SUMMARY

• Certified ScrumMaster(CSM) from Scrum Alliance with experience in software delivery in an Agile Scrum development environment with multiple scrum teams with onshore and offshore delivery teams with over 6 year's experience.
• Worked as a Systems admin in multiple roles on Red Hat and Windows and Experience in cloud platforms like Azure and AWS.
• Facilitates scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective. Responsible for removing impediments to the Team's progress.
• Coach and mentor teams in agile values and practices. Work with team to create and maintain the product and sprint backlog and burndown charts.
• Responsible for leading multiple SCRUM teams of business analysts, software developers and quality assurance test engineers to produce high quality software applications Skills in leadership, communications, team building, interpersonal relations, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), offshore resource management and deployment management.
• Experienced with change management, risk assessment/mitigation, and managing third - party vendors

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux (Centos, Red hat, Suse) Windows (RS 2008, 2012)

Databases: MySQL, MSSQL, MS Access

Virtualization: Amazon Web Services and Azure.

Applications: Jira, GIT, SVN, Visio, SSIS, SSRS, Power BI, Tableau Programing Language SQL, Python, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/ Solutions Architect

Confidential - Allen, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed 3 scrum teams, 2 Product Development and 1 Manage Service
• Agile Scrum Master using Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)
• Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams located onshore and offshore
• Owned, facilitated, scheduled Daily Scrum, Program Increment/Sprint Planning, Sprint-Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews, and User Story refinement
• Coached and mentored team members on Scrum, SAFe process
• Use Kanban to help lead my Manage Service team.
• Presented and reviewed with teams the Burn Down Charts, Velocity Charts, and Capacity Planning
• Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 20% and the quality of deliverables by 25%
• Release Management using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment using Jenkins, Quick-Build & Jira
• Allows the team to reach their maximum potential using Kanban
• In depth knowledge of SDLC process which includes Waterfall and Agile-Scrum,
• Kanban, SAFe and scrum-ban methodologies.
• Developed Use Cases and documented them using wiki
• Performed interim role as Release Train Engineer.

Scrum Master/Contractor

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a Scrum Master for two teams developing financial software
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies for two teams
• Coordinated efforts between engineering, QA and release management for quarterly software application releases
• Supported refactoring efforts to improve performance, scalability and supportability efforts
• Worked with offshore development and quality assurance (QA) resources to develop, promote, and test application changes
• Fostered collaborative work environment
• Educated team members on scrum practices

IT Scrum Master

Confidential - Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Served as a Scrum master for the team, tracked user story progress in JIRA
• Tracked team velocity and Sprint progress using Sprint Burn down Chart and Product Burn down Chart, conducted time boxed daily scrum meeting.
• Not only tracked and updated the JIRA but also recorded the same in Confluence for Organizational level reference.
• Accumulated system requirements from various departments like accounting, Human Resource through surveys, interviews and JAD sessions.
• Created Business Requirement Specifications and Functional Specifications Document using MS Office Tools.
• Responsible for meetings with users and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and to improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Created user stories and story cards.
• Designed the non-functional requirements of the application through Mock-up forms for better illustration of the application.
• Created exceptions report which were then submitted to project lead and stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Developed Use Cases and documented them using MS Visio.

Scrum Master / IT Consultant

Confidential - Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum master facilitated the scrum team with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Helped the Product Owner to prioritize the Product backlog items (PBI's) for developing Sprint tasks by taking suggestions from the cross-functional development team using Kano model and Walking Skeleton Technique.
• Facilitated meetings with observers, developers and Subject Matter Experts (SME's) for pre-analysis and requisites of the project.
• Coordinated with the product owner to frequently analyze the loan to value ratio.
• Ensured that the User Stories meet the INVEST (Independent, Negotiable, valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable) Criteria.
• Worked with the Product Owner to analyze and decompose the Product Backlog items
• Created and maintained Sprint Burn-down Chart, Sprint Burn-up Chart and Product Burn-Down Chart to keep the track of the team's progress and the team's velocity for better estimation of the sprint life cycle.
• Communicated the status of the Product Backlog Item to product Owner and external stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Time Boxed daily stand up meetings to ensure the productivity of the team daily.
• Effectively organized the Task Board and activities involved in it.
• Created and maintained Sprint Burn-down Chart, Sprint Burn-up Chart and Product Burn-Down Chart to keep the track of the team's progress and the team's velocity for better estimation of the sprint life cycle.
• Worked with Product Owner to review the working demo of Potentially Shippable Product Increment (PSPI) in review meeting and helped deciding which features are done and satisfies the acceptance criteria.
• Used JIRA for drafting the User Stories and managing the requirements and defects track.
• Reviewed Business Rules written for middle tier and validated XML schema for system data documentation including the requirement data document.
• Effectively involved in conducting Planning poker technique for estimating the User stories.