Stephanie Barlow
South Jordan,UT
Summary
Certified Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach and versatile IT professional who is proficient in Scrum, Kanban, Agile, Waterfall, and SAFe methodologies. 15+ years of experience with Agile teams. Vast experience with remote work. Excellent communicator and facilitator. Proven servant leader with strong leadership, interpersonal, organizational, and problem solving skills.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Lead (remote) |
NBC Universal Studios | Eliassen Group
New York, NY
07.2023 - Current
- Led teams in SAFe PI Planning events and ensured they were properly prepared for each sprint load over the upcoming PI
- Worked with product owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
- Identified potential project risks and helped developed mitigation plans to resolve potential issues.
- Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
- Documented new features and strategies as well as user stories and criteria for acceptance.
- Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches.
- Defined workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile environment and distributed models through whiteboarding and mind-mapping.
- Evaluated projects for issues, alleviating problems and distractions to meeting team goals.
Sr Scrum Master (Remote) |
Collective Health
San Mateo, CA
03.2023 - 07.2023
- Worked with the VP of the IT department in implementing their Agile Transformation
- Implemented regular Sprint Meetings; Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, etc. for new Scrum Teams
- Facilitated meetings for teams located in several timezones
- Assisted and Coached Product Owner on story writing practices and how to achieve a Healthy Backlog
- Facilitated the set up of new projects in Jira
- Provided Agile training to new Scrum Teams
- Led teams in creating and using TWA's ( Team Working Agreements), including Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
- Enforce the Scrum value of Focus by shielding teams from distractions, removing impediments, and creating and achieving sprint goals
- Helped build healthy team relationships to promote a confident and self reliant team
Sr Scrum Master (Remote) |
Health Equity
Draper, UT
01.2019 - 01.2023
- Entrusted to lead 3 technology teams concurrently on companies top priority Auth0 projects
- Coached Front End and Back End development teams for FSA and HSA projects
- Identified gaps in our Production Release controls in Azure DevOps and proposed a solution
- Generated and reported Team Sprint Metrics; Throughput, Velocity, Cycle Time, etc; and consistently helped teams reduce cycle time
- Assisted the PO in requirements gathering (user story creation), acceptance criteria definition, use case development and product backlog grooming and prioritization
- Led teams in creating and using TWA's ( Team Working Agreements), including Definition of Read and Definition of Done
Scrum Master (Remote) |
The StayWell Company
Yardley, PA
10.2015 - 01.2019
- Facilitated and ran daily team stand ups, retrospectives, sprint planning and sprint review meetings
- Participated in weekly Scrum of Scrums to ensure alignment across the agile release train and uncover cross-team dependencies
- Educated and reinforced agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe to teams and stakeholders
- Responsible for team metrics reporting; control charts, burndown charts, velocity
- Increased transparency between client management and development by creating a central dashboard
- Instrumental in transitioning scrum team to a Kanban workflow resulting in shortened cycle time and increased client satisfaction
Technical Project Manager |
Mountain West Farm Bureau Insurance
Sandy, UT
01.2009 - 10.2015
- Managed small, medium and large sized IT development projects across the IT Department
- Tracked and reported Issues and Risk Management
- Resource Management of internal and external teams, including on shore and off shore
- Planned and coordinated project meetings such as SOW, WBS, and Status Meetings
- Conducted regular status meetings and collected from employees on the project to report to CTO
- Provided Resource and Capacity Planning
Software Engineer |
Western Computer Services
Sandy, UT
05.2002 - 01.2009
- Completed Maintenance and new Project work using various programming language on the Insurance backend systems
- Development Team Lead on rate change projects and coordinated testing efforts with QA and UAT
- Worked with Clients on site to gather requirements
- Worked together in a Team setting to solve problems and enhance the system for the end users
- Instrumental in creating nightly testing compare outputs during a conversion process
- Maintained the EMC Print Output Software that delivers the Printed Documents to the customers
- Established written test plans and documented results
Education
Associates - Arts and Sciences, Computer Information Systems
Brigham Young University - Idaho
Rexburg, IDGeneral Education And Computer Engineering Classes -
Idaho State University
Skills
- Agile, Kanban, SAFe, Waterfall
- Agile Transformation
- Process management, SDL, SDLC
- Presentation and team training
- Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Teams,
- TFS (Team Foundation Server), ADO (Azure DevOps)
- Agile Tools: Jira, Confluence, Miro
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master, CSM
- SAFe Scrum Master Certificate, SSM
- PMP Prep Certification
Timeline
Scrum Lead (remote) |
NBC Universal Studios | Eliassen Group
07.2023 - Current
Sr Scrum Master (Remote) |
Collective Health
03.2023 - 07.2023
Sr Scrum Master (Remote) |
Health Equity
01.2019 - 01.2023
Scrum Master (Remote) |
The StayWell Company
10.2015 - 01.2019
Technical Project Manager |
Mountain West Farm Bureau Insurance
01.2009 - 10.2015
Software Engineer |
Western Computer Services
05.2002 - 01.2009
Associates - Arts and Sciences, Computer Information Systems
Brigham Young University - Idaho
General Education And Computer Engineering Classes -
Idaho State University
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