STEPHNIE GAMEDAH
Washington, DC,MD
Summary
Agile professional with 8 years of experience delivering enterprise software solutions across diverse sectors. Expertise in developing product roadmaps and managing backlogs to align with business goals. Experienced in collaborating with Product Owners and cross-functional teams to implement customer-focused solutions. Proven skills in facilitating Agile ceremonies and coaching teams in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies to enhance delivery efficiency and product quality.
Overview
1
1
Certification
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Technology Delivery Lead
Wells Fargo
10.2023 - Current
- Reduced blockers by 90% through proactive impediment removal.
- Improved story acceptance by 95% through backlog coaching and adoption of story weaver.
- Implemented Jira metrics improving sprint predictability to 98%.
- Reduced production defects by 80% with Definition of Done standards.
- Tracked and managed epics, features, user stories, defects, and dependencies, enhancing delivery predictability.
- Coached product owners in developing high-level features aligned with customer needs.
- Coordinated and tracked release activities across multiple teams.
- Partner with business stakeholders, engineering teams to prioritize product backlogs and deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Utilize Jira, Confluence, Product balance score card, Jira plan, Tableau, story weaver, Jirox and Agile metrics to provide transparency into delivery progress and product performance.
- Coach Product teams on backlog prioritization and value-based planning, improving story readiness and sprint outcomes.
- Created automated process of keeping track of product timelines lines, tracking dependencies and managing work progress.
- Implemented process changes to enhance workflow efficiency.
- Developed team environment to support engagement and high performance.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies for five Agile teams.
- Supported product owners and delivery teams to invest in application health, balancing application and platform ownership responsibilities with project delivery.
Scrum Master
SP Plus
07.2021 - 10.2022
- Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies to enhance team collaboration and communication.
- Supported teams in identifying and removing impediments to project progress.
- Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
- Collaborated with product owners to ensure clear requirements and goals.
- Maintained product backlogs, ensuring well-defined items prioritized by business value to facilitate effective sprint planning.
- Coordinated backlog refinement sessions to prioritize user stories effectively.
- Monitored team performance metrics to pinpoint improvement opportunities and drive continuous enhancement.
- Mentored team members on Agile principles and best practices.
- Implemented Agile tools for tracking progress and maintaining transparency.
- Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
- Identified risks associated with sprint goals and worked with the team to mitigate them.
- Conducted demos of completed work at the end of each sprint cycle.
- Facilitated PI Planning and managed dependencies to align team efforts with project goals and timelines.
- Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
Chenega Corporation
, VA
10.2018 - 07.2021
- Coordinated sprint planning sessions to define team goals and deliverables.
- Managed backlog refinement to prioritize tasks and streamline project workflow.
- Facilitated daily stand-up meetings to promote team communication and collaboration.
- Monitored project progress and adjusted plans based on team feedback and needs.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure alignment on project objectives and priorities.
- Identified risks associated with sprint goals and worked with the team to mitigate them.
- Conducted demos of completed work at the end of each sprint cycle.
- Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
- Supported the development team in understanding user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done.
- Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translate into product backlog.
- Contributed insights from an Agile perspective during feature design discussions.
- Resolved conflicts within teams to maintain a positive working environment.
- Developed detailed project plans and estimates based on identified risks and options.
- Worked closely with senior management and other stakeholders during strategic planning sessions for upcoming releases.
Unit Supply Specialist
United State Army Reserve
, DE
10.2022 - Current
Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master
MECU Credit Union
Baltimore, Maryland
04.2017 - 09.2018
Agile Project Manager
AK Steel Corp.
, OH
07.2016 - 04.2017
Program Coordinator
Bright Stronger Foundation
, MD
07.2014 - 06.2016
Education
Master's - information technology management
Western Governors University
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Sprint planning
- Backlog prioritization
- User story creation
- Requirements gathering
- Jira administration
- Performance metrics
- Risk mitigation
- Continuous improvement
- Stakeholder engagement
- Project documentation
- IT service management
Security Clearance
ACTIVE TS/SCI
Certification
- Project Management Profession
- SAFe Scrum Master
- Professional Scrum Master II
- Professional Scrum Product Owner
- Professional Scrum with Kanban
- PMP
- PSM II
- PSPO I
- PSK I
- SSM
Timeline
Technology Delivery Lead
Wells Fargo
10.2023 - Current
Unit Supply Specialist
United State Army Reserve
10.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
SP Plus
07.2021 - 10.2022
Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
Chenega Corporation
10.2018 - 07.2021
Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master
MECU Credit Union
04.2017 - 09.2018
Agile Project Manager
AK Steel Corp.
07.2016 - 04.2017
Program Coordinator
Bright Stronger Foundation
07.2014 - 06.2016
Master's - information technology management
Western Governors University