Oversee 5-7 projects at a time and manage each stage of the development lifecycle by facilitating all scrum ceremonies and being the primary point of contact between product stakeholders and engineering.
Work alongside product managers to plan and define future initiatives and strategize roadmap priorities.
Collaborate with engineers and architects to identify cross-team dependencies, facilitate conversations and resolutions, and document process and planning.
Work closely with engineering managers, engineering leads to prioritize scrum team backlog.
Established, implemented and captured metrics to optimize team delivery and measure business agility in terms of predictability, reliability and adaptability and reported metrics back to teams and managers.
Product Manager and Scrum Master
Five Below
01.2020 - 05.2022
While supporting organizational strategy and goals in an Agile environment, drive features by managing product lifecycle with a core understanding of business concepts and processes
Ideate, gather requirements, plan, prioritize and execute while working closely with cross-functional design and engineering teams
Continuously communicate with stakeholders to provide progress updates, roadmap development updates, and showcase completed projects.
Technical Project Manager/ Scrum Master
Hollar (Acquired by Five Below)
04.2015 - 12.2019
Coach and facilitate Agile ceremonies
Coordinate all phases of development from design to delivery
Clear obstacles while monitoring productivity and priorities
Story writing and ticket management
Release Management for all technologies
Tech representative amongst business partners and stakeholders.
Education
Scrum Master Certification -
Scrum Alliance, Los Angeles, CA
04.2019
Bachelor in Business -
University of South Africa, Durban, South Africa
01.2011
Skills
Agile project management and coaching
Communication with stakeholders
Developing processes and continuously improving process
Influencing team members without authority
Develop, gather, and document requirements
Technical Acumen
Software Development Lifecycle
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Understand Relevant Technology enough to Manage their Programs
Tool Proficiency
Jira
Confluence
Microsoft 360
Slack
GitHub
Firebase/Google Analytics
Service Now
Google Suite
Lucid Chart
Airtable
Miro
Zoom
Timeline
Technical Program Manager - Disney Streaming
06.2022 - Current
Product Manager and Scrum Master - Five Below
01.2020 - 05.2022
Technical Project Manager/ Scrum Master - Hollar (Acquired by Five Below)
04.2015 - 12.2019
Scrum Alliance - Scrum Master Certification,
University of South Africa - Bachelor in Business,