OBJECTIVES:

• Enthusiastic Certified Scrum Master and Agile Coach seeking an opportunity in a dynamic organization fostering personal and professional growth.
• Worked on multiple Scrum teams on full time basis and filled in as interim Scrum Master and Agile Coach on several occasions for other teams.
• Proven history of success with cross - functional teams.

SUMMARY

• Excellent Interpersonal skills coupled with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong communication skills and a proven ability to deal with both business stakeholders and technical teams
• Introduces new and advanced practices to improve the team- Demonstrates strong communication, collaboration, and organization skills
• Good understanding of CI/CD/DevOps process
• Excelled at standing up new scrum teams with clearly defined objectives, metrics, and designs
• Worked on multiple large scale Agile transformations in the Finance domain within global organizations
• Extensive knowledge of individual and team coaching, change management and cultural landscape
• Vast experience in defining S.M.A.R.T. metrics for teams that link to organizational metrics such as KPIs or OKRs
• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations at multiple levels as well as influence as needed
• Enthusiasm for change and Agile values and principles
• Ability to quickly coach teams on designing and implementing Agile ways of working
• Love coaching and supporting people to adjust to and embrace changes to their ways of working
• Passion for innovation and a natural problem solver
• Outside the box thinker with deep intellectual curiosity to learn new skills and build new capabilities within the Agile space
• Not afraid to roll up the sleeves and get the work done
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach Scrum teams across multiple locations, with a verifiable track record of facilitating complex projects so team is delivering on time, under budget and above expectations.
• Ability to coach scrum teams for many projects at once while working within strict deadlines and maintaining professionalism.
• Skilled in providing effective servant leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven, highly regulated environments, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills.
• Promoted to positions of increasing responsibility because of effective coaching skills, teamwork, customer service and overall performance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Agile Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end-to-end management and delivery of a material change for a project of high complexity across multiple departments within a single business unit
• Facilitate the Agile methodology and activities, manage, lead, and direct the work efforts of resources that are functionally aligned as part of the project team
• Additionally, responsible to the governance and financials of a project
• Responsible for the end-to-end integration of various work streams to deliver the intended project solution
• Lead the daily SCRUM meetings of the Agile project team following SAFe guidelines and partners with the product owner to lead the team
• Remove impediments to the ability of the team to deliver and keenly focused on the activities and progress of the Agile project team
• Schedule, lead, facilitate and coordinate agile ceremonies
• Super Admin of Jira and Confluence systems managing and maintaining multiple Kanban boards, dashboards, and team collateral

Confidential

AGILE SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate/schedule/facilitate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
• Work with product owners and delivery teams to refine stories in advance of each sprint.
• Represent the team at the Scrum of Scrums meetings to report on progress and any impediments that need attention from leadership
• Facilitate impediment resolution in a timely, cost effective manner
• Teach/Mentor/Coach teams on Agile practices, roles, artifacts and ceremonies
• Coach and mentor other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partner to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
• Identify opportunities for continuous operational and/or team improvements
• Gather and update project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents
• Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes
• Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines

Confidential

LEAN AGILE SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Brought ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theater and so on to help the team become a high-performance team
• Empowered the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
• Removed obstacles for developers and testers
• Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks)
• Used key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work
• Managed sprint backlog items and tasks
• Managed all Scrum boards (physical or virtual)
• Lead the team efforts towards continuous improvement

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created Chart of Accounts, Asset Classes, Master Data and transfers of legacy data in Asset Management Module
• Involved in configuration of Asset classes, account determination, document Number ranges, assign G/L accounts, Depreciation areas, business transactions, postings, reposts and so on Includes Inter Company Asset Transfer, Complete Transfer of Assets from Legacy System to SAP.
• Configured House banks, EBS (Electronic Bank Statement), G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Knowledge of SAP R/2, R/3, ECC 6