SUMMARY

• Experienced Agile Coach/Scrum Master with a passion for enabling teams in delivering the highest business value and customer satisfaction. With a proven track record of delivering high - quality software within Government agencies and private industries, on time and within budget. I have developed a wide range of communication and interpersonal relationship skills throughout the years that has aided growth as a team player and a servant leader.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• AGILE Methodology
• Kanban
• JIRA, Version One, Visio
• Software Development Life Cycle (SLDC)
• Scaled Agile Framework
• Agile Project Management
• Performing team
• Data Warehousing
• Agile games
• Servant leadership
• Removing impediments
• Requirements Gathering
• Scrum Ceremonies
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Facilitation
• Team Accountability
• Automated Testing
• Collaborative attitude
• Conflict Resolution
• Problem solving
• Decision Making
• Value Based Prioritization
• Business Analysis
• Process improvement
• Project Management
• Iterative
• Customer Focus
• Openness
• Honesty
• Collaboration
• Negotiation
• Leadership
• Result oriented
• Data Governance
• Design thinking
• Backlog grooming
• Sales force

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Trained Scrum Teams and leadership on Agility and Scrum, Core Protocols, product ownership, and technical skills
• Coaching teams on the proper way of writing user stories using the INVEST model and ensuring stories meet the definition of “Ready” for the next sprint(s).
• Managed projects in JIRA and confluence and coached team members and resolved conflicts as at when needed
• Facilitated team level Agile processes and release train execution around requirements definition, scope, and delivery.
• Assist the release train engineer with PI planning and ART delivery
• Leveraged previous experiences and best practices with a collaborative attitude to help drive increased effectiveness in the value and quality of software.
• Facilitate training on RALLY agile management tool for new scum masters and development team
• Collaborating with Leads to assist with the program leadership team for major programs or initiatives impacting the train
• Worked with product owners on managing dependencies between the Scrum teams, third parties and release managers, or between the Scrum teams
• Facilitated the adoption of the scrum framework such as daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, sprint retrospective and other scrum meetings as needed.
• Assisted teams to identify, communicate and resolve or escalate impediments and issues; Run interference for non-critical unplanned work that may prevent the team from completing their planned sprint goal.

Confidential

Scrum Master- Senior consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led 2 scrum teams in developing and maintaining customer experience dashboards
• Coached individuals and facilitated interactions over processes and tools.
• Removed barriers and impediments that are preventing the team from completing their work.
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Facilitating release planning and sprint planning with the product owner and the development team.
• Drive continuous improvement through the facilitation of team and leadership retrospectives, ensuring teams effectively prioritize, plan, and execute in improvement ideas.
• Experience in Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing and Agile Games
• Ability to resolve conflicts by adhering to the scrum values such as openness, honesty, and respect.
• Utilized appropriate tools, metrics, and techniques to successfully guide the team’s progress against the sprint plan.
• Helped those outside the scrum teams understand which of their interactions with the scrum teams helpful and which ones are not.
• Acted as Proxy product owner to get clarifications across to the development team within the shortest possible lead-time.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• On-boarded 7 new scrum teams in the software development department
• Transformed teams and organizations from waterfall to Agile methodologies.
• Acted as Release Train Engineer during PI planning
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up, demos, and retrospectives for new scrum teams until scrum masters were hired and onboarded
• Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 63% within the first year of Agile adoption
• Exemplifying the servant leadership role to shield the team from external distractions.
• Assisted with making appropriate commitments to deliver business value through story selection, definition of tasks and estimation.
• Assisted the Product Owner with documentation of User Stories using the INVEST model and making sure the acceptance criteria was clear and attainable.
• Implement at least two lessons learned from each sprint retrospective into follow-up sprint to make continuous improvements in processes and with people
• Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Articulated stakeholder’s metrics to the scrum teams and accurately reported progress, risks, successes, and failures.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Mentored and coached the teams on Agile methodology, scrum values and process
• Worked closely with product owner in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features
• Facilitated daily scrums and developed action plans for inventory maintenance as well as established the project timelines resulting in the increase of timely shipments by 12% (Q1).
• Leveraged JIRA and Confluence to elicit and define business and technical requirements, track requirements, prioritize features, curate content, sequence deliverables into sprints, and report progress
• Conducted technical training sessions regarding Agile development methods.
• Assisted the Product Owner with documentation of User Stories; making them clear and stay within an acceptable criterion.
• Responsible for maintenance and tracking of sprint backlog and prioritization
• Provided leadership and coaching to teams to encourage adoption of good AGILE practices
• Sat in scrum ceremonies to facilitate team maturation and helped to facilitate Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, sprint reviews and Sprint retrospectives

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated sprint planning, sprint reviews, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on sprint backlog and project timeline.
• Changed the culture of software development department from waterfall to agile methodology.
• Adhered to Agile initiatives through coaching and mentoring.
• Acted as an agile coach throughout the state agency training and educating team members on the agile framework.
• Worked closely with product owner in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of the final product.
• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices

Confidential

Jr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitate release planning, sprint planning, daily stand-up, demos, and retrospectives.
• Fostered a continuous learning environment which helped teams to inspect & adapt
• Managed all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Ensured that teams actions were aligned with Epics, Features and Stories
• Conducted technical training sessions regarding Agile development methods.
• Partner with the Product Management team and business units on lightweight, living planning documents, like an Agile Product Roadmap.
• Work with Product owner to groom product Backlog, story prioritization, release, and sprint planning.
• Verify user stories with core team and ensure that all prioritized user stories have acceptance criteria.