Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY

Highly motivated Professional Scrum Master (PSM1, SMAC), with over five years of experience facilitating agile practices in the delivery of applications through multiple release cycles, seeking new opportunities in facilitating development teams in an agile environment, coaching personnel within the scrum teams to adhere to team’s rules, strategically eradicating impediments, and providing necessary assistance as a servant leader.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Organizing and facilitating daily stand - up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, grooming, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
Collaborating with team, developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices, including working agreements and definition of done
Identifying and removing impediments and preventing distractions
Maintaining process documentation, reports and applicable dashboards in either TFS or JIRA
Serving as an Agile coach within the organization, while implementing and socializing scrum to newly formed teams
Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog
Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments
Building a trusting and safe environment with an emphasis on clear communication, healing and problem-solving
Proactively remove or escalate impediments enabling Agile teams to operate in a “self-organizing” environment that embraces Scrum practices and principles.
Guide scrum teams on capacity planning, velocity tracking, story sizing, burn down monitoring, and continuous improvement practices in a fast paced and delivery critical environment.
Ensured the teams has all the required artifacts created to comply with the quality assurance audit process

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Facilitate daily scrums, sprint reviews, and planning meetings to ensure full team engagement with a focus on growing the capabilities of all team members.
Track, Measure, and Guide the project progress to keep the project on track.
Coach the team and PO during estimation and backlog refinement to get appropriate sizing and acceptance criteria.
Coach & assist the team to become self-organizing and empower the team to make decisions locally
Support product owners in their efforts to manage the team backlog and guide the team toward a healthy dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
Support the team’s journey towards continuous delivery, which includes technical practices that support continuous integration, continuous deployment, and on-demand releases.
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

Confidential

Utilization Review Specialist

Responsibilities:

Used appropriate criteria sets for admission reviews, continuing stay reviews, outlier reviews and clinical appropriateness recommendation.
Took appropriate follow-up action when established criteria for utilization of services were not met.
Worked collaboratively and maintained active communication with physicians, nursing, other members of the multi-disciplinary care team, and payors to effect timely, appropriate patient management.
Proactively identified/resolved issues regarding clinical appropriateness recommendations, coverage, and potential or actual payor denials.
Utilized conflict resolution skills as necessary to ensure timely resolution of issues.
Preparation of communications to third party payors and other relevant information to the care team (reviews and/or escalations)
Entry of working DRG in the electronic information systems.
Secured appropriate referrals to social service, Home Health Services, SNF, and other alternate care services in collaboration with the RN Case Manager.
Completes Utilization Management and Quality Screening for assigned patients.