Agile Coach/scrum Master Resume
Mooresville, NC
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- Proficient in cultivating Agile frameworks.
- Expert in paradigm shift from plan driven to value driven development.
- Create squads to be self motivated, creative, explorative and self organized.
- Coach squad knowing to unlock when implement Agile with want and need.
- Proficient in problem solving. Adept in developing squad’s chemistry and squad dynamic.
- Great squad player and good interpersonal communicator.
- Retain squad consistently in vibrant, highly motivational and very positive.
- Squads dynamic - influenced with forming, storming, norming and performing skills.
- Adept in Nonviolent communication skill- Observation, feeling, needs and request approach.
- Assure squad follows Scrum’s principle and values during entire time of the sprints.
- Created cross functional, self organized, maximum and continuous delivery squads.
- Prioritization by- Concept to Cash, ROI, BV, Risk, Cost of Delay, Feature, Arch. runway.
- Use Product Backlog maturity model by release plan for Future, Next and Sprint ready.
- Enhance Product vision, Release plan, Story mapping to fit the MVP for market want.
- Adept in Documentation to provide on the operation such Input and Output.
- Experienced in Scaling at Spotify- Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds.
- Assisted squad to hold the SAFe Principle and core value with practice.
- Change in work model organization-Unfreezing, Changing and Refreezing.
- Proficient in scrum organization tools - Jira, Rally, VersionOne, Trello, TFS and VSTS.
- Identify the constraint to exploit, subordinate, elevate and repeat to next constrain.
- Disciplined agile fit to discovery board by observing Enterprise, IT, DevOps, Delivery(DAD).
- ADKAR -Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement when change in process.
- User journey- Review goal, research, touch point, empathy map, brainstorm, refine and share.
- Total cost of Ownership Pre-Acquisition,operating,maintenance,downtime and end of life cycle.
- Work closely with Product owners in backlog management and continuous delivery for feature.
- Facilitate and coach development squad and product owner from initial-end on product delivery.
- Flexible, negotiation, grasp organization want and need, share knowledge and life long learner.
- Improve squads in - Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability and Results.
- Efficient coaching Agile methodology and clear definition of READ (DOR) and DONE (DOD).
- Immensely transformed waterfall squads to scrum through Scrumban framework.
- Proficient in Story slice and Epic grooming-3C, INVEST, Split and Breaking story format.
- Excellent in Story Points estimation games - Comparing and Fibonacci formula.
- Adapted Agile methodology for the project with Test Driven Development (TDD).
- Experienced with Large scale project delivery and e-commerce with cloud.
- Experienced in launching the Agile Release Train (ART) in program level.
- Encouraged squad to Pair Programming, Refactoring and Continuous Integration (CI).
- Experience working with scrum distributed squad and distributed within the squad.
- Facilitate Agile rituals- Grooming, Planning, Daily standup, Review and Retrospective.
- Persistent on improving squads effective product delivery with good development coding.
- Ability to choose proper legal format and understand the valid requirements for operating.
- Experience in time and cost estimation, activity and sequencing planning for the projects.
- Adept in information radiator- Sprint release burndown, sprint burn up and burn down.
- Entrench Scrum values to squads- Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect and Courage.
- Excellent communicator, flexible, understand the situation with negotiation skill.
- Adept in Scrum Artifacts vision. Expert in running Agile Lego games.
- Use Discovery board to explore product domain knowledge to squad.
- Maintain individual chart for squad stories and technology debt.
- Cheer squad members to involve chores on backlog and swarm in spike.
- Always look for squad’s continuous improvement through inspect and adapt.
- Vibrant to work long hours and travel long distances to cultivate Agile frameworks.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Methodologies: Kanban, Scrum-Ban, SAFe 4.5, Scaling at Scrum and Spotify, LeSS, XP, TDD, FDDATDD, BDD, Disciplined Agile, Lean, Cynefin, Refactoring and Collective Ownership.
