Profile
Experienced Scrum Master (PSM I / CSM / SAFe SA), Product Owner, Content Manager, Project Manager In industries including Fashion Retail, Telecommunications, and B2B digital media services that facilitate the distribution, promotion, and sale of digital media content for media and entertainment. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum rules, removing impediments as a servant-leader, fostering self-management, and evangelizing Agile with an organization.
Experience:
Scrum Master, Levi Strauss & Co; San Francisco, CA — 2021-Current
Scrum Master, Nike, Inc; Beaverton, OR — 2016-2021
Hired within the Nike Digital Engineering Group to improve the organization’s Agile Delivery Practice.
Accomplishments:
Scheduled and facilitated all aspects of the Scrum framework, including sprint planning sessions, big room release train planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, product demos, and sprint retrospectives.
Maintained the Scrum team’s capacity plan, Scrum board (JIRA), sprint backlog, velocity charts, and turndown charts.
Worked closely with Product Owners within the SAFe framework to ensure that stories aligned and were prioritized based on Value Drop objectives at the Program level.
Identified and helped remove impediments to the success of the sprint.
Coached, mentored, and evangelized Agile best practices across the organization.
Drove cross-capability coordination and scheduling with other scrum leads.
Provided timely communication throughout the sprint.
Partnered with Product Owners, Business Stakeholders, and architecture to deliver business value.
Proven ability to pull together diverse individuals with different goals and facilitate productive discussion and action.
Senior Scrum Master, AT&T (CGI Technologies); Seattle, WA — 2014-2015
Brought in as a consultant within the myAT&T mobile and web applications group to coach and train Scrum teams in an organizational environment in which Scrum was not fully adopted or understood.
Accomplishments
Ensured that the Scrum Teams adhered to Scrum theory, practices, and rules.
Helped stakeholders and clients understand Scrum Theory and how to interact with Scrum Teams by utilizing improved transparency to inspect and adapt throughout iterations.
Trained Developers and Product Owners on techniques to maintain the Sprint and Product Backlogs to maximize the value of development work.
Facilitated Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective).
Worked with the Scrum Team and the organization to increase the transparency of the Sprint Backlog, Product Backlog, and completed Increments.
Guided team through the Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing stages
Sr Partner / Co-Founder, Miga Collabs; Seattle, WA — 2013-2015
Co-Founder of a small technology incubator developing open-source and proprietary technology solutions.
Accomplishments
Customer proxy for Mividio, a real estate web application that helps users manage their property listings, service vendor contacts, marketing assets, and schedule events in one fluid and integrated experience.
Defined user stories. Prioritized and refined product backlog.
Worked closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization and beyond.
Coached and trained Scrum Team as acting Scrum Master.
Produced Demos for Stakeholders and Clients.
Scrum Master, Screenplay, Inc; Seattle, WA — 2007-2013
Recruited by executive management to lead the transition of Project Management, Engineering, and IT practice to an Agile Scrum Framework. Facilitated Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective).
Accomplishments
Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to a Scrum Framework.
With the maturation of the Scrum Team our definition of “Done” expanded to include more precise acceptance criteria, thus creating higher quality deliverables.
Helped stakeholders and clients understand Scrum theory and how to interact with Scrum Teams by utilizing improved transparency to inspect and adapt throughout iterations.
Facilitated Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective).
VP, Content, Shared Media Licensing; Seattle, WA — 2003-2006
Hired to Manage all aspects of business development, including deal structuring, negotiations, and contract execution with media content providers, music labels, technology partners, and media aggregators.
Accomplishments
SML’s music distribution product was a finalist in the World Technology Networks 2004 Entertainment Award competition.
Managed overall planning, requirements, and development of content management applications used by all of Shared Media Licensing’s clients to upload and manage audio, video, and metadata.
SR Content Production Manager, Loudeye; Seattle, WA — 1998-2002
Directed operations and built production department from the ground up as a founding member of the technical team. Managed, trained and supported a team of over 50 audio, video, quality control, and data entry specialists.
Accomplishments
Managed encoding of more than 22 million audio files for external customers and internal initiatives and more than 1.1 million minutes of video
Managed staff schedules and work assignments.
Conducted staff performance evaluations.
Managed budget, spending, cost reduction, and inventory management for the department.
Engaged in staff recruitment, interviewing, hiring, training, and evaluation.
Education
The University of Nebraska at Kearney — Bachelors (BA) Coursework 1987-1990
Certifications
PSM I, CSM, SAFe SA
References
Available upon request
Skills
Continuous Integration, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Green Hopper, Pivotal Tracker
Volunteer
Agile Coach at KEXP in Seattle, WA - 2014 - Present