TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies / DevOps
• Project/Product Management
• System/Software Implementation
• Agile Release Management
• Risk Mitigation
• Conflict Resolution
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Proficient using RTC (Rational Team Concert), Microsoft Office Suite
• JIRA/ Visual Studio/ Rally/ Version One/ Confluence / Tableau/ Horizon
• HP ALM, Quality Center: Win Runner, EPIC, Selenium, Excel Regression Models, GitHub
• LINUX (fedora/Red Hat 6, 7)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Team Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coach two cross - functional Agile teams of 16 Developers and one Product Owner to develop new technologies for Sphere using the Agile mindset.
• Collaborate with teams to make sure each product backlog is prioritized, up to date and clearly understood by the Dev teams.
• Ensure the Development team understands the product backlog prior to the Program Increment (PI) planning.
• Send the Program Increment invite to the team.
• Facilitate Scrum events and Scrum meetings including Daily Scrum, backlog refinement, story sizing, sprint planning, Sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by mitigating impediments, seeking productivity improvements and empowering the Dev teams.
• Coach teams through Agile maturity, active engagement and ensuring accountability within the team.
• Use quantitative Metrics to identify teams progress and opportunities for conversation and continuous improvement.
• Guide teams through completion of milestones associated with the most complex, crucial and valuable product.
• Contribute to the Agile growth of the organization, collaborate with leadership groups (CTPO, Directors, Sr. Managers, Architects) to deliver timely products.
• Participate in cross-departmental efforts to identify impediments from flow diagrams and burndown charts, identifying potential solutions for continuous improvement.
• Coach team and organization on the importance around metrics that helps grow teams and produce business value (Cycle time, story size, and velocity).
• Facilitate scrum of scrums for multiple teams to communicate teams’ dependencies and workflow.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the integration of agile principles to help organization transition an agile culture an increase in productivity.
• Coached a new team into an agile line with Kanban and Scrum Framework
• Worked with the team to build a Kanban board to track the progress of work and increase productivity
• Continuously monitor the team throughout iteration to achieve committed goals with respect to velocity.
• Communicate project dependencies to create transparency into team activities and progress, supporting project risk management issues, escalated issues and provided status report.
• Lead effort to improve the team performance, by eliminating time waste and fostered an environment of continuous improvement.
• Facilitated decision making and protected the team from outside forces of distractions
• Collaborated with stakeholders and other project team to learn and implement best practice to improve quality and increase software delivery velocity
• Removed roadblocks with the team with use of technical and functional knowledge
• Facilitated DevOps book-clubs to increase agile knowledge and enhance production efficiency

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple scrum teams, through Scrum Framework and Kanban process
• Work with team to build team agreement and establish WIP limit, to control workflow.
• Worked with the team to refine the product backlog once or twice per iteration.
• Tracked, escalated and removed impediments.
• Utilized multiple matrixes to measure and track productivity through various project management tools.
• Selected Responsibility and Achievements: Instigated and promoted strict guidelines of QA practices and regression testing.
• Facilitated the integration Kanban and Scrum framework help organization transition into Agile and increase in productivity.
• Maintained storyboards, organized charts with best practices to support team with deliverables.
• Mitigated conflicts; helped to foster good practice and principles. Worked with team members individually to improve team dynamic.
• Used interactive techniques in retrospective meetings to guide, identify and stimulate team moral to improve future iteration.
• Identified and corrected performance issues through work agreement.
• Maintained records of daily data communication transactions, problems and remedial actions taken to track progress.
• Participated in special projects, external audits, evaluations and process improvements to increase velocity.

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a major role in the Implementation of Scrum Methodology throughout the organization, improved transparency between Engineering, Management, and Businesses through continuous coaching.
• Provided transparency across all departments to ensure smooth and efficient transition.
• Collaborated with other offices and territories to plan and implement new technology and principles.
• Participated in special projects, external audits, evaluations and process improvements.
• Escalated unresolved impediments to appropriate channel; provided shield against external distraction to keep team engaged and focused.
• Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.
• Held retrospective meetings to guide cross functional teams to improve future sprints for success.
• Oversaw traditional application developments and implanted new techniques to welcome changes that were better suited for today’s market.
• Made recommendations and developed technical design for new application features.
• Ensured proper release and maintenance of all systems for smooth operation.