Tyler Yates | Resume

Professional Summary

Engineering Planner and Scrum Master with a software engineering background and experience supporting digital products from requirements and backlog refinement through release. Works across business and technical teams to clarify problems, align priorities, resolve delivery risks, and improve product outcomes, including a 94.3% reduction in simulator incidents. Additional hands-on Product experience includes shipping an Android app and conducting user research to reframe the problem and prioritize future improvements.

Skills

Product

User Research · Problem Framing · Requirements Definition · User Stories · Acceptance Criteria · Backlog Refinement · Prioritization · Roadmap Planning & Support · Product Lifecycle · Success Metrics & Validation Planning

Technical & Delivery

Agile/Scrum · SDLC · Release Readiness · System Integration · APIs · JSON · SQL · CMS · WCAG Accessibility

Tools

Jira · Confluence · Figma

AI & Productivity

ChatGPT · Cursor · GitHub Copilot

Cross-Functional

Engineering, Design, QA & Business Collaboration · Stakeholder Alignment · Risk & Dependency Management · Executive Presentations

Experience

Engineering Planner @ Lockheed Martin (January 2026 - Present)

Serve as Scrum Master while supporting product and technology delivery across Agile teams, partnering with business and technical stakeholders to clarify requirements, align priorities, and move work from backlog refinement through release readiness.
Facilitate backlog refinement and delivery planning, surfacing blockers, risks, dependencies, and capacity constraints to support informed prioritization and team commitments.
Build project-health dashboards and leadership reporting that make delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and team capacity visible for decision-making.
Standardize Jira and Confluence workflows and documentation practices to improve delivery visibility and cross-team coordination.

Software Engineer @ CAE (September 2024 - January 2026)

Reduced simulator incidents by 94.3% by investigating and resolving software and systems-integration issues across digital training products, improving product reliability.
Partnered across hardware and software stakeholders to translate user, regulatory, and release needs into technical requirements and execution plans.
Communicated roadmap alignment, delivery risks, development progress, and release readiness through stakeholder and leadership presentations.

Software Engineer Intern @ Universal Studios Orlando (January 2024 - April 2024)

Supported Agile product development and delivery for guest-facing mobile experiences, collaborating with Design, QA, Engineering, and stakeholders from backlog refinement through release.
Translated feature needs into user stories and acceptance criteria, clarifying expected behavior and delivery requirements with Design and QA.
Presented guest-facing features to stakeholders and gathered feedback that informed roadmap prioritization.
Published time-sensitive mobile content, validated rendering across the experience, and supported WCAG accessibility compliance.

Project Manager @ Astrion (November 2019 - May 2021)

Led a cross-functional engineering team, developed delivery roadmaps, and managed requirements and dependencies across technical workstreams.
Introduced process improvements that reduced delivery time by 12% while maintaining scope and budget constraints.
Partnered with technical and external stakeholders to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria, resolve scope conflicts, and coordinate successful handoffs.

Product Experience

uTip — Android Product

Product Case Study

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Built and shipped an Android tip calculator, then revisited the product through user interviews to understand the underlying friction around tipping and reframe the original problem.
Synthesized research into prioritized improvement opportunities and defined how future changes would be validated and measured.

Scrum Prep — Web Product

Live Product

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Built and published a free Scrum certification practice website designed to make certification preparation more focused and useful.
Designed the initial PSPO I practice experience and product structure with expansion to additional Scrum certifications.

Certifications

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)

Scrum.org · 2026

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Scrum.org · 2026

Education

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems

Florida Institute of Technology · 2026

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Full Sail University · 2024

Valedictorian · Dean’s List · Course Director’s Award