SUMMARY

• Certified SAFe Agilist and Professional Scrum Master (PSM) with over 7+ years of successful global experience in Project Delivery and Integrations across multiple portfolios.
• Experience coaching and mentoring globally distributed multiple teams within an Agile environment, implementing Agile Frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience in Lean Agile SDLC processes and Scrum Ceremonies like daily standups, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospectives.
• Experience in facilitating SAFe ceremonies like Program Increment Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Release planning and management.
• Supporting and mentoring the Product Owner in backlog prioritizing, grooming / refinement, and maintaining healthy product backlog.
• Adept Confidential stakeholder engagement, Product owner engagement management and monitoring and tracking team progress through metrics reporting.
• Experience in scrum maturity assessment of the team and organization to coach the team and organization to higher levels of maturity.
• Focused on DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and enabled Pair - Programming.
• Experienced in Requirement Gathering, Elicitation, and Analysis, RFP Development, Change Management, Effort Estimation, Functional Testing, Coordinating Quality Assurance, and Client Engagement/Relationship Management.
• Experience in handling change request management, effectively implemented change by performing both Business Impact Analysis and Technical Impact Analysis of the change on the scope of the project.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, public speaking, critical thinking, and conflict resolution skills.
• Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies: Scrum, Waterfall, SAFe, Kanban, Agile, Lean, XP, Azure cloud

Business Skills: Change Management, Project Impact Analysis, Interviews, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, and Project Budgeting, Resource Management

Requirement Management: MS Office suite, JIRA, Rally, Stories on Board, Confluence

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Office Suite, Power Point

Languages: SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master /Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Release planning, Agile estimation (story points), Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review and Retrospective meetings to track progress, eliminate impediments and setting goals
• Worked closely with the teams through agile events coaching on performing the activities, playing the roles, and generating artifacts based on SAFe and Agile best practices
• Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to Agile and ensure team adopt agile way of working.
• Trained teams in Agile, SAFe, Kanban, Confluence, and JIRA tool implementation
• Used JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking, and managing sprints, created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts, Velocity reports
• Confluence was used to maintain project documents such as project plans, project scope, architecture documents, test plans, status reports, sprint retrospectives, Biweekly sprint Review decks and demos
• Organized and Facilitated Scrum of Scrum meetings with RTE twice weekly to tracks dependencies and blockers across domain teams and resolve them.
• Tracked team progress by creating sprint burndown charts and Release burndown charts
• Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams on the ART, worked with Release Train Engineer, System Architects, and system Team for Infrastructure requirements and to support integration testing.
• Engaged with Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Managed various Stage and Production Release deployments of the teams in.
• Maintained a change request log, conducted impact analysis when a request for change (RFC) was raised, escalated the results to Change Control Board (CCB) and updated documents on to SharePoint.
• Identified and assessed the risk, mitigating the risk, handling exceptions & problems
• Eliminated dependencies of the team and enforced scrum and agile principles across the team, implemented processes so that team can be high performing
• Helped the team in estimating story points and deciding the sprint backlog for every sprint
• Defined the resources required for completion of a project and allocated resources accordingly
• Ensured that projects were correctly prioritized and resourced as well as met strategic demands
• Managed financials, budgets, invoicing and forecasting in terms of resources and costs for financial year.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the of Scrum framework in the organization
• Identified, log and follow up on risks and issue mitigation

Environment: Agile development, Scrum, Kanban, XP, JIRA, Confluence, MS Excel, PowerPoint, User Stories, .NET, DevOps

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Scrum Master/ project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
• Worked actively in Refinement with the scrum team(s) Product Backlogs in preparation for Sprint Planning meetings.
• Guiding and coaching the team on how to get the most out of self-organization to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Monitored project progress and reported status to stakeholders through Burndown/ Burn up Charts, monitored quality through metrics and mentored team using project management processes.
• Implemented and enforced Scrum principles and practices, facilitated continuous improvement,
• Monitored sprint backlog daily and ensured it accurate reporting on sprint status.
• Supported the team in addressing and eliminating blocking issues/ impediments
• Handled the release management which enables continuous delivery to the business.
• Spearheaded Agile Practices to get a better grip of key agile principles for the team.
• Built scrum teams from project initialing and leading through business transformational change.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues and prevent distractions to maintain projects on track. Ensuring project deliverables are on time and on budget, while meeting customer satisfaction expectations.

