SUMMARY

• A dedicated Scrum Master with 5 years of experience with a passion for Agile. Strong track record of effectively planning, managing, and executing large scale projects and transformations within the financial/banking, gaming, and health care industries. Confident in the ability to motivate, mentor, facilitate and train teams in adopting Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and lean principles. Committed to continuous improvement and contributing to success.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AGILE: Scrum, Kanban Test Driven Development (TDD) ATDD, Quality Centre, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, XP, FDD, DevOps, Scaled Agile Framework, Product Roadmap, Release Planning, Estimation and Financial Planning, Quality Management, Delivery Management, Servant Leadership.

Agile Project Management Tools: - Rally, JIRA, TFS, Visual studio, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft word, PowerPoint and excel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate team meetings, daily stand ups and coached scrum teams about the importance of effective communication.
• Track and effectively communicate team’s velocity and teams progress to management.
• Actively implement scrum rules of transparency, adaptation, inspection, and effective communication in scrum teams.
• Works effectively in cross functional team environment and able to balance workload and prioritize effectively. Able to manage self and time to meet commitments.
• Agile lead/ Coach/ Scrum Master: specific in facilitating and training the teams adopting Scrum, Lean and Kanban principles and process. Coach Product owners and newly boarded Scrum Masters through various training and multiple presentations.
• Industry practices of Agile principles with Scaled Agile Framework. Providing guidance to the team on all of scrum process.
• Assess the current organization culture, team readiness and delivery environment and recommend optimal Agile practices in a flexible way.
• Guide the teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owner to effectively perform their roles. Mentor teams through Agile routines and facilitate Agile ceremonies along with support in defining program vision/ mission, intake prioritization, product roadmap, PI Program Increment planning, estimation and release financial planning; cross functional communication, scrum maturity Assessment, requirements epic/features traceability while executing practices such as DevOps, integrated testing, and automation.
• Act as change agent leading and supporting their solution delivery teams and individuals in their agile journey.
• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the gaps left in the Agile/ Scrum practices. Helping them in removing impediments with better collaboration and visibility.
• Establish and support consistent reporting practices and agile metrics across the teams / enterprise.
• Facilitate Agile adoption retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance throughout the program and team level.
• Support and guide agile tool adoption and consistent utilization of reporting practices and metrics across the teams and program level while focusing on continuous improvement and business satisfaction.
• Tracking the team velocity/capacity for each sprint in JIRA.
• Received multiple ongoing recognition on great teamwork, conflict resolution techniques and scrum ceremonies facilitation with the implementation and improvement of agile practices.
• Embrace a servant-leader role across Scrum teams and support them by proactively identifying and resolving impediments, internal to the team as well as external.
• Coach teams daily on Scrum principles. Monitor sprint burndown charts and maintain other productivity metrics. Work with Product Owner to prioritize Backlogs.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to Enterprise Agile transformation and led the Agile adoption for Hardware and software teams. Worked with senior level business and technology teams to build a sustainable road map to improve the planning and execution model.
• Coached and trained developers and product owners through transition to Agile and Scrum in scaled agile environment.
• Provided coaching and support them on Agile adoption Agile principles, Scrum fundamentals, task boards, burn-down charts, and other radiators.
• Led the scrum teams through ART events like Product Increment, daily stand-ups, system demos, and retrospectives. Assisted product owner and key business partners with backlog creation, prioritization, and release planning, and splitting user stories. Managed various release trains along with release planning, estimation, and resource allocation.
• Agile Transition Team Achievements: Successfully introduced/implemented different frameworks and continue to encourage the team to try a specific Agile framework.
• Track and celebrate both individual and team behaviours in adopting Agile values, principles, and practices.
• Coached Business Partners, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.
• Partnered closely with Lean Agile Coaches, Agile teams at all levels and Senior Leadership to provide the highest quality training based on team needs. Provided instruction and guidance on Kanban management, scaled agile concepts and practices including value stream mapping, program increment planning and execution.
• Developed and delivered team training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
• Tracked projects and the team velocity/capacity for each sprint in JIRA.
• Actively build and contributed to the organization’s Agile and Lean Community and developed Communities of Practice, mentor other Agile practitioners.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Built Teams Agile knowledge and skills, promoted continuous improvement.
• Implemented WIP limits and pull methods and improved flow by addressing any process on Azure board.
• Assumed responsibility for championing agile development best practices as well as supporting and coaching the product owner and development team to mature into high performing teams.
• Determined the Scrum team's average sprint velocity in the previous iterations, planned their workload for future sprints and encouraged the testing.
• Facilitated Scrum calls following SAFe agile process.
• Identified and eliminated impediments and improved communications with offshore team members. Monitored, documented, and submitted timely, accurate, and actionable information on the team's performance and progress to the program stakeholders in a clear and structured way.
• Tracked projects in JIRA and Rally and logged defects in Quality Centre.
• Demonstrated the ability to work on various Agile projects while overseeing Scrum and Kanban teams. Organized and facilitated sprints and releases and served as a catalyst for self-management, accountability, and growth.