SUMMARY

• Experienced Scrum Master capable of delivering small, medium and large - scale software development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching Scrum teams.
• Business strategist; plan sprints for multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Demonstrated success in executing sprints which deliver measurable client value while enhancing corporate profitability.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Expert Confidential driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Servant Leadership
• Removing impediments
• Facilitation and Observation
• Stakeholder Relationship Management
• Communication & Negotiation
• Problem Solving & Data Analysis
• Burndown/Burnup Charts
• Sprint Review/Retrospective
• Metrics & Trend Reporting
• Team Building
• Ceremony Facilitation
• Story Development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coach development team of the agile principles of Scrum and Kanban.
• Foster positive relationships with partners, business units, and scrum team to help manage impediments as seen by the scrum teams
• Constantly manage compliance to the agile methodology with team observation and facilitation.
• Effectively facilitate scrum ceremonies (daily standup, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and sprint planning meetings.
• Constant awareness of needed improvements, increasing the productivity of the development team while being a strong servant leader to present possibilities to keep the team moving to meet monthly releases.
• Initiate a comprehensive issue tracking process that improved communication and impediment resolution
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
• Instruct and model core agile principles of collaboration and prioritization.
• Provide and present status to executive leadership with a focus on impediments and mitigation strategies.
• Coordination of activities with Release Management to ensure successful delivery of software.
• Coordinate dependencies between teams with other Iteration Managers.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led Scrum of Scrum ceremony in support of agile teams for the purpose of collaborating and coordinating their work with other teams.
• Working with the Product Owner and business stake holders to determine Release Backlog based on the Product Backlog.
• Responsible for running daily Scrum Stand up and monitoring team Velocity and burn down in order to facilitate release and sprint planning.
• Conduct Retrospectives with the team for continuous improvement.
• Hold Product backlog ‘grooming’ sessions with the Product Owner.
• Serve as Agile Coach for the team advocating ‘Scrum’ best practices.
• Foster positive relationships with partners, business units, and scrum team to help manage impediments as seen by the scrum teams.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master & Agile Coach for 2 team, Represented and Lead Scrum of Scrums
• Facilitated product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meeting.
• Worked with the Product Owner to ensure we continually use efficient product backlog practices.
• Facilitated & Coach scrum team delivering Micro Service software using Confidential &T Continuous Deployment Platform (CDP)
• Provided coaching and training around Agile methodologies to include Scrum, Lean & Kanban.
• Provided leadership and coaching to organization management team.
• Provided guidance and support in developing agile processes and best practices.
• Provided leadership and Agile coaching to increase team performance.
• Provided guidance and coaching to enhance collaboration with offshore teams.
• Removed team impediments & obstacles to ensure team continued delivery of features.

Confidential

Business Analyst (Agile)

Responsibilities:

• Eliciting requirements using interviews, documents analysis, requirements workshops and Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions, business process descriptions and workflow analysis.
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI.
• Monitored projects through the SDLC process using the Agile/SCRUM methodology.
• Prioritizing development backlog, planning releases, planning sprints, and driving requirements/user stories.
• Interacting effectively with product management and clinical and technical end-users to understand and document business requirements, processes and workflows.
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product.
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends.
• Working with manufacturing/factory operations to plan and facilitate design transfer.
• Working with program management, product management, clinical and architecture/development teams to facilitate subsystem integration activities and develop the end to end technical view of the solution.
• Facilitating teams of healthcare and technical professionals to define and document project scope and detailed functional requirements.
• Providing support, from a requirements perspective, to the project team through all stages of the project life cycle including development, testing, documentation, training and implementation.
• Liaison between the subject matter experts and the technical team.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business Analyst for the enterprise implementation of eSMART Log and eSMART Link, a secure, web-based portal that gives clients the ability to track, view, download, print, pay for securely store and verify the status of the medical record request. - All in one convenient online location.
• Involved in the SDLC phase of requirement analysis, design, and development of the web-based application.
• Gathered and documented business, functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Produced and validated the Business Requirement Document (BRD) with the PM and SMEs to obtain signoff.
• Involved in converting the business requirements into Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and created business process models from the requirement specifications.
• Involved in project implementation, integration and user acceptance testing.
• Generated GAP analysis to ensure that requirements gathered was extensive and thorough.
• Produced traceability matrix and liaised with the design and testing team to ensure that application was matched with requirements.
• Extensively involved in System Test & UAT- Reviewed test plans, acceptance criteria and test scenarios.
• Fully engaged and managed relationship with internal & external stakeholders.
• Carried out extensive analysis and work on the Reference data used for the project