SUMMARY

• 10 + years of experience as a Scrum Master.
• Accomplished Scrum Master capable of delivering medium - scale Software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and mentoring multiple Scrum teams.
• Proficient in smooth transition of the teams to effective Agile implementation, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Effective in motivating the teams, keeping them focused and collaboratively delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Certified Scrum Master.
• Worked as an agile coach for a year.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Cross functional and cross organizational skills.
• Worked with over dozen technical teams.
• Hands-on team leader, mentor, and coach.
• Successful delivery of multiple projects.
• Strong ability to grasp new things quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management and Scrum Tools: MS Office, SharePoint, Jira, Version One, Rally Dev, Azure DevOps, Planview

Programming: Basic knowledge on C, HTML, SAS

Operating Systems: Windows 10, Windows XP, Windows Vista

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and time-boxed the Scrum ceremonies Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review Meeting, Sprint Retrospective Meeting
• Maintained the Task Board on VSTS
• Served as a liaison between the vendor, business, and IT teams
• Shared the project reports with the stake holders at the end of every Sprint
• Developed presentations for the monthly meetings with the stakeholders
• Updated project status on Planview

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and time-boxed the Scrum ceremonies Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review Meeting, Sprint Retrospective Meeting
• Maintained the Task Board that was referred to during the daily stand-ups that helped the team track the stories To Do, In Progress, Done, and Accepted.
• Served as a liaison between the business teams and the technology teams located onshore and offshore.
• Assisted the Product Owner to refine the Product Backlog items
• Communicate team progress and dependencies with other team leads during scrum of scrums
• Coached my scrum teams to be self-organizing, transparent, cross-functional and accountable.
• Work closely with the QA team on the acceptance criteria for each of the items in the Sprint Backlog
• Shared the project reports with the stake holders at the end of every Sprint.
• Manage quality improvements, collecting and evaluating feedback from key stakeholders and product owner during sprint review meetings.

Confidential - O’Fallon, MO

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master, facilitated and time-boxed the Scrum ceremonies Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review Meeting, Sprint Retrospective Meeting and Grooming Sessions.
• Coached the team to improve their velocity over time by adopting best engineering practices.
• Helped the Product Owner to Prioritize the Product Backlog items for developing Sprint tasks
• Highly proficient in writing and prioritizing user stories in Product Back Log with Product Owner.
• Analysed the Iteration Burn Down charts and reviewed defects.
• As experienced Scrum Master anticipated and removed impediments from project team’s path and pushed them to deliver quality results based on schedule.
• Used JIRA for issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability.
• Maintained the Task Board that was referred to during the daily stand-ups that helped the team track the stories - To Do, In Progress, Done, and Accepted.
• Developed PowerPoint presentations for monthly meetings with upper management.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identify features with the Product Owner
• Protect team from over commitment
• Work with the PO in breaking down the features into user stories
• Work with the team in estimating the user stories
• Work with the team in breaking down the user stories into tasks during the Sprint planning session
• Work closely with the QA team on the acceptance criteria for each of the user stories in the sprint backlog
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Continuous support in resolving conflicts
• Protect team from distraction and remove obstacles at all levels of management
• Used the tools JIRA and TFS to track the project progress and generate timely reports
• Shared the project reports with the stake holders at regular intervals
• Trained and coached the team to utilize agile methodology with Scrum
• Facilitate the scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, Sprint retrospectives.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with the PO on Product Backlog
• Work with the team in estimating and breaking down the user stories into tasks during the sprint planning meeting
• Work closely with the QA team on the acceptance criteria
• Establish effective communication between the onshore and offshore teams
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress and report the same to the management and business stake holders
• Protect team from over/under commitment
• Mentor teams in agile methods
• Remove obstacles at all levels of management
• Used the tools JIRA and SharePoint to track the project progress
• Facilitate the scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives
• Set up meetings with the Product Owner and the team at regular intervals in understanding the requirements.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Offshore Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Work with the PO on Product Backlog and prioritization of the user stories
• Work with the team in estimating and breaking down the user stories into tasks during the sprint planning meeting
• Tracked the deliverables and provided sprint metrics to the client at regular intervals
• Establish effective communication between the onshore and offshore teams
• Work closely with the QA team in reporting and tracking defects
• Prioritize, address, and resolve issues
• Mentor teams in best agile practices
• Used the tools JIRA, Version One and Quality Center to track the project progress
• Facilitate the scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives
• Set up meetings with the Product Owner and the team at regular intervals in understanding the requirements

