SUMMARY

• Strategic, highly effective certified Scrum Master and IT Project Management Consultant with extensive experience in systems implementation, Project Management, Waterfall, Agile and Scaled Agile methodologies, PMO and Vendor Management.
• Experience in SOWs, metrics and RFP lifecycle. Excellent expertise in project management tools such as MS Project, JIRA, Version One, Azure Boards. Experience working in dynamic environment with multicultural and international teams including North and South America (US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil), Asia(India, Thailand). Have coached and developed cross functional, Self Organized Teams.
• Adept in Schedule Management, Scope Management, Cost Management, Resource Management, Requirement gathering, servant leadership, conflict resolution and multi - tasking.
• A Dynamic and results-oriented professional with proven business and organizational abilities, have confidence to perform well under pressure in a fast-paced environment. Self-Motivated with exceptional Team Building, Time Management and Interpersonal Communication Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management (Waterfall)
• Program Management
• Agile Frameworks -Scrum, SAFe
• Servant-Leadership
• Estimation
• Scope Management
• Stakeholder relations
• Vendor Management
• Contracts Handling
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Risk Management
• Conflict resolution and Negotiation
• Coaching and Mentoring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding of the impediments and release processes.
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information.
• Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects.
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them.
• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.
• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions.
• Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example.
• Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.t
• Took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks.
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery

Environment: & Tools: Lotus Notes, ICertis, Jira, SAP ALM

Project Manager/ SCRUM MASTER

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Provided complete life cycle project management for web portal development.
• Served as a key member of project to implement web solution by monitoring project progress; tracking action items; conducting design, and implementation reviews.
• Participated in Requirement meetings and work with Business analysts to document the requirements in IBM Doors tool. Worked with BA’s to analyze requirements and develop Gherkin scripts to document the step by step flow algorithm.
• Coordinated with Development team to Setup the Jenkins pipeline for deployment. Analyzed the reports from automation run and conducted meetings to find the root cause and fix the issues in scripts.
• Coached team members and business stakeholders on agile best practices, scrum values, team cohesion, self-organization and achieving business values.
• Facilitated daily stand ups and agile ceremonies for team members.
• Tracked and communicated cross-functional team velocity focusing on continuous improvement.
• Works with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives.
• Excellent at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules and best practices, removing impediments, and helping teams stay focused on the project’s goals delivering maximum value to the customer.
• Coaches Product Owner/team on backlog refinement and prioritization and Agile practices and values.
• Supporting the Product Owner with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog thus maximizing the value of the team's work.
• Removing any impediments internal and external that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint goals.
• Assessing the Scrum maturity of my teams and coaching team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Communicates status to management as needed.

Environment: & Tools: Java, Groovy Grails, DB2, Weblogic,Version one, Jira, HP ALM, EIH, Oracle SOA.