About Candidate

Functional analyst looking for a Scrum Master role to apply experience in an Agile project management environment to manage client expectations and guide the project team to success. Proven success in time management skills and ability to learn complex concepts with experience delivering superior technology-driven solutions to alleviate the multitude of issues clients face. Effective collaboration and involvement with leadership teams to help build confidence within client relationships and communicate complex business topics to Senior level business and technology client executives.

Nationality
United States of America

Location

Education

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Bachelor of Science 2015 Graduate
Virginia Commonwealth University

Business Administration degree with Concentration in Finance

Work & Experience

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Scrum Master (Consultant) 7/1/2022 - 7/1/2025
Deloitte

● Operating as a SAFe Agile Scrum Master on an O&M scrum team with client ● Leading a team of senior developers and testers to implement new enhancements/features and fix critical bugs found in client’s application ● Facilitate PI Planning and ensuring committed work has been prioritized by the client ● Driving Requirement Gathering sessions with clients to capture application enhancements to be prioritized and developed in future sprints ● Driving Sprint Planning sessions to ensure prioritized work is being developed in upcoming sprints ● Managing JIRA backlog to ensure tickets are in order of client’s priority and meeting release dates ● Driving Product Backlog Refinement sessions with team to groom user stories and ensuring the team has up to three sprints worth of work ● Recording risks and impediments and working with clients toward impediment resolution ● Create Functional Requirements Documents for new and upgraded features to system application ● Facilitating client demo where developed work during sprint is demoed for the clients and end-users ● Supporting deployments and providing release documentation for clients to reference during test events prior to deployment to Production

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Finance Associate 3/1/2020 - 6/30/2022
Future of Privacy Forum

● Acted as primary liaison with accounting contractor to coordinate accounts payable and accounts receivable processes for monthly financial close activities. ● Facilitated and completed vendor registration as required by members’ procurement processes from issuing invoices for member contributions to following up regularly to ensure collection ● Assisted in preparation of 990’s and related tax documentation. ● Developed and implemented business processes for more transparent and efficient workflow across companywide working groups. ● Analyzed contractor agreements, cost transactions, and vendor disbursements and reviewed all supplemental documentation to ensure a calculated financial planning process.

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Consultant 6/1/2019 - 3/1/2020
Robert Half

● Navigated through old, new, and proprietary Client ERP systems to review all financial data for internal audit, new systems implementation, and data backlogging. ● Researched and communicated variances and cost explanations to Client Management Team. ● Accounted for all financial data including anomalies and discrepancies of multiple geographical regions’ ranging from small communities to large metropolitan areas. ● Analyzed contractor agreements, cost transactions, and vendor disbursements and reviewed all supplemental documentation to ensure a calculated financial planning process.

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Finance Director 1/1/2016 - 1/1/2017
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington DC

● Proposed and administered new policies and procedures for more efficient management processes for data transfer between various departments and business units. ● Initiated new protocols to provide more precise budget forecasting, projects evaluation, and negotiations of contracts in process. ● Prepared detailed books and accounted for high volume accounts payables tickets (~800 invoices monthly) and vendor disbursements to supplement financial statements to ensure a calculated financial planning process. ● Reviewed and accounted for financial year data to create simple, easy-to-absorb summaries for administrative review. Proposed steps for improvement have been embedded into the system.