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Sonia SIZING

Washington DC,MD

Summary

Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Bilingual professional with more 7 years of experience promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master

U.S Bank
Irving, TX
06.2018 - Current
  • Ensure smooth flow of information, promoting transparency, developing team-building events, and leveraging conflict management and interpersonal problem-solving skills to solve any dispute
  • Coach and guide cross-functional and self-independent scrum team on agile principles and best practices
  • Facilitate scrum ceremonies for two teams, one team of nine and another seven with daily stand-ups, sprint planning, refining, sprint review, and backlog retrospective
  • Assist scrum team and Product Owner in prioritizing product backlog items and escalating impediments
  • Trained and coached 16 team members on Jira to track metrics for documentation
  • Streamlined profits by leveraging business acumen to maximize product values and stakeholders' satisfaction
  • Key Accomplishments
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
  • Guide average of 6 projects per year with various timelines and requirements, delivering reliably
  • Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track
  • Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods
  • Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle
  • Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases

Scrum Master

Vox Media
Washington, DC
01.2015 - 06.2018
  • Achieved consistent early project delivery and reduced process waste while managing projects with large budgets, communicating with stakeholders, and managing expectations
  • Frequently called upon for expertise in overseeing complex data warehousing projects and full understanding of data and information management concepts
  • Served as scrum master and coach 1-2 teams: facilitating transparency, inspection, and adaption
  • Led culture of continuous improvement by encouraging experimentation and innovation in processes
  • Guided teams on how to get the most out of self-organization and leveraged this to evolve agile practices
  • Championed Scrum, its roles, events, and artifacts to help teams and stakeholders understand their value
  • Managed inter-dependencies between teams
  • Worked with peers and Product Owners to continue to evolve planning practice in support of continuous planning model
  • Regularly assessed Agile maturity and actively coach to higher levels of growth, partnered with peers to help impact portfolio maturity
  • Observed & provided consistent and impactful feedback for to individuals and teams
  • Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts
  • Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity

Tax Analyst

Fannie Mae
Washington DC
07.2011 - 01.2015
  • Perform complex tax projects or participate as a team member on highly complex projects
  • Analyze business and financial information to determine appropriate accounting treatment and record results with support from team and manager
  • Develop reports to document assets, liabilities, profit and loss, tax liability, and/or other financial results
  • Provide analysis and explanations of financial results to ensure accuracy and support business decisions
  • Design and execute accounting and financial operations processes and related controls.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Morgan State University
08.2010 - 05.2015

Skills

    Risk identification

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Certification

PSM I - Professional Scrum Master I

Timeline

Scrum Master

U.S Bank
06.2018 - Current

Scrum Master

Vox Media
01.2015 - 06.2018

Tax Analyst

Fannie Mae
07.2011 - 01.2015

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Morgan State University
08.2010 - 05.2015

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