Agile Certified Professional

Bright E. Excel, BA, SSM

+1-631-***-**** Far Rockaway, NY adehhi@r.postjobfree.com

AGILE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SERVICE DELIVERY ACCELERATED ADOPTION

Certified SAFe Scrum Master with over 5 years expertise in Project Management experience in managing software development projects, product development & accelerated adoption, to deliver business value, improve processes and maximize team potential as well as product quality and efficiency.

Notable Accomplishments:

Recognized Agile Evangelist in driving the transformation agenda within the organization and adopting an Agile Mindset.

Implemented organization standards successfully to establish the lean principles and procedures tailored to Agile and DevOps models that saved time and increases production stability.

Successfully guided multiple work-streams simultaneously through transition from Waterfall to Agile development approach.

Recognized Team Lead for providing strategic leadership on high-profile projects and in planning, designing, executing, automating, and reporting.

Education:

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Stony Brook University – Stony Brook, NY

Certifications / Training:

SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) – Scaled Agile, Inc.

Project Management Professional (PMP) – Project Management Institute (in training)

Skills:

Expertise in SDLC methodologies – Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Kanban.

Strong technical command of project management tools – Rally, TFS, JIRA/Confluence, Version One, MS Project, and MS Office Suite.

Well versed in project version control and collaborating tools – SharePoint, Primavera P6

Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.

Strategic Planning & Execution; Process Optimization and Change Management

Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery Pipeline & Release Management

End-to-End Planning, Governance, Cross-Functional Teams, Implementation and Requirements Gathering.

Professional Experience:

Kings County Hospital Center – Brooklyn, NY Oct 2017 – Present

Scrum Master

Facilitate Scrum events for Standup, Planning, Backlog Refinement, Review and Retrospectives to plan, refine, improve process and keep track on all the issues and to remove the impediments & help resolve team conflicts.

Setup JIRA project space with Scrum Boards to track all the issue types for different sprints – Epic, Story, Subtask, Test Case, and Bugs.

Create Confluence space to maintain the project documents – Product Requirements, Stakeholder register, Meeting notes, Decision logs, Roaming items, Retrospective, and Task Report.

Facilitate the estimation of work and efforts for “Story & Tasks” and helped the team to update their time against an original estimate in JIRA, to keep track on each story’s efforts.

Work closely with the Business/Product Owners and Users to understand the requirement, and guided the team to convert those requirements into a product backlog.

Additional Roles:

IT Project Manager 2017 – 2018

Business Analyst 2017 - 2017

Ocean Medical Center – Brick Township, NJ Oct 2016 – Sept 2017

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Served as an IT Project management liaison to the business client, and performed hands-on analysis of the business and technical environments.

Define and Deployment of PMO Strategies that align with overall business objectives for vendor management, to include process improvements, and customer relationship management (CRM).

Monitored development progress through iterations to ensure project was within scope and budget.

Identified potential project risks and helped developed a mitigation plan to resolve potential issues.

Managed the insight and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helped to ensure all stakeholders agreed with the current scope and roadmap of the product.

Lincoln Medical Center NYCHH – Bronx, NY Oct 2015 – Sept 2016

Project Coordinator

Coordinated and managed team to ensure proper backup and roll out of Desktop/Servers and attained customer satisfaction.

Maximized productivity by setting clear expectations and communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and top management.

Worked with the Governance Manager to define standards to be used on the contract and in the IMS.

Managed all project stakeholders to make sure that appropriate project controls are instituted, and developed required documents, procurement documents and project status documents.

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