SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of experience as Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering high - quality software, on-time and within budget.
• Applying analytical methods to business problems, driving improved decision-making and outcomes as a Scrum Master in reputed organizations.
• Knowledge on Information Security projects and the cloud Project and SQL.
• Worked with different Cyber security Teams (Security Operations, Vulnerability Management and cloud Security tools)
• Knowledge on Data warehousing tools like ETL
• Ability to work on different projects at a time.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement. Experience working on Scrum, and Kanban.
• Expert at guiding and training teams to follow scrum methodology by adhering to agile values and principles.
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycle models as well as proficient knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices.
• Collaborated with project stakeholders to negotiate scope boundaries, approaches to mitigate risk, priorities of specification elements, and adjustments as indicated to alleviate conflicting requirements.
• Worked closely with product owners in Backlog grooming and managing the product backlog. Coordinated & collaborated with other scrum teams to help identify and track user story dependencies.
• Excellent management skills to manage multi-function project teams including development, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance and Support teams.
• Hands on experience in program level handling multiple assignments including Project Monitoring/release management/metrics reporting/ Dashboard development and reporting to executive management.
• Strong interpersonal skills, effective communication and organizing skills matched with the ability to manage stress, time and people effectiveness at program level with customer and offshore/Onshore teams.
• Helped the business stakeholders envision the future and how their work will need to change to support the future
• Comprehensive problem solving & multitasking ability with willingness to take ownership facilitate teamwork and lead activities.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environments and track multiple projects running in parallel.
• Excellent ability to work under Multi-vendor environment.
• Key player in building the agile team from scratch and delivering high quality and working with offshore and onsite model.
• Facilitated and participated in different training session to make the team self- sufficient and high performing.
• Organized product demo sessions for the internal and external stakeholders at the end of each sprint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Global Scrum Master

Confidential, MI

Responsibilities:

• Leading teams in achieving their objectives by conducting Scrum meetings such as daily standups, retrospectives, and planning meetings.
• Working with Cyber Security operations using Splunk, Palo Alto, API, Salt Security Integration, Rapid 7.
• Coordinated the Risk Management Plan and Risk Mitigation Strategy across all projects and mitigated them effectively.
• Works with RTE, Product Management and Product Owner to help assure strategy and execution alignment. Works to align roadmaps, epics, features and resources across the focus or domain area
• Captured empirical data and updated SPRINT tasks in daily SCRUM to ensure the item pulled in SPRINT backlog is completed by the end of the on-going SPRINT cycle.
• Coached teams on Agile - Scrum, Kanban and successfully guided teams through the transition from waterfall to agile development.
• Kept up-to-date on latestinformationsecurityvulnerabilities and developments for relevant application to currentprojects.
• Managing Jira Dashboards for all projects and implemented different ways of visibility to the upline and many use gadgets for the team
• Managed network designprojects, compilingInformationSecurityCompliance requests and Service Level Agreement metrics to ensure process compliance
• Escalates impediments and risks to the RTE that cannot be resolved at the team level
• Collaborates with RTE on employee and staff management responsibilities, ex.,
• Evangelized the benefits of being Agile and helped to foster adoption of Scrum framework.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process which includes Waterfall and Agile-Scrum, Kanban, and scrum-ban methodologies.
• Worked in AGILE & create storyboards, user-stories, while working in Sprints.
• Responsible for time-boxed sprint planning and execution.
• Represented the team at the Scrum of Scrums meeting to report progress.
• Prepared the Scrum Artifacts - Product Backlog with User Stories, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Task List, Sprint Burn Down Charts, and Release Burn Down Charts using JIRA.
• Coached and Trained Agile Best Practices, which included team creation, role-based training, backlog creation, the workflow, and tools to agile and scrum ceremonies.
• Constantly assed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and mentored the team to higher levels of maturity and assisted Scrum of Scrums.
• Proactively track, record, remove and escalate impediments.
• Involved in Business planning, data analysis and process analysis along with the team.
• Facilitate and provide guidance to Daily Standup's, Sprints, Demonstrations & Retrospectives.
• Managed cross functional team deliverables, setting and administering schedules and managed assigned projects according to plan.
• Developed SCRUM reports and artifacts to include User Stories, Velocity Charts, Burn-down Charts, Sprint Retrospective notes.
• Facilitate the teams in identifying and managing dependencies within Product development.
• Develop SCRUM reports and artifacts to include User Stories, Velocity Charts, Burn-down Charts, Sprint Retrospective notes.
• Facilitate coordination and communication across agile teams through demos, reviews, Scrum of Scrums and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Lead creation of team artifacts including Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and Team Working Agreements.
• Experienced with JIRA Software for agile project management.
• Experienced operating in both Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Support and educate the Product Owner on scrum best practices, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure user stories are fully vetted and include all necessary requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Work with stakeholders, PMO and PO to prioritize user stories and formally plan sprints.
• Used JIRA as a defect management tool.

