Agile Project Manager

Agile Project Manager Summary

Agile Project Manager, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Agile Coach, and Agile Project Manager with more than 12 years of demonstrated experience working in Software and Information Technology industries. Advanced knowledge in Agile frameworks, principles, and values, technical background as Senior Software Engineer. Strategic planner, people manager, coach, and mentor for teams and companies helping them achieve success.

Agile Project Manager

Nov 2017 – Current

Project description:

Scrum Master and Product Owner of development teams creating medical trials software.

Agile Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Ensure the correct use of the scrum framework and mentor best practices.
• Lead cross-functional teams.
• Track and monitor dependencies.
• Servant leader and facilitator.
• Track and remove impediments.
• Retrieve feedback for continuous improvement.
• Encourage agile principles (i.e. transparency, respect, adaptability).
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies for the team.
• Facilitate tools for planning and estimations.
• Empower the team to self-organize.
• Ensure the success of the team.
• Use Jira and Aha! to keep track of all projects and portfolios.

Technologies and tools:

Jira, Confluence, Aha!, GitHub, Slack, Microsoft Visio 2016, Microsoft Office Package.

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Sr. Scrum Master

Aug 2014 – Nov 2017

Project description:

Project Manager and Scrum Master of software development projects using Scrum methodology and agile principles.

Responsibilities:

Full-stack software engineer responsible for designing and implementing a web portal with all supporting backend services. The application provides functionality for users and general management of the application. Implemented pages for calculating the health score and risks using CSS and 03 for animations and interactive graphics. Backend RESTful APIs and services were developed using C# and AWS Lambda.

Technologies and tools:

Microsoft Project 2013, Microsoft Visio 2013, Team Foundation Services (TFS), SysAid, SysAid Metrics Dashboard, Primavera Portfolio Management, SQL Server Management Studio, Code Metrics Power tool, Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft Excel, SOAP UI, Fiddler.

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Team Lead

Aug 2013 – Aug 2014

Project description:

A mix of a software engineer and scrum master in the development of OSS applications. Developed using N-Tiered architecture as well as design patterns (Repository, Façade) and service-oriented.

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum Master, coached and mentored the team in Scrum practices and ensured correct execution of the framework.
• Database support included but not limited to stored procedures fixing, database structure changes and records, and catalogs fixing in complex databases and linked servers to ensure correct data workflow of numerous integrations.

Technologies and tools:

NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Entity Framework, repository design pattern, dependency injection and inversion of control, TFS 2012, VS 2012, SQL Server DBMS, WCF, JavaScript, jQuery.

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Project Leader

Mar 2011 – Aug 2013

Project description:

Project leader in charge of the coordination of the team (five members), as well as following SCRUM methodology in the development of Herbalife’s web applications, as well as estimations and planning.

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on Project Leader functioning as a bridge between development team and management.
• Helped to estimate tasks.
• Coordinated development team.
• Kept track of tasks and metrics to improve processes.
• Help the company transform from a traditional to agile mindset.
• Ensured correct use of Scrum framework and encouraged agile principles.

Technologies and tools:

Team Foundation Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio 2010, Entity Framework.

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Project Leader

Mar 2011 – Aug 2013

Project description:

Project leader in charge of the coordination of the team (five members), as well as following SCRUM methodology in the development of Herbalife’s web applications, as well as estimations and planning.

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on Project Leader functioning as a bridge between development team and management.
• Helped to estimate tasks.
• Coordinated development team.
• Kept track of tasks and metrics to improve processes.
• Help the company transform from a traditional to agile mindset.
• Ensured correct use of Scrum framework and encouraged agile principles.

Technologies and tools:

Team Foundation Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio 2010, Entity Framework.

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Tech Lead

Aug 2009 – Mar 2011

Project description:

Scrum Master of a software development team that was creating a clinical application.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered User Stories from stakeholders to define the scope and create a Product Backlog.
• Worked with the product owner to create Release Backlogs.
• Created, planned, and estimated tasks.
• Estimated tasks with the rest of the team using Poker
• Planning as an estimation tool.
• Helped to create Sprint Backlogs.
• Controlled and monitored projects using the Burndown chart.
• Led daily scrum meetings.
• Facilitated developers with every tool they needed.
• Led retrospective meetings.
• Enforced best practices to make sure projects were on the right track.

Technologies and tools:

Acunote, Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, OnTime, Microsoft Office package, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.

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Software Engineer

Jul 2007 – Aug 2009

Project description:

Development of a WEB-based CRM developed using SCRUM and CMMI as development processes.

Technologies and tools:

C#, ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX, JavaScript. Databases in SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 and Oracle, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio Team System 2008, AJAX Control Toolkit, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Developer (Oracle).