Jelicia Reece
Atlanta,USA
Summary
Enabling the achievement of full business potential through sprint planning and managing product backlog and story estimation. Innovative, dynamic, and resourceful certified Scrum Master with hands-on experience in leading all phases of implementation, contributing in the release and sprint planning, maintaining high quality, timely deliveries, and applying cutting-edge IT solutions. Solid track record of completing projects within defined timeline, meeting all business and system requirements, encouraging the scrum methodology, and developing an agile mindset across all team members. Analytical planner adept at delivering infrastructure and software projects by using and implementing waterfall and agile hybrid delivery methodologies, as well as monitoring project budgets and variances. Demonstrated communication skills, able to build productive relationships with teams, expert in providing feedback to management at all levels regarding agile practices and transformations within their teams.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Chick-fil-A
08.2022 - Current
- Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an increase in successful project deliveries.
- Streamlined project management processes for improved efficiency and timely product delivery.
- Resolved conflicts and facilitated open communication among team members, promoting a healthy work environment.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Increased resource efficiency by analyzing detailed business requirements.
- Broke project into epics and implementable user stories.
- Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders by maintaining open lines of communication and addressing concerns promptly.
- Facilitated communication between development teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of requirements and expectations.
- Boosted customer satisfaction levels by identifying areas of improvement and proposing actionable solutions.
- Reduced technical debt by actively identifying areas requiring refactoring or architectural improvements during sprint planning sessions.
Scrum Master
Tennessee Valley Authority
05.2022 - 08.2022
- Responsible for working within the Cybersecurity Program in the Technology and Innovation Department of the Project Management Office to help lead development efforts towards adoption of new solutions across the enterprise as a result of Presidential Executive Order 14028 for Data, Network, and MFA Scrum teams
- Provides high level KPI metrics for scrum teams and produce modernization milestone deliverable reports to Senior Leadership
- Facilitates sprint ceremonies, managing backlog creation and refinement efforts, and coaching teams to adopt Scaled Agile methodology by ensuring development teams follow quality coding & testing best practice
- Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination to identify and remove impediments to limit distractions to the teams
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure organizational readiness prior to implementations & deployments
- Develops dashboards in Teams Foundation Server and MS Project to display Iteration for teams
- Participates in PI planning efforts for scrum teams to include Pre-PI Planning activities, User Story preparation, coordination between other scrum teams, participation in Scrum of Scrums, and complete planning of all planned work for each quarter
Scrum Master
Forma Brands
09.2019 - 05.2022
- Managed all phases of implementation and maintain high quality, timely deliveries by leading scrum teams
- Supported release planning, sprint planning, sprint backlog, and retrospective meetings
- Involve in Scrum of Scrum to review team health and identify weaknesses
- Managed product backlog grooming and story estimation through collaborating with product owners
- Successfully lead Scrum Teams through all phases of implementation, while maintaining high quality, timely deliveries
- Provided frequent Sprint metrics such as velocity, story points, and cycle time for leadership
- Collaborated with Product Owner and Engineering Lead prior to each sprint to determine sprint success, metrics, and feasibility to enhance overall efficiency
- Championed and taught Scrum Team about the Agile process to ensure team members understand the Agile mindset and working with the Scrum Methodology
- Participated in Scrum of Scrum to communicate team health and unblocking team impediments
Scrum Master
Estee Lauder Companies
03.2018 - 09.2019
- Delivered software projects by using and implementing waterfall and agile hybrid delivery methodologies
- Reported all user stories and bugs which were documented for every release cycle, while highlighting story dependencies through cross collaboration with other scrum masters and other team members
- Successfully manage two virtual Scrums Teams by facilitating sprint events, coaching team to adopt best Agile practices & zero-defect culture
- Actively assisted the team with removing impediments, monitored sprint progress metrics during daily stand ups
- Develop data driven dashboards in Jira to display pertinent information to help the Product Teams and Leadership to make decisions pertaining to sprint and product management
- Empower team through servant leadership to become self-organizing, to encourage emergent leadership
- Reduction in sprint cycle time by 10% through the implementation of Spike User stories, and by adequately planning sprint efforts
- Manage all project artifacts in Jira and Confluence
- Ensure backlog is well refined by coordinating with the Product Owner and Engineering Lead
- Coach new team members to understand the Scrum Framework through lunch and learn activities and also on the job support
Skills
- Product Development Team Management
- Agile Project Management
- Meeting Facilitation
- JIRA
- Process Improvement & Management
- Team Metric Analysis
- Servant Leadership
- Risk Management
- SaFe/ PI Planning
- Agile Metrics Tracking
- Project Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Data Analysis
- Roadmap development
- Release planning
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
- SaFe Scrum Master, Scaled Agile
- Certified Product Owner, Scrum Alliance
- CSM
- SSM
- CSPO
Timeline
Scrum Master
Chick-fil-A
08.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
Tennessee Valley Authority
05.2022 - 08.2022
Scrum Master
Forma Brands
09.2019 - 05.2022
Scrum Master
Estee Lauder Companies
03.2018 - 09.2019
- Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
- SaFe Scrum Master, Scaled Agile
- Certified Product Owner, Scrum Alliance
- CSM
- SSM
- CSPO