SUMMARY

• Senior Scrum Master more then 10 years with development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.
• Experience utilizing Agile project management tools like JIRA and Confluence, Agile Release Process, BDD and DevOps.
• Strong communications skills program development. Holds certifications SSM, PSM.
• Scrum Master with more than 10 years’ experience in delivering advanced technologies.
• Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings.
• Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.
• Successfully guided two development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.
• Coordinated the work efforts of 7 - person team for various projects.
• Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives.
• Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.
• Carefully analyzed data, staffing plans and variances to recommend solutions to improve revenue per call and customer satisfaction/retention.
• Completed plans for long term goals using Microsoft Project.
• Experience utilizing Agile project management tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• Working knowledge of Kanban as well as strong knowledge and utilization of XP.
• Scrum as an asset; strong knowledge of all the concepts: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions that minimized productivity.
• Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team - building opportunities.
• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Visual Management
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Coaching
• Training
• Agile Project Management
• Agile Software Development
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Agile Release Process
• Facilitation and Team Building
• ATDD
• BDD
• DevOps

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master mid level

Responsibilities:

• Digital/eComm -user experience (difference between design (UX) and development (UI))that fits into an overall SDLC
• SDLC and Agile/Waterfall
• Agile project practice
• Run development of Scrum team and user dev team
• Run Daily scrum - help with sprint planning, recording velocity, working with product owner
• Make sure backlog is well groomed
• Support release/deployment
• Release every 4 weeks
• Partner closely with team and build relationships
• Help withmorale and provide transparent environment
• Making scrum ceremonies fun - good energy to drive team forward

Confidential

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisting team members of 12 and 13 respectively in resolving impediments and eliminating blockers.
• Helping both teams in solving dependency issues.
• Provided support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
• Assist Teams in preparing the release documents.
• Motivated and coaching the teams to work towards continuous improvement and deliver shippable product that deliver business value in every sprint.
• Prepared project progress reports and status reports.
• Assisted teams in Identifying and tracking project dependencies.
• Escalated issues to management and seeking timely resolution.
• Work closely with Product Owners in backlog prioritization writing of user stories and backlog refinement
• Assisted teams in writing out objectives and ensuring transparency during PI Planning.
• Attending SOS meetings during PI Planning and weekly synch meetings with SM POs and managers to ensure the smooth running of the ART.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with developers, as well as multiple product owners, acting as Scrum master for two (2) co-located sprint teams
• Led team through frontend, backend Database, REST API architectures (build reusable codes and libraries for future use
• Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability, Design and implement data storage solutions), and MVC architecture for designing the mobile apps.
• Provided support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
• Prevented distractions by identifying and removing impediments.
• Motivated the team to work towards continuous improvement and deliver shippable product that deliver business value in every sprint.
• Collaborated with project team to identify potential project risks and assist with the Led the team on Agile Methodologies such as scrum, lean Kanban, and Extreme Programing.
• In collaboration with the Release Train Engineer, SME, and senior agile coach, to reinforce and maintain a consistent practice across the scrum team to deliver on time.
• Assisted in coordinating work with multiple teams and an offshore team to utilize agile techniques such as User Stories, TDD and BDD for continuous integration and testing.
• Facilitated iteration planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, iteration review and iteration retrospective with the goal to reduce or enhance technical debt.
• Collaborated with team members to visualize and remove impediments utilizing Jira and Kanban activity tracking to write status reports, cutting cycle time by 25% for project tracking and team collaboration.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Prepared project progress reports and status reports
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; Identifying and removing impediments
• Preventing distractions and delivering the sprint goals; facilitated discussion and conflict resolution among development team members.
• Collaborated directly with the client Team Members to gather requirements to build applications.
• Ensured the applications were of high quality and tested appropriately.
• Maintained team efficiency pertaining to average velocity and optimal velocity for each sprint, helping the team to deliver consistent story points for each sprint.
• Assisted in developing interview questions for interviews of the IT system owners, financial managers, contracting officer representatives
• Enterprise Architect, end users and other identified IT system support staff to ensure as complete of understanding of the IT system’s current condition.
• Assisted in Identifying and tracking project dependencies.
• Facilitated decision-making and issue resolution as required with a broad array of leaders from across the organization.
• Provided system expertise in support of new employee training and ongoing system training needs.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining teams engineering best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, test automation, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment.
• Worked with developers, as well as multiple product owners, acting as Scrum master for two (2) co-located sprint teams
• Resolved impediments, conducted standups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and created tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.
• Performed gap analysis to compare all elements of existing “as is” with desired “to be” processes.
• Utilized use case, workflow, activity, and sequence diagrams to define functional requirements for the development team.
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
• Prevented distractions by identifying and removing impediments.
• Motivated the team to work towards continuous improvement and deliver shippable product that deliver business value in every sprint.
• Collaborated with project team to identify potential project risks and assist with the development of preventive plans.
• Escalated issues to management and seeking timely resolution.
• Encouraged agile behaviors, reinforce practices, norms, ceremonies, and support the overall team’s performance and efficiency.
• Focused on developing a more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on conflict resolution.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Quality Control Expert

Responsibilities:

• Digital Intelligence Saw that all testing processes were performed correctly.
• Made sure products were shipped out in good working condition as required by customers.
• Documentation of quantity and quality of products were ready to be released.