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Morgan Schreier

Braymer,Missouri

Summary

Motivational leader and organizational problem-solver with advanced supervisory, team building and customer service skills. Experience stepping into roles and quickly making positive changes to drive company success. Focused on using training, monitoring and morale-building techniques to maximize employee engagement and performance.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Agile Coach

Buildertrend
Remote
11.2024 - Current
  • Provided coaching sessions for individual contributors on topics related to product delivery processes.
  • Mentored junior members of the team on the agile methodology.
  • Suggested improvements based on feedback gathered from team retrospectives.
  • Recommended ways to improve processes through automation or streamlining existing workflows.
  • Collaborated with Product Owners to define user stories and prioritize backlogs.
  • Monitored team performance metrics such as velocity, throughput, cycle time.
  • Led workshops on Agile principles and best practices.
  • Supported teams in resolving conflicts or disputes that arose during sprints or planning meetings.
  • Coached teams in Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
  • Advised teams on how to optimize their workflow using techniques like pair programming, continuous integration, and test-driven development.
  • Conducted regular reviews of team performance against defined KPIs and metrics.

Scrum Master/Delivery Manager

Pepper
05.2022 - 05.2024
  • Organized meetings between stakeholders from different departments to discuss potential solutions or strategies.
  • Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
  • Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.
  • Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
  • Monitored progress of sprints, providing visibility into project status for stakeholders.
  • Provided guidance to Product Owners regarding Agile principles and best practices for managing product backlogs.
  • Tracked metrics related to sprint performance and identified areas of improvement for future sprints.

Scrum Master I

BlueKC
07.2021 - 05.2022
  • Lead multiples teams in Agile methodologies
  • Continuous learning and communicating new Agile practices
  • Training Scrum Teams on how to effectively use ADO
  • Facilitate all Scrum Ceremonies for multiple teams
  • Introduce new Ceremonies to the teams that were not previously implemented
  • Coordinate cross-team dependent work
  • Work closes with Project Managers to ensure the team is working on priority work in a timely fashion
  • Remove impediments for the teams
  • Track all Action items for teams
  • Use Metrics to show team growth
  • Communicate feedback from teams to management
  • Collaborate with Development Manager to ensure the team is successful
  • Assist team to ensure the details are accurate in ADO
  • This includes, fields, AC, linking
  • Prepare team for PI planning
  • Facilitate PI planning
  • Work with other Scrum Masters to incorporate a level of uniform across Scrum Teams to allow for better metrics
  • Create and update Dashboards for the team to track progress.

Scrum Master/ Lead Software Quality Engineer

BlueScope Steel
07.2018 - 07.2021
  • Communications with Product Owners and Management to verify business rules and expectations have been met and properly documented before beginning testing effort
  • Creating new, detailed test scripts for regression and future automation purposes
  • Analyzing all scenarios for a given functionality change to verify Regression and new test scripts have an accurate and all-inclusive coverage
  • Collaboration with Project Manager on changes in QA processes
  • Assisting/taking lead on implementing changes to the QA process
  • Facilitating training sessions for other QA members to learn changes and/or refresh on process that needed addressed
  • Planning and running of UAT sessions
  • Communicating with Developers to ensure all aspects of the application are working as designed and all test scenarios are being covered
  • Lead group discussions regarding projects with technical and business team members
  • Identify gaps in testing, testing processes, team communication
  • Manage my own workload while also ensuring other members of the QA team are upholding the guidelines set forth in regard to time management, how test scripts are to be written, how tasks should be adjusted, etc
  • Document all QA processes and publish for the team to use as a reference material
  • Document system changes and testing efforts in a clear concise, client friendly manor
  • Answer any and all questions regarding QA standards to all team members, not just QA
  • Facilitate all Scrum Meetings
  • Remove blockers for Scrum teams
  • Bi-weekly Sprint Metrics
  • Work with Product Owners and BA to ensure work items are flowing to the team
  • Facilitate communication with other Scrum teams
  • Ensure continuous growth in the Scrum teams
  • Track all action items to ensure completion
  • Work with Business team members to ensure Sprint Goals are created and align with the Product Increment roadmap.

Scrum Master/Senior QA Analyst

Netsmart
Kansas City, Missouri
05.2016 - 05.2018
  • Conducted demos of completed work at the end of each sprint cycle.
  • Kept up-to-date with industry trends in agile software development methods.
  • Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
  • Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
  • Organized meetings between stakeholders from different departments to discuss potential solutions or strategies.
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
  • Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.

Skills

  • Sprint Planning
  • Workflow Analysis
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Adaptive Leadership
  • Software process management
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Kanban Knowledge
  • Scrum processes
  • Retrospective Analysis
  • Project Management
  • User Story Creation
  • Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
  • Agile Metrics Tracking
  • Backlog management
  • Leading scrum meetings
  • Risk Identification
  • Backlog Grooming
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Public Speaking
  • Meeting facilitation
  • Stakeholder Management

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Agile Coach

Buildertrend
11.2024 - Current

Scrum Master/Delivery Manager

Pepper
05.2022 - 05.2024

Scrum Master I

BlueKC
07.2021 - 05.2022

Scrum Master/ Lead Software Quality Engineer

BlueScope Steel
07.2018 - 07.2021

Scrum Master/Senior QA Analyst

Netsmart
05.2016 - 05.2018

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