Tanisha Abegly
Summary
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks, optimizing workflows, and effectively managing schedules. Expert agile leader with extraordinary interpersonal skills and excellent knowledge of Project management processes and standards.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agility Lead
JPMorgan Chase
04.2023 - Current
- Led daily scrums, planning sessions, retrospectives, backlog refinement, workshops, and communities of practice.
- Ensured team understanding of product scope and objectives.
- Assisted product managers with backlog management techniques to maximize value delivery.
- Guided teams on using OKRs, agility measures, and flow metrics for improvements.
- Shielded teams from external disruptions and led in removing impediments.
- Facilitated learning and conducted team health assessments.
- Mentored others in agility and leadership within the product and broader organization.
- Coached product owners on the creation and maintenance of the product backlog with empirical planning.
- Taught and practiced systems thinking and servant leadership.
- Worked with other agility leads to enhance organizational agility.
- Supported agility initiatives at team, multi-team, and program levels.
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
PNC Bank
10.2018 - 04.2023
- Worked closely with the Product Owner in defining the product goal & roadmap
- Facilitated all Scrum Events including Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Product Backlog Refinement
- Initiated the success of cross-functional teams towards product goal
- Created Epics, Features, fixed releases & Stories for the team in Jira and assisted Product Owner
- JIRA admin activities for teams (created boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, reports using JQL.)
- Planned and tracked sprints closely and helped the team to focus on commitments & delivery
- Applied human centered design (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, Implement)
- Created various automated dashboards in Jira using advanced JQL and Filters
- Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to the teams and management
- Removed impediments that prevented teams from completing work in a sprint
- Developing and implementing reliable cloud solutions.
Product Owner
AT & T
05.2016 - 09.2018
- Ensured the team came up with and adhered to the INVEST criteria, Acceptance criteria, Definition of Ready (DOR), Definition of Done (DOD) of user stories
- Utilized Jira to track issues and organize product and sprint backlogs
- Utilized Confluence to manage information transparency and accessibility among the team
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
- Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
Business Analyst
Citi Bank
04.2014 - 04.2016
- Developed business plans, determined Key Performance indicators (KPI) and coordinated the measurement result
- Drove process improvement and managed all aspects of salesforce CRM
- Manage projects through status meetings, weekly reports, identify risks, and tracking issues
- Worked with users and stakeholders to analyze and validate requirements
- Generated pivot tables and spreadsheets using excel
- Reduced development cost by 30 percent by merging related product into one streamlined product
- Authorized business requirement documents for proprietary software application
- Supported clients establish and maintain robust relationships and interest
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Providing support to the team by removing all impediments and liaising with leadership on process improvements
- Facilitated large-scale ceremonies and presented to senior management, utilizing excellent oral and written communication skills to effectively convey complex technical concepts to diverse audience.
Education
Bachelor of Arts -
University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Baltimore, MDSkills
- Kanban
- SAFe
- Azure DevOps
- Microsoft Office suite
- SharePoint
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Team Coordination
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Systems Analysis
- Tableau
- SQL
- Sprint Planning
- Process Flow Charts
- Atlassian JIRA
- Data analysis
- PowerBI
- Agility Improvements
- Material Resource Management
- Confluence
- Mural
- Miro
- Lucidchart
- Mindmap
- Ideaboardz
- Invisionapp
- Scrum poker
- Dictation
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- SAFe
Timeline
Agility Lead
JPMorgan Chase
04.2023 - Current
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
PNC Bank
10.2018 - 04.2023
Product Owner
AT & T
05.2016 - 09.2018
Business Analyst
Citi Bank
04.2014 - 04.2016
Bachelor of Arts -
University of Maryland - Baltimore County