Senior Information Technology Project Manager

• Jul 2022 - Present

Senior Information Technology Manager

• Jul 2022 - May 2023

Scrum Master

• Jan 2019 - Jul 2022

-Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins. -Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload. -Removed obstacles by finding right personnel to advance tasks and projects. -Assessed Scrum maturity of team and organized and coached team to higher levels of development. -Updated operational methods, oversaw accounting procedures, tracked information and compiled data to improve efficiency. -Fostered relationships with vendors to promote positive working relationships. -Assisted with negotiating vendor and contract service agreements and monitoring day-to-day operations. -Maintaining a low delinquency from 6% to 3% and increased occupancy from 90% to 98%. -Performing all move-out inspections and financial move out statement. Show less

Scrum Master

• Jan 2014 - Feb 2017

• Facilitated sprint planning meeting by using velocity driven planning and assisted team in avoiding technical debt and increase the quality of the product. • Championed cultural change and collaborated with other Scrum masters on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's transformation. • Facilitated backlog grooming and refinement with Product Owner to maintain a healthy Product Backlog. • Worked with product owner and scrum team to groom user stories in advance of each sprint, finalize Sprint Backlog during planning and communicate user stories for the upcoming sprint to the development team. • Coached team on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts. • Utilized Microsoft excel to create spreadsheets that require sorting, organizing, and manipulation of data in accordance with product specifications (pivot tables, v lookup, and IF nested statements. • Extensively used Confluence to document notes, requirements, UML diagrams and keep all the artifacts transparent, to make sure that the team stakeholders are on the same page • Extensively used JIRA to capture and manage user stories, dependent stories, refactors bugs and tasks. • Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques. • Actively facilitated Scrum Ceremonies (sprint plannings, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives). • Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process. • Involved in Issue Tracking and Defect Tracking using JIRA tool • Guided and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment. Show less