SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of diverse progressive experience as an accomplished leader and facilitator between Business and Information Technology, with emphasis on Agile Scrum and Business Analysis in deployment of web - based, client-server applications, developing business processes and system solutions by effectively collaborating, facilitating, driving continuous & relentless improvement, leading and coaching multi-diverse teams while working for Government, Inter Governmental, Healthcare, Insurance and Banking organizations.
• Highly motivated and detail oriented Agile practitioner having expertise in facilitating different Agile Ceremonies with co-located and diversified teams in order to deliver the business value to the clients. Well versed in using different Agile project management tools such as: VersionOne, JIRA, Rally, TFS and Confluence.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile- Scrum, Kanban, XP, RUP, Lean
• Waterfall, Scrum fall, ETL, SDLC
• Version One, JIRA, Rally, MS Project Professional, MS Project Server, SharePoint, Microsoft Team
• JAD, Rational Requisite Pro, RTM, Content Management
• UML, BPMN, MS Visio, Rational Rose, Balsamiq, Lucid Chart
• My SQL, MS SQL Server 2016/17, Oracle 11g,Pivot, VLOOKUP, Macros, Lotus Notes
• Rational Clear Quest, Rational Test ManagerQC, Quick Test Professional(QTP), Load Runner
• Tableau. Qlik View, COBOL
• Office 365, MS Office Suite Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Working for the Consumer Expenditure Process Redesign for efficiency and stability (CEPRES) that aims to build a new and improved/modernization system that will support Consumer Expenditure (CE) Surveys Program and meet business needs of the users.
• Empowering the teams to self-organize, self -manage and grow cross-functionally in-order to deliver MVP in a time-boxed iteration.
• Identifying team relentless improvement opportunities and dedicating for continuous improvement through feedback loops, coaching, retrospective and individual improvement
• Facilitating CEPRES Scrum ceremonies including Backlog Preparation, Backlog grooming, Iteration Pre Planning and Planning meetings, Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective and Lesson Learned sessions.
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum event to identify dependencies and remove impediments/obstacles at the squad level.
• Partnering with users, product owner and other stakeholders to identify the resources, manage and track the progress of project.
• Assisting RTE in Program Increment planning with facilitating team breakout session, assisting in prioritizing features at program level, identifying dependencies, preparing program overview board.
• Validating all the groomed stories to ensure that the stories are aligned in the appropriate PI and making sure all the story dependencies has been captured in the Agile tool VersionOne.
• Tracking and communicating burndown chart, team velocity and sprint release progress and adding/removing the stories as per teams need.
• Maintaining and updating the squad’s process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and transparent communications to stakeholders.
• Driving a collaborative and supportive team culture through team building and engagement practices.
• Providing all support to the SAS, DB and UX teams using a servant leadership style with effective relationship, team building skills and leading by example.
• Assisting the DB team in Data analytics for monthly, quarterly and annually publications of American community survey program and consumer expenditure.
• Updating daily and weekly status in VersionOne, creating weekly, bi-weekly and monthly reports for the upper managements.

Environment: Agile- Scrum, Kanban, Version One, Office 365- Microsoft Team, SharePoint, UNIX, SAS, LINUX, ORACLE, PL SQL, JAVA.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Was an integral part of the implementation of the project, “General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)” that has been intended to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals within the European Union (EU).
• Contributed to improvement by leveraging Agile framework. Hands on experience in Rally (CA Agile central) to manage the project under Scrum principles that includes welcoming changes, continuous integration, subsequent sprint releases and continuous deployment.
• Facilitating different meetings, Scrum Ceremonies, partnering with users and various stakeholders to identify the resources, manage and track the progress of the project.
• Monitoring and managing all activities and critical path tasks to ensure on-time solution delivery and cross-team, cross organizational coordination and communication.
• Proactively identifying team level/issues risks, creating mitigation plan and maintaining the risk cycle in RAID log.
• Worked closely with multiple internal departments teams to ensure release of successful product on a frequent basis..
• Organizing and facilitating Product Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective, Release Planning, Demos and other Scrum related ceremonies.
• Coordinating with the product owner in backlog management/grooming and continuous delivery of features and also maintaining burn down chart and team velocity.
• Recording and communicating ongoing sprint metrics such as Burndown, Velocity, Lead time and Cycle time, impacts to progress and release plan for program level stakeholders.
• Tracking daily progress through burn down/Burn Up and velocity chart, documented artefacts, reviews, acceptance and feedback from the demos or showcases.
• Updating the daily and weekly status in Rally, created monthly reports for senior management.
• Tracking and reporting on task progress against established milestones for every sprints.
• Adapted Swarming, Pair Programming and ATDD for efficient and effective quality releases to meet the client’s change in requests.
• Continuously monitored burn down chart in Rally of every sprint and accordingly added or removed the stories for the next/future sprints.

Environment: Agile, Rally, MS Office, J2EE, SharePoint, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Crystal Reports, MY SQL, Oracle Cloud Fusion, MS Visio.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked for the implementation of the UN DOCO internal projects to develop and implement an in-house application “Assessments of Results and Competencies (ARC)” under UNDP .
• Mentoring teams and individual team members on agile values & driving agile transformations from design to implementation.
• Conducting capacity planning before start of sprint and assigning the workloads among the team members.
• Scheduling and facilitating daily Scrum meetings among onshore and offshore teams.
• Tracking the project status and other metrics against the sprint goals on an ongoing basis. Monitored scrum boards, ensured alignment of prioritized work and helped the team to stay on the track.
• Tracking daily progress through burn down/Burn Up and velocity chart , documented artefacts, reviews, acceptance and feedback from the demos or showcases.
• Monitoring and eliminating conflicts and road blockers within the squads.
• Continuously monitoring burn down chart of every sprint and accordingly added or removed the stories for the next/future sprints.
• Created different dependencies, tags, labels and metrics using JIRA.
• Assisting the Product Owner in Backlog refinement, Prioritization of user stories, writing the user stories in User Persona format, churning down the big user stories into tasks and writing the acceptance format in Gherkin format.

Environment: Hybrid, MS Office, JAVA, HTTP, My SQL, JIRA, HP Quality Center ALM, Oracle Cloud, Tableau.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked in upgrading the Legacy Loan Origination System (LOS) to new system complying with HAMDA and automating the underwriting process needed to be integrated in loan process management system (LPMS)”, as a part of the financial(mortgage) services of Confidential .
• Working with customer, the tech team and third party vendors on integration of different software applications.
• Coaching and Mentoring the Scrum teams and removing the impediments of the team in order to meet the deadline. Protecting the team from over- committing as well as from outside distraction.
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum and Scrum Ceremonies, coordinating the Sprint Planning sessions with the team to place the Backlog in appropriate sprints and implement Release planning.
• Identifying the intra and inter team dependencies, ensuring the dependencies are linked within the JIRA and making sure the dependencies are resolved before the team commits to work.
• Assisting Product Owner on creating and grooming the product backlog , maintaining project and product backlogs in JIRA board.
• Tracked daily progress through burn down/Burn Up and velocity chart , document artifacts, reviews, acceptance and feedback from the demos or showcases.
• Carrying the TDD and ATDD in order to make sure all the codes are defect free and the applications are as per the acceptance criteria.
• Ensured a defect free release through strict adherence Definition of Done, through quality analysis by reviewing the codes and test cases.
• Resolving the critical issues and conflicts among the team as well as related stakeholders that could impact the triple constraints.

Environment: MS Project, Scrum, My SQL, JIRA, Confluence, Dot Net, Angular, SaaS, MS Office, Microsoft Visio, HP Quality Center.