SUMMARY:

• An accomplished servant leader with extensive knowledge in agile principles, values and practices.
• Expert Confidential driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum practices, removing impediments and fostering self - organization.
• In depth understanding of Software Development Life cycle working in Agile disciplines.
• Adept Confidential leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable.
• An advocate for change, creating an environment of continuous improvement, challenging the status quo and developing a compelling case for change.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master

• Facilitating team scrum events (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective) and making sure there’s full team engagement.
• Helping the product owner manage the product backlog by making sure that user stories are regularly groomed, prioritized by business value and are sprint ready.
• Ensuring teams have clearly defined and enforced Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD).
• Identifying and removing impediments to teams works progress.
• Making sure the team’s work is visible and progress is radiated to the team and key stakeholders using metrics like burn-down, burn-up, team velocity and defect summary reports.
• Shielding the team from interruptions and removes obstacles that may impact the delivery of the product.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Assisting teams with creating an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality and speed.
• Coaching teams on agile good practices such as time-boxing, inspect and adapt, continuous integration, transparency, accountability, Jira tracking, team empowerment and role training.
• Participating in the running of Scrum of Scrum meetings to ensure the coordination and integration of output from the various teams by removing team impediments.
• Attending PI Planning to help identify team dependencies, risks and objectives for the upcoming Program Increment.
• Helping the organizations solve problems rather than providing solutions. Monitoring the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around deliverables.

Confidential

Scrum Master

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Radiated information and ensured that team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholder and scrum team.
• Facilitated discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
• Prevented distractions by identifying and removing impediments.
• Support Product Owner with grooming and maintaining product backlogs.
• Mentored and coached scrum teams on product backlog estimation and acceptance criteria definition.
• Helped teams to solve problems rather than providing solutions.
• Monitored the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.
• Improved transparency by sharing team progress through Burn down and Team velocity charts.

Confidential

Scrum Master

• Facilitated scrum meetings (sprint release planning, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and daily stand-ups).
• Collaborated with product owners on developing, updating, prioritizing and grooming the product backlog.
• Conducted working sessions and planning meetings for User Stories elaboration and decomposition
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team member to focus on the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Ensured timely updates by regularly communicating project status and progress to management and executives.
• Coach team on making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
• Made sure stakeholders were engaged and expectations had been set regarding their involvement and participation.
• Worked with delivery teams to mitigate impediments and ease the entire development process.
• Ensured the development team is worked efficiently towards sprint goals.
• Ensured Scrum Team’s adherence to agile practice through one on one coaching and retrospectives
• Successfully guided two cross-functional development teams through transition from waterfall to agile development.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Serve as liaison between business and stakeholders in order to understand and document data needs.
• Analyzed IT project requirements and prepared requirements documentation.
• Contributed to various types of testing that include unit and UAT.
• Wrote training documents and user guides, and facilitated training for staff.
• Delivered weekly key status updates to key stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile PM Tools: Jira, Rally, VersionOne, TFS, Rational, Redmine

Software Applications: AWS, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project Hyperion, Cognos, NetSuite, Caliber, Visio

Databases: MS SQL Server, Postgress SQL, Oracle, Hadoop, Hbase, Cassandra, SharePoint

Operating Systems: Windows Server, UNIX, LINUX, Chrome, Mac OS, Solaris