PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Dedicated and accomplished Scrum Master wif over seven (7) years’ experience in establishments. Proven track record of successful delivery in different capacities as a scrum master SME.
• Able to effectively work wif various agile teams through effective mentoring, coaching, and leading cross - functional resources in delivering high quality software across Information technology, financial, insurance and health domains.
• Skillful, methodical leader wif deep appreciation for teamwork and teh pursuit of mutual objectives. Adept in adapting to a dynamic environment wif constantly changing requirements while coaching and developing self-organized teams.
• Transform waterfall teams into high performing, cross functional, agile teams. Outstanding communicator interacting effectively wif management, distributed teams, and users at all skill levels.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and a robust track record of exceptional leadership and organizational competencies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile PM Tools: Jira, Version One, Trello, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite

Software Applications: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Databases: Access, SharePoint.

Agile Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, SAFeMethodologies - Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Work wif teh Product Owner to understand project scope and requirements which in turn supports a better understanding of user stories and help wif their prioritization.
• Promote teamwork and conducive environment where problems can be raised wifout fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, wif an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, backlog grooming, and software demonstrations.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline.
• Work closely wif project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
• Participated in all Program Meetings, PI Planning sessions, release planning meetings, feature definition sessions, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and Scrum of Scrums meetings
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through teh delivery of final product.
• Effectively communicate scrum expectations and status to scrum teams including product owner and developers.
• Proactively manage changes in scrum scope, identify potential obstacles, and develop contingency plans.
• Worked closely wif Product owners, Solution Architects and Systems Engineers facilitate system demos, and prioritize features for Iteration planning and delivery to meet client requirement.
• Work wif RTEs, agile coaches and other scrum masters in driving agile transformation wif SAFe.
• Promote SAFe Core Values, adapt, and apply SAFe principals, and implement SAFe practices.
• Utilize and improve usage of Jira as a tool to monitor and manage scrum success.

Confidential, Washington D.C

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif Product Owner and scrum team members to ensure successful delivery of final products using agile processes as a guide.
• Supported teams in estimating user stories to fit wifin capacity, ensuring focus but maintaining flexibility during sprint planning ensuring they understand sprint priorities, sprint goals and never overcommit to work.
• Created an environment of collaboration through strong servant leadership capabilities wifin teh team as well as wif other scrum masters and teams.
• Planned and monitored project spending/budgeting, and guided projects to completion on time, wifin scope, and on budget.
• Improved team velocity by integrating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Built and maintained project plans that are feature based, have iterations of feature deliverables, keep track of time-bound iterations
• Motivated teams to work towards continuous improvement and delivering shippable product that deliver business value in every sprint.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress wifin teh agreed reporting framework.
• Ensured teh team members updated JIRA tasks for more accurate reporting and analysis of project burndown charts.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other meetings
• Facilitated backlog refinement meetings using planning poker to provide story points and estimates
• Updated stakeholders wif backlog refinement and release planning reports.
• Identified and resolved issues and conflicts wifin teh team, and escalated to management as needed.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, Burndown Charts, velocity, and task breakdown.
• Supported and enforced teh Agile methodology and framework used by teh project team
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant wif scope commitment.
• Consistently reminded my teams daily about updating tasks in JIRA for more accurate reporting and analysis of project burndown charts.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked effectively wif cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that elevated client-side experience and significantly improved overall functionality and performance.
• Built library of models and reusable noledge-based assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results.
• Mapped process activities to identify shortfalls and identify options to rectify operational inefficiencies.
• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
• Collaborated on all stages of systems development lifecycle, from initiation releases.
• Implemented user acceptance testing wif focus on documenting defects, identifying bottlenecks, and executing test cases.
• Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.
• Evaluated consistency and importance of different business intelligence data against needs to determine optimal courses of action.
• Optimized system and platform performance capabilities in most efficient, practical way possible.
• Performed competitor bench-marking analysis to identify manufacturing savings opportunities and potential product enhancements.