SUMMARY

• Diligent and passionate professional with 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master for companies in varied and complex industries.
• Drives change management in new environments to introduce Scrum and Agile practices in alignment with company business objectives and client needs.
• Creates numerous notable success stories in client - driven environments through proactive problem-solving and strategic planning. Trains, mentors, and manages teams throughout the scope of high-impact projects and implementations by ensuring all team members are equipped with requisite knowledge and resources to ensure confidence and performance.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Proactive Problem-Solving Skills
• Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe
• Co-located, Distributed & Offshore Environments.
• Team Leadership
• Training & Education
• Project Management
• Agile Transformation
• Business Objectives
• JIRA, RTC & Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential - Chevy Chase, MD

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Product Owner, Project Management and Delivery Team on the Product Roadmap (User Story Mapping) and Release Planning
• Facilitate daily Stand-up to measure Sprint progress. Remove any impediments and re-prioritize Sprint Backlogs as required.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels across the organization; to manage, inform and influence outcomes.
• Work with Product Owner to ensure the Roadmap is updated and top 5 epics are identified prior to Program Increment (PI) Planning.
• Used JIRA as the primary Agile Project Management and Planning tool
• As a Scrum Master was responsible for facilitating the creation and prioritization of Product Backlog, establishing Sprint goals and Sprint Backlog during the Sprint Planning Phase
• As part of Sprint Review, demonstrated success/failure of the Sprint to all stakeholders using JIRA generated Project and Sprint Reports (Cumulative Flow, Burndown charts, etc.), and by demonstrating functionality achieved by the Sprint
• Facilitate Sprint Retrospectives applying different techniques based on the outcome of the Sprint
• Coaches PO/team on backlog refinement and prioritization
• Understands and supports the product and technical strategies
• Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organization
• Acts as an Agile mentor/coach to other Scrum Masters or any Agile role

Scrum Master

Confidential - Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies and backlog refinement under minimal supervision
• Champion Agile software development best practices, acting as a coach to the Scrum teams
• Support the Product Owner in grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Track and communicate team status and progress via burnup and burndown charts, as well as other information radiators, to the team, management, and stakeholders ¬ ensuring it accurately reflects current state
• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum team and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master network ¬ especially with regard to items necessary for product release.
• Demonstrate sense of urgency and responsiveness to complete work and solve problems, with a strong drive to persevere when faced with ambiguity
• Proactively remove or escalate roadblocks to allow team progress
• Maintains relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance
• Encourages continual improvement in Engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery
• Coordinates timely response and support to production line customer issues, when escalated

Business Analyst

Confidential - Cleveland, OH

Responsibilities:

• Project: Enhancement to online banking E-Commerce portal and project involve in analysis, design, and development of mobile deposits using smart phones.
• Gathered Requirements from key business users, IT users and subject matter experts to define the scope and requirements of online banking system
• Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilled, and deliverables are produced within specified budget, quality and time
• Developed system requirements specifications encompassing Functional and Non-Functional requirements
• Conducted Gap analysis to estimate effort required in modification of existing architecture and development of new business needs
• Assisted project manager in management of Iteration plans, Product backlogs, User stories, Action item list and Risk log
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram and context diagram using MS Visio
• Managed and documented requirements from Project Inception using Rational Requisite Pro
• Developed data maps for retrieval of information from existing systems
• Applied a standard change control process in tracking defects originating from post-requirement phases
• Preconfigured, Customizable templates- Create interactive visualization, data sets, charts and graphs using Business Objects
• Wrote Queries to verify the system functionality and provided the users with the needed data and information during operational phase
• Drafted test strategies and test cases to verify accuracy of the functionality, security, fault- tolerance, performance and successful system integration using Quality Center