PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A Scrum Alliance certified Scrum Master with 3 years of experience serving as a scrum master seeking a position where I can help scrum team(s) adapt to scrum or improve their scrum maturity.
• Highly skilled servant leader successful in coaching, mentoring, facilitating and leading technical, project management, and leadership teams in adopting Agile/Scrum Kanban and Agile best practices with tremendous business results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x
• SQL developer
• TOAD
• SQL Servers
• Solaris 10,11
• AIX 6.1,7.1
• Windows 10 environment
• Ansible/Puppet Automation Tools
• Nagios Server Monitoring Tool
• Exposure to WebLogic Middleware and Oracle Database versions 10g/11g/12c
• ORACLE/MSSQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Bind DNS /DHCP Administration
• OEM 12C and 13C
• LVM Volume Management
• Oracle ASM Volume Management
• SAP HANA databases by SPA SE
• Oracle OEM Monitoring Tools and Plugins
• TCP/IP Networking
• Storage NFS/SAN/NAS/RAID/ZFS
• Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)
• SSH Encryption/SSH Filesystem
• XFS Filesystem
• Visio for Network Designs
• SSL/TLS Installations
• Ticketing (Jira, ServiceNow, Process Portal, confluence, BPMS, DHS, DBIS )
• Google API exposure
• Appserver exposure (Websphere, Weblogic LDAP configuration upon migration
• Object Oriented Programming
• Advanced Shell Scripting
• Perl Regular Expressions
• Technical leadership
• Cloud Tools (Cluster SSH, Oracle’s srvctl)
• Amazon Web Services - RDS
• Formation Templates, scripts
• Perl/SH/BASH scripts
• Oracle’s PLSQL
• DATABASE UTILITIES: Real Application Cluster, ASM, Transportable Tablespaces, SQL*Loader, RMAN, DataPump, Export, Import, Exadata, Exalogic, SSMS
• TOOLS: TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN, STATSPACK, AWR, and ADDM.Toad, Putty, NX client, Winscp, Remote Desktop Connection, VNC, Team Viewer, LogMeIn and Cisco VPN Client, SSMS, TDE, Dell Foglight for cross platform databases.
• Business Analysis
• Agile Program Management
• Coaching Organization to Scrum Adoption
• Conflict Resolution
• Product Management
• Process Improvement
• Project Facilitator
• Software Development
• IT Development
• Change Management
• Lean / Six Sigma
• Training and Development
• Kanban, Jira, Confluence Service Now
• Scrum / Agile methodologies
• Presentation
• MS office
• PMI-ACP, CPO (current training)
• Tasking meetings/Retro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Virginia Beach, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Supported organization in successful transition from the traditional waterfall to Agile
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies and backlog grooming and assist the team in the maintenance of scrum tools
• Monitor task boards were being updated to ensure transparency and effective communication
• Communicating with the Product Owner to gain clear understanding of the business priorities for upcoming sprints
• Ensure Jira issues/tickets contains enough information with clarity and a clear acceptance criteria or definition of done
• Foster an agile culture, building trust and collaboration across all team members
• Monitor and communicate Jira metrics (burn - down chart, Velocity and version report) to applicable personnel
• Facilitate team retrospectives and ensure continuous improvement in subsequent sprints
• Ensure the team is protected from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensuring that the work is delivered as a team
• Assist the development team in ensuring their objectives align with the scrum teams sprint objectives
• Participate in the organizations Scrum community of practice to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Implemented Kanban practices to operational teams
• Valid experience writing and prioritizing user stories in backlog
• Enforce Kanban principles as a scrum master that in turn resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks
• Enable improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction
• Facilitate Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance
• Remove obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution
• Coach new SM and train global teams, which results in early delivery of project and reduce process waste caused by lack of common understanding
• Hands on experience managing multiple scrum teams while ensuring team transparency to product owner and stakeholders.