Environment: Agile development, Scrum, Kanban, XP, JIRA, Confluence, MS Excel, PowerPoint, User Stories, .NET, DevOps

Confidential, CA

Scrum Master/ project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Helped the team in understanding the agile concepts and the agile practices to improve the team’s delivery.
• Worked with Product Owner to prioritize Epics, Features and User Stories in PI planning’s. Ensured that the user stories in the backlog are prioritized and estimated, which includes scheduling and facilitating the planning poker sessions.
• Monitored the burn down charts on daily basis and removed the impedimentsto the team to maintain the pace of the scrum team.
• Organized the daily Scrum as a part of Agile project methodology. Gathered all the points shared in the retrospective meetings. Ensured to address the retrospective action items by the scrum team/respective members before the next sprint planning.
• Facilitated getting the work done without force, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Gathered and reported the velocity graphs to the complete team from two scrums teams before the next Program Increment (PI) meeting.
• Written the Gherkin format (Given, when then, and) acceptance criteria for the user stories and have worked on ATDD and TDD frameworks.
• Worked with the Scrum team in CI/CD using Jenkins.

Environment: Agile development, Scrum, Kanban, XP, JIRA, Confluence, MS Excel, PowerPoint, User Stories, .NET, ATDD & TDD frameworks, CI/CD using Jenkins.

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Agile transformation for team new to Scrum and helped the adoption of Agile Principles.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Work collaboratively with Product Owners, cross-functional development teams, and Project Managers to support development and software delivery.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Leveraged the Kanban board during stand-up sessions by moving tasks,
• Coordinate releases within program by Assess the feasibility of the project and identifies its requirements - resources, assets, capital to be utilized, etc. and analyze the scope, and other factors that would determine the efficiency of the project.
• Coordinate project management activities, resources, equipment, and information
• Ensure that the project is proceeding according to established timelines, budgetary constraints, meeting expectations, and adherence to the project scope Provides and ensures proper communication between all parties involved in the project and interacts with users to identify project requirements, scope, and objectives
• Work with Director of IT and other managers, work with and assign tasks to internal/external teams and assist with schedule management.
• Use GANTT-style project sheets to foresee potential future roadblocks and respond proactively.
• Assist in the development of budgets and implement and ensure budget adherence through every stage of the project
• Analyze risks and opportunities, managing internal coordination, dependencies, risks.
• Monitor project progress, working hours, plans and expenditures and resolve issues efficiently as they come up
• Act as point of contact and communicate project status to all participants by creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports
• Ensure the goals, objectives, and requirements are met or exceeded for each project implementation through conducting quality assurance tests
• Develop and execute training, rollout plans and implementations.

Environment: Waterfall, Agile development, Scrum, Kanban, XP, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Smartsheet

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring and improving the performance, productivity, efficiency, and profitability of departmental and organizational operations through the provision of effective methods and strategies.
• Strategic development and management of all operational activities, processes, procedures, projects, and plans.
• Developed an in-depth knowledge of organization’s asset portfolio and systems.
• Compile and analyze data from multiple sources, creating and maintaining ad hoc or custom reports
• Generate reports and provide data/information for partners, investors, and advisors
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short- and long-term goals.
• Complete comprehensive project plans, Analyze and maintain data flow with software providers and internal analytical tools.
• Maintain communication and collaboration with Investor Relations and Marketing, including investor communication materials, and internal training materials to ensure consistency in messaging
• Communicate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders to foster cooperation and understanding of critical processes, and to share best practices on a global level.
• Monitor, manage and improve the efficiency of support services such as Sales, IT, HR, Accounting and Finance. Facilitate coordination and communication between support functions.
• Participate in meetings and workgroups to acquire and maintain necessary levels of knowledge relating to business developments, industry requirements, policies, and regulatory guidelines; collaborate on projects and communicate issues
• Notify management of obstacles or operating problems requiring the need for additional support and/or supplies