SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with Around 8 years of experience.
• Dynamic and an excellent record of facilitating numerous scrum teams on diverse and complex projects.
• Enthusiastic about the scrum methodology and engaged in the scrum community seeking to continuously enhance my skills.
• Proven record of motivating, organizing and leading scrum teams to deliver on time, under budget and above expectations.
• Effective communicator and excellent customer service skills.
• Effective team member, leader and very successful at building relationships.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Norfolk, VA

Servant Leader / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As Servant/Leader for a newly formed Systems Team, introduced Agile/Scrum Process.
• Worked closely with Product Owner to establish and prioritize the Product Backlog.
• Analyzed Team Work Flow, determining Scrumban was more suitable for this team.
• Provided team with Scrumban training; developed and implemented process migration from Scrum to Scrumban.
• Helped team prepare for and participate in PI Planning ceremonies.
• Advocated Agile management process and protocols within the SAFe framework.
• Joined PMO to formalize Agile methodology for managing development of Reinsurance - related applications.
• Assist BA and Product Owner in analyzing Data from features/epics into understandable stories for Product backlog.
• Defined JIRA -based framework and coached colleagues on its use in Backlog Refinement and Sprints, Created JIRA projects and customized workflows for client-facing tab initiatives.
• Experience implementing and advocating Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe in net environments.
• Took a more structured approach to complete various transactions and suggested strategies to reduce regression bug defects Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization.
• Coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Represented Team during Scrum of Scrums and Release Planning meetings.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Removed impediments but having an understanding in the control and release processes.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitment through sort selection, seeing and task definition, and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time.
• Develop, implement, and promote Agile best practice standards including the use of boards and tools where appropriate. Burndown, velocity chats, Tracking worklogs.
• Managed the internal and external communications to improve transparency and radiated information. Maintaining product backlog, prioritization of user-stories and creating Sprints.
• Hosted daily scrum calls, status meetings for CIP, Connectech portals Built relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders to facilitate team interactions with themselves Facilitating daily Standups/Scrum calls, Sprint planning meetings, demos & retrospectives.
• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology and also Product Others in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Removed impediments, finding the right personnel to tracked and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
• Project Management - Agile Ceremonies - conduct Daily Standups, work with product owner to maintain the Backlog and conduct backlog-grooming sessions.
• Perform / facilitate Sprint Planning sessions and task updates for the prioritized stories.
• Conducted the Shot & Tell session at the end of each sprint.
• Manage multiple stakeholders’ expectations, coordinating respective tech teams, attending scrum of scrum to manage other impacted tech teams’ activities.
• Capacity planning, assigning sort-points and efforts estimations.
• Creating Sprint calendar and setting up pre-grooming & grooming sessions.
• Status reporting to business governance council and to key stakeholders.
• Created Epical Epic/Sort Feature Mapping workbook to facilitate Backlog Refinement and create/update issues viral VBA and JIRA REST API.
• Planning for tactical and strategic development goals and objectives for short and long term project, and program efforts.
• Monitor technical security analysis and implementation on full life cycle development efforts.
• Plan for and control resources, risks, tools, training, QA, CM, audits, assessments, problems resolution, schedules and milestones deliverables.
• Facilitating User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
• Excellent Analytical and Communication skills. Using communicating tools, Emails, Skype, Group on, Face to Face interaction.
• Perform Tests, Simulations, Code Rewrites, Trade Studies and use Eclipse IDE, Oracle, SAS database, telecommunications, development, programming, deployments, reports and support.
• Monitor the development of Health and Safety initiatives, funding and resource control.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Removed impediments, finding the right personnel to tracked and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
• Project Management - Agile Ceremonies - conduct Daily Standups, work with product owner to maintain the Backlog and conduct backlog-grooming sessions.
• Perform / facilitate Sprint Planning sessions and task updates for the prioritized stories.
• Conducted the Shot & Tell session at the end of each sprint.
• Manage multiple stakeholders’ expectations, coordinating respective tech teams, attending scrum of scrum to manage other impacted tech teams’ activities.
• Capacity planning, assigning sort-points and efforts estimations.
• Creating Sprint calendar and setting up pre-grooming & grooming sessions.
• Status reporting to business governance council and to key stakeholders.
• Created Epical Epic/Sort Feature Mapping workbook to facilitate Backlog Refinement and create/update issues viral VBA and JIRA REST API.
• Planning for tactical and strategic development goals and objectives for short and long term project, and program efforts.

Confidential, Mesquite, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Product Owner Building and communicating clear DoD and acceptance criteria for the stories.
• Helped clearing estimation of Middle tare stories with various activities including communicating updates and impediments as tell as assisting with backlog and release plan maintenance.
• Developed a team that had no exposure to Agile and the Scrum framework and had them meet their commitment within 6 months.
• Intact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced.
• Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives, demos.
• Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analyst, developers and QA occurred early and often, and removed barriers and blockers for the team.
• Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on the benefits of Agile and Scrum.
• Responsible for coordinating bi-monthly release of software, including planning and quality assurance.
• Provided recommendations to Agile Center of Excellence on improving agile processes and practices.
• Facilitated sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Identified and removed organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficient Train net team members and transition teams to agile framework with Scrum to enhance team skill levels.
• Collaborate with product owner on product backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for seeing.
• Collaborated with QA peers on test case rewrites and continuously improved test approach and design.
• Automated SIT/ UAT test cases thick improved the project turnover time Utilize abilities and skills of individuals and foster a feedback culture to support team building and development.
• Scheduled and managed multiple product baselines including planning and implementing maintenance releases.
• Mentored and Trained project teams, clients and implementation partners.
• Part of Scrum Leaders in aligning Portfolio level Epics and Release backlogs and Sprint backlogs and collaborating to achieve delivery excellence.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Train the team members in Agile principles, scrum processes and helping them transition from waterfall methodology to agile practice.
• Planning sprint release and making sure team has a crystal clear understanding of sprint goals.
• Working with Product Owner in finding stats to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release plan.
• Working on Integrating Jira application.
• Facilitating daily scrum meetings.