SUMMARY

• I am a Certified Scrum Master with over 8 years of experience.
• As Scrum Master, I facilitated agile ceremonies including daily stand - ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint retrospective and sprint demos using servant style leadership and by integrating agile and scrum principles into team practices.
• I also enable the team on how to get the most out of self-organisation and help teams deliver working and potentially releasable software frequently. I have experience assessing and coaching teams to a higher level of maturity at a sustainable pace.
• Always work hard to remove impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments.
• I strive to build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• I do possess good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency. I have exhibited in my previous role’s knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques. I also have experience with Atlassian suite including Jira.
• Knowledge of Agile Principles and Methodologies in Agile Project Management, Scrum, SAFe,
• Proven success in assessing the Agile Maturity of teams and the organization and coaching teams to higher levels of maturity, at a sustainable and comfortable pace.
• Experience with MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word,
• Proficient working knowledge of Agile tools (e.g., Atlassian tools - JIRA), and KPIs.
• Backlog management: definition, refinement, and prioritization
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem - solving environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential, NEW YORK

Responsibilities:

• Generally leading more than one scrum team in moderate to high complexity workstreams. Oversee the scrum process and coach teams on how to apply Scrum and Agile practices and adopting the Scrum Pillars.
• Facilitate and lead daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and planning meetings to ensure full team engagement. Manage interdependencies between Agile teams.
• Collaborate with the product owner to support short and long- term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution.
• Assisting the RTE and Agile Coaches during SAFe projects, ensuring PI Planning and other related events are effective, facilitating Scrums of Scrums and Agile Community of Practices.
• Shield the teams from external interference or distractions to enable optimal functionality and productivity and resolved and/or escalated issues in a timely fashion.
• Liaising between developers (Front End, Back End and Full Stack) and project Stake KPIs and delivery of planned work.
• Work on the SAFe framework with other scrum teams. Attend and participate in PI planning, attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across other scrum teams in Agile Release train, work Release Train Engineer, System, Subject matter Experts and System Architects.
• Anticipate and address potential or actual impediments to team delivery (cultural barriers, logistic challenges).
• Provide guidance and assistance to product owner on User Story creation and product Backlog Refinement.
• Create and maintain program metrics that demonstrate measurable progress toward
• Led Scrum for small multiple web development teams in their independent sprints.

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential, BALTIMORE, MD

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint retrospectives, sprint Demos, story grooming and release planning
• Educated team members and key stakeholders on scrum methodology and agile framework
• Empower the team to make system and processes improvement captured in the retrospective meetings
• Remove impediments for the development team using internal and external resources
• Manage sprint backlog items and task
• Partnered with Product owner the grooming and maintaining of the Product Backlog
• Manage all scrum boards (physical and virtual)
• Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency and how information is being received
• Worked with the team on properly estimating user stories using planning poker

JUNIOR SCRUM MASTER

Confidential, ROANOKE, VA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint Demo and sprint retro meetings.
• Coaching the team on Agile principles and processes
• Track and remove internal and external impediments for the scrum team
• Facilitate the refinement sessions with product owner, to build product backlog
• Facilitate the backlog refinement sessions, refinement with the scrum team
• Acted as servant leader to the team by removing impediments and working with management to provide and ensure a good working environment for the scrum team
• Participated in meetings within the organization to ensure that scrum was adopted properly at team and organizational level
• Explored a variety of team building efforts to promote professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, with the goal of attaining a high-performance team
• Work with the product owner to define scope and objectives
• Work with the team on properly estimating user stories using planning poker when the need arises.