SUMMARY:

Certified Scrum Master with over 7 years of aggregate Agile Software Development Experience. Outstanding qualifications and a track record for delivering and managing agile software projects. Expert with CA Agile Central/Rally, solid knowledge of Jira, Version one and SharePoint. One year of Linux System Administration. I have great communication skills and am a team player with a fast learning curve. I can work perfectly and effectively under stressful conditions where speed and accuracy are necessary for mission critical environments. I have a background which includes communicating effectively and leading high - performance teams. My attention to detail and the ability to maximize system resources have been extremely beneficial on my client engagements

SKILL:

Reporting .Scrum .Rally .Planning . PowerPoint .Teaching .Troubleshooting .Agilent .Microsoft .problem solving .SharePoint.Account management .SDLC .Auditing .Jira .Client interaction .Conflict resolution .Servant Leadership .Attention to detail .Project Management .self - motivated .Product Management .Detail-Oriented .Written Communication .Organizational Skills Lifecycle Management .Linux systems .VMware .Microsoft Excel .SharePoint .Agile Central .Teaching .Planning

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Agile Central/Rally Subscription Administrator

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Provided agile coaching to teams on all aspects of utilizing Agile Central for artifacts, as well as tracking and improving their team performance, with a strong focus on Scrum practices. Coached teams on improving collaboration and self-organization. This was accomplished both working in a hands-on manner with the teams, as well as in a consultant model.
• Extensive knowledge on Agile Central work items, backlogs, burndown metrics, velocity, and reporting
• Familiar with common development practices, service-oriented environments, and Agile practices.
• Complete knowledge of all scrum ceremonies; daily scrums, sprint planning, reviews, grooming, and retrospectives.
• Responsible for solving issues at all levels of the organization.
• Coach, mentor, & teach, as well as create training guidance and FAQ materials. Worked closely with the Agile Center of Excellence (COE) team to create agile best practices for the entire organization
• Able to perform the complete system life cycle using the Agile Scrum Methodology phases from project initiation, analysis and requirements, design, coding, testing and implementation
• Able to establish a data-driven culture and a repeatable, structured and disciplined approach to the scrum process.
• Able to find solutions and remove impediments for the teams
• Responsible for managing the dependencies between team capacity, prioritization, budget, software quality and committed deadlines.
• Able to orchestrate and manage sprints in Rally, Jira and other agile tools to minimize bureaucracy and accelerate the flow of information in the organization
• Experienced in SharePoint; creating and maintaining document libraries….
• Worked closely with Project and Program Managers on utilizing a compliance report in Agile Central and correcting/improving data quality.
• Embraced servant leadership; embodied the qualities and mindset that are associated with agile methods while bringing disclosure and transparency to the business and earn the trust of leadership, stakeholders and teams.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management and administration of CA Agile Central/Rally; workflow, user accounts; application changes such as custom fields/values, dashboards, reports; security, monthly account maintenance around external application connections and disabled/inactive user accounts; and hierarchical changes in the application to align with the organizational structure, including project (container) creation for new teams.
• Responsible for actively seeking and participating in a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training and independent study to further develop myself and the Confidential agile community.
• Responsible for regular monitoring and analysis of Agile Central/Rally data to ensure adherence to SDLC standards and identify deviations from Confidential policies and procedures.
• Have excellent communication skills such that can drive change with respect to Agile
• Help teams to properly create user stories and other work items (features, tasks, defects, testcases).
• Worked closely with scrum masters, product owners and business lead all projects setups, work items and requirements for a project kickoff.
• Create documented guidance, teach and make sure Agile Central users, Product owners and program managers are educated on Confidential standard practices for the managing the Business Planning level in Agile Central and that Program Support and Product Owners (or their designated representatives) know how to set-up the work items which are necessary for Project reporting.
• Responsible for adding the necessary add-ons to build custom fields, fetch data from external data sources and define grid structures, managed Integration with any internally used software; code management tools, data, migration, and overall SDLC management.
• Able to determine the workload of each member during each sprint so that maximum features are developed as early as possible
• Worked with teams to manage features that ready to be scheduled for a release and decomposed as well as unscheduled work items in the backlog.
• Responsible for maintaining our agile tool support mail box and making sure all users throughout the organization.
• Great knowledge of Microsoft and PowerPoint
• Provided extensive guidance to highly effective teams on how to use Scrum processes.
• Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit the Scrum team.
• Implemented company policies, technical procedures and standards for preserving the integrity and security of data, reports and access.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Served as Scrum Master for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery with some support from coach
• Attends and conducts daily stand-up meetings, schedule and facilitate ceremonies, daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, retrospective.
• Work with Product Owner and other Scrum Masters to properly manage the backlog and aid in determination of suitable commitments for backlog items and sprints.
• Facilitated Scrum Master Ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, stand-ups.)
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Protected team from over-commitment, and thus mitigating technical debt.
• Work with product managers to organize the backlog and maintain priorities
• Guides the team in establishing normalized estimates and helps the team understand how to estimate features and capabilities.
• Great Understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC's)
• Managed backlog, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time.
• Facilitate team meetings and teamwork to continual improvement of teams agile practices
• Strong ability to balance data with other factors when making decision, ability to integrate agile principles and work products
• Calibrates and collaborates with the development team daily to ensure all developers are productive and are set up to succeed in every sprint and to keep the sprint backlog and progress boards organized and properly managed
• Ability to work effectively in cross functional team environment, and able to balance workload and prioritizes effectively. Able to manage self and time to meet commitments.
• Attention to detail, quick learner, have a positive attitude, ability to multi-task, self-motivated and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Selected to Agile tool selection project which resulted in the identification of a suitable agile lifecycle management tool for Enterprise wide adoption (Rally) Capable in attributes for consistency, completeness and risk minimization. • Involved in Client interaction and support to the marketing team. User meetings resolve implementation and performance issue
• Ability to plan and align resources based on the projects need
• Experienced in SharePoint and Version One
• Initiates and facilitates meetings with Product Management and other business partners as needed to keep product backlogs organized and prioritized
• The above enabled global Scrum teams to have common platform which enabled distributed development teams to collaborate more efficiently, which in turn led to an increase in team performance gains and transparency other manual intensive methods.
• Evangelized a culture of self-organization, constant change, responsibility and continuous improvement. Met goal of addressing and resolving issues e.g. Impediments as they emerged as rapidly as possible.
• Produces, monitors and analyzes metrics, including velocity, burndown charts, and capacity/demand variance graphs to quickly identify and report risk to stakeholders and upper management, and to identify inefficiencies in methods and processes and potential solutions
• Negotiated and taught resource managers the value of "team continuity" in the context of team efficiency and throughput.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from Idea, discovery, user story authoring, to sprints to deployment and subsequently support.
• Communicated with relevant stakeholders which included members from sister organizations e.g. Sales, developers, testers and support specialists on product issues
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress on a weekly basis via status reports
• Defects tracking prioritize outstanding defects in reporting system. Coordinate between development team and the management team to resolve any conflicts/defects in terms of requirements.
• Motivate team players with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and management, technical and written skills.
• Core Scrum Master. responsible for championing and educating key leadership on the value of Scrum over traditionally 'process'
• Selected to Agile tool selection project which resulted in the identification of a suitable agile lifecycle management tool for Enterprise wide adoption (Rally)

