SUMMARY

• Top performing, innovative, accomplished Certified Scrum Master with the ability to guide multiple teams of software developers, business analysts and operations staff towards completion of the project objectives for Fortune 500 companies. Consistently worked to improve the processes and quality of teams by implementing test - driven development, ensuring that software conformed to architectural standards and participating in design and implementation reviews.
• Foster adaptation of Agile principles, values, best practices, technical discipline and craftsmanship
• Facilitate effective iteration execution, PI planning, System demo and relentless process improvements
• Coach Agile teams, stakeholders and other non-agile team members for Maximum business results (Agility)
• Coordinates cross team dependencies with other Scrum Masters and participate in Agile Community of Practice (CoP).
• Work with (assist) the Product Owner to refine and prepare backlog for PI and Iteration planning
• Coach teams on understanding their Velocity, adherence to Agile Methodology (Agile Transformation Office), Work with Product owner for Product Backlog grooming (Sizing and prioritization)
• Collaborates with Scrum teams to develop and maintain team standards, performance metrics, tools, and best practices, including working agreements that has enhanced the smooth coordination of over 100 scrum ceremonies. Prioritize and manage multiple projects within scope, time and budget restrictions.
• Multi-year experience in velocity, burn-down, story point estimating, sprint planning, product backlogs and retrospectives experience in very fast paced development environments with aggressive schedules, hard deadlines and rapidly changing requirements.
• Coach the Development Team in self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, risk identification/mitigation, dependency management, conflict resolution, and software development life cycle craftsmanship. Exceptional application delivery initiatives - Iteration leads experience with a very strong focus on servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, impediment removal, empowerment, increasing transparency, inspection and adaptation
• Agile champion, promoter, development team protector, and team coach with demonstrated user empathy and curiosity to understand the root cause of business/team’s problems. Proactively leveraged skills in training and guiding the development team through over 95% straight product owner approved sprints.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation, facilitation, and coordination.
• Used SAFE to lead the transformation of business agility, implement Lean portfolio management and Product delivery
• Proficient in Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Scrum Board, Kanban Board, Azure DevOps, TFS, VersionOne, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Snipping Tool, Windows 10, SharePoint, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano TX

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Passionate impediment remover who supports and facilitates a number of Scrum Teams with varying levels of complexity in various functions by fostering Agile values and practices.
• Develops and commits to team’s PI planning to meet PI Objectives
• Represent my team in the Scrum of Scrum meetings, SoS Synch etc
• Collaborate with the RTE to formulate a common business and technological goal to deliver continuous value
• Participate in identifying dependencies and fostering cross-team and cross-ART collaboration during PI planning
• Ensures that the scrum process is followed, including issuing invitations to daily scrums, spring planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospective.
• Acted as a Servant leader/Coach who built high performing Agile teams who delivered maximum business value at Scale
• Facilitating Scrum framework throughout the Enterprise including PI Planning, Cross-Domain Synchronization etc
• Acts as Sr. Scrum Master for multiple distributed teams, resolving team impediments, conducting standups, retrospectives, Sprint planning events, and creating tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.
• Ensure consistency across Scrum teams, drive Scrum standards, synchronize dependencies and build trusted relationships
• Promoted the creation and adoption of standard practices for Enterprise Scrum Management (Scaled Agile) and program management (PI planning, business alignment, content etc).
• Guided and coached the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to meet program objectives.
• Ensured team adherence to agile principles, provided coaching to teams (from newly formed teams to senior management, business stakeholders, development team, and product owners) on Agile transformation and business agility
• Organizes and facilitates ceremonies, recommends and executes on improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and while mitigating risk. Tracks and communicates the overall team progress providing visibility to stakeholders.
• Acts as a Sr. Scrum Master in a SAFe environment by facilitating Scrum of Scrum meetings and interacted with the Release Train Engineers (RTE) regularly to synch up on deployment strategies.
• Assist Self organizing, self-managing teams achieve their goals by teaching and coaching team practices, supporting SAFe principles, eliminating impediments and facilitating flow
• Takes a broader perspective to provide solutions to complex challenges. Serves as a filter to remove impediments to progress identified by the teams. Protects the teams from outside influences to ensure the team remains focused on their Sprint priorities (or PI Objectives)
• Partners with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog items (PBIs) are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team.
• Supported the development of product roadmaps, Strengthen the performance of the team, increased the development team’s Velocity from 75% to 99.99% delivery of their Sprint goals within three months in the company.

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Actively contributing to the organization’s Agile Community by removing impediments and training.
• Led and facilitated critical team level agile ceremonies including PI Planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint demos, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Responsible for enacting SCRUM values and principles: facilitated Daily SCRUM meetings; organized Sprint Planning/Grooming sessions, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. Maintained JIRA, Information Radiators, etc. for teams.
• Leveraged experience in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Coordinate UAT testing with end users, maintaining metrics and making them transparent to management
• Balanced priorities within portfolio / program / project product planning, 2+ years’ backlog, sprints, scrum meetings, prioritization, estimation, grooming, lessons learned, retrospective and continuous improvement.
• Conducted backlog reviews, planning poker sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for two teams during concurrent 2-weeks sprint cycles.
• Led daily scrums and scrum of scrums to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or concerns in an Agile Scrum environment.
• Prepared for and facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, backlog grooming meetings, and planning poker sessions (estimation) with technical team.
• Ensure that the scrum board is up-to-date and prioritized, and ensure improvements are implemented
• Facilitate meetings and communication between product owner, stakeholders and development team members to ensure the highest value work is top priority in the Sprint backlog

Technical Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed a scrum master role, established fully Agile development methodologies throughout the organization.
• Removed any impediments that were preventing the teams from delivering their sprint goal.
• Led required Scrum meetings such as daily scrums, sprint planning, sprint review, and scrum of scrums.
• Guided the Scrum team in establishing normalized estimates for User Stories, features and capabilites
• Developed and implemented a Rapid Velocity Action plan to fulfill maximum requirements per sprint
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, design reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related activities.
• Responsible for defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.
• Worked with the product owner and the scum team to refine the product backlog, split epic stories, and prioritize stories based on dependencies with other teams and business priorities.