Chris Straub

About Chris Straub

Certified professional IT Scrum Master with agile coaching and project manager experience leading development teams successfully through an agile process. Proven abilities to eliminate barriers that reduce efficiency within application teams. A key collaborator with different stakeholders, managers, and directors. Also, unique development skills with change management, Kanban, Scrum, Scaled Agile, and other methodologies. LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE: Leading development teams through Agile frameworks. Eliminating barriers that reduce efficiency to the development teams. AGILE & PROJECT EXPERIENCE: Perform daily standups to track progress and perform bi-weekly retrospectives with the development team after each iteration/sprint. Attend daily and weekly meetings and provide updates and feedback to other Scrum Masters, Product Managers, teams, and management. PROBLEM SOLVER: Perform Innovation Planning (IP) sessions with development teams to determine solutions to unique problems. Analyze ways to improve our applications for our members and internal users. CHANGE MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: Analyze and implement upgrades to internal systems to reduce downtime to applications.

Experience

1. Senior Scrum Master

   Ent Credit Union

   Nov 2022 — Present

Education

• Colorado State University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2019

• University of Colorado Colorado Springs

  Bachelor's of Science, Business Management with Minor in Marketing

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Office
• Event Planning
• Customer Service
• Project Planning
• Marketing
• Teamwork
• Training
• Social Media
• Social Networking
• Management
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Photoshop
• Time Management
• Program Management
• Fitness