VICTOR TURAY
Baltimore,MD
Summary
Certified Scrum Master with 5 years of experience with a keen ability to understand and build complex systems and focusing relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer-centric products and features. Led teams of 8-15 people across technology, business, and design departments. I have experience coaching teams in person and remotely. I have a track record of tangibly improving employee retention and satisfaction while delivering product features on time.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Coach
Capital One
02.2020 - Current
- Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organizations
- Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous agile improvement
- Develop team norms and balance workload for onshore and offshore developers, testers and Product Owners
- Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies (e.g., Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand Up, Test Plan and Test Case reviews, Sprint Demos, Retrospectives, etc.)
- Take ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers
- Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate
- Maintain team metrics and report project statuses (e.g., velocity/burn down charts, financial status, issues/risks, etc.) on a regular basis to Product Owner and to senior stakeholders
- Take ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through Scrum-of-Scrums ceremony
- Takes a lead role in overall release management, which includes end-to-end regression test coordination, ensuring SDLC artifact adherence, runbook coordination, and deployment support
- Oversee Production issues, partner with Product Owner on impact assessment and prioritization of production issues
- Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines.
Scrum Master | Business Analsyt
National Institutes of Health
03.2018 - 02.2020
- Reviewed and managed the backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status
- Facilitated the daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and other meetings as required by the team
- Tracked and reported progress to key stakeholders via Release/Sprint Burndown, velocity target updates, schedules, risks, dependencies, and other activities
- Promoted cross function to ensure task completion and delivery of features
- Assisted with the development of stakeholder communications e.g., notes, reports, action item reports
- Worked closely with product management and technical stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status, and details of each project
- Served as a liaison between individual scrum team members and dependent teams including third party vendors.
Scrum Master | Business Analyst
Enterprise
03.2015 - 03.2018
- Designed, implemented, and improved company quality standards
- Fostered teamwork among staff from diverse cultural backgrounds
- Trained, motivated, coached, and corrected employees to ensure that standards were met
- Managed and supported all efforts of development teams to simplify and enhance the customer experience
- Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition, and feature selection.
Education
B.S. in Health Science -
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD05.2018
Skills
- Agile development & best practices
- Agile Project Management
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Agile frameworks - Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe
- JIRA & JIRA Portfolio, Confluence, Mural
- MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Excel, Teams, Slack
- Azure Dev Ops
- Proficiency with Visual Studio Team Services, or similar bug database
- User stories, ATDD, TDD, continuous integration, automated testing
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master
Timeline
Agile Coach
Capital One
02.2020 - Current
Scrum Master | Business Analsyt
National Institutes of Health
03.2018 - 02.2020
Scrum Master | Business Analyst
Enterprise
03.2015 - 03.2018
B.S. in Health Science -
Morgan State University
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master
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