Agile Practitioner/ Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY

Process and Procedure based Project Management and Project Controls Consultant Lead with over 8 years of experience in PMO Establishment - Project Management, Project Controls, & Agile Project Management consulting relating to the IT Services and Heavy Industrials in Projectized based organization

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Planning, Rolling Wave Planning/ Iterative Planning (9years), Kanban
Agile Scrum, XP, Lean Development, Release Planning, Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
V Look Up, Pivot Tables, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7,8.1, Unix and DOS, HP/Quality Center, Bugzilla, Clear Quest.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Practitioner/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Organize and conduct daily Stand Up meetings and cross-team meetings
Manage sprint planning and execution which includes the management of project progress and provide status & visibility
Participate in release planning and scheduling by providing empirical Scrum team statistics, identifying project dependencies, and creating velocity forecasts
Identify and manage cross-team dependencies ensuring high throughput of development teams by identifying potential issues and roadblocks and working on preventing or eliminating them
Worked with Product Management, Business Analyst, Architects, and UI designers to plan ahead and ensure product backlog is prioritized, groomed, and has sufficient detail, so that it is ready to be worked on by Scrum teams to avoid any downtime, ambiguity or rework
Work in cross-functional project teams that include Development, Product Management, Business Analysts, UI, and Quality Assurance
Facilitate Scrum teams that include team members in engineering, testing and product owner/product management
Create and maintain release burn downs, velocity projections and project forecasts to create project visibility and enable timely project adjustments utilizing JIRA
Advanced understanding of and experience with Software Development project life cycles, as well as advanced project management skills
Solid oral, written, and presentation as well as strong interpersonal skills are required. Proven track record of being a strong team player with a results-oriented attitude
Self-starter able to work well in new and undefined environments

Confidential

Agile Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Facilitates daily stand-ups, story grooming session, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective meetings.
Guide and coach development team to self-organize and achieve objectives, without assigning or dictating the work
Work with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate effective sprints refinement, removes impediments and ensures that stories are 'sprint ready'
Create information and data matrices and reports to help the enterprise understand current state, gaps, futures states, and opportunities/tradeoffs for project selection and prioritization
Conduct sprint planning, reporting, review and velocity charts, agile estimation, daily scrum, and burn-down.
Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
Track and communicate team velocity, sprint, and release progress.
Ensure development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
Facilitate internal and external communication within the team and other teams.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Planned, directed, and coordinated department project activities and resources to ensure project goals are completed on time, within budget and quality.
Supported department business operations, financial processes, and improvement/efficiency initiatives
Researched market trends, cost/benefit, and best practice analysis to develop business cases and recommendation
Worked with senior leaders to establish metrics and targets to be used to analyze and determine organizational performance
Worked cross-functionally to drive strategic initiatives and improve processes
Consulted with users and clients to solve complex system issues/problems through in-depth evaluation of business processes
Communicated roadmap, risk, analysis and applied feedback with leaders and individual contributors.
Interpreted requirements and solution designs to produce test plans and test scripts.
Created reports captured from the database to mitigate risk and leverage management reporting.
Gathered requirements and wrote User Stories for enhancement initiatives.
Worked with the internal technology groups, outside vendors and other partners across the business to identify, prioritize and drive enhancements to our technology interfaces. Including planning and deploying new features and platforms and acting as liaison with cross functional teams and vendors

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