for a team of 10 engineers. I am proud to say that we has very low turnover in the last 11 years. I am an experienced leader and know how to mentor and create a high-performing software team.

My team was excellent at working together to deliver very high quality software on time. Our product was built using a microservice architecture which allowed us to make big changes quickly. We were the leaders in the company with test automation and secure software development.

Senior Scrum Master

Hewlett-Packard Inc
Fort Collins, CO
07.2001 - 01.2013

My team worked on various IT management tools as part of the HP Software ITOM business. We weren't using Scrum at this time, but were doing iterative development.

I successfully led multi-disciplinary teams towards achieving project milestones while adhering to established budgets and timelines.

I enhanced team productivity by implementing iterative methodologies and improving communication between cross-functional teams.

I developed strong relationships with key stakeholders across various departments to enhance collaboration efforts on complex projects.

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering

National Technical University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Agile Coaching
  • Product Backlog Management
  • Scrum Framework Expertise
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Change Management
  • Technical understanding
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Cloud expertise
  • Risk Assessment

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master

OpenText
01.2013 - 07.2024

Senior Scrum Master

Hewlett-Packard Inc
07.2001 - 01.2013

Master of Science - Software Engineering

National Technical University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Denise Raffel-Melli