Cliff Rosa: Scrum Master
When I first transitioned from public education to entrepreneurship, my key differentiators included achieving shared understanding and following through, i.e., deeply clarifying my client’s needs and delivering the value they sought. I started serving clients in the Agile Scrum community primarily with marketing and content production, then operations and sales, and finally started to work as a scrum master myself.
For those unfamiliar with it, Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. It’s a path to become a learning team… a learning organization.
I’ve basically gone full circle from working as an individual contributor to serving teams as a scrum master in their mission to get stuff done.
Since 2016, I’ve been applying my organizational, instructional, and consulting skills within the Agile IT space. I’ve worked as an agile project manager for nimBOLD, a premier Project Management, Business Analysis and Software engineering consultancy, and as a scrum master for Rocket Nine Solutions, a top tier agile training and coaching firm.
Video Production and Beyond
Cliff Rosa directing a client during online course video production.
While my bread and butter comes from serving teams as a scrum master or project manager depending on the engagement, I make time helping passionate educators and entrepreneurs with video production consulting as a side hustle, specializing in on-campus video broadcasting. Starting in 2013, I’ve been helping entrepreneurs, consultants, schools, and organizations get their message out to their target audience in the form of content marketing and online courses. I’ve consulted on, set up, and provided training for more than thirty school and small business video studios.
I incorporate Agile organizational methods like kanban workflow visualization in my school video studios and student video production training.
Deep History (if you are still reading)
In 1999 I started out as a classroom teacher, and soon rediscovered a passion for video through a traveling video production bus called All the Arts for All the Kids: ArtsLAB. The advent of cheaper/smaller digital camcorders and iMovie made it possible to introduce elementary students and teachers to the basics of film-making and digital video editing. I was hooked!
I made videos with my students, for my school, for my church, and about my growing family. 🙂 In the following years, I transitioned from classroom teacher to technology integration leader. I helped schools develop on-campus and online video broadcast solutions, moved student and teacher workflows to the cloud, and coached others on integrating mobile platforms into the classroom. I reinforced my lessons on the basics of Google Drive with videos. I produced and coached others through literally hundreds of videos through my video production classes and teacher training. My most significant teaching memories are witnessing my students blossom in their digital storytelling skills.
During my 9 years of tech leadership in the schools, not only were my tech skills growing, I was growing as a person. I got my first iPod and was soon devouring podcast and audiobook content by Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, and many others who got me thinking outside the “career track” lines. I began feeling drawn toward free enterprise. When the “opportunity” arose, I decided to launch into business for myself starting Rosa Media Productions in 2013.
Contact me: cliff (at) rosamediaproductions.com
Personal Notes
I enjoy opportunities to camp and road trip with my wife and five children. I’m an active volunteer leader of Veritas Speech and Debate Club. My family and I seek to faithfully follow Jesus at the Vineyard Yorba Linda. Other connection points to me on the Web include: my 2 Youtube channels: RosaMediaProductions and MrRosa2100, my former EdTech teaching website Mr Rosa 2.0, and Linkedin.