Andrea Peterson

About Andrea Peterson

I am a collaborative, detail oriented, and positive Senior Scrum Master, IT Project…

Experience

1. Specialist, IT & Development

   Transamerica

   Dec 2018 — Present · Cedar Rapids, IA, US

   Agile Steward, Coach, Mentor, Scrum Master, Delivery LeadScrum Master on the Life Producer Portal initiative and up to 4 scrum teams concurrently throughout tenure. Delivery Lead ensuring successful execution, guiding strategic and tactical planning, leading scrum ceremonies, in sprint activities, user story creation, integration testing, and release management/deployment efforts. • Introduced and facilitated 6+ mini planning sessions to drive transparency and more accurate planning.• Coached agile concepts and theories utilizing Scrum, Scrumban, and Kanban frameworks to 15+ scrum teams comprised of more than 150 employees & contractors. • Increased velocity on three API teams by 63%, thus delivering more value to the business in reduced time. • Guided 10+ Product Owners on epic and user story creation & prioritization, roadmap creation, and release planning. • Launched over 100 successful production releases providing value to our stakeholders such as the introduction of an agent’s Book of Business on a new Unqork platform, the first ever Customer Portal, adding administrative systems on the Producer and Customer Portals, and providing Home Office users with the ability to impersonate customers and agents to better serve our customers. • Created 30+ project level dashboards used by leadership and project teams to understand project progress and inform decisions. • Mentored 10+ Scrum Masters so they could facilitate the Scrum Framework on other teams. • Coached the team on the creation of user stories. Facilitated refinement sessions to ensure requirements are understood by the team, pointed, and ready to be worked thereby reducing team churn. • Developed strong relationships with the business which assists in setting expectations to ensure success for the team.• JIRA SME for Individual Life Projects assisting other teams developing dashboards and setting up their project boards.

Education

• University of Northern Iowa

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Skills

• Information Technology
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Project Management
• Visio
• Software Development
• Business Analysis
• Cross-Functional Problem Solving
• Software Design
• Business Process Improvement
• Requirements Analysis
• Program Management
• Process Improvement
• Software Project Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Requirements Gathering
• Agile Project Management
• Integration
• Agile Methodologies
• Vendor Management
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Project Delivery