Sheryl Berger

About Sheryl Berger

Project Manager/Senior Scrum Master and Program Lead with outstanding client-facing expertise, proactive skills in delivering business results. I have exceptional communication, organizational and leadership skills with confidence in delivering strategic solutions and projects on-time and on-budget. I have an excellent track record in executing in both agile methodology and full project life cycle from defining scope, developing business requirements/writing user stories, specifications, test scripts/user acceptance testing through implementation. My experience encompasses co-leading Program Increments (PIs), ROAMing the Risks, along with TDD, BDD within agile teams to increase throughput and improving the delivery pipeline. My strong relationships across financial services organizations enable me to collaborate effectively across business and technology to establish consensus among stakeholders. I am instrumental in mitigating and resolving risk, issues and dependencies while using change management and best practices. My expertise in coaching agile teams have enabled teams to increase their throughput. I have hands-on experience in Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and Kanban methodologies as Project/Product Manager and Senior Scrum Master and Coach. My servant leader mindset provides me with the tools and experience in mentoring teams on value delivery, decision making, predictability, collaboration and continuous improvement.I am passionate about solving business issues, removing impediments and driving towards achieving business value with excellent results. I am the conduit between business and technology and enjoy mentoring, coaching, leading cross-functional teams and adding bottom-line value to an organization.Skills/Expertise:• Prioritize roadmaps and guide successful product development and delivery• Mentoring teams in developing agile best practices• Lead Scrum of Scrums • Co-facilitate Agile Workshops to new teams to guide them thru Agile best practices• Project Management • Governance• Change Management and Risk Mitigation• Negotiation and problem solving including root cause analysis• Stakeholder Communications• Coaching agile teams to improve throughput and predictability• Motivating and Team Building • Training and Mentoring• Business Analysis and Business Requirements• UI Design, Detailed Specifications• User Test Scripts and User Acceptance Testing• JIRA, Confluence• SDLC

Experience

1. Enterprise Project Manager Scrum Master

   Charles Schwab

   Mar 2017 — Present · Jersey City, NJ, US

   Lead agile teams in delivering business value and monitoring budgets, tracking, and communicating project status to senior stakeholders on milestones, risks, and issues. Coach and mentor team members in continuous improvement and best agile practices. Update senior leadership with team health statuses and metrics. Direct Scrum of Scrums for strategic projects, ETF Market Center program, resolving complex issues by coordinating with dependent work streams. Accountable for technology releases delivering key milestones. Facilitate agile workshops to influence and guide new teams in agile principles during transformational period.

Education

• Queens College

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Elementary Education and Teaching

• Baruch College

  Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Methodology

Skills

• Public Speaking
• Business Analysis
• Strategy
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Risk Management
• Sdlc
• Fixed Income
• Project Management
• Training
• Vendor Relationship Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Structured Finance
• Requirements Gathering
• Cross Functional Team Building
• Vendor Management
• Derivatives
• Financial Analysis
• Leadership
• Financial Services
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Financial Markets
• Management
• Investment Banking
• Investments
• Equities
• Capital Markets
• Portfolio Management
• Csm