Todd Davis

About Todd Davis

Customer-focused Technical Project Manager and certified Scrum Master with extensive experiencein software development and Agile practices. Strong track record of managing and working withdiverse products and geographically dispersed teams. Passion for building strong workingpartnerships between technical and business teams to successfully develop and deliver value-drivenenterprise products and solutions using Scrum/SAFe Frameworks. Proven ability to lead softwaredevelopment projects while successfully balancing stakeholder and business needs.Specialties- Agile transformation - early adaptor and active participate in adapting agile within American Express- Demonstrated ability in implementing agile framework and tailoring it to the needs of the team- Agile methodologies - Orchestrate and lead SAFe Program Increment (PI) event and scrum ceremonies- Experience and understanding of SDLC, CICD, DevOps, QA, test automation & performance testing- Extensive experience managing and working with diverse products & geographically dispersed teams- Outstanding interpersonal skills, including mentoring, coaching, collaboration, negotiation and team building- Ability to balance business and stakeholder needs with team capacity/skills to maintain trust and confidence- Proven ability to lead software development projects and ensure that objectives, goals and commitments are met- Experience utilizing CA/Rally (and JIRA) for capabilities, feature & user story management.

Experience

1. Senior Scrum Master

   USAA

   Sep 2021 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

   Working as part of the Data & Insight Delivery team supporting the P&C Data Modernization multi-year strategy to migrate data from legacy on-premise Netezza solution to the Snowflake data cloud platform on Amazon Web Services. This initiative will provide consumers with improved reporting & analytics capabilities and enable faster business decisions. The Modernization project is run utilizing the Large Solution within the Scaled Agile Framework.• Responsible for building high-performing agile teams by guiding, coaching and education of agile values, principles, processes and best practices. • Successfully transitioned team from Scrum to Kanban in order to more effectively adapt to changing priorities within the Data Modernization initiative. • Providing support/guidance to product owners and tech leads with respect to creating well-written stories & features along with continuous refinement and management of the product backlog.• Actively participate and provide input into PI Planning ceremonies, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrum and community of practice events with fellow Scrum Masters & Release Train Engineer(s).• Provide hands-on facilitation of the Agile ceremonies across multiple development teams and ensure team members feel welcome, engaged, upbeat and positive by including trivia questions, music, games & spontaneous questions during the events.• Ensure the development teams are practicing the principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility to ensure successful Sprints & Releases.• Work to resolve/remove/escalate any impediments that impact team progress to delivering work. • Partner with Development Product Owner (DPO) to identity, monitor and resolve any risks to meeting PI objectives, commitments and/or goals.• Adhere to Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) processes, procedures, controls, standards, tools and templates (as required).

Education

• DeVry

  Bachelor, Computer Information Systems

Skills

• Disaster Recovery
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• Data Warehousing
• Business Requirements
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Itil
• Sdlc
• Agile Methodologies
• Solution Architecture
• Management
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Process Improvement
• Requirements Gathering
• IT Strategy
• Project Management
• Enterprise Software
• Sharepoint
• Enterprise Architecture
• Service Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Project Delivery
• Business Process Improvement
• Visio
• IT Service Management
• Resource Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Integration
• IT Management
• Project Portfolio Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Program Management