Greater Chicago Area
🌍 “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first.” Robert K. Greenleaf. Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations, and ultimately creates a more just and caring world. "Helping teams unlesh the Power of Scrum." 🌟 Large Scale Scrum Frameworks applied: SAFe Nexus Scrum@Scale 🌟The most common tools used: •MS Office suite •SharePoint •Teams •MS Project •Atlassian products, i.e., Jira, Confluence, •Bamboo •Rally •Version 1 •Slack •Power BI •Tableau •Domo •Slunk •Miro •Mural & many more... 🌟I've practiced Servant Leadership for ___________ Teams: •Waterscrum •Scrumfall •Scrum •ScrumOps •DevOps •Scrumban •Kanban •XP •TDD,BDD,FDD •Xanpan •Design, Systems, Domain Thinking 🏆The Product Champion is the person within an organization implementing a product who takes on the burden of ensuring everyone involved is on board and behind the ultimate success of the product and its delivery. They are responsible for identifying a products strategic objectives.
Nexus Scrum@Scale LeSS SAFe Performance Improvement Coach
"Did you take it to the Team?" Agile Coach for Teams in the Supply Chain space. As a Senior Consultant Agile Coach at MAPSYS, I apply my 10+ years of experience and certifications in Lean Six Sigma, Scrum, and various large scale Scrum frameworks to help teams in the supply chain space unleash the power of agile. I coach, mentor, and facilitate teams across different types of projects, such as Streamline, Platform, Enablement, and DevOps, using the most appropriate tools and metrics to ensure quality and efficiency. An Agile Coach & Professional ScrumMaster for several different types of teams: • Streamline Team • Platform Team • Enablement Team • DevOps Team
My mission is to serve first and empower teams to be great, by creating a culture of collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement. I have successfully delivered results for clients such as Grainger, where I was a Delivery Manager and Scrum Master for three teams, co-created training materials, and enhanced the cross-team coordination. I am passionate about agile project management and always eager to learn and share best practices. Delivery Mgr & Scrum Master for 3 Teams. Co-created training materials. Enhanced the collaboration and communication across multiple teams. Communicated with PM and leadership on risks and escalated all obstacles outside of the teams scope. Used metrics like Age of work, burndowns, team velocity, throughput and cycle time to assist the teams to better Plan and Deliver on our Goal, Sprint after Sprint. Removed obstacles while coaching and guiding the Scrum Teams through continuous improvement and delivery.
☁Agile Coach 06/2016 – May 2020 ☁Paylocity via icstars (employee portal) 3 teams 💡 Coached new Scrum Masters and trained teams, which resulted in value being delivered every Sprint. 💡 Coached team members on Agile principles and values while providing general guidance on the Framework. Conducted and facilitated Scrum Daily standup, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings. 💡 Built a relationship with Product owner, key stake holders and development team to facilitate the team's interaction with them, and act as liaison to translate requirements into incremental deliverables. ☁Accenture (employee portal) 4 teams 💡 I assisted and coached new Product Owners, and Scrum Masters in prioritizing business requirements to the scrum team, maintaining the backlog, planning, and acceptance criteria. 💡 Used MS Office, SharePoint, MS Project, JIRA and Trello management platforms to manage products lifecycle, also creating burn down/up charts, velocity, and other artifacts needed. 💡 Lead ScrumOrg PSM1 workshops, which led to attendees passing scrum exams and becoming certified. ☁The PrivateBank (mobile application) 4 teams 💡 Removed obstacle and impediments for the team by escalating an issue to leadership, protected and shielded the team from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. 💡 Encouraged and implemented continuous improvements and value driven delivery. 💡 Coordinated market research and customer focus groups to guide overall strategy decision making. Also worked with the UX/UI team to align them with guidelines, requirements, look and feel. 💡 Facilitated Lego® team building workshops which elevated the teams creativity, and innovation. 💡 Created awareness of key agile and scrum principals on an organizational and team level.
☁️ Team Scrum Master 💡 I'm a agile scrum master for a cross-functional, and self organized team of developers. I encourage continuous improvement, and value driven delivery. 💡 Facilitated the daily scrum, scrum of scrum, sprint planning, and sprint review & retrospective meetings. Coached, mentored and facilitated agile teams. 💡 I assisted the Product Owners in prioritizing business requirements to the scrum team, maintaining the backlog, planning, acceptance criteria, and in creating radiators which provided transparency amongst team and stakeholders. 💡 Great Knowledge of various agile methodologies, and applied agile principles and values when executing projects. 💡 Implemented the Kanban process to manage complex products/projects.
☁️ Business Analyst/Scrum Master 💡 Within my current role Business Analyst I act as a facilitator, requirements analyst, business process/workflow modeler, task/user interface designer and business entity modeler. 💡 Engaged client to gather software requirements, business rules, and ensure it's alignment with development teams. 💡 Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams. 💡 Acted as liaison between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and application.