Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY

4 years as a Scrum Master, assisting scrum teams in the creation of many software products utilizing agile best practices.

Areas of Expertise

Knowledge in Product Development, Change Agent, Conflict Resolution, Cross - Functional collaboration, Value Conscience.
Coaching, Process Improvement, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall.
Team building, System Integration, Customer Service, Facilitation, Negotiation.
Communication, Software Development Life Cycle, Process development and redesign, MS Project, Jira, SharePoint, MS-Office Suite, Confluence, WebEx, Microsoft Teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Facilitates scrum events (daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, planning, and retrospectives) and other organization events external to the team, promoting agile best practices, increasing organization-wide agile awareness and acceptance.
Organized and facilitated over 50 plus deep-dive sessions with the team to teach and mentor on scrum and agile values helping the team become self-managing, committed, and accountable for their work.
Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste, increase productivity and coach the organization to conduct continuous improvements events.
Protect the development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on sprint goals and delivering value.
Accountable for the removal of impediments escalating them where necessary
Participates in all Program Meetings, PI Planning sessions, release planning meetings, feature definition sessions, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and Scrum of Scrums meetings
Works closely with Product owners, Solution Architects, and Systems Engineers to facilitate system demos, and prioritize features for Iteration planning and delivery.
Works with RTEs, agile coaches, and other scrum masters in driving agile transformation with SAFe.
Promote SAFe Core Values, adapt, and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Coached and supported teams in the migration of data from premise to cloud resulting in faster response to market need as well as increasing availability, scalability, security, and performance., increasing instances by 50%, and accommodating more customers during peaks.
Coached and supported the Product owner in effective backlog management techniques and concepts like the INVEST, DEEP criteria, leading to healthier and better-written stories aligning with agile best practices and directly contributing to the team hitting 95% of its sprint goals.
Responsible for removing impediments and working with other scrum masters within the IT organization to identify and plan sprints, address dependencies and risks with Epics, Features, and User stories.
Coached team on making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing, task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and agile/scrum best practices reduced development time by 35% while maintaining efficiency
Actively contributed to our organization-wide agile community, agile best practices, and facilitated training sessions across teams to increase agile maturity, cross-functionality and delivered value faster to the customer and reduced overall defects by an overall 40%, Increased collaboration

Confidential

Sr. Project Coordinator / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Spearheaded several software developments projects and, consistently met project deadlines including the delivery of imaging technology to business loan services as well as the credentialing system.
Supported the product owner in maintaining a healthy Product Backlog and story prioritization
Developed Policies and Procedure Manuals covering my department and team.
Supported the transition to Agile promoting an Agile mindset and helped the organization and product development team establish Agile values and principles.
Clearly communicated problems and progress to upper management through engaging and informative presentations.
Built a trusting and safe environment where problems could be raised without fear of blame with emphasis on problem-solving.