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
Web development technologies
Customer interaction
Teamwork and Collaboration
Excellent Communication
Confluence
JIRA
Kanban
Software Development
Azure DevOps
Process Improvement
Business Analysis
Agile Methodologies
Software Development Life Cycle
Quality Assurance
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