SUMMARY

• Agile leader with 5 years’ experience as a Scrum Master in Software Development and Project Management.
• Excellent understanding of SDLC and experience working with distributed teams across different phases of the software development life cycle.
• Serve as scrum master on DevOps teams.
• Excellent skills in facilitating and conducting scrum events such as sprint planning, demo, Retrospectives, daily stand - up.
• Focused on satisfying the customer and motivating teams to deliver valuable software.
• Expert in leading cross-functional teams to plan, build, deploy and manage business and consumers valued product/services.
• Excellent in conflict resolution, defining user stories and release processes.
• Extensive knowledge on Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, and SAFe.
• Good at communicating with ability to effectively lead multiple teams through sprints cycles.
• Function well in a high-intensity and constantly changing environment.
• Extensive knowledge of Agile framework; SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming.
• Experience using Project Management Tools such as Visual Studio, Jira, Rally, TFS and MS Project.
• Domain experience includes Banking, Health Care, and Project Management Systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• DevOps
• SAFe
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Computer Networks and Troubleshooting
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Linux and AWS Cloud.
• Jira
• MS Project
• Confluence
• TFS
• Version One
• Microsoft Project
• Basecamp
• Outlook.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective and software demonstrations.
• Protect development teams from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timelines.
• Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Proactively manage and mitigate risks and issues across the team.
• Applied LEAN concepts to identify antiquated “legacy” processes that produce additional inefficiencies, delays, and costs to the team’s performance as well as the project overhead.
• Developed solutions in collaboration with Management and IT teams to reduce and eliminate waste, improving team performance as well as cutting cost on overall project overhead, without sacrificing product quality and stability.
• Encourage the prioritization of technical debt against new feature.
• Responsible for the overall management control and accountability for technical performance, cost and schedule control requirements.
• Participate in Release Planning.
• Champion and advocate the scrum values and principles within the organization.
• Educate and reinforce scrum and other agile frameworks to team members and stakeholders.
• Coach and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.
• Engage in continuous learning of Agile/Scrum techniques and utilize findings with the team.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.
• Scrum master for two co-located development teams, resolving and removing impediments by understanding the control and release process
• Coached team members on agile principles and provided general guidance on the methodology.
• Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams.
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency of sprints and product backlogs.
• Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, dictation or assigning the work.
• Facilitate daily scrums, sprint retrospectives, planning sessions, and creating tracking plans such as burn-down charts and burn-up charts.
• Works directly with C-level and senior management teams to identify, analyze and document changes.
• Performs gap analysis to compare all elements of existing “as is” with desired “to be” processes.
• Utilize use case, workflow, activity and sequence diagrams to define functional requirements for the development team.
• Follow up on action items for continuous improvement.
• Improve performance by identifying, developing, and presenting unique solutions.
• Provides quality statistics and give quick feedback to implemented updates.
• Receive quality information about services and quickly adapt to them.

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned and monitored project spending/budgeting, and guided projects to completion on time, within scope and on budget.
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.
• Participate in quarterly Program Increment planning sessions.
• Developed solutions in collaboration with Management and IT to reduce and eliminate waste, improving team performance as well as cutting cost on overall project overhead, without sacrificing quality and stability.
• Responsible for the overall management control and accountability for performance, cost and schedule control requirements.