Scrum Master Resume Silver Spring MD - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Scrum Master offering over four years of total experience with an impressive record of delivering and implementing the projects as per schedule and deadlines; extending post - implementation and support to the development team.
Highly skilled and successful in coaching, mentoring, and leading technical, leadership teams in adopting Agile/Scrum best practices with strong results.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, Silver Spring MD

Responsibilities:

Worked as an Agile transformation coach where scrum and kanban techniques were applied.
Organized and facilitated overall release and sprint planning-including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
As a Scrum Master for a single team of (12 people), identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments.
Worked with team in the prioritization and resolution of software defects.
Managed work item assignments, workflow and tracked velocity on a daily basis to ensure adequate resource utilization, productivity and delivery.
Encouraged the team to maintain Visual Management Systems (VMS) so work can be tracked and ensure team communicates with each other daily.
Ensure Demand/Capacity on a bi-weekly and monthly basis.
Ensured backlog is reviewed and prioritized through backlog grooming and planned for upcoming iterations according to business values and/or technical sequencing.
Conduct work review sessions with stakeholders to showcase work completed over the past iteration.
JIRA tool used for Agile Scrum to track the team activities.
Frequent follow up with team and friendly reminders to the team on updating JIRA tasks on a daily basis for more accurate reporting.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Douala Cameroon

Responsibilities:

Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs
Monitored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution, and transparency.
Facilitated meetings to iron out blockers, conducted JAD sessions with the product owner
Other stakeholders on regular basis and help the team to make better use of these time and estimate more effectively, thus ensuring healthy sprint progress.
Kept team focused on the sprints priorities, business values, and protecting team from over-committing.
Worked with product owner during the Sprint review sessions to make sure all stories met the Definition of Done and get the stories accepted within the sprint.