Lynn Yang

Summary:

As a seasoned professional I have over 17 years experience of the technological industry, I’ve worked at fortune 500 companies including Wal-Mart, Citigroup and KPMG, have provided agile leadership, project management; systems analysis; and software development, implementation, and support within the retail, insurance and financial services industries, ability to manage large software development projects with high degree of competency using scrum practices.  Current I am leading Agile Release Train, a largely self-organizing and self-managing program, and I am responsible for facilitating program level processes and program execution, I efficiently escalates impediments, manages risk, and helps drive program-level continuous improvement, given my solid understanding of scaling Agile, and of the unique opportunities and challenges associated with organizing.  Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and multiple Web development projects on time by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, supporting and coaching multiple Scrum teams.

·   2 years experience with Agile, Scrum Master and Chief Scrum Master management

·   5 years of Retail IT Tech Lead experience in software development

·   7 years of Insurance IT experience in application development

·   2 years of Finance Specialist experience

·   1 year IT consultant experience

 

Certifications:

·   Certified Agile Scrum Master

·   Sun Certified Java Professional

 

Knowledge & Skills:

·   Scaled Agile, Scrumban, Kanban

·   Java, AngularJS, Camel, Jersey, Maven, J2EE, Struts 2, Java Script, AJAX, DOJO, JSP, HTML/XML, WebSphere, Web Service, Restful Web Services, Perl, COBOL, MVS/JCL, CICS, Hibernate, Message Broker, LDAP, HTTP proxy, ADO/ODBC, Active X, VB/ASP, Vusers scripts

·   SQL, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Informix, PeopleSoft, Cassandra

·   Jira, Confluence, Eclipse, IBM Rational, Windows, Ms Word, Excel, Access, Visio, PowerPoint, IBM Mainframe, UNIX, AIX, z/OS

 

WALMART Stores Inc. ISD, Bentonville, AR

Chief Scrum Master, December 2013 – Present 

·   Spearheaded WalMart Item File Program (Agile Release Train), which has more than 4 to10 diversity scrum teams include associates and onshore/offshore contractors, Leading development of next generation of Wal-Mart Item File, part of Enterprise Data Management, and foundation for future WalMart eCommerce, a firm-wide high-profile project and maintaining of current Online Item file. 

·   Worked closely with program management, product management and business owner and various project Stakeholders. Engaged Solution and System Architect to help assure strategy and execution alignment.  Deal with multiple projects and deadlines.

·   Helped Chief Product Owner to groom program backlog, facilitated program release-planning readiness and events; aggregated team objectives into program Increment of Agile Release Train and published for visibility and transparency.

·   Leading the execution of PSI release plan by working with product owner and scrum master to define program PSI objectives, coordinating and communicating team activities, ensuring PSI objectives are executed as defined in the schedule.

·   Conducted weekly Scrum of Scrum for status reporting, eliminated cross team impediments, support the teams’ commitments and worked through team dependencies between scrum teams, release management teams.

·   Empowered teams to self-organize.

·   Managed and mitigated risk and dependencies.

·   Arbitrated discussion and conflict resolution sessions with multiple teams including international.

·   Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks. 

·   Drove program-level continuous improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops and constant demonstrate up-to-date agile expertise by providing expert advice and guidance to others.

 

Scrum Master, May 2013 – December 2013

·   Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other scrum-related meetings

·   Enhanced product owner and the team grooming team product backlog.

·   Facilitated the team to meet daily and iteration objectives.

·   Overhauled impediments in the organization and actively addresses issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the iteration.

·   Managed internal and external dependencies.

·   Coordinated solution implementation and delivery with other Scrum Masters on the Release Train.

·   As a Servant Leader, helped the team follow agile process, facilitated team continuous improvement, motivate the team while enabling them to shine.

 

Agile Scrum Tech Lead/Sr Programmer Analyst, November 2012 – April 2013

·   Led Agile Scrum team (one of the first area in WalMart ISD work in agile) to quickly adopt agile methodology, build highly effective team, and ensure timely deliverables.

·   Collaborate inter-/intra-teams to learn new technology and find the best solution to support customer needs.

·   Worked closely with business customer to design and develop Wal-Mart Store Traits application; help the product owner to split epics into small vertical slices and prioritize task to ensure fast delivery.

