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David L.

David L.

Agile Coach/JIRA Admin/Scrum Master - CSM, CSP, CSPO, SAFe SA, PMP

⭐Agile Coach and VP/Director Technical Program Management roles at Dell, Fortune 500 and Startups (Seed - Series E). I am an expert in this field at top companies including unicorn startups. ⭐Led several medium sized to large sized Agile Transformations including Scrum/Scaled Agile/LeSS. ⚡️Certified Scrum Master since 2011, I am one of very few who have advanced level certifications including CSP-PO, CSP-SM and certified to train under Scrum Alliance (Scrum Foundations Educator). *No one on Upwork has this advanced level of certification and experience as a Director/VP at Fortune 500 and Startup Unicorns. ⚡️Expert at configurating JIRA with customizations and plugins to turbocharge JIRA into a powerful tool with Team/Management reporting capabilities, Strategic Planning and OKRs. Used plugins like Structure, Advanced Roadmaps, and Gannt Chart Plugs Ins to provide a PPM view of overall progress, dependencies and risks. Ways I can help you achieve your goals: 🎯 OKR Rollout and Training Training for what are OKRs Workshop setting OKRs OKR Vision Board Rollout and setup for OKRs Documentation and best practices for using OKRs and OKR Vision Board 🎯 JIRA Optimization/Configuration Optimize JIRA to enable standardized data for reporting Create New Projects/Workflows Create/Rehaul Security Schemes Recommend and install/configure plugins to optimize use of JIRA 🎯 Portfolio/Program Views in JIRA Recommend hierarchy for your Portfolio/Program for Tracking Install and configure tooling to Track your OKRs and align them with Epics/Stories Visibility to see cross program Dependencies. Health of Program/Portfolio (On Track, At Risk, Behind) and % Completed 🎯 JIRA Reporting/Dashboards Create Team/Program Level Dashboards for key Issues/Blockers Create Dependencies Report for Teams/Programs Bugs Reporting and Trends Technical Debt Tracking Production Incident Tracking 🎯 Agile Coaching Coach Teams on Agile Practices Deep dive in teams and provide recommendations on how to optimize Agile Process/Behavior Agile Report Card with Quarterly Reviews/Recommendations 🎯 Agile Transformation Transition teams from Waterfall to Scrum/Kanban/SAFe/LeSS Transform teams from Scrum to Scaling Agile I.e. SAFe or LeSS Gap Analysis of teams transitioning and recommendations 🎯 Advance Scrum Master CSP Scrum Master Certified since 2011 (NO one except me has a CSP Scrum Master on Upwork) Sprint Planning/Capacity Utilization ensure everyone is loaded up and commited Standups with everyone syncing up after Backlog Refinement with accurate estimates Release Planning or Release Train Scheduling Blameless Retrospectives where we only learn and continue to improve Delivery Execution on tight timelines 🎯Visionary Product Manager/Owner CSP Product Owner Certified since 2011 (NO one except me has a CSP Product Owner on Upwork) Define Quarterly Product Roadmap Validate Product Market Fit Creation of Epics/Stories to drive the Roadmap P&L ownership of Product Segment Identify High Level Dependencies Certified JIRA Admin across many areas and I hold many Agile certifications: JIRA: 🎖Issue Security in Jira 🎖Configuring and Troubleshooting Permissions in Jira 🎖Email In Jira 🎖Customizing Jira Workflows 🎖Is Your Jira Instance Secure 🎖Managing the User Lifecycle in Jira Service Management/Service Desk 🎖SLAs in Jira Service Management 🎖JQL in Jira Service Desk Confluence: 🎖Using Confluence for Documentation and Knowledge Bases 🎖Confluence Content Management 🎖Configuring and Troubleshooting Permissions in Confluence Scrum/Agile/Project Management: 🎖Scrum Foundations Educator (Certified in 2021) 🎖Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster (Certified in 2011) 🎖Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner (Certified in 2011) 🎖Certified ScrumMaster® (Certified in 2011) 🎖Certified Scrum Product Owner® (Certified in 2012) 🎖SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) (Certified in 2014) 🎖PMP® Project Management Professional (Certified in 2007) 🎖ITILv3® Information Technology Infrastructure Library (Certified in 2009) 🎖LSSBB® Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Certified in 2008)

🇺🇸Los Angeles, United States$80/hr100% JSS4.90 (7)Since Oct 2015

Earnings and projects

MRR (estimate)
≈$0

An estimate from an earlier read

World#83,472 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#14,932 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$0
Total earnings
$45k

Billed in all: $46k

World#83,472 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#14,932 / 62.1k
Per project
$4.5k
Projects, last 6 months
0
World#209,850 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#27,405 / 62.1k
Projects in all
10
10% fixed90% hourly
World#201,797 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#28,778 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$45.8kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$45.0k$45.5k$46.0k$46.5kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

No data since Nov 5, 2026.

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