Laurleena Ford
Grove City,OH
Summary
Dynamic Agile Scrum Master with a proven track record at JP Morgan & Chase, adept at enhancing team efficiency through Agile methodologies and metrics tracking. I am skilled in team leadership, improving team metrics for velocity, churn, and story point completion. I empower self-organizing teams while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration, driving successful project outcomes. I am an Agile professional with strong expertise in guiding multiple cross-functional teams through project lifecycles using Scrum methodologies. Adept at navigating changing requirements, ensuring timely delivery, and maintaining high standards. Skilled in project management, risk assessment, and stakeholder communication. Reliable and adaptable team leader with focus on achieving project goals.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Scrum Master
JP Morgan & Chase
08.2020 - Current
- Facilitated cross-functional communication, enabling teams to collaborate effectively on project tasks.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Created a culture of continuous learning through ongoing training sessions, workshops, and knowledge-sharing initiatives within the team.
- Coached team members in Agile practices, promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Evangelized agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
- Developed metrics for tracking progress and measuring team performance against goals.
- Enhanced team efficiency by implementing Agile methodologies and guiding daily scrum meetings.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Empowered self-organizing teams by providing guidance on roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority within the Scrum framework.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Established strong relationships with stakeholders, aligning expectations and maintaining open lines of communication throughout projects.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Resolved staff conflicts and identified potential areas of improvement.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Health Communication
Otterbein University
Westerville, OH05-2020
Bachelor of Arts - Public Relations (PR)
Otterbein University
Westerville, OH05-2020
Skills
- Agile metrics tracking
- Estimation techniques
- Scaling agile
- Adaptive leadership
- Agile coaching
- Backlog grooming
- Scrum framework expertise
- Jira
- Confluence
- Sprint planning
- Sprint retrospective facilitation
- Sprint review facilitation
- Risk identification
- Scrum methodology
Certification
- CSM
- Taught PSM1 Trainings
- EECT Agility Lead Academy
Timeline
Agile Scrum Master
JP Morgan & Chase
08.2020 - Current
Bachelor of Arts - Health Communication
Otterbein University
Bachelor of Arts - Public Relations (PR)
Otterbein University
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