Scrum Master

Confidential - Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling and Closing project management process groups.
• Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for multiple scrum teams simultaneously.
• Worked with the team to refine the product backlog once or twice per Sprint.
• Facilitated the integration frameworks to get more out of our projects; contribute to ROI by increase productivity and efficiency.
• Communicating progress to the RTE and attending Scrum-of-Scrum sessions
• Stood-up new scrum teams, helping teams transitioning from Waterfall to Agile Framework.
• Help to frame the Definition of Done (DoD) forPI(Product Increment), Features, Stories and Sprint. Guide the team to understand and adhere to DoD for the deliverables.
• Attending various management levels meeting and participated in Program Increment (PI) planning.
• Maintained storyboards, organized charts with best practices to support team with deliverables.
• Provided insight to Management for the targeted KPIs, and their alignment with the contracted Service Levels Collaborative strategic planning for an enterprise agile transformation.
• Responsible for working with the Sr. Dir., peers and key influencers across the organization to assess, recommend, design and lead a strategy for restarting the Agile transformation program.
• Maintained records of daily data communication transactions, problems and remedial actions to track progress.
• Participated in special projects, external audits, evaluations and process improvements to increase velocity.
• Developed project charters and project management plans.
• Involved in requirements sessions, define scope and create WBS.
• Utilized Microsoft Project to define, sequence, estimate duration and assign resources of activities for the project schedule.
• Responsible for assessing, recommending and designing an Agile transformation strategy with stakeholder analysis, communication plan and road map that leveraged Kanban and Scrum for the enterprise.
• Lead and Facilitate 2-day Program Increment (PI) Planning for an Outcome Based Capability.
• PrepareScrumteam and work closely with Product Owner to make Solution backlog ready forPI Planning. Help the team to understand the objective ofPIPlanning.
• Lead the Team Breakouts and Collaborate inScrumofScrumsinPIPlanning.
• Work closely with Product Owner and Product Management team to finalizePIPlan.
• Managed program/projects planning activities including identification of objectives, scope, resources, budget, and schedule including key program initiatives work plans, milestones, resource allocation, and monitoring/summarizing project progress and coordinated issues, risks, change management, and status to support effective decisions and project reporting to stakeholders and steering committees.
• Driven an executive-level audience to define risks/problems, identify solutions, manage tasks and executive reporting and deliver the enterprise project and participated in negotiation of contracts and contractual changes and coordinates preparations of proposals, plans, specifications, and financial conditions of vendor contracts.
• Streamlined and simplified project delivery within approved budget by taking full ownership involving project planning, kickoff, conducting sprint planning by adapting agile methodologies, suggesting product improvements, facilitating communication between stakeholders, and delivering the project on time.
• Conducted Agile Scrum meetings on two separate projects - Daily Stand-ups, Story development meetings, Sprint planning meetings, Review and retro meetings, BSA-Developer meetings, and brainstorming for future roadmaps.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and define project requirements, scope and objectives
• Led data management and data warehouse activities in the development of business intelligence reports leveraging Pyramid Analytics to support the operation, management and information assurance
• Proficiency in MS Project / MS Visio / SharePoint portal, HP Quality center for managing various project activities.
• Assisted the corporate and groupsecurityteams with implementing corrective and preventive measures for user profiles.
• Monitoredsecurityrequests and performed periodic checks ofsecurityon all platforms to ensure proper access rights are in place

Environment: Agile / Scrum methodology, KANBAN, Lean, XP, SAFE, Sprints, DevOps, Project Charter, Project Management, MS Project, MS SharePoint, Risk management, Scrum meeting, Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center.

