SUMMARY

• Extensive experience as a Scrum Master for 3 years in Agile methodology. Providing coaching, facilitation, training, mentoring, impediment management, and leadership across multiple teams and departments.
• Multiple years of experience facilitating and teaching facilitation technics to Scrum Masters facilitating ceremonies like sprint - planning meetings, daily stand up meetings, sprint review, grooming and sprint retrospective meetings acting as a servant-leader for the on-site and off-site the scrum masters and teams.
• Extensive experience in Scrum processes, Sprint Planning, Story based Development and Business Acumen. Strong experience and knowledge with concepts, principles and implementation of Agile methodology across the entire organization.
• Hands on experience managing and coordinating other Scrum Masters and mentoring and advising Scrum Masters in developing an Agile culture for the environment.
• Effectively manage conflicting personalities within and across teams. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Applying Agile scrum in small, medium, and large-project teams in an enterprise environment.
• Proficient in facilitating and mentoring onshore and offshore teams on Agile/scrum best practices.
• Instrumental in facilitating to produce aggregated, system/product demos for key program stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster cooperation and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help team resolve conflicts constructively.
• Develop good working relationships with stakeholders at all levels to build consensus
• Effectively led and coordinated mid - large project teams
• Solve critical issues in a time-sensitive environment
• Proven quality assurance, issue/risk management and changes improvement initiatives specializing in web and mobile entertainment, marketing and publishing
• Experience in working with the project and product manager in prioritizing the product backlogs for upcoming sprints
• Expertise with tools such as Jira and Rally for collaboration, planning, issue creation and tracking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Multiple years of experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint review, Backlog grooming and Sprint Retrospective respectively and acting as a servant-leader for the on-site and off-shore teams.
• High level success coaching Product Owners to better understand their role, improve backlog maturity, and to evangelize about team success to executive leadership, reversing years of poor performance.
• Also coached executive leadership about Agile best practices and helped resolved numerous problems regarding predictability, transparency, estimation accuracy, and deployment.
• Assisted Scrum teams with User Story generation and managing their progress.
• Assisted teams in identifying and removing any Impediments and Roadblocks that impedes the progress of their work for the Sprint. Also help in identifying and solving Risks and Backlog grooming.
• Drove successful transformation of existing organizations from Waterfall to Agile. Implementing Agile across the entire organization and creating an Agile mindset in all departments.
• Facilitated an atmosphere of team creativity to foster increased productivity and production of higher quality products.
• Ensured Burn-up and Burn-down charts are available and accurate
• Expert at coaching the Development team to forecast the number of deliverables possible in an iteration
• Deep experience facilitating meetings with the Scrum Team that helps in establishing and clarifying goals and the actions to achieve them.
• Multiple experience working as a Servant Leader to Support cross functional teams of system engineers, developers and testers. Also led multiple teams to Self-Organization.
• Experience solving challenges faced while working with offshore teams and teams of varying capacity.
• Strong communication, analysis, domain knowledge, interpersonal and problem- solving skills.
• Knowledge in Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development practices.
• Experience in Scrum Release Planning and Release Life Cycle
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review and Retrospective respectively and also Sprint report generation
• Proficient in facilitating and mentoring onshore and offshore teams on Agile and scrum best practices.
• Experienced in supporting and assisting the Product Owner during refinement sessions to do periodic backlog grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Took responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and other teams, collaborated within the Scrum Master network especially in regard to items necessary for product release
• Instrumental in facilitating to produce aggregated, system/product demos for key program stakeholders during sprint reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster cooperation and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help teams resolve conflicts constructively and escalate to appropriate quarters when necessary.
• Conversant with creation and management of Agile reporting artifacts like Release/ Product Burndown Charts and Sprint Burndown charts.
• Worked with the product owner to maintain the product backlog in a way that ensures the project is well defined and the team can continually advance forward on the project at any given time.
• Managed quality objectives, regulatory requirements, schedules, and program risks and made decisions based on business objectives.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills and can work and inspire others in a multi-functional team environment.
• Effectively worked in testing and documented the results in Jira.
• Experience as scrum coach with facilitation and conducting training sessions for new teams.