SUMMARY

• With 7+ years of IT experience working as a Scrum Master with expertise in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Waterfall, Scrum - Waterfall Hybrid, Agile (Scrum, Test Driven Development, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE 5.0)
• Expertise in conducting various scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning meeting, sprint review meeting, sprint retrospective meeting, Daily Standup Meeting, Release planning meeting, Scrums of Scrums and driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum rules, removing impediments, and fostering self-management within the organization.
• Experience in various Scrum concepts like Scrum Team, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Planning, User Stories, Burn-Down and Burn-Up Charts, Pair Programming and Pair Wise Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Oracle Cloud database
• MS SQL
• SAFe
• Confluence
• Agile (Scrum)
• Python
• MS Power BI
• Tableau
• Asset management
• SDLC
• Cyber security
• Portfolio management
• Confidential SharePoint
• Confidential Visio
• Azure DevOps
• SQL Server
• JIRA Align
• Jira V1
• Waterfall hybrid

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Project Manager/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Organizing multiple teams to switch from waterfall to agile
• Facilitating all Agile/Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives, coached team members and clients on Agile process.
• Helping team mangers to break down projects into features and user stories.
• Mentoring the team managers in creating product backlog items, acceptance criteria and prioritizations.
• Facilitating Backlog refinement meeting and story point estimation.
• Coached the team on Agile and Scrum on how to adapt the scrum rules and how to keep track of the user stories and check with the progress of the team.
• Facilitating story writing sessions to write good user stories, assisting team managers in prioritizing the backlog based on business value.
• Placed substantial efforts on team member role training and time- boxing.
• Managing cross functional teams to be on the same cadence with respect to the ongoing projects.
• Responsible for documenting all the project management processes and best practices.
• Visual representation through Kanban board.
• Collaborate with business partners to resolve the impediments and dependencies.
• Implementing the process Improvements/action items from retrospectives.
• Responsible for change management requests from different teams.

Environment: Azure DevOps, MS Power BI, MS SQL, JIRA, MS SharePoint, Confluence

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the PI Planning meeting.
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, enforcing time boxes, and responding to the impediments, tracking baseline, sprint planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Meetings
• Collaborated with business partners to resolve the impediments and dependencies.
• Facilitated Backlog refinement meeting and story point estimation using planning poker.
• Participated in Scrum of scrums meeting to coordinate the dependencies of Agile Release Train (ART) and provides visibility into progress and impediments.
• Prepared and presented weekly PI Performance Reviews and facilitated PI and sprint planning processes, as well as all other scrum ceremonies, and empower team commitment to PI and sprint delivery
• Prepared Release Planning for different PIs/quarters of the project considering Feature-Driven or Date-Driven Release Planning and gave expectation charts to stakeholders in fixed date or fixed scope delivery of the product.
• Regularly monitored and controlled the metrics to meet project/product goals.
• Maintained and communicated relevant metrics -velocity, burn-up / burn-down charts using JIRA.
• Coached the team on implementing the agile best practices like - Pair Programming, CI & CD.
• Resolved any impediments preventing the team from meeting the Sprint goal by reaching out to larger company network.

Environment: SAFe 5.0, LeanKit, Azure DevOps, MS Power BI, Python, MS SQL, JIRA ALIGN, MS SharePoint, Confluence

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• High accomplishment in scrum ceremonies like product backlog refinement meeting, sprint planning, Daily stand-up meeting, sprint Review meeting, Retrospective meeting, PI planning and Scrum of Scrums.
• Well-versed in Scaled Agile framework (SAFE 4.0) and coached teams on Scrum principles.
• Decomposed the scope from the BRD into user stories by conducting a story writing session with the Product owner and then the acceptance criteria for the PSPI (Potentially Shippable Product Increment).
• Assisted Release Train Engineer in Quarterly planning by updating the velocity and availability of resources.
• Assisted the Product Owner to Prioritize the Product Backlog items for developing Sprint tasks by taking suggestions from the cross-functional development team and estimated them to track the velocity of the team.
• Conducted Boot camps for new teams in coaching on different Agile Framework practices and principles.
• Conducted daily stand-up meetings for the different teams to track the progress of the sprint and making team members accountable for their own job have maintained Burndown and Burnup charts using JIRA.
• Used different Performance metrics to track the performance of the teams on JIRA.
• Conducted velocity and capacity driven planning in sprint planning to track the performance of the teams.
• Assisted and trained teams in estimating the User stories, by using two square method, Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing, Relative Mass Valuation, and bucket sizing.
• Monitored and track PI milestones and facilitate in mitigating the issues and risks of the project.
• Collaborated with the teams to identify and resolve problems and remove impediments/ barriers for the team; escalated to RTE (Release Train Engineer) as needed.

Environment: SAFe, Aws Environment, Sales Force.com CRM Application Platform, Apex Language, Informatica cloud service, Autosys, SQL, Tableau, JIRA, Morning star, workday.

Confidential - FL

Jr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated overall releases and sprint planning including stand ups, review meetings and retrospective techniques.
• Took the responsibility of keeping the project manager updated with the help of various reports such as sprint burndown, sprint burn up and impediment chart.
• Ensured and kept track of various user stories, Bugs, Issues, and tasks using Rally.
• Facilitated various scrum ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and daily standup meeting.
• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency which are agile principles.
• Facilitated the team for better creativity and improve the efficiency of the development team and help the team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.
• Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog prioritized resolution of defects/bugs.
• Responsible to remove impediments as these projects relies on the data from multiple departments, hence requiring constant, effective communication to unblock the team and make sure the team remains on task.