SCRUM MASTER Resume COLUMBIA, MD - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Resourceful & dynamic Agile Certified Scrum Master with over 4+ years of experience working with Co - located development teams, maximizing innovational business strategies, with a commitment to superior client service and overall company growth.
A servant leader who inspires teams to inspect, adapt and become high performing, self-organized while delivering high quality solutions within short cycle times. Proficient at rapidly identifying and removing impediments, while coordinating and facilitating multicultural and virtual teams.
Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and an excellent knowledge of several Agile frameworks like SCRUM, KANBAN, XP and SAFe.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, COLUMBIA, MD

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

Guided teams through the Agile implementation journey, encouraging stakeholders and leadership to embrace agile.
Attended Scrum of Scrums and help sync team’s progress.
Facilitated team’s planning meetings.
Showed the values of lean flow, transparency, continuous exploration, and continuous improvement.
Planning and driving scrum team’s work and remove impediments which will prevent successful Sprint life cycle.
Forecasting sprint iterations with the Product Owners and concerned business partners.
Managing/controlling scope and coaching individuals in Agile processes and tools
Guiding collaboration on test efforts from strategy, planning, development, and execution
Helping teams to clarify goals and ensure activities are on-track and focused.
Conducting sprint Demo and Retrospective
Demonstrated ability to ensure the correct use of Scrum process.
Ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical.
Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain system documentation and proper reporting.
Proven ability to work independently with minimal direction and monitor and eliminate team conflicts.
Strong risk, business impact analysis, and reporting skills.

Confidential, GALVESTON, TX

PROJECT COORDINATOR /SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

Principal Coach and facilitator in a new Agile transformation environment.
Coach and guide Product Owners to better understand their role, improve backlog health to help teams improve performance.
Servant leader and trainer to struggling teams as they grow into agile while undergoing a transformation.
Work with teams to prepare for and plan informatively during sprint Planning, with focus on identifying dependencies and impediments and guiding them towards communicating or managing them.
Track risks and dependencies within the team for visibility while guiding towards proper removal of blocker to increase productivity and reduce defects.
Use Burn down and Burn up charts to pull key matrixes for easy reporting and progress tracking purposes.
Motivate teams to transform and adopt Agile processes to meet their goals through creative thinking and accountability and adoption of team charter norms.
Work with teams to assess progress, improvement opportunities and celebrate every stride in their Agile transformation journey.
Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily Dev activities to be productive and completing tasks.
Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and conflict resolution meetings

Confidential

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Responsibilities:

Coordinated and managed team to ensure proper backup and roll out of Desktop/Servers and attained customer satisfaction.
Maximized productivity by setting clear expectations and communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and top management.
Worked with the Governance Manager to define standards to be used on the contract and in the IMS.
Managed all project stakeholders to make sure that appropriate project controls are instituted, and developed required documents, procurement documents and project status documents.
Extensive work in budget planning and management, personnel recruitment
Schedule planning and team building as well as overall project planning, management, and reporting.