GASTON CEDRIC BEHLE Tel: (+1) 720-249-7246

Email:cedricbehle@gmail.com
Address: Houston, Texas
SUMMARY
Value-driven Certified Scrum Master with over 6 years of experience and keen ability to understand and build
complex systems with co-located and distributed teams. Servant- leader, capable of transforming from
Waterfall to Agile, applying expert judgement to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and
delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments. Strong organizational, analytical, written and
verbal communication skills.
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CERTIFICATIONS

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

• Advanced SAFe Scrum Master 5.1 (SASM)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• African Leadership Group (ALG)
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SKILLS
● Agile Values & Principles ● Backlog Refinement/ Grooming
● Coaching/ Mentoring ● Sprint Planning
● Requirements Gathering ● Sprint Review
● Conflict Resolution ● Sprint Retrospective
● Team Velocity Tracking ● Scrum Metrics (Burndown Charts, Sprint
● Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Health Reports, etc.
● SDLC ● CI/CD

TOOLS
Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean), Waterfall, JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, DevSecOps,
Mural, WebEx, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master | Bethlehem, PA

B BRAUN MEDICAL Inc. Contract
Oct 2019 – Present. 2 yrs 3 mos

● Coaching and promoting agile value and principles to stakeholders and development team
● Serving as a company SME for Agile/scrum initiatives and transformation.
● Facilitating daily scrum meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint
retrospective.
● Coaching teams in improving practices for project work, increasing the average time to deliver new
features, and bringing value to each increment that meets the Definition of Done.
● Assisting Product Owners in preparing and refining the backlog for sprint planning.
● Encouraging pair programming and code refactoring to minimize technical debt.
● Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame,
retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
● Established cross- functional, collaborative, and supporting environment that led to an increase in
high quality value delivered to our customers from 40% to 70%.
● Maintaining metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality

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 ● Tracking key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the
teams and stakeholders.
● Facilitating and coordinating user stories interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for
the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.
● Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches
● Coaching and supporting the Product Owner in effective backlog management techniques and
concepts like the INVEST, DEEP criteria, leading to healthier and better- written stories aligning with
Agile best practices and directly contributing to the team hitting 95% of its sprint goals.
● Maintaining an open dialogue with Product Owner and developer through recurring one-on-one
meetings to coach on Agile best practices and principles.
● Identifying and removing team impediments/escalating as necessary to management.
● Facilitating crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and
empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize.
● Assisting with internal and external communication to improve transparency and generate information
radiators.
● Creating a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery.

Scrum Master | Washington D.C

WELLSFARGO. Contract
May 2017 – Oct 2019. 1 yr 5mos

● Organized and facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Product
Backlog Refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement.
● Ensured that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented
● Maintaining an open dialogue with Product Owner and Developers through recurring one – on – one
meeting to coach on Agile best practices and principles.
● Facilitated and coordinated user story interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the
purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.
● Hosted coaching/training session every month to close identified agile scrum gaps to promote
continuous improvement and enhance scrum maturity.
● Facilitated discussions and conflict resolution while empowering teams to self-organize.
● Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by
example.
● Identified and removed roadblocks/impediments to teams working progress.
● Promoted an empowered self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a
trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone
deliveries.
● Monitored the pulse and morale of the teams, influenced the team spirit, and created excitement
around deliverables.
● Utilized Azure DevOps to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and
sprint/release progress to the team.
● Facilitated Agile health check meetings on a quarterly basis to understand the areas that need
improvement and help the team come up with potential solutions.
● Work with team and stakeholders to remove impediments and blockers.

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Scrum Master | Houston, TX
PETROLINK SERVICES. Contract
Dec 2015 – May 2017. 1 yr 5 mos

● Worked with the Business Owners and the product Owners developing the Product Vision and the
product road map and to define business values.
● Guided the product management teams in Writing scrum themes, Epics and user stories using the
INVEST Principles.
● Owned full alignment across dependent teams within a Release Train; manage risks and dependencies
such that all parties are aligned with delivery strategy and sequence.
● Drive over-communication as necessary to ensure a shared understanding of dependencies.
● Successfully guided development team through smooth transition from waterfall to Agile.
● Maintained metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress.
● Contributed to the advancement and improvement of Agile best practices within the organization.
● Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could
benefit scrum team.
● Observed team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team members and coach
team members individually and team to improve productivity.
● Facilitated and coordinated user story interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the
purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.
● Monitored project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying
solutions to address them in advance.
● Protected teams from distractions and keep them focus on sprint goal
● Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, backlog refinement/grooming, sprint planning,
retrospectives, and sprint reviews

Field Engineer | Denver, CO

LIBERTY OILFIELD SERVICES, Jan 2015 – Nov 2015

• Assisted in pre-planning, job execution and post job analysis of fracture treatments.
• Consulted extensively with customer representatives and employees
• Provided technical and operational expertise to both customers and operators daily to ensure
successful completion of hydraulic fracturing.
• Was responsible for quality control and safety at work site.
• Directed and monitored the completion and evaluation of water and fluid samples
• Tracked all chemical, sand, and water usage during hydraulic fracturing operations
● Analyzed business needs to determine technical requirements and identify impacted
areas/systems/processes and evaluates alternative solutions.
● Designed, developed documents, test, and supported modification of computer programs and/or
systems
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EDUCATION

Colorado school of mines (CSM), Golden CO

Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering
Red Rocks Community College, Lakewood CO
Associate of Science
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