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About Candidate
Highly experienced technology expert with software development and agile/scrum methodologies experience.
Professional Summary Advanced Certified Scrum Master with proven success leading multiple remote teams through Scrum and Kanban practices in the retail and aviation sectors. Raised sustained velocity 33% (60 → 80 story points per 2week sprint) by driving retrospective actions, enforcing WIP limits, and removing blockers. Principal lead on three PCI compliance certifications; deep expertise in secure credit-card authorization, card facilitators, tokenization/encryption, and regulated environments. I use Grok every day. Core Competencies- Scrum & Kanban (sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives, flow metrics, WIP limits) – Backlog grooming, prioritization, Definition of Ready/Done, velocity forecasting using Jira- Impediment removal across remote teams, dependencies, and third-party facilitators – PCI DSS / PA-DSS 3.2 / SSF, TLS 1.2, AES-256, secure card data flows – JIRA (JQL, automation, boards), Confluence organization, Postman, PowerShell, SQL, AWS EC2, MS Office- Inclusive facilitation, creative retrospectives, team and stakeholder communication across time zones
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Iqama
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Education
Major in Computer Science with a minor in Hardware
Work & Experience
- Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies and Kanban flow practices for two distributed development teams (one desktop development and one Saas) delivering TotalFBO and NextGen aviation software - Increased velocity from 60 to sustained 80 story points/sprint through retrospective-driven process improvements for one team and improved LOE of 2 week deliveries by CI/CD automation for the other team - Sole owner of PCI PA-DSS 3.2 certification and transition to PCI Software Security Framework - Managed secure integrations with card facilitators (AHT Services, Colt, P66) for bank and branded cards - Collaborated with stakeholders to prioritize epics and deliver on FBO software OKRs for B2B customers
- Delivered POS and payment projects for Advance Auto Parts, West Marine, Office Depot, Follett, Cabela’s Outfitters, Books-A-Million, BQ Mall - Designed and launched Advance Auto Parts' name-branded card program for commercial customers, saving $10 M/year by eliminating bank escrow - Led PCI DSS certification of JDA Win/DSS POS for card-present transactions (West Marine) - Built check-to-ACH conversion system certified by Visa (Books-A-Million) - Integrated Verifone hardware, third-party middleware, and loyalty programs under aggressive timelines - Designed and managed the development of PartTraq, a part tracking system for fabricators
