Garicka Blue
CYPRESS
Summary
Highly trained individual knowledgeable and talented leader. Certified SAFe Scrum Master, and Release Train Egineer with definitive leadership qualities and strong critical thinking and decision making skills with over 9 years of experience. Organized and dependable Professional successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile
Randstad
05.2022 - Current
- Coach and mentor teams, and stakeholders on Agile principles and practices.
- Facilitate and assist the teams with deployment process.
- Help team monitor open defects and work with QE team on any impediments or blockers.
- Track and obtain UAT results from our business partners.
- participate in scrum events, including Iteration Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, DEMO, and Retrospectives.
- Remove impediments and foster effective collaboration and communication within cross-functional teams.
- Coordinate and align efforts across multiple teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Engage with stakeholders to manage expectations, align goals, and communicate project progress.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging Agile metrics and data to measure and optimize team performance.
- Work effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
Scrum Master
Capital One
11.2020 - 05.2022
- Assess each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Collaborate with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Facilitate Scrum framework, sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Motivate teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
- Identify and find ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Communicate with leaders across organization on regular basis to ensure transparency into delivery, risks, and issues.
- Integrates Agile and Lean principles into team practices and work products
Scrum Master
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
09.2018 - 10.2020
- Worked closely with Enterprise and Enterprise Local System Application Coordinators, trainers, Local System executives, and all others involved in project.
- Worked with various IT teams responsible for implementation and overall management of local system physician practice EMR implementation and support systems.
- Facilitated Agile Scrum ceremonies like daily stand ups, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives and backlog grooming meetings.
- Proactively involved in identifying project risks before they impede team performance, and always working with teams to develop long term risk mitigation plans.
- Tracked project metrics such as velocity and Burn down reports to judge project progress while managing risk, stakeholder communication plans, physician offices, vendors, and third party consultants.
- Helped Product Owner prioritized product backlog, and writing INVEST ready user stories, to streamline planning and estimation.
- Monitored project progress continuously and radiating information and reports to functional managers and program managers as needed.
- Coached and trained development teams and business stakeholders in adopting agile best practices and utilizing scrum framework to optimize delivery.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, LOB managers and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
Scrum Master
Assurant
04.2015 - 05.2018
- Provided team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable team to regularly deliver working software.
- Facilitated Daily scrum (stand-up), release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective.
- Ensured all participants understand ceremony's purpose and keep to time-box.
- Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Fostered and encouraged conversations and collaboration, both inside and outside of team allowing them to self-organize.
- Identified and removed impediments, prevented distractions that interfered with ability of team to deliver sprint goal.
- Supported Product Owner ensuring product backlog was properly refined prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for upcoming 1-2 sprints.
- Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.
- Ensured team understands need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria.
- Participated in agile community both internal to Assurant and external with other practitioners.
- Enforced values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops.
Administrative Assistant
Convergys
01.2013 - 02.2015
- Ensured confidentiality of all personnel, office, and employment records.
- Provided administrative support with payroll, calendars, meetings, and training events.
- Scheduled and coordinated staff and other meetings.
- Prepared communications, such as memos, emails, invoices, reports, and other correspondence.
- Onboarded new employees and conducted orientations for new staff hires.
- Scheduled appointments and maintained calendars.
- Handled performance management, providing improvement recommendations.
- Performed change management and duties to meet organizational requirements.
- Assisted in creating thorough employee handbook, which helped maintain compliance.
- Facilitated and organized Weekly Staff Meetings.
- Answered multi-line phone system, routing calls, delivering messages to staff and greeting visitors.
- Coached new employees on administrative procedures, company policies and performance standards.
- Monitored premises, screened visitors, updated logs and issued passes to maintain security.
- Generated reports and typed letters in Word and prepared PowerPoint presentations.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice
Florida Memorial University
Miami Gardens 12.2012
Skills
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Agile coaching
- Business & IT planning
- Business Analysis
- Agile Project Management
- Servant Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Story Estimation
- Requirements gathering
- Strong communication skills
- Web development technologies
- Software testing
- Risk mitigation planning
- Documentation management
- Stakeholder management
Technical Skills
- Methodologies - Agile , Waterfall, Hybrid
- Agile Frameworks - Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP, CI
- PM Tools - CA Agile, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, TFS, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office
- Familiar Technologies - JAVA, C, C, HTML, NET, SQL, MySQL, Oracle 10g, Python
Certification
- PSM 1
- Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
Timeline
Agile
Randstad
05.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
Capital One
11.2020 - 05.2022
Scrum Master
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
09.2018 - 10.2020
Scrum Master
Assurant
04.2015 - 05.2018
Administrative Assistant
Convergys
01.2013 - 02.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice
Florida Memorial University
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