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tracking and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles
• Assist as needed with backlog maintenance
• Provide internal and external communications to improve transparency
• Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs
• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
• Identify and remove impediments and prevent distractions to the teams
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution sessions
• Empower the team to self-organize and self-manage
• Participate in various meetings to report project risks and mitigation plans to management
• Utilizing Rally for metrics/reports, user stories and defect tracking
• Utilizing Daptiv for resource management
• Facilitate T-shirt sizing and estimate sessions for new projects
• Participate/contribute to both Profile Management (project intake) and Release Management (project release) teams
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories and the "Definition of Done"
• Instructed key stakeholders and business owners, the concept clear and concise "Acceptance Criteria"
• Instructed and mentored core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and transparency to junior team members
• Helped create standards adopted within the enterprise in regard to quality, test coverage

LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Create users, administer user, create groups, assign users to group accounts, and setting user permissions to files and directories.
• Build and installed multiple Linux machines.
• System and Application troubleshooting and other related issues.
• Manage system process in areas like boot process, startup and system shutdown.
• Install, configure, maintain and administer Linux / UNIX operating systems.
• Work with Linux family (Red Hat Enterprise Server, Cent OS).
• Work on Linux Virtual Machine on VMware.
• Introducing Linux physical servers to the network
• Hardening Linux systems using organizations benchmark.
• Installation and administering Apache Web Servers # Configuring Apache to server multiple websites.
• Secure installing MySQL/Mariadb
• Configuring multiple mysql instances