SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, engaging and detail - oriented professional with 9+years of experience in Software Development Life Cycle in SCRUM, Agile Program Management, Project Management, and other software development frameworks. Strong believer and proponent of SCRUM based delivery frameworks, coach for developers, quality assurance resources and others to help them understand and adopt SCRUM.
• Successfully led cross-functional teams in a SCRUM based delivery for on-budget, on-schedule projects.
• Experience in Agile Project Management, SCRUM, Agile Project management, Product Management, Project management, Software Development Life Cycle, and Release Management.
• Experience in managing multiple cross-functional teams of employees, consultants, sub-contractors, vendors in a co-located environment and in an on-shore off-shore delivery model
• Experience in release planning, and managing projects from initiation till completion
• Experience in managing multiple SCRUM teams to deliver on key business initiatives
• Excellent communication skills and experience in working with senior leadership onvarious projects
• Experience in running and coaching SCRUM ceremonies, e.g. sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
• Extensive experience in reporting program/project progress to senior leadership on a regular basis
• Experience in coaching Product Owners in writing good user stories with INVEST mnemonic
• Coached Scrum teams and provided input to the Agile Process
• Flexible and versatile - able to maintain a sense of humor under pressure. Poised and competent with demonstrated ability to easily transcend cultural differences. Thrive in deadline-driven environments. Excellent team-building skills.
• Plan and manage million-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Ability to mitigate risks and manage resource conflicts.
• Knowledge of Lean, Kanban, TDD, Pair programming

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Agile Principals
• Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
• Communication
• Relative Estimation
• Project Management
• Story-Based Development
• Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings
• Conflict Resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Wellesley, MA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, story walkthrough, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Managing the bugs list in JIRA ensuring the QA team logs the bugs and other QA tasks in JIRA.
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Participate in daily SOS.
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leading Stakeholder Engagement meetings to ensure the Product Owner understands the business goals, requirements to effectively write user stories and define the acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, story walkthrough, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 3 major initiatives.
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Project Manager/SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Chartered to manage key programs right from program assignment till successful delivery, deployment
• Leading Stakeholder Engagement meetings to ensure the Product Owner understands the business goals, requirements to effectively write user stories and define the acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 3 major initiatives.
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Working with 2+ scrum teams to define/groom product backlog and identify cross team dependencies
• Coaching Product Owners on user story writing skills, explaining the importance of acceptance criteria, the power of context, and the level of details that is required for a good user story.
• Resolving impediments for the teams by reaching out to the right resources, and escalating issues when necessary to avoid any impact to the delivery team
• Proactively identifying dependencies across Scrum teams within a program before and during the release planning event in order to deliver the program in a timely manner
• Working closely with the Scrum Masters, Development Managers, and Domain Technology Leaders to identify any impediments that needed to be resolved
• Reviewing user stories with the teams for completeness, estimation,and dependencies identification
• Responsible for timely, accurate reporting of velocities, capacities, burndown charts to leadership
• Coordinating with various departments and ensuring delivery of projects on time
• Configuring and customizing Rally to track iterations and releases.
• Creating and managing the backlog for items in the InsideKP backlog
• Project managed launch of a brand new site for the new CEO.Working closely with IT to schedule QA, UAT, Authoring and Production deployments.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing all resources and responsible for creation and execution of Overall Data and Content Migration Strategy, Data Archival, Clean up and strategy to address old LMS links to new LMS Links.
• Creating and managing the project plan for Data Migration, Archival and Clean up (DMAC) Team.
• Gathering work estimates and creating budget.
• Identify, track and mitigate risks in a timely fashion.
• Collaborating with other cross functional teams to ensure alignment.
• Identifying and mitigating risks and issues and bringing it to the attention of the Program Manager.
• Providing weekly status reports to the stakeholders.
• Motivate team members to meet project goals, deliverables and timelines.
• Assign tasks and resolve conflicts.
• Interface between program manager and the project team.
• Analyzed other compliance tracking tools to gathered business requirements to in corporate into the NEW LMS.
• Creating UAT Test Strategy and Plans.
• Coaching Product Owners on user story writing skills, prioritizing the backlog, explaining the importance of acceptance criteria, definition of done, the power of context, and the level of details that is required for a good user story.
• Leading Stakeholder Engagement meetings to ensure the Product Owner understands the business goals, requirements to effectively write user stories and define the acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Resolving impediments for the teams by reaching out to the right resources, and escalating issues when necessary to avoid any impact to the delivery team
• Proactively identifying dependencies across Scrum teams within a program before and during the release planning event in order to deliver the program in a timely manner
• Working closely with the Scrum Masters, Development Managers, and Domain Technology Leaders to identify any impediments that needed to be resolved
• Reviewing user stories with the teams for completeness, estimation,and dependencies identification
• Responsible for timely, accurate reporting of velocities, capacities, burndown charts to leadership
• Coordinating with various departments and ensuring delivery of projects on time