SUMMARY

• Eight years and four months of experience in Program management including Project coordination, Project Planning and Scheduling at both project level and program level.
• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies: daily stand - up, sprint planning, sprint review/demo, and retrospective meeting.
• Actively contributing in Scrum of scrums meetings to develop new strategies and roadmaps that will enhance agile transformation of the project, product roadmap, project scheduling and release management
• Excellent communication skills with mentoring and leadership qualities
• Educated key stakeholders, PO, Business, and Team members on the benefits of adopting an effective scrum/agile framework to continue to deliver features to end users, in a timely manner.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team by targeting the issue internally within the team, escalating to the right company personnel or to other external teams as needed.
• Developed weekly agile metrics reports and dashboards for senior management including capacity tracking, task burn-downs, story burn-ups, and velocity metrics.
• Conduct training to enterprise teams to efficiently use various Agile Metrics and help teams to be more productive, hence reducing feature delivery time.
• Motivate team members to effectively communicate and participate during scrum ceremonies (planning, standups, retrospectives), to make sure they are always expressing themselves, which led to genuinely capturing blockers, hence improving the done ratio for tasks within sprints
• Communicated the progress to senior management through ‘Burndown Charts’. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.
• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.
• Conducted technical training sessions regarding Agile development methods
• Proficient knowledge of software development lifecycle.
• Team player and self-starter with coordination, documentation, project planning and inter personal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: VersionOne, Jira, Rally, Primavera P6, Rational Rose, Visio, Empirics, Load runner, SnagIt, MS FrontPage.

Software Development Methodologies: Agile, RUP, Waterfall, Iterative, Workflow, Storyboards, SDLC, Horizon.

Software Packages: Microsoft Office Suite, IBM Lotus Notes Suite, SharePoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Access.

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio.

OS: Sun Solaris, Unix, Windows.

Languages: C, C++, Java, PERL.

Revision Control: CVS, SVN.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on sprint backlog and project timeline.
• Work closely with product owner on product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders when needed.
• Established relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders to engage them into a more open collaboration with our development team.
• Educated key stakeholders, PO, Business, and Team members on the benefits of adopting an effective scrum/agile framework in order to continue to deliver features to end users, in a timely manner.
• Motivated team members to effectively communicate and participate during scrum ceremonies (planning, standups, retrospectives), to make sure they are always expressing themselves, which led to genuinely capturing blockers, hence improving the done ratio for tasks within sprints.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.
• Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.
• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.
• Conducted technical training sessions regarding Agile development methods.
• Tracked data from the spring process and report regularly to facilitate understanding of where we are and want can be improved on.

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming etc…)
• Track and remove internal and external impediments for the scrum team
• Protect team from over-commitment, manages backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them
• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
• Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
• Make sure task boards were being updated to ensure transparency and effective communication
• Team player and self-starter with coordination, documentation, project planning and inter personal skills.

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Planner

Responsibilities:

• Communicated the progress to senior management through ‘Burndown Charts’. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.
• Successfully migrated more than three teams from Waterfall to Scrum within
• Organized and facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Served as Scrum Master for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery with some support from coach.
• Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution.
• Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Active participated in establishing and provide Vision of the term and gain consensus base on acceptance criteria.
• Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Encouraged self-organization, meaning that the team itself should remove issues wherever possible Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Creating project documentation artifacts utilizing the client project governance procedures
• Managing project budget, scope, schedule, and resources
• Defining and managing projects using PMI best practices
• Will conduct weekly variance analysis (e.g. Effort, schedule, budget)
• Actively and Aggressively manage scope, issues and risks

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Planner

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Protected scrum team from outside distractions, removed impediments or team conflicts.
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
• Worked with the various managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management