Tools: Jira, Rally, TFS, VSTS, Version One, Confluence, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, BamBooBitBucket, Pointing Poker, Docker, MS Project, MS Visio, Story mapping, Comparative
Agility, CI, CD, Real: Time Metrics, Discovery map, Release plan and WSJF.
Skill: Nonviolent communication, A/B Testing, Innovation Games, Minimal Viable ProductMinimal Marketable Product, Why squad don t work, Supply chain managementRelative Sizing, KPIs, DOR, DOD and A/B testing.
Technical Envi.: Oracle, Java, Mulesoft, API, SDK, .NET, SAP-FI, AWS, MS Azure, MS AX and CRMSQL, SSIS, SSRS, MS-BIDS, MS Power BI, Microservices, Decoupled and
Service: oriented architecture, SoapUI, Cucumber, Selenium, csUnit, JUnit, JenkinsGit, Feature Toggles, Dev-Ops, MS Dynamics CRM, Informatica and e-commerce.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Mooresville NC
Agile Coach/Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Cultivated Scrum framework to squads.
- Segregated the squads by component, feature and domain based.
- Helped Product Owners to write well defined stories of split and breaking the stories.
- Coached squad members on seven dimensions of story writing and Invest methodology.
- Created environment squad to become cross functional and self organized squad.
- Used Product Increment board to help Functional business leads on market delivery.
- Improved in Sprint planning meeting by keeping time focused and precise story selection.
- Increased the visibility for the dependent stories by keeping follow up meetings.
- Created squad dashboard from Jira for the live report with watch list items for the stories.
- Work closely with Change control board (CCB) board for story before sprint start.
- Created capacity planning worksheet for repeatable and non repeatable functions to squads.
- Helped squads in Definition of ready, DOD, NFRs, story selection and story estimations.
- Used Pointing Poker for the squad who are Distributed, Dispersed and Silo’s.
- Facilitated squad in pre-grooming, grooming, planning, daily stand up, review and retro.
- Identified issues in process, method, tools and technical and improved in each area.
- Identified project risk and raised those proactively with escalation and frequent follow-ups.
- Used SWOT technique with PO - Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunity and Threats.
- Created Defect, Impediment, Spike, Blocker, Watchlist and Sprint health reports.
- Used Comparative Agility tool with squads to data driven for continuous improvement.
- Created a plan to configure, manage and work with plan by using Jira portfolio.
- Introduced story mapping to build visual release plan with component based stories.
- Conducted scrum of scrum (SOS) since the project is tied with over forty member.
- Daily stand up- Maximum of fifteen minutes and stopped becoming status meeting.
- Concept and functional design doc to be ready available before the planning.
- Faster delivery and learning- squad adapted to 2 weeks sprint from 4 weeks sprint.
- Worked closely with third party vendors Microsoft, Epam and Vertex for smooth delivery.
- Guided Functional business lead, Functional consultant, Developers and BA to lean agile.
- Connected Legacy SMEs to load 250k ecommerce product to MS Azure with commerce hub.
Technologies and Tools: Microsoft AX and CRM, MS ERP, MS Azure, Microservice, MS-PowerBI, MS SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, MS-BIDS, MS Visio, MS Project, Atlassian -Jira, BamBoo, FDD and Pointing Poker.
Confidential, San Francisco
Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Responsibilities:
- Guided extensively over Scrum principle and Scrum values to the squad.
- Enhanced working on one API in a sprint for faster delivery.
- Increased the product vision into visible. Promoted SAFe quality practices.
- Introduced Test driven development practice (TDD). Builted cross functional squad.
- Conducted workshops to Product Owners, Product Management and BA.
- Launched Agile Release Train (ART) to build APIs in Java and Mulesoft.
- Facilitated PI planning event as a RTE (Release Train Engineer).
- Used ROAM technique for risks - Resolved, Owned, Accepted and Mitigated.
