Experience

Maiel Technologies

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scrum Master / Agile coach

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  - Assists with team the agile transformation of teams.• Coordinate and lead team events and meetings. • Support Product owners with backlog prioritization, requirements gathering, product backlog grooming, and release planning. • Work with product owners to write user stories, groom backlogs during sprints, and prepare for upcoming sprints. • Utilize JIRA, Confluence, and PowerPoint to manage agile projects from planning to release. • Work with the team to develop user stories and story points using planning poker. • Facilitate sprint planning, resource estimation, and kick-off. • Monitor and report team progress and velocity using burn down charts, control charts, and release burn down charts. • Encourage collaboration among team members to increase productivity during early stages of sprints. • Collaborate with the team to establish criteria for Automated Testing, continuous Integration, and continuous delivery. • Help remove impediments and educate development teams and stakeholders on Scrum principles. • Empower the team to suggest process improvements during sprint retrospective meetings. • Implement Kanban framework for team focused on production support and customer related software issues. • Implemented changes and steps to increase team productivity, suggested Agile best practices (TDD, Automated Testing) including learnings from adjacent DEVOPS team; this led to savings of about $50k for the company. -Facilitates Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Spint Review and Sprint retrospective. - Remove roadblocks for successful sprints, leading to the effective and efficient release of increments. Show less



PNC

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Scrum Master / Web Developer

  • Nov 2018 - Dec 2020

  • Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meetings for two Scrum teams with distributed members. • Partnered with stakeholders and Product Owners to ensure that product backlogs were well-defined, prioritized, and aligned with business goals. • Coached team members on Agile principles and Scrum framework to improve team performance and delivery. • Utilized JIRA and Confluence to track progress and manage Agile projects from planning to release. • Worked with team members to identify and remove impediments that were blocking progress. • Collaborated with other Scrum Masters to improve Agile maturity and adoption across the organization. • Empowered team members to take ownership of their work and make process improvements through retrospective meetings. • Developed and maintained burn-down charts, velocity charts, and other metrics to track team progress and identify areas for improvement. • Fostered collaboration and communication among team members, both locally and remotely, to ensure that everyone was aligned and working towards common goals. • Worked with development teams to establish criteria for automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. • Helped to establish and maintain a culture of continuous improvement and learning within the Scrum teams. Show less



NextDoor Home Health

• Scrum Master / Developer

  • Feb 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Facilitated the transition of a Nextdoor Healthcare team from a traditional Waterfall approach to Agile Scrum, resulting in improved team performance and delivery. • Used technical skills to develop and maintain the team's web-based applications, ensuring that they were scalable, reliable, and secure. • Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meetings for the Scrum team. • Configured Content Suite Reports, Document Imports, Dashboards, Notifications, Package Installations and Workflows (AWF) to meet business requirement. • Worked with Product Owners to ensure that product backlogs were well-defined, prioritized, and aligned with business goals. Show less