SUMMARY

• Experienced Scrum master with expertise in Scrum Values, Principles, Backlog Grooming, Coaching/Mentoring, Conflict Resolution, Team Empowerment, Sprint Planning, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), SDLC, User Story, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective. Extensive experience at driving the adoption of agile values, principles and practices.
• Adept at leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple location.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Proficiency on Jira, Confidential office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Word), Confidential outlook, Confidential, Primavera P6, Sage, SAP, Epicor, Argus, Procore, Yardi, Bluebeam, Confidential Dynamics and Ms Project.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Management and Engineering (B.Eng)
• Successful implementation of Lean project management for ABB Marine, Finland by identifying non - value-added times in operations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DATA FIELD CONSULTING

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.
• Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.
• Actively coordinated engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders.
• Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities.
• Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality
• Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application.
• Guided and Coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders.
• Identified and removed team impediments/escalating as necessary to management.
• Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize.

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented.
• Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring full team engagement.
• Coaching product owner; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draw in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
• Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
• Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches.
• Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress.
• Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.
• Guiding scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating.
• Monitoring the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.
• Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.
• Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.
• Successfully help Scrum team from waterfall into scrum framework.

Project Scheduler/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained a Work Breakdown Structure and overall plan for the project using Gantt Chart, identified the critical path and areas of concern for the overall project.
• Managed site project control functions and tracked productivity of engineers. Also tracked procurement packages and reports. Created reports and curves for analysing equipment deliveries which shows required on site dates (ROS), actual on site and forecast equipment delivery on site dates.
• Created a Level 3 Schedule to ensure s of projects goals.
• Additional responsibility included interface with management to develop a Level 1 Company Plan schedule and cost basis for upper management.
• Created bi-weekly and monthly reports based on analysis of the overall project schedule and tracked it against the baseline, specifying areas of variance and recommending remedial action to the Project Manager.
• Maintained and updated the schedule on regular interval and as required. Prepared Look-Ahead schedules for discipline leads. Ensure all work and job plans meet regulatory and HSSE requirements.
• Reviewed schedules submitted by leads, and other third parties and advise of potential schedule/or cost impacts on the project. Established logic driven milestones for the total project.
• Prepared man-hour forecasting, reviewed schedules with Project Manager and leads, and attended project team meetings, both internal and at client's office.
• Created detailed schedules and performed analysis to ensure adherence to budgetary guidelines. Conducted project planning and post implementation review to ensure project was on track, on time and within schedule.
• Managed site project control functions and tracked productivity of engineers. Also tracked procurement packages and reports. Created reports and curves for analysing equipment deliveries which shows required on site dates (ROS), actual on site and forecast equipment delivery on site dates.
• Additional responsibility included interface with management to develop a Level 1 Company Plan schedule and cost basis for upper management.