- Facilitated squads with Discovery board to produce definition of ready/done.
- Domain knowledge-Enhanced squad to work one project rather than many project.
- Used CALMR approach for the Continuous Deployment (CD) in DevOps.
- Increased the backlog health with available two to three sprint ready stories.
- Implemented Pre-grooming/Story time session and internal pre demo.
- Delivered high productive with help of self organized and cross functional squad.
- Increased work in progress (WIP) from transaction cost and holding cost.
- Helped Product Owner with Product vision and Release plan to the squad and organization.
- Developed API in Java and Mule to the Dev portal squad for the market.
- Built Mobile SDK Payments acceptance and Tokenization on to the API.
- Facilitated sprint review for squad’s sense of ownership of the work.
- Increased the vision of writing test plan and cases first as Built in Quality.
- Facilitated squads members who are Distributed, Dispersed and Cross functional.
- Facilitated the Program Increment planning with enabler and features.
- PI Planning requirements - velocity, load, risk, PI and Stretch objectives.
- Prioritizing user stories with Product owner in the product backlog as per the business value.
- Guided squad and Product owner to user stories as INVEST and Discovery board methodology.
- Collaborate with other offices, territories to plan and implement new technology and principles.
- Encouraged squad to fix issues by applaud with highlighting who help solving conflicts.
- Used Enabler - Exploration, Architecture, Infrastructure and Compliance.
- Guided squad how to split stories from epic and groom the stories for the sprint goal.
- Produced key metrics Burnup, burndown, cumulative flow, velocity and sprint backlog.
- Conducted weekly Scrum brush-up sessions for lively discussion and learning to squads.
- Experience facilitate meetings and building relationship with onshore and offshore squads.
- Provided boundaries on story comparing and estimating to avoid over committing in sprint.
- Support distributed squads norms,timezone,honor their holidays,embrace culture difference.
Technologies and Tools: Mulesoft, Java, API- Application Programming Interface, SDK- Software development kit, MS Visio, Jira, Confluence, SoapUI, Cucumber, Unit testing, Junit and BRD lite.
Confidential, Irvine CA
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Responsibilities:
- Cultivated Agile frameworks - used Scrum, SAFe and Kanban.
- Worked in Scaling at Spotify method and introduced TDD, CI, CD and Code Refactoring.
- Extensively, coached squads on Story and Epic grooming to avoid over commit.
- Launched the Agile Release Train (ART) in the program level to achieve features.
- Creating operative user stories, acceptance criteria for user stories and defining "Done".
Technologies and Tools: .NET, MS SQL, SSIS, SSRS, MS-BIDS, MS Power BI, MS Project, MS Visio, Jira, VSTS, BamBoo, Pointing Poker, Cucumber, Encompass and Version One.
Confidential, Charlotte NC
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Cultivated, facilitated and coached Scrum and XP, been scrum master for two squad.
- Established work life balance as possible for squad members, stopped over committing.
- One week for squad to get recover from twelve weeks of sprints as hardening sprint.
- Squad explored barrier identification and improved interpersonal communication.
Technologies and Tools: Oracle, Java, SAP ERP, MS CRM, SSAS, SSRS, Rally, Jira, Cucumber, Selenium.
Confidential, Wilmington DE
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Responsible to manage the project end to end with Scrum framework.
- Coached and empowered squads to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
- Sprint goal, closely tracked with PO and Business owner and guided the Agile methodology.
Technologies and Tools: Oracle, Java, SAP ERP, MS SQL, SSAS, MS Visio, VersionOne, TFS.
Confidential
Business System Analyst/Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Requirement gathering and preparebusiness requirement document (BRD) and convert in functional design document (FDD) with technical in need of MS visio.
- Introduced Scrum framework and explored lot from inspect and adapt.
Technologies and Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS SQL, SSRS, MS Dynamics CRM and Salesforce.