Robert Grove
Littleton,CO
Summary
Personable and motivated professional with a deep understanding of agile principles and frameworks. Strong capabilities in facilitating communication and collaboration across teams, combined with expertise in project management tools and techniques. Committed to driving successful project outcomes and fostering continuous improvement. Experienced with Agile methodologies, team facilitation, and project management. Utilizing effective communication and conflict resolution to ensure team alignment and productivity. Demonstrating a track record of implementing continuous improvement practices to enhance project outcomes and team performance. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management, and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with a background in effectively communicating with and leading high-performance teams. Considered an expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Scrum Master \\ Project Manager
GoConsensus
11.2022 - Current
- Use continuous flow diagrams helping optimize resources, set goals and remove impediments
- Work with cross functional teams to implement project planning, schedule, scoping, and prioritization
- Monitor and assist with resolving project risks and when needed escalating status and resolutions to upper management
- Guide teams with implementing Agile and Scrum values and processes
- Facilitate project status call with multiple teams documenting release progress, dependencies, and blockers
- Direct working relationships between scrum teams and product owners to ensure milestones and objectives are met
- Interview potential candidates for product manager and Agile positions
- Delegate and coordinate tasks, communication adaptability and critical thinking to ensure project deadlines are met
Scrum Master \\ Project Manager \\ Power BI report developer
IHS Markit
01.2015 - 11.2022
- Write SQL statements, connect to data sources, import data, and create datasets to be used for Power BI artifacts
- Work with analysts to gather data and functional requirements for the development and enhancement of reports and dashboards
- Assist users with Power BI report functionality, leveraging report data analytics and insights
- Schedule and facilitate scrum meetings for release and iteration planning, backlog grooming, daily scrum, sprint retrospective and showcase demos
- Create, manage, and own scrum artifacts in Azure Devops including Epics, Features, Stories, and release backlog
- Assist scrum teams with developing their iteration capacity, velocity, and task hours burndown
- Develop agile stories with defined descriptions, requirements, and acceptance criteria to be used by development team for creating applications
- Work with product owner, user, and stakeholders to identify, document, and prioritize user stories for future iterations of a release
- Monitor project progress and release schedule ensuring all milestones are completed on time
- Support team with evaluating and resolving risks, if needed notify upper management that project timelines need to be adjusted
- Develop weekly status reports listing accomplishments, highlights and concerns of project and release
- Present application functionality to upper management and cross department groups during showcase meetings
Sr. SQA Engineer
IHS Markit
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Write and execute manual test scripts to verify system and regression work flows
- Identify issues with application, write defects and work with development team to fix and verify issues are resolved
- Review acceptance criteria within user stories to provide testing estimates
- Mentor other testers regarding how to perform day to day tasks with validating application functionality and scrum work flow tasks
Data Warehouse and BI Report Quality Assurance Engineer
Pearson Education
08.2007 - 12.2014
- Provide support for custom reports by troubleshooting report execution and data discrepancies for customers
- Perform quality assurance for new and existing Cognos reports
- Review report requirements with clients to determine correct reporting solution is created
- Execute ad-hoc reports using Cognos Query studio to research data mining and trends for clients to use for analysis
- Schedule Cognos reports to client data repository and verify output is in the correct format
- Review ETL steps, Source to Target and ERD documents to develop test scenarios
- Work within Agile environment which includes scrums, iteration planning, retrospectives and entering user stories
- Write SQL statements to verify database testing and Cognos reports display valid data
- Work with developers to research, report and verify defects to resolution
- Able to translate business rules from data mapping documents into SQL queries for validation
- Mentor junior testers and stakeholders regarding questions towards data warehouse and Cognos applications
- Develop high level test strategies and review with team members
Education
Bachelors - Information Technology
07.2005
GPA: 4.0
Associates - Computer Science
12.1988
GPA: 3.3
Skills
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- PI-Shaped Professional:
- Servant leadership
- Agile coaching
- Product backlog management
- Scrum framework expertise
- Coaching and mentoring
- Sprint planning
- Retrospective analysis
- Release planning
- Team facilitation
- Customer interaction
- Risk identification
- Project management
- Presentation skills
- Requirements gathering
- Meeting facilitation
- Stakeholder management
- Problem-solving
Certification
Certified Scrum Master; Certified Scrum Product Owner
Accomplishments
- Resolved lack of collaboration between engineering teams and Sales, Customer Satisfaction and support which led to streamlined requirements.
- Created an environment to inspire teams to evolve into professional scrum teams
- Guide teams to identify, analyze and respond to project risks.
- Coordinate and manage multi team projects from start to completion.
- Coach teams and help implement the Agile principles which led to better communication, quality releases and adaptability.
CSM and CSPO
The Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification class offered a great understanding of the roles, ceremonies and techniques. With this knowledge guiding teams to be more efficient, adapt to changes quicker and still complete high quality projects.
The Certified Scrum Product owner (CSPO) certification was beneficial to develop better skills related to managing product visions, requirements and communicating with stakeholders.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Interests
- Volunteering at animal sanctuaries
- Coach private football sessions
- Drone pilot certified
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Sr. Scrum Master \\ Project Manager - GoConsensus
11.2022 - Current
Scrum Master \\ Project Manager \\ Power BI report developer - IHS Markit
01.2015 - 11.2022
Sr. SQA Engineer - IHS Markit
01.2015 - 01.2017
Data Warehouse and BI Report Quality Assurance Engineer - Pearson Education
08.2007 - 12.2014
Capella University - Bachelors, Information Technology
Southeast Community College - Associates, Computer Science
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