SUMMARY

• Experienced and energetic Agile leader skilled with serving teams and organizations in the adoption of Agile and Kanban principles and practices. 7+ years of experience as an IT Professional in Project Management, Product Ownership, Software Testing and Analysis of Client/Server, Back - end, Web and Mobile Applications. Have managed projects using several tools: Confidential ALM, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Confluence, Jira, Rally, Agile Central and various other products.
• Highly Energetic Professional with a passion to make a difference in IT program Application Development management.
• 7+ years of IT industry experience in areas of Program Management, Application Development Management, Project Delivery, in US and India.
• Expert in Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in adopting Agile based Scrum traditional Waterfall SDLC Project methodologies acquired through taking up the roles of a Scrum Master, Program Manager Delivery Manager.
• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Business strategist, Planning and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communicator Leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Experience in intensively checking the data flow in Web based, Client/Server, Mainframe and Networking and Mobile environments.
• Sound understanding of Dev, Authoring, QA, Staging, Pre-Prod and Prod Environments.
• Working knowledge and experience in testing mobile devices with Android, Windows and iPhone based applications.
• Strong working knowledge of project management tools such as Jira, Confidential ALM, Rational Clearquest, Rally, Agile Central and Confluence.
• Exposure and experience in different software development methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Sound knowledge of database structures, table relationships, stored procedures and data mapping.
• Practical knowledge and experience in database management software such as MS-Access, SQL Server 2008/2012, 2019.
• Ability to troubleshoot and multi-task in fast paced and complex environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software/Tools: MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Excel, MS-Project, Photoshop, Issues and Task Tracking Confidential Application Lifecycle Management (ALM),, Agile Central, RallyConfluence, Jira Web Languages XML, HTML, Javascript, CSSDatabase Platforms MS SQL Server, PL/SQL, Confidential

Cloud Platforms: Confidential Web Services, Confidential Cloud, Sharepoint

Operating Systems: DOS, Linux, Windows, Mac Os

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Mclean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated among team leads for resource allocation, change control, scheduling, and dependencies within a release
• Ensures that development teams decompose development and testing tickets into less than four-hour work increments
• Tracks tickets across our Kanban boards in JIRA and reports delays and blockers to the Release Train Lead
• Follows up on blockers and action items to keep the Scrum Team running
• Communicate with the product owner to understand user stories
• Alignment with the WEB architect to technically define user stories
• Facilitated Sprint Planning meetings, Daily scrum, Sprint review, Product backlog refinement. PI Retrospective meetings and sprint retrospective meetings
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress and another metrics
• Worked closely with the Release Train Engineer for the ART in coordinating dependencies between various scrum teams
• Perform sprint retrospectives to capture lessons learned and what can be improved in next sprint.
• Facilitate and coordinate cross between team members for ReactJs, VueJs, AngularJs, Springboot and other technologies.
• Was a Scrum Master to two scrum teams.
• Coordinate with Scrum Masters of other teams in the Agile Release Train and resolve dependencies.
• Creating Kanban board in Jira and using these boards to move tasks across swim lanes.
• Lead the daily scrums and get feedback on impediments from the team
• Work with the Product Owner on the product backlog grooming sessions and update the release and sprint backlogs in JIRA.
• Facilitate meetings within the team to refine Features in Confluence and User Stories for JIRA.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead client brief meetings to identify and understand business process workflows for the Learning Management System (LMS) for a university.
• Support the Product Owner to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy intra-team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
• Focus on ever-improving team dynamics and performance. Helps the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth. Escalates people problems to management where necessary
• Communicates with management and outside stakeholders. Helps protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
• Enables close cooperation across all roles and functions; addresses resource issues and deviation from Agile practices
• Applies Lean-Agile practices, such built-in quality, Kanban, continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Removes impediments so the team can focus on the work at hand and follow Agile practices
• Manage external contracts and suppliers, where required
• Experience in a Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team
• Lead development, testing and UX design teams for teams and allocate resources based on timelines, budget and priority.
• Reduced delivery time by implementing Agile/Scrum practices using the Jira tool to identify User Stories, Bugs and Change Requests effectively and precisely.
• Thoroughly understood the business process of schools and universities by undergoing massive research on similar al software.
• Manage and coordinate weekly meetings with offshore teams in Ukraine, India, f 25+ resources.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Chesapeake, VA

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master/Tech-Lead on development projects using Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Led Sprint Planning sessions, worked with team on user story selections and estimates.
• Led daily stand-up meetings, and removed impediments.
• Challenged and praised the team along the way.
• Tracked sprint tasks to update sprint burn down chart and create sprint review documentation.
• Worked with team to learn strengths and weaknesses to improve team sprint velocities.
• Worked with Product Owner and stakeholders to prioritize Project Backlog.
• Responsibilities as Technical Lead required reviewing and signing off on project scope, business requirements, system requirements, both functional / non-functional requirements, test cases.
• Experienced at creating wireframe and workflow diagrams using MS Visio.