Agile Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

A highly motivated Agile Coach/Scrum Master seeking new opportunities to guide organizations on scrum methodology, rules and best practices in an agile environment.
Teach, Mentor, Consult and Coach
Building Trust as an integral part of a self - organized and cross functional team.
Know what to look for in a team and creating a healthy agile adoption.
Leveraging information radiators both physical and electronic; tracking progress and providing transparency to all stakeholders.
Helping team members to identify each other’s skills and understand their perspective.
Guiding teams to adopt and buy into a shared vision.
Promoting widespread dissemination of agile knowledge to all levels and all areas within the organization.
Identifying and creating framework for surfacing and resolving conflicts.
Focusing on responsibilities as a means of simplifying management issues.
Creating environments that can embrace and support change
Mentoring Scrum Masters, Product owners, Managers, Development Teams and other stakeholders involved with the teams.
Familiarized with Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise implementation(SAFE), Web application servers, SDLC(Software Development Life Cycle)Kanban and Change Management
ALM/Agile/Scrum tools: Team Foundation Server, Rally, Jira, Basecamp
Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills with emphasis on defining business processes, managing risks, base lining acceptance criteria and deliverables.
Extensive project management experience

SKILLS:

EXPERIENCE:

Agile Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, allowing them to maintain focus on the sprint goal.
Educated and reinforced Scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
Acted as support product owner, rewriting support tickets/bugs as user stories and prioritizing them through assigning business value.
Regularly document team’s definition of “Done” and review best practices with the team ensuring criteria such as change tracking, automated acceptance and regression tests, revision control, code reviews and best practices are adhered to.
Assisted team with the story sizing and estimation process.
Coaching scrum teams on agile processes.
Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
Tested at unit, integration and system levels

Scrum Master

Confidential, Orchard Lake, MI

Responsibilities:

Product backlog grooming
Write user stories and assist the product owner to prioritize the product backlog
Performed analysis and made recommendations for process improvements.
Implemented Access based queries to run reports
Solved complex conflicts by exhibiting advanced understanding of needs and demands of customers and the company's goals. Utilizing ability to think outside the box to find creative solutions
Protect the team from over committing or complacency
Communicate/promote agile concepts and benefits to the scrum team and stakeholders

Duty operational Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Championed the implementation of DADS software application that helped measure and drive down train delays and recovery process time in support of the company’s vision of “Every second Counts “
Developed and analyzed weekly monitoring reports and used the information to update teams and create change for further accuracy and cost savings.
Served as subject matter expert on the SAP system for rail staff development and implementation. Provided data for system creation, testing and implementation. Also prepared documents and had responsibility for the transportation department in SAP implementation.
Led set up of Forecasting stats and IP stats in support of SPM Wave 1 Joint Assembly Testing
Supported delivery of Integrated End Service advance preparation deliverables and issues
Created and analyzed Excel spreadsheets to identify redundancies leading to reduced train delays. Also recommended process improvements to senior management; striving to improve performance levels.
Incident investigation, documentation and management
Championed stakeholders communication