Confidential, Seattle WA

Sr. Applications Support Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Monitored different databases and application servers using Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 10g Grid Control.
• Loading data from flat files to database using SQL*Loader, External Tables.
• Extensively used AWR, ADDM and explain plan for periodic performance tuning.
• Implementing Datapump, conventional export/import utility of Oracle 11g, 10g for re - organizing databases/Schemas/Tables to improve the performance.
• Used import/export utilities for cloning/migration of small sized databases and Datapump import/export to move data between 9i and 10g/11g/12c environments.
• Implemented proactive monitoring using Tuning Pack, Diagnostics Pack, and STATSPACK, SQL Trace & TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN.
• Database monitoring/maintenance, replication process and performance tuning are done using OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager).
• Experience in implementation of enterprise databases on enterprise Storage Solutions using Storage area Networks (SAN) and Network attached storage (NAS).
• Documented the Standard Processes for peers to follow.
• Applying upgrade patch, maintenance and interim (opatch) patches on all the databases.
• Implemented Flashback technology of the Oracle 11g, 10g along with Recycle bin for a faster recovery of the databases and database objects.
• Performed Database upgrade from Oracle 9i (9.2.0.7) to Oracle 10g (10.2.0.5) and to Oracle 11g(11.1.0.7) RAC database.
• Successful in applying RDBMS patches, security patches for improving the security and functionality of the databases.
• Achieved optimized performance for the databases by rebuilding indexes, on tables and indexes.
• Automated the processes like moving files, managing alert log, efficient backup by developing UNIX scripts.
• Implemented data guard for the critical production databases and tested switchover and failover
• Logical standby databases for the real time DML apply in the remote databases. Disaster recovery plan for the production to standby database to check the data consistency.
• Maintain databases build database backup and recovery routines (RMAN), monitor database activities and conducting performance monitoring. Clone Development, test and UAT databases using RMAN.
• Handling multi-terabyte databases and the capacity planning for the data and application growth and recommend partitioning strategies for very large tables.
• Successfully implemented physical standby database using Oracle Data guard and Active Data guard feature for High availability configuration in RAC environment.
• Performed full & incremental backup (cumulative and differential) using RMAN and implemented recovery strategies.
• Refreshed/cloned databases using RMAN utility.
• Involved in the installation, configuration and extended support to Oracle 11g, 10g two Node RAC (Real Application Cluster) with ASM file system on AIX platform.
• Involved in converting a single instance database to Oracle 11g, 10g RAC databases.
• Installed ASM environment and migrated databases from NON-ASM to ASM.
• Used TOAD for database management.
• Made optimal use of Oracle Support in resolving the SRs
• 24 X 7 Production & Development database support and administration
• Expertise in T-SQL writing stored procedures, triggers and functions.
• Proficiency and expertise in SQL server replication, backup/recovery, disaster recovery and planning

Confidential - Thousand Oaks, CA

Oracle Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Used Secure SCP & FTP extensively for the File transfers from machines to remote server.
• Application of Oracle software patches when/where necessary.
• Experience in system Monitoring and Database Performance Tuning using Explain plan, SQL Trace, TKPROF, AWR and Cluster Interconnect Tuning (RAC).
• Provided valuable inputs for various performance tuning issues.
• Proficient in performance tuning using Explain Plan, STATSPACK, TKPROF, AWR, ADDM. Performance Tuning of the database (Memory Tuning, I/O Tuning)
• Expertise in Performing Tuning Database - Tuning involved I/O, Memory, CPU utilization, SQL Tuning, SGA tuning, Shared Pool tuning, Buffers and Disk I/O tuning using Oracle's regular performance tuning tools like Explain Plan, STATSPACK, SQL*Trace, AWR, ADDM, ASH, SQL tuning advisor etc.
• Performed SQL and PL/SQL tuning, oracle contention and monitored production database using automatic workload repository (AWR), automatic database diagnostic monitor
• (ADDM) and Active Session History (ASH).
• Worked closely with the Oracle developers for the better performance in Applications in writing the Packages, Triggers and Indexes on the tables.
• Database refreshes using expdp, impdp, RMAN Duplicate and cloning.
• Experienced in cloning the databases using HOT and COLD backups.
• Used RMAN Duplicate and HOT/COLD backups to migrate the data from 11.1.0.7 to 11.2.0.3.
• Created a stand by database by using RMAN Duplicate in order to reduce the down time for the PROD database during the migration process.
• Backup/Recovery monitoring and reporting using Oracle RMAN
• Create database Objects, Tablespaces, Schemas as needed.
• Schema migrations from Development to Production via Tech Test environments.
• Database refresh from Production to Tech Test as needed.