a-csm steven peterson

Lead two development teams through an agile transformation initiative, demonstrating effective leadership and increased business delivery of products through the Scrum Framework.  Lead the Scrum Team, Product Owners, and junior Scrum Masters to adhere to standard agile best practices which led to increased team performance and accelerated product delivery to customers.  Coach the Scrum Team, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Executive Leadership on how to execute the Scrum Framework, prioritize the product backlog, capacity planning, and value-driven delivery strategies which led to more effective collaboration between Developers, Testers, Product Owners, and Business Executives.  Remove impediments to progress as identified by the Team to ensure Scrum Teams are focused on sprint priorities.  Facilitate all formal Scrum Ceremonies including Project Planning, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, and Backlog Refinement sessions, ensure all stakeholders focus on backlog prioritization, business value, and capacity requirements for each feature.

Implemented Agile Scrum Framework throughout the organization to improve software delivery cycles between Product Management, Application Development, and Business Owners to provide more transparency across 3 departments, and to obtain shorter delivery times to customers.  Coached and mentored a cross-functional team of 14 resources to deliver software applications, increasing production releases from monthly to weekly delivery cycles.  Implement Scrum best practices to increase team productivity and velocity by over 50% within the first 3 months of adoption.  Facilitate sprint planning sessions, release planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings, effectively improving team and stakeholder communication.  Implement Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017 to manage features, user stories, and reporting tools to allow cohesive usage of scrum tools across cross-functional teams.  Assume project portfolio responsibilities to manage strategic technology initiatives across the entire organization, effectively steering projects to completion according to corporate objectives.

Lead application development projects for employment background screening and occupational health systems applications using a blend of hybrid Waterfall and Scrum methodologies.  Lead project teams using traditional waterfall methods including initiation, planning, execution, testing, and customer delivery meeting and exceeding requirements and customer expectations.  Lead and manage corporate merger project initiatives through application development and systems integration delivery for a major multi-million dollar acquisition.  Lead and coach a cross functional team of 10 resources through an agile transformation initiative, effectively leading scrum methodology to increase software release times by over 80%.  Manage release management and quality assurance, ensuring all software code is fully tested and released according to project requirements.

Managed projects and budgets between $50k to $1M, with a project team ranging from 6-10 developers and database architects. Led business intelligence report development and system integration projects, including requirements, design, testing, and deployment from development to production. Clients included US Bank Corp, MasterCard, ASPCA, University of Nebraska, and National Research. - Spearheaded and led a $1M data warehouse integration project that included database mapping, metadata management, interface specifications, Extract/Transform/Load (ETL), star-schema mapping design, and testing for a rollout affecting over 5,000 US Bank Corp users nationwide. - Turned around the development time of a CMO metrics dashboard and ad-hoc reporting service within 3 months by building and integrating a team to increase efficiencies. - Leveraged agile development methodologies with clients, saving a project thousands in man-hours and substantially reducing the risk of each test cycle.

* Defined product and market requirements for standardized marketing database and reporting solution, facilitated RFPs, and led a cross-functional project team. * Created requirements and roadmap for deeper entrenchment within the automotive industry vertical. * Developed and presented business case for profitability and ROI, illustrating benefits, risks, and competitive analysis.

* Orchestrated business analysis and discovery for an enterprise legacy replacement initiative resulting from the corporate merger and acquisition between Sears and Kmart. * Facilitated business and technical discovery sessions to understand business rules and operating procedures for a marketing management system affecting over 500 users. * Led IT team to determine functionalities and managed complete project lifecycle from RFI/RFP development through contract negotiations and migration to a vendor * packaged software.

Championed as the technical liaison between customers, product management, product development, and sales; matching customer business requirements to company strategic initiatives. - Managed business technical relationships with automotive customers for support of navigational products, including pre and post-sales, conflict resolution, and communication. - Implemented quality procedures for automotive navigation database projects, surpassing production deadlines with error-free delivery of navigation and location-based mapping applications.

Utilized Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to extract land-use data for the analysis of cellular tower locations.

* Honorably and proudly served four years active duty with Marine Corps Infantry. Led an infantry forward observation team. Responsible for coordinating close-air support and artillery coordination during tactical operations. * Duty assignments included: * 3rd Battalion 9th Marines (3/9): * Served in Operation Restore Hope, Somalia * 1992-93 * Served on the Joint Task Force 6 * 1992 * Deployed on two West-Pac Operations to Okinawa, Korea (Team Spirit and Valiant Blitz), and Japan (Forest Light Operation) * MOUT Training, Fort Ord, CA * 1992 * CAX exercises * 29 Palms CA * 1991 * Parris Island, S.C. * 1990 * 91 * Basic Training * Platoon 2004 * Received Honorable Discharge. * Top-Secret security clearance.