Agile Coach at cPrime
Foster city, California 94044
United States

December 2011-Present

Serving as an Agile Coach and consultant to clients looking to implement Agile Transformation programs, seeking training or requiring additional support in refining best practices.

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Scrum Master at Principal Financial Group
Des Moines, IA 50314
United States

October 2011-December 2011

Led a development team in planning and daily management of a project to modernize the HelpDesk management system to comply with ITIL standards. The team had detailed requirements in a use-case and system requirements format but planning was for Scrum iterations of 3 weeks. Requirements were scheduled on priority and dependency. Led Daily Standup meetings with 3 related teams and offshore resources.

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Scrum Master at Aviva USA
West Des Moines, IA 50265
United States

October 2010-August 2011

Working with 2 Scrum Project Teams on the Customer Retention and Master Data Management Teams, provided support as a Scrum Master in defining team agreements, leading the team through Scrum processes and meetings including Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Story Review/Backlog Grooming sessions,etc. Transitioned the team from using absolute units of hours to estimate stories to a User Story approach with relative units of measure. Assisted in training and support to business SME's in the writing and clarification of User Stories and Acceptance Criteria. Developed an approach to integrate Agile Development with a fixed, waterfall-based Release Management requirement enforced at the Enterprise level.

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Consultant at Visiont
West Des Moines, IA 50265
United States

June 2010-August 2010

Served a newly-formed team with activities related to mapping User Stories to RFP Responses for a print-production system. Assisted the Product Owner with breaking down very large epics into manageable User Stories that could be easily mapped to possible off-the-shelf solutions or could be developed within a sprint. Worked with the team and Product Owner (as well as management) to define a Release Roadmap and draft plans toward Releases 1 and 2. Led the team in initial Sprints to perform tech-related spikes of architecture and proofs-of-concept with possible vendor solutions.

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Project Manager at Kaiser Permanente - Colorado
Denver, CO 80245
United States

December 2008-May 2010

As a Project Manager in the Community Benefit organization, was responsible for leading business and IT initiatives to modernize systems and processes related to the Medicaid line of business. Worked with State and Federal requirements and representatives to detail requirements, translate system-related requirements into User Stories for the development team and to plan Releases and Sprints related to the Membership Management, Health Record System, and other data interfaces. Served as Scrum Master for Planning and Daily Standup meetings. Served as Product Owner proxy to answer questions and resolve issues requiring State or Federal clarification. Wrote Acceptance Criteria and assisted with UAT and Story Acceptance.

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