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Mentored teams in agile methods.
• Facilitated the following Scrum ceremonies:
• Team grooming
• Release planning meetings
• Daily stand-up calls
• Sprint planning meetings
• Sprint reviews
• Sprint retrospectives
• Worked closely with the team in estimating user stories, breaking down the user stories into tasks and estimating hours required to complete each of the tasks
• Worked closely and proactively with the onsite leads
• Worked closely and proactively with the onsite client Project Manager on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint burn-down, Release burn-down
• Tracked the deliverables and provided sprint metrics to the client at regular intervals
• Generated Sprint report and burn down charts from Jira and shared it with the client
• Protected team from over/under commitment and helped team resolve issues/impediments
• Communicated with the client manager in prioritizing the issues and ensured that the high priority bugs are issued within the given time-frame
• Prepared presentation for Sprint demos
• Co-ordinated with the product owner and setting up meetings with the team in understanding the requirements
• Handled two different scrum teams working on two different set of requirements

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Trained and mentored six teams at JDA, Bangalore in transitioning to agile methods
• Identified gaps in the process and recommended changes to existing methods
• Groomed and facilitated the teams in the Scrum ceremonies such as:
• Release planning sessions
• Transform requirements into user stories
• Sprint planning meetings
• Assisted the team in breaking down the user stories into independent tasks
• Assisted the team in providing estimates for the tasks in hours
• Assisted the team in picking up the right amount of user stories for the sprint and protected the team from over/under commitment
• Daily stand-up meetings
• Sprint reviews
• Sprint retrospectives
• Assisted the team in understanding Version One
• Resolved conflicts and helped the team in resolving impediments
• Generated reports at the end of every sprint on the progress of the teams in transitioning to Agile and shared them with the management

Confidential

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinated with customers and onsite Engineers during the POC and Deployment stages. Includes but not limited to the following activities with clients.
• Respond to the RFPs
• Close interaction with clients for the smooth running of POCs and deployments
• Status meetings
• Weekly & bi-weekly deployment planning meetings
• Constant communication with the customer
• Worked closely and proactively with project manager at the customer site.
• Worked with the customer to gather and freeze requirements.
• Facilitated weekly status meetings to review the progress and impediments (if any) at the customer sites and make sure that a solution for the impediments is provided by the team.
• Tracked the deliverables and provide updates to the customer.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Trained and mentored internal and client teams in Agile best practices.
• Organised and facilitated Sprint planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning and other scrum related meetings.
• Taught the team in writing clear and concise epics/stories.
• Assisted the teams in breaking down of user stories into small independent tasks and estimate them in hours,
• Worked with the team on definition of done, share it with the product owner and get a sign-off.
• Assisted the team on making appropriate commitments for the team.
• Resolved conflicts efficiently.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards.
• Worked closely and proactively with product management, technical and cross-functional counterparts on process, product, and control system development.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Worked on presentations for Sprint Demos.
• Developed processes to improve quality & efficiency of teams.
• Worked with the product owners to gather and freeze requirements.
• Identified gaps in the process, recommend changes to existing methods.
• Assisted the team in providing test data.
• Motivated the team by creating a fun-filled atmosphere at workplace.
• Worked with Product Owner on Scrum Artifacts such as Product Backlog, Release Backlog, Sprint burn-down, Release burn-down.
• Handled three different teams working on different projects.