·   Identify dependencies and resolve roadblocks

·   Technology/System: Java, AngularJS, Camel, Jersey, Maven, Eclipse

 

Tech Lead/Programmer Analyst, August 2007 – October 2012

·   Extensive Java / J2EE programming experience on multiple application servers and middleware platforms. Hands-on technical experience in design and development of Business Process Integration solutions. Involved extensively in all stages of software development lifecycle (ISDLC) such as requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation and deployment.

·   Possess analytical, troubleshooting and ability to work closely with customer, technical architect and team members to contribute to proposals, estimated effort with realistic schedule. Provided input into the project budget process.

·   Led the development of Trade Item Catalog Data Capture System. Performed detailed data analysis and redesigned large Trade Item Catalog database, used EDI transaction network, Message Broker and Web Services to capture GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) information from data pool 1SYNC.

·   Led in the development of integrating Global Trade Item into Sam’s item file application, mapping and synchronizing GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) to Sam’s item file to improve item creation and maintenance processing.

·   Accomplished system upgrading for Sam’s India Scalable Item web application from version 1 to version 2.  Coordinated system integration testing across item file mainframe team, store system team and India ISD.

·   Modified Item Restriction Application based on US state restriction law.

·   Supported and maintained Wal-Mart and Sam’s International Online Item File.  Communicated with international users to identify issues and provided solutions.

·   Technology/System: Eclipse, Websphere, Java, J2EE, Struts 2, JavaScript AJAX, DOJO, Hibernate, EDI, Message Broker, JavaBeans, JSP, IBM UNIX, AIX v5.3, IBM Mainframe (3270), z/OS, XD, MQ, JDBC, JMS, Vusers script, LoadRunner, DB2, Informix, TeamForge.

 

Primerica, subsidiary of Citigroup, Atlanta, GA               

Engineer/Web developer, May 2000 – August 2007 

·   Built company’s web site, including Agent Insurance License Renewal, Agent Recruit, e-Learning, Exam Simulator, Rx Discount Card systems.

·   Developed security authentication project between UNIX and NT using token and HTTP forward & reverse proxy with Apache; maintained consistency between AIX and IIS session.

·   Worked with customers to examine business needs, wrote technical design documentation.

·   Developed web application using Java servlets and JSP.

·   Created client side web application, built html page dynamically using Javascript, AJAX

·   Streamlined unit test programs to ensure proper exception handling.

·   Implemented trouble-shooting and code reviews.

·   Technology/System: Unix, Java, JavaScript, Servlets, EJB, JavaBeans, HTML, XML, AJAX, JDBC, Websphere, LDAP, WSAD, Struts, JSP, Windows 2000, ASP, VB, IIS, Proxy server, DB2, COBOL, CICS.

 

KPMG, LLP, Atlanta, GA  

Financial Specialist, Oct 1998 – May 2000  

·   Applied VB/ASP application expertise to build KPMG’s Southeast financial reporting system,  designed and developed KPMG southeast financial reporting database.

·   Provided technical support for Southeast Financial reporting system

·   Designed and implemented financial application interfaces for end-users

·   Wrote SQL queries for high volume data  

·   Technology/System: VB, ASP, IIS, Windows NT, Oracle, Business Object, Hyperion, PeopleSoft

 

IIS, Durham, NC

Programmer/Database Specialist, Sept 1997 – Oct 1998

·   Provided migration tools and services to help client to convert legacy system, such as converted AOS/VS COBOL/Unisys COBOL/CICS to MicroFocus COBOL/ Develop 2000.  Converted legacy INFOS databases to DB2 / Oracle

·   Performed system analysis for client and documented solutions.

·   Worked a project to fix Y2K software programming issue for NC Forest Service.

·   Created automatic update client file system.

 

Education

Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL - Computer Science, B. S.

Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China - Business, B. S.

 

Awards

Excellence Award from Primerica – deliver Rx Discount Cards for company year convention in aggressive deadline

 

Professional Development Training

2014 – PMP Exam Preparation Class

2014 – Global Scrum Gathering @ New Orleans

2013 – Scale Agile Workshop

2013 – Cassandra

2011 – Message Broker                                            

2010 – BA Boot Camp  

2010 – Building Rich Application                           

2010 – Birkman Method

2010 – Powerful Presentations                                 

2008 – Web Services                                                 

2005 – J2EE Struts Programming with WSAD

2004 – Introduction to Perl Programming; SQL Advanced

2003 – Georgia Pre-Insurance License course               

2003 – Designing Effective Web Applications