Experienced Senior Scrum Master and servant leader with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and SAFe), stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines. Leveraging experiences and certifications (Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Program Consultant 6.0 (SPC 6), SAFe Release Train Engineer (6.0), SAFe 6 Lean Portfolio Manager and ICP-ACC) to transform organizations from Waterfall SDLC to Agile SDLC.
Years of experience as a full stack software engineer.
Years of experience as an Agile Evangelist.
Primary focus was to raise Agile awareness and maturity by teaching SAFe classes (“SAFe for Teams”, “SAFe Scrum Master” and “SAFe Advance Scrum Master”), provide one-on-one Scrum Master training and co-lead the transformation of the Scrum Master Community of Practice (CoP) organization. Assisted in interviewing prospective scrum masters and development engineers. Worked with the company’s Agile coaching group to produce workshops, such as facilitation, to help mature the company’s scrum master staff. Additionally filled in as an interim RTE when the need arose. Was Scrum Master of 2 to 4 dispersed teams that organizationally spanned 2 to 3 Agile release trains (ART).
• Gained the ICP-ACC (Agile Coach Certification) in April of 2023 to round out my skills as an Agile Coach.
• Gained the SAFe RTE certification to be able to assist RTEs when needed in various areas and formed leadership triads to focus on improvement outcomes from teams’ retrospectives. Was the interim RTE for the 2021.PI1 PI Planning event and was responsible for running the event for a train of 7 teams.
• Led the Architectural team to transform to a Kanban flow process for their work. This improved their delivery to Agile teams and allowed the Architectural team to focus on what is needed and deliver work products on time.
• Successfully transitioned to different Scrum teams due to value stream mapping of the organization. This helped the impacted teams and organization to not get interrupted with things tied to purpose and process re-alignment.
• Active in several company CoPs focusing on scrum mastery and Agile metrics.
• Was involved heavily in re-imagining and re-branding CVS’s Scrum Master CoP. This resulted in roughly 80% attendance by the SM community at CVS and an uptick in community participation.
• The bulk of my teams worked on service/microservice layers using AWS and GCP focusing on either IoT or identity access for cloud implementation.
Process Paradigms: Waterfall Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMi) Agile Scrum Kanban SAFe eXtreme Programming (XP) Test Driven Development (TDD) Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Project Management Tools: Rally Jira Confluence SharePoint Miro
Soft Skills: Facilitation Coaching Teaching Mentoring Team building
Certified ScrumMaster (Scrum Alliance), Cert. ID: 000208617 - CSM
Certified SAFe Agilist (Scaled Agile Inc.), Cert. ID: 16019558-2290 - SA
Certified SAFe Practitioner (Scaled Agile Inc.), Cert. ID: 12247278-7476 - SP
Certified ICP Agile Coach Certification (ICAgile) – ICP-ACC
Certified SAFe Program Consultant 4.0 (Scaled Agile Inc.), Cert. ID: 02045912-0552 – SPC4
Certified SAFe Program Consultant 5.0 (Scaled Agile Inc.), Cert. ID: 70876916-0515 – SPC5
Certified SAFe Practice Consultant 6.0 (Scaled Agile Inc.), Cert. ID: 30173839-3772 – SPC6
Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer 6.0 (Scaled Agile Inc.), Cert. ID: 93133482-9489 – RTE6
Certified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master 6.0 (Scaled Agile Inc.), Cert. ID: 44494107-9893 – SASM6
Certified SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager 6.0 (Scaled Agile Inc.), Cert. ID: 20435195-8086 – LPM6