Kerry Ann Powell
New York City,NY
Summary
Experienced servant leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Flagstar
03.2023 - Current
- Creating a supportive, cross-functional environment that enhanced collaboration and increased high-quality deliverables to customers from 50% to 80%.
- Collaborating closely with Product Owners, Developers, QA, and other stakeholders to prioritize and deliver high-quality software increments efficiently and on schedule.
- Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement.
- Continuously supporting the Product Owners and teams with User Story Writing (BDD), trained them to follow INVEST criteria, and ensure their User Stories meet the Definition of Ready (D.O.R).
- Performing JIRA administration for teams, including the creation of boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and reports using JQL.
- Coached Scrum teams in developing effective team processes and establishing clear Definitions of Ready (DOR) and Definition of Done (DOD).
Scrum Master
Signature Bank
10.2019 - 03.2023
- Coordinated with 2-3 scrum teams simultaneously in Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Review Meetings, Sprint Retrospective Meetings and Backlog Grooming meetings.
- Assisted Product Owners with effective management of Features, Epics, Stories and prioritization.
- Exhibited a servant leadership approach to support Scrum teams, proactively identifying and resolving impediments and dependencies.
- Created & maintained live dashboards in Jira and Creating reports in Confluence by linking Jira and Confluence.
- Consistently communicated key metrics, such as burndown progress, quality, and velocity, to the team and stakeholders to ensure transparency and alignment.
- Led efforts to implement and improve Agile tools and metrics, such as burn-down charts, velocity charts, and cumulative flow diagrams, to enhance transparency and decision-making.
- Established a supportive environment that increased team self-organization and self-management by 30%, enhancing productivity and collaboration.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Production & Operations Management
University of Technology
JA.Skills
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Management
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- SDLC
- Scrum Ceremonies
- Presentation Facilitation
- Conflict Resolution
- Process Improvement
- Testing & Automation
- Problem-Solving
- Facilitation & Training Workshop
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills
- Agile Maturity Improvement
- Dependency Mapping
- Impediment Removal
- Risk Assessment & Mitigation
- Confluence
- JIRA
- Miro
- Microsoft Teams
- IdeaBoardz
- Scrum
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Kanban
- Zoom
- Webex
- Azure DevOps
- Software testing
- Customer requirements analysis
- Backlog management
- Performance Metrics
- Workflow Management
- Lead teams
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Personal Information
Title: Scrum Master (Certified)
Timeline
Scrum Master
Flagstar
03.2023 - Current
Scrum Master
Signature Bank
10.2019 - 03.2023
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Bachelor of Business Administration - Production & Operations Management
University of Technology
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