Recruiters & Hiring Managers
For Recruiters
- Senior / Principal Scrum Master
- Agile Delivery Lead
- Platform, Cloud, or Data Engineering teams
- Contract or Full-Time
- US-based or Remote
For Hiring Managers
- Predictable delivery over ceremony
- Multiple teams with shared dependencies
- Platform, data, or regulated environments
- PI Planning, flow metrics, executive visibility
Executive Summary
Senior SAFe Scrum Master and Agile Delivery Lead with over 18 years of experience leading enterprise-scale Agile delivery across financial services, healthcare, retail, and government sectors. Demonstrated success in stabilizing complex platform, cloud, and data programs where predictability, compliance, and delivery transparency are critical.
Known for improving sprint and PI predictability by 30–40%, reducing rework by approximately 30%, and enabling executive decision-making through flow-based metrics, capacity realism, and dependency management.
Professional Experience
Fidelity Investments — Senior SAFe Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead
- Serves as Scrum Master for enterprise API and platform teams supporting mission-critical Health & Welfare systems.
- Improved sprint and PI predictability by 30%+ using flow metrics, capacity-based planning, and WIP discipline.
- Implemented cycle time and throughput tracking to reduce spillover and stabilize delivery.
- Facilitates PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, Scrum of Scrums, Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Daily Scrums.
- Coordinates cross-team dependencies, systemic risks, and release milestones.
- Provides executive delivery dashboards supporting roadmap, funding, and release decisions.
- Coaches Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and teams toward sustainable, high-trust delivery.
TISTA Science & Technology Corp — Senior Scrum Master / Project Manager
- Led 2–3 Scrum teams delivering USDA FPAC cloud modernization initiatives on AWS.
- Established Azure DevOps governance, backlog hygiene, and reporting standards.
- Improved PI predictability by ~30% through Definition of Ready/Done enforcement.
- Reduced late-stage delivery risk and rework by ~30%.
- Supported compliance-driven delivery in regulated federal environments.
Five Below Inc. — Senior Scrum Master
- Supported Agile delivery for digital commerce and enterprise retail platforms.
- Maintained 95%+ sprint commitment reliability.
- Improved throughput by ~20% without increasing team size.
- Strengthened backlog refinement, dependency visibility, and cross-team alignment.
Meijer Inc. — Senior Scrum Master
- Scrum Master for three parallel cloud-native teams.
- Improved sprint predictability by ~35%.
- Introduced test-case readiness during backlog refinement.
- Facilitated Scrum of Scrums and PI Planning.
Petco Health & Wellness — Senior Scrum Master
- Stabilized Agile delivery during organizational change.
- Reduced rework by ~30% through clearer acceptance criteria.
- Improved collaboration across Product, Engineering, and QA.
Computronics Inc. — Senior Scrum Master
- Led Agile transformation and Scrum adoption across multiple clients.
- Coached low-maturity teams to enterprise delivery standards.
- Improved delivery transparency, quality, and stakeholder confidence.
Sears Holdings Corporation — Business Operations / Marketplace Manager
- Managed large-scale, cross-functional operational initiatives.
- Improved execution efficiency, governance, and reporting.
- Built foundational leadership and delivery expertise.
Skills, Tools & Frameworks
- Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Scrumban, Scrum of Scrums
- PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, Release Planning
- Flow Metrics, Cycle Time, Throughput, WIP
- Capacity Planning, Forecasting
- Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps
- Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
- Platform, Cloud, and Data Delivery
- Regulated & Compliance Environments
Certifications
- PMP® — Project Management Institute
- PMI Certified Agile Coach
- SAFe® 6 Agileist
- PSM™, PSPO™, PAL™ — Scrum.org