OBJECTIVE

• TO SCALE STRATEGIC AND MANAGERIAL HEIGHTS UTILIZING AGILE & SCRUM FRAMEWORK

SUMMARY

• A personable and energetic SAFe certified Release Train Engineer / Scrum Master with over 8 years of experience, working hands on in implementing and delivery of Agile methodology.
• Proven management and leadership capabilities showcased through mentoring teams, tangibly improving employee retention and satisfaction while delivering customer centric products and features on time, resulting in impactful and efficient delivery of services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile development & best practices
• Communication
• SDLC
• Agile frameworks
• Scrum
• Kanban
• SAFe
• Meeting Facilitation
• AWS
• JIRA
• Rally
• Confluence
• Conflict Resolution
• VersionOne
• MS Excel
• Project
• Bitrix24
• TRELLO
• Slack
• Interpersonal Skills
• Salesforce
• Time Management
• Detailed Oriented

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Release Train Engineer /Scrum Master

Confidential - San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate all sprint cadences (planning, reviews, retrospectives, and standups) and daily scrums with the development team resulting in product features that reached thousands of users
• Continually refine and evolve agile processes for predictable and rapid software delivery resulting in project deadlines.
• Served as the focal point to drive effective communication throughout all project phases with the development team and stakeholders
• Schedule, coordinate, and successfully conclude several backlog grooming and refining sessions in the middle of ongoing sprints to help the product owner to be more prepared prior to upcoming sprints.
• Increase development team participation in daily stand ups from 40% to 100% within my first, three months with the company.
• Boost development team morale through education and aggressive pre-emptive impediment removals, which had a positive impact on velocity.
• Use scrum artifacts such as velocity, burndown and burnup charts as well as qualitative metrics such as team self-assessments, to keep tabs on the progress of sprints to ensure a positive and predictable sprint outcome after each iteration.
• Work with development team to improve their intra-team communication and iteration work with the goal of improving visibility with current work, open issues and priorities.
• Host refinement sessions, providing high level estimates for product backlog.
• Drive continuous and consistent process improvement culture, providing and analysis current and historical metrics to inspect and adapt.

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Confidential - Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Organized and improved agile practices and values, increasing productivity and overall team satisfaction.
• Rigorously reviewed and managed backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity and in-progress items ensuring an on time feature delivery.
• Worked very closely with the product owner and business analysts to help team understand scope and vision roadmap.
• Developed team norms and balanced workload for team members improving employee satisfaction
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Facilitated scrum framework - sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Aided Product owner with user story creation and product backlog grooming.
• Utilized VersionOne in planning monetary and tracking work progress.
• Improved team performance by identifying, managing and supporting resolution of team impediments.

Agile Scrum Master

Confidential - Charlotte - NC

Responsibilities:

• Coached and trained team members on agile mindset, processes and frameworks and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives.
• Promoted empowerment of the team and encouraged a sustainable pace with high level of quality for the team which improved employee retention.
• Assisted in team development towards Agile transformation company wide.
• Planned, organized, and facilitated projects using appropriate project management methodologies.
• Directed team and coordinated activities across different organizational functions.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Communicated team status, progress via release/sprint burndown charts, story acceptance.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings resulting in on-time delivery rate.
• Improve team performance by identifying, managing and supporting resolution of team impediments.

Agile Scrum Master

Confidential - NY

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Jira in planning monetary and tracking work progress.
• Coached cross-functional team members, on scrum process as a mentor/facilitator while facilitates the team’s adoption of story points, the definition of done, used at the end of each sprint.
• Coached on Agile, SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, and Jira at a large social networking start-up during an Agile transition
• Helped identify remove impediments, and block external distractions from teams, to allow the team to focus on achieving sprint goals
• Able to effectively communicate the same messages in both technical and non-technical terms
• Facilitated team in playing Planning Poker to help define story points
• Coaching and training the teams and leaders on Agile methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, KANBAN, Alongside DevOps, continuous integration/development.
• Highlight risks and business impact analysis and reporting.

Accountant

Confidential - Largo, MD

Responsibilities:

• Manage payroll and benefits administration for 36 employees
• Process payments and handle petty cash
• Reconcile reports and financial data
• Generate reports for senior management
• Analyze and interpret financial records
• Review financial statements and tax documents to correct any discrepancy
• Tracked Performance of employees