Scrum Master

Confidential - Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Developed, reviewed, and delivered project/program level artifacts on Enterprise Data Initiative.
• Designed and maintained executive reporting, IT dashboards, performance metrics and stoplight charts to determine the team’s progress during quality gates reviews utilizing EVM KPIs and escalated as necessary to provide corrective action to maintain scheduled activities.
• Ensured clear communication and organization of all development team Program Increment (PI) objectives.
• Product design related approach is discussed and finalized with system architects during the architectural envisioning phase and ensuring that all impacted agile teams are aligned for delivery with the PI timebox.
• Planned course of program/projects, including milestones, resources needed and budget, use of technology and tools and documented it in program/project plans, following established program/project management methodologies
• Conduct Scrum ceremonies tailored to the SAFe methodology.
• Created, managed and maintained project infrastructure (SharePoint project site, project plan, resource plan, schedule, budget, risk assessment, communication plan, procurement plan, change management, quality management, etc.).
• Led matrix team of subject matter experts (SME) who have responsibility for strategy and development, including systems and application development, vendor management, and legacy systems integration.
• Managed project plans to determine schedule, resource limitations, and procedures for accomplishing projects and resource availability for various phases of the project.
• Collaborated across multiple internal organizations to ensure adherences to quality standards and internal processes, review project deliverables and drove to required project results.
• Ultimately accountable for adherence to the MOP and process flow and, if a problem arose during the migration, determined when a site must be rolled back to original configuration.
• Established overall direction and technical or analytical guidance to project and program teams that spanned multiple organizations, markets and outside suppliers/vendors.
• Incorporated Agile Scrum and Kanban frameworks into projects, saving considerable time and expense over traditional project plans.
• Helped assure the team follows the Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework processes, She/he will coordinate sprint planning, lead daily scrums, coordinates each sprint review and participate in Agile Release Train planning sessions.
• Aligned closely with the Product Owner(s) and stakeholder(s) to ensure the Product Backlog is prioritized, maintained, and appropriately aligned with the overall goals and vision of the project.
• Facilitated weekly meetings with regional project managers, test managers and business stakeholders
• Led agile transformation initiative and hands-on coaching and training across organization.
• Developed project baselines (schedule, budget), monitored project progress, monitored and controlled schedule, cost and quality, wrote and executed test plans.
• Statistically monitored the progress of projects and communicated status reports to executives using Rally or Jira / Confluence
• Assisted with developing the strategic vision for the team and identified initiatives needed to improve team productivity.
• Implemented Issues Tracking in JIRA to track impediments against user stories.
• Configured Jira and Confluence to support the project and training the project team for ongoing project support.

Environment: Agile / Scrum methodology, KANBAN, Lean, XP, SAFe, KPI, Project management, Infrastructure, Kanban framework, Agile release, JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed all 5 process of scrum frameworks like Initiating, Plan & Estimating, Implementation, Review & Retrospect and Release
• Prioritized and groomed the product backlog with product owner, conducted the release planning meeting.
• Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily QA activities to meet sprint goals at the end of each sprint.
• Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Involved in all the Scrum ceremonies like Daily Stand-up, Planning, Retrospective, Grooming & Review / Demo.
• Facilitated Backlog grooming sessions adding/ removing user stories for the next sprint cycle.
• Established and analyzed business requirements and determined if they map to SharePoint agile methodology for the project execution.
• Worked extensively in understanding the business rules and defining requirement specs, technical specs and mapping documents from staging to data warehousing, data mart, and reporting needs to the end user.
• Engaged in task allocation and issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability using JIRA
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other SCRUM-related meetings.
• Documented Requirement Traceability matrix in Requisite Pro for traceability of requirements through test cases.
• Coordinated with the PMO group in defining timelines & schedules for the project.
• Proficiency in MS Project and Clarity project plan tools, knowledge in Clarity application, configuration and database queries.
• Work hands-on with MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and MS Project for IT Project and Business Analysis Documentation.
• Engaged in reporting to the Program Manager regarding the updates and progress of the project by submitting weekly reports.
• Worked on Documented for Version Controlling, to maintain up to date changes in the Documents.
• Involved in tracking, reviewing, analyzing and comparing defects using the Quality Center.