I am an Agile Project Manager with 7+ years of experience facilitating Solution Train ceremonies, managing dependencies, and driving program increments using SAFe practices. I partner with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure reliable production, align work with business objectives, and promote agile principles through coaching across ARTs. I enjoy building collaborative, high-performing teams and translating leadership strategy into actionable sprint work. I thrive in fast-paced environments, manage change and risk, and focus on delivering value with transparency and sustainable delivery across Financial Services and Healthcare settings.

Manu Turner

I am an Agile Project Manager with 7+ years of experience facilitating Solution Train ceremonies, managing dependencies, and driving program increments using SAFe practices. I partner with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure reliable production, align work with business objectives, and promote agile principles through coaching across ARTs. I enjoy building collaborative, high-performing teams and translating leadership strategy into actionable sprint work. I thrive in fast-paced environments, manage change and risk, and focus on delivering value with transparency and sustainable delivery across Financial Services and Healthcare settings.

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I am an Agile Project Manager with 7+ years of experience facilitating Solution Train ceremonies, managing dependencies, and driving program increments using SAFe practices. I partner with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure reliable production, align work with business objectives, and promote agile principles through coaching across ARTs.

I enjoy building collaborative, high-performing teams and translating leadership strategy into actionable sprint work. I thrive in fast-paced environments, manage change and risk, and focus on delivering value with transparency and sustainable delivery across Financial Services and Healthcare settings.

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Language

English
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French
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Work Experience

Agile Project Manager at PNC Bank
June 1, 2021 - November 27, 2025
Constantly managed ART events and processes, escalated impediments, managed dependencies and risk, and fostered cross-functional collaboration. Defined team roles, aligned stakeholders on objectives and priorities, and provided status updates across the program lifecycle. Partnered with Product Owners and Technical Leads to translate strategic priorities into sprint plans, while enabling change management and ensuring reliable production operations aligned with business initiatives.
SAFe Scrum Master at Cigna
May 1, 2021 - May 1, 2021
Partnered with Product Owner to ensure workload alignment with goals and priorities, monitored delivery progress and performance, and communicated status, risks, and issues to leadership. Coached teams on sprint planning, capacity, velocity, story sizing, risk analysis, and item management; removed impediments, supported decision-making, led Sprint Reviews, and facilitated Retrospectives to improve productivity. Established transparent backlogs via Azure Boards & Jira and maintained burn-up/burn-down charts.

Education

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Qualifications

SAFe Practitioner (SP)
December 1, 2022 - November 27, 2025
Agile Coach Certification (ICP-ACC)
October 1, 2021 - November 27, 2025
SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE)
January 1, 2021 - November 27, 2025
SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
August 1, 2020 - November 27, 2025
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)
February 1, 2019 - November 27, 2025
Project Management Professional (PMP)
May 1, 2018 - November 27, 2025
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
August 1, 2017 - November 27, 2025
Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA)
June 1, 2016 - November 27, 2025

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Software & Internet, Professional Services

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