Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY

Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
Excellent planning skills; ability to manage and distribute workloads, establish and attain realistic schedules.
Strong relationship builder; with both technical and interpersonal skills to effectively interface with all levels of staff, management and customers to achieve corporate customer service, retention and revenue objectives.
Excellent communicator; strong oral and written communication skills to effectively communicate with diverse audience of varying degrees of expertise.
Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies; Dynamic, hands on Project Manager/Scrum Master with experience managing software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team deliver working software.
Facilitate Daily scrum (stand-up), release and Sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective. Ensure all participants understand the ceremony's purpose and keep to the time-box.
Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration, both inside and outside of team allowing them to self-organize.
Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
Support Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined, prioritize to maximize value and use creative techniques to elaborate user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.
Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.
Coach teams, partner teams, and leaders on the Agile mindset and expected outcomes from the shared ownership of work.
Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events.
Use empirical data to help the teams assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Collaborated with cross-functional teams, vendors, and business partners to identify problems, elicit, document, and manage stakeholder requirements, and to successfully meet objectives and implement the project on time and within budget.
Directed and recommended corrective actions when scope, schedule, or cost variances threatened the health of the project and provided team leadership and coaching for issue resolution.
Guided the work of technical teams, articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
Created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects
Identified, managed, integrated and/or adapted resources to achieve project goals while effectively managing scope, schedule and budget for assigned projects.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Identified opportunities to implement technology automated solutions to resolve procedural and process problems associated with the management of projects.
Ensured the coordination of project activities with project team members, and other project teams, were appropriate.
Received client commendation for preventing penalties and the loss of a contract on a $550,000 obligation by working with vendor to expedite deliverables .
Monitored project progress, coordinated resources, and adjusted schedule to ensure the least amount of negative impact to the overall project.
Created an environment of collaboration within the teams that allowed for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts.
Participated in strategic and tactical planning for the organization and partnered with senior management to identify and prioritize company-wide projects with organization’s strategic and annual business plans.

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

Coordinated daily operations of the project implementation plans with the local team.
Ensured that projects were properly scheduled, approved and documented.
Organized, attended, and participated in stakeholder/client meetings, as needed.
Assisted project managers with updating project schedules, priorities and resources across the site.
Conducted internal audits to ensure the required processes were being followed.
Assisted in modifying / creating new Project Management Office processes for project deliveries.
Met with stakeholders to identify and define requirements and objectives.
Acted as the point of contact and communicated project status to all participants.