Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY

A highly experienced Project Management and Scrum Professional with a history of creating, mentoring and leading high - performing teams to project and product development success.
Adopting a Servant-Leader role to drive consensus building in the removal of roadblocks and challenges.
Complementary Security Analyst experience and heightened communication skills support an ability to effectively translate User Stories and requirements to development teams and cross-functional stakeholders.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Participated in 10 product launches applying Agile project management framework.
Instituted weekly product grooming sessions.
Lead the team as a Servant Leader through Scrum sessions; determining goals and objectives.
Facilitate project planning, resource estimation, kick-offs, and sprints.
Articulating and translating business user stories and needs to software development team.
Identify impediments and roadblocks and lead key resource people to determine courses of action.
Establish seamless team coordination and communication with internal and external partners.
Track performance metrics to provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.
Tracking and reporting team progress and velocity utilizing and releasing burn up and burn down and control charts.
Arrange and schedule Scrum Ceremonies; facilitating discussions and conflict resolution.
Encouraged and support self-managed sprints, using a servant-leader management style.
Ensuring that the team remains focused on quality and continuous delivery.
Successfully handled risks by taking them to the Scrum of Scrum meetings for escalation.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Introduced Agile/Scrum principles to organization; establishing implementation framework.
Supported and educated Product Owner on Scrum methodologies and outcomes.
Coached team to improve collaboration and self-organization.
Created Agile teams to drive continuous process improvement of software delivery.
Ensured that that the team smoothly adjusted to the cadence of Sprint ceremonies while maximizing the amount of available development time.
Conducted regular Stand up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
Directed and monitored the establishment of a 9-person development team.
Helped screen, interview, and hired all members of the development team.
Served as key resource person for the development team and Product Owner.
Participated in daily Scrums, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives as an observer; and as an advisor, made recommendations to the Scrum team for improvements.
Taught the Product Owner how to calculate velocity, leading to a 15% increase.
Supported the new Scrum Master and the development team, providing feedback that resulted in a steady stream of DONE sprints.
Successfully increased employee morale and sales during my tenure as Scrum Master.

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed a diverse team delivering user-responsive software products through identifying and harnessing each team member’s strengths; establishing a culture of collaborative success.
Implemented and championed scaled Agile Framework adoption.
Worked and coordinated with Product Owner; instituting weekly product grooming sessions.
Coordinated cross functional teams to develop business requirements based on User Stories.
Established and road mapped activities and deliverable schedules.
Developed processes to readily identify, address and remove roadblocks and impediments.
Oversaw quality assurance focused Scrum Ceremonies; facilitating discussions, decision-making and process optimization.
Ensure self-organized team's continuous improvement through monitoring and coaching.
Proactively identified risks and dependencies and escalated to Product Owner and management.