Experience

Sundance Behavioral Healthcare

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scrum Master

  • Apr 2015 - Present

  Building new ways of working and responsible for Sprint planning, managing product backlog, holding daily scrum meetings, removing impediments and mentoring scrum team members Responsible to have all the required artifacts created to comply with the quality assurance audit process Act as a shield between the software development teams and any distracting influences Ensure that the Scrum process is used as intended and continually improved Enforce the rules of Scrum, facilitate key meetings, and challenge the teams to innovate Help the team with the planning of the Sprints, prioritization of the sprint backlog, coordinate the development process, identify and eliminate obstacles that prevent the team from achieving their goals, prepare burndown charts, and ensure crystal clear communication among everyone involved in the project Support the team through servant leadership in bringing them to a self-organized state Proactively and effectively communicate in various verbal and written formats with internal and external stakeholders on project scope, budget, and schedule status of implementations Accountable for direct and independent management of primarily moderate risk projects (occasionally low or high risk) and/or participates as a member of larger effort(s) to independently manage sub-program component(s) of moderate complexity under the purview of a program/project leader Collaborating with Scrum Master to ensure impediments discovered during the daily standups are resolved, documenting the findings Show less



The village of Lake Highlands

• United States

• Risk Analyst

  • Aug 2013 - Mar 2015

  Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months. Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organized and coached the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization. Removed impediments or guided the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment. Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving. Organized and led release planning for a delivery of group of multiple scrum teams. Assigned to a product feature group resulting in a creation of a project road map. Utilized JIRA and RALLY to track team progress. Managed sprint backlogs, iterations as well as facilitating daily standup meetings. Guide the team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers. Guide the team on how to get the most out of self-organization. Performed enhanced due diligence and frequent reviews on client types including politically exposed individuals, senior public figures, higher affluent clients, entities corporations, and foreign entities. Show less