Scrum Master Resume Monterey Park, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with 5 years of experience in managing technology products
Considered a JIRA expert
Known as excellent communicator in both verbal and written form
Passionate about productivity software and highly organized
Seasoned project manager with Agile Scrum methodology - release planning, sprint planning, managing sprint backlog and facilitating scrum events for multiple scrum teams
Leadership & People management skills - Continuous engagement with the teams (around 20 members), assessment and keeping them focused as per vision and mission.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential - Monterey Park, CA

Responsibilities:

Facilitated all scrum ceremonies - daily stand-ups, sprint planning, Story grooming, sprint review and sprint retrospective
Reinforced solid Scrum practice with development team
Tracked dependencies, removed blockers, managed efficiency with continuous improvement
Facilitated the overall planning, execution, and success of high-quality software releases
Conducted meetings, process and operations including sprint execution and daily stand-ups
Provided metrics on team health via dashboards and reports
Managed/tracked the action items from the scrum ceremonies and followed-up on the closure
Worked with PO, UE, business architects and Technical team to groom, size and prioritize the user stories for future sprints. Validated and certify the user story readiness with readiness DOR checklist
Identified and removed the impediments quickly and sheltering team from outside interference
Worked with PO and other scrum masters for the cross-functional dependencies and their deliverables
Worked with teams to triage the open issues and defects
Analyzed and presented the metrics report (CFD, burn down, velocity, resource capacity allocation, defects etc.) to management/team and work with team on the improvements

Scrum Master

Confidential - South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

Worked with wide range of cross-functional teams, multi-location teams including product management, business architect, engineering, user experience, quality, operations, marketing, support, infrastructure, and release management team
Worked with the release management to performance testing
Published, executed, and tracked the Go-live readiness and deployment plans
Drove the adoption of agile process by the team and the agile maturity assessments and took actions for improvements
Managed the artifacts in Rally, configuring the custom fields, apps in Rally
Deployed continuous development model with 9 processes to 850 test engineers for product delivery test (PDT) customer focused testing, feature test, regression test, and beta early customer evaluation
Mentored the technical team members to have a smooth transition phase from traditional waterfall to Agile Scrum and experience in handling multiple scrum teams
Translated the requirements into technical solutions
Coached other scrum masters in effective practices for continuous improvement and backlog management
Facilitated large corporate conferences

Scrum Master/ Business Analyst

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

Worked as a Scrum Master/ Business Analyst closely with Product Owners to understand the product vision / roadmap and translated that into a product backlog
Served as a liaison between the business and technology teams to translate requirements
Created user stories based on the business requirements
Performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
Hosted requirements gathering meetings with various teams
Created PowerPoint presentations and project updates using MS Project for management reviews
Managed, prioritized, and assessed the impact of defects, including providing key input on the decisions to fix or defer
Logged defects using Rally and Jira during scrum testing/regression