Scrum Master / Business Analyst Resume

SUMMARY

Strong analytical skills with an emphasis in project management leading cross functional strategic initiatives on projects that ranged from 15 - 200 people
Responsible for analysis, implementation, rollout and production support of new software including trading systems and content management systems
Product and domain data team manager serving as the liaison between product managers, quality engineers, developers and other technology teams with a focus on developing business use cases and technical requirements
ScrumMaster with a(n) SaaS technology environment driving projects through the full software development lifecycle from initial release planning to client live production environment support (Agile, Lean, Kanban)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

JIRA, Business Objects, Microstrategy, SQL query writing to assist in data analysis
Vertica, Mongo, Hadoop, SQL Server and many other types of databases as well as Informatica for ETL
Advanced Excel, SharePoint, Project, Visual Studio, Word, Access, PowerPoint, TFS, etc.
Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, TheMarkets.com, Intex and other financial data applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master / Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Lead 3 scrum and 1 kanban delivery team, responsible for coordination and delivery responsibilities of up to 28 colleagues
Developed teams into high performing co-located agile teams with a focus on raising the delivery value from underperforming teams
Facilitated team discussions, mediated conflict resolution, developed and documented team/department processes
Evangelized Agile Scrum practices for teams new to the Agile methodology
Coached product managers on writing user stories, requirement planning and delivery of MVP for scrum teams
Owned Jira story planning, team scrum boards and dashboards for several scrum and Kanban teams
Developed requirements and technical user stories for eCommerce platform
Mentored junior QA team members and assisted with test planning
Developed Test Automation requirements and incorporated an automation team within an existing scrum team
Set up sprints, led scrum ceremonies and ensured team followed agile methodologies

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Documented requirements in Jira as a backlog of user stories for multiple scrum teams
Led grooming sessions, sprint planning, retrocessions, daily stand-ups with the development teams
Providing guidance to the product owners, including implementing agile as a new process
Supported releases and release management, including production triage and prioritization of defects
Managed requirements, phased project scope and coordinated detailed development efforts across scrum teams for projects budgeted at more than $2.5 million annually

Confidential

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Worked with business and technical teams to quantify the impact of new requirements and requirement changes
Coordinated feedback, assumptions and release timing across 10+ functional teams for projects budgeted over $8 million annually
Assess the impact of new requirements against the capacity plan, budget and timeline
Tracked program changes and identified areas of risk or misalignment between the teams and departments
Managed multiple urgent, complex requests from various teams by prioritizing and delegating requests as needed

Confidential

Senior Principal Business Analyst/ Scrum Master - Platform Team Lead

Responsibilities:

Selected to lead a pilot Agile team to discover best practices and help expand and enhance adoption of the new SDLC methodologies
Worked with big data and Web technologies (i.e.: HTML, XML, Scripting, and JavaScript).
Worked on web-based application using Black box testing, regression and integration and performance testing.
Led cross-functional teams, as project manager or ScrumMaster, made up of people from software development, quality engineers, product management, modeling developers, and internal/external design panel to design to successfully and integrate high-quality cloud-based solutions for big data applications
Led the Production Support Team (Kanban) to troubleshoot code or data (via SQL queries) and drive all reported production issues to successful resolution for the client through delivery of Service Packs or New Features in a subsequent software releases for a multi-million dollar client