SUMMARY

• To create and facilitate Scrum and Agile teams to fit the needs of an organization.
• I am Certified Scrum Master and Certified SAFe Practitioner with strong interpersonal, communication, problem solving and decision - making skills.
• Extensive experience establishing and maintaining strong alliances, leading, and motivating teams, driving projects to successful completion, conveying complex requirements/data, building strong global teams, and exceeding customer expectations.
• Over the past 13years, I have strived at being a servant-leader, dedicated to leading and managing enterprise wide project initiatives in diverse industries.
• I have worked with the entire broad-spectrum of project management methodologies, from the legacy Waterfall, to more recent Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development, FDD and XP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile, Scrum, Agile Manifesto, User Stories, SDLC, Moscow, Leadership, Management, Client-focused, XP
• Kanban, PBI, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, Estimation, Planner Poker, Scaling, Epics, Spike
• Defect Management, Lean Management, Quality Assurance, Product Management, Information Radiators
• Product Roadmap, Acceptance Criteria, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Deployment, Business Analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Created a viable working atmosphere with developers, as well as multiple product owners for two co-located sprint teams and one offshore team.
• Identified and removed impediments, conducted daily stand-ups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and created tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.
• Participated in developing high performing engineering teams and best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, continuous integration/continuous deployment.
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style.
• Avoided distractions by identifying and removing impediments.
• Motivated the team to work towards continuous improvement by addressing things that did not work during the next sprint.
• Collaborated with project team to identify potential project risks and assisted with the development of preventive plans.
• Led Scrum and Kanban teams simultaneously with some Q&A’s offshore.
• Created a positive environment and a fluent workflow with product owners to assess sprint progress.
• Assisted Product owners with prioritization and grooming of backlog items
• Developed, taught, and maintained team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Coached, and ensured that scrum teams were practicing core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Participated in PI planning, INA, System Demo, Scrum of Scrum, ART Sync and Agile Community of practice.
• Maintained an up to date/agreed definition of done and ensured that all stories met the definition of done and secured acceptance of project deliverables.
• Worked with the Product Owner and Agile team and created project artefacts such as epics, personas, project vision statement, product roadmap, use case diagrams, requirement document, etc.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master and Agilist, I drove project streams/tracks following Lean Agile process. I led cross-functional teams to iteratively deliver complex and global-scaled products. I facilitated and managed the success of each iteration and challenged my teams to refine processes to increase efficiencies and deliver well-polished, working software every iteration.
• I coached development team members and broadened the organizations delivery practices.
• Partnered with Product owners to prioritize sprint backlog. Partnered with development teams to deliver project objectives through iterative delivery by offering expertise in addressing blockers and dependencies.
• Collaborated with user communities and project teams for seamless QA activities including UAT.
• Contributed to continuous improvement and drove product quality and engineering velocity, performed peer to peer coaching, training and mentoring to improve process competencies
• Created Agile communication plan to support the team's understanding and communicating performance and effectiveness.
• Led agile teams as the scrum master and team member and employed best practices for Agile Methodology/Scrum Framework
• Collaborated with the Product Owners and team members to give input and support to the strategic direction of the initiative.
• Created self-organizing agile teams and facilitated the delegation of tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members. Acted as a moderator for sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint demos, and refactoring/reflection sessions.

Confidential, Mayfield Heights, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated agile ceremonies including daily stand up, release planning, sprint planning, product backlog grooming, demos/sprint review meetings, and retrospectives.
• Monitored and communicated on team progress/status updates using project performance reports and information radiators such as burndown/burn up charts, velocity charts and sprint health gadgets.
• Coached and mentored the team on agile/scrum theory, practices and principles and ensured the team adhered to the agile/scrum framework and continuous delivery practices. Removed roadblocks and shielded the scrum team from external interferences.
• Created project deliverables such as communication plan, weekly status reports, the project plan, project roadmap project kick off presentation, stakeholder register, Action Log etc.
• Created and managed project boards in Jira and ensured it was the single source of truth to all stakeholders.
• Produced different Jira dashboards for upper management and customized Jira to meet scrum team requirements.
• Served as an agile coach while empowering team self-organization, self-management and transformed scrum team members to be more effective.
• Utilized agile scrum practices which helped scrum teams to increase velocity within a couple of sprints.
• Facilitated agile ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-up calls, sprint review and sprint retrospective meeting.
• Protected the team from outside distractions and removed identified impediments.
• Managed multiple scrum teams in different locations onshore and offshore i.e. US, Europe and India.
• Cultivated robust and sustainable working relationships between business and technology teams to foster a cross-functional team environment.
• Chaired weekly meetings with the product owners to discuss backlog status, roadmap status, team progress and any risk or issues.