Frederick Smith

Scrum Master @Primecare Medical, Inc

SCRUM MASTER 11/2016 – Present PrimeCare Medical| Remote Coached agile team on backlog refinement, minimizing scope creep, utilized user story workshops and reinforced the importance of prioritization. Led all scrum ceremonies to include sprint planning sessions, daily scrums with the development team, sprint reviews,and sprint retrospectives. Utilized ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, and mediation, to help the team become self organized, accountable and cross functional. Empowered the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings. Proactively updated leadership and stakeholders on project status, impediments and risk factors. utilized different delivery practices and methodologies from agile frameworks through experimentation to improve the team and their delivery of business and technical outcomes. Key Accomplishments: Leveraged delivery analysis tools such as Jira and Confluence to evaluate, optimize, and improve team output by 23%. Championed Enterprise Agile Scrum transformation and coordinated adoption for teams across multiple sites on the east coast to help transition from waterfall and become mature agile self-organized and cross-functional teams. Managed a large scale migration project using agile methodologies to track the transport and reconnection of over 300 servers. Managed a large scale modernization project to upgrade the servers and tracked using agile methodologies.