Azizi Campbell

Experience

1. Release Train Engineer

   FIS

   Jul 2019 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

   Manage and track program-level activities and Program Increment feature delivery for the Agile Release Train. • Collaborate and partner with other Release Train Engineers, Product Managers, Portfolio Managers, System Architects and other stakeholders for requirements, project prioritization, and scheduling of program deliverables. • Plan and facilitate Program Increment ceremonies such as Scrum of Scrums, PI Planning, Product Owner Sync, System Demo, and Inspect and Adapt as well as manage the program backlog.• Coach team members on Scrum and SAFe best practices around topics such as estimating, refinement, backlog prioritization, identifying, and resolving dependencies. • Work with distributed teams both inside and outside of the U.S.• Promote transparency by gathering and sharing train metrics to team members, train leadership and other stakeholders. Metrics include train velocity, predictability, productivity, scope changes, and readiness. • Facilitate epic and feature estimation with all impacted teams regardless of being on or outside of the train.• Increased predictability by 24% within three program increments by ensuring features and user stories are readied prior to the teams committing to the work. • Reduced story cycle time from an average of 7.1 days to an average of 4.3 days by pushing the teams to work with smaller batch sizes and obtain early acceptance from product owners and product managers during their iterations.• Aided in Agile Release Train maturity by organizing and facilitating Lean SDLC assessments and improvement items.

Education

• Northern Kentucky University

  Master's

  2005 — 2007

• Northern Kentucky University

  Graduate Certificate in Business Informatics

  2012 — 2013

• University of Cincinnati

  Certificate

  1995 — 2000

• University of Cincinnati

  Bachelor's

  1995 — 2000