SUMMARY:

• Experienced agile software development professional with outstanding knowledge of agile methodology and scrum framework throughout the complete software development lifecycle.
• A certified Scrum Master with 5 plus years’ experience with excellent written, verbal and communication skills. Prior experience includes working as a business analyst. I am aiming to use my knowledge and expertise to effectively fill the Scrum Master role in your organization.
• Passionate about Agile, cross - functional collaboration, group dynamics, and coaching.
• Acting as a servant leader to project teams - open-minded, listening, empathizing, influencing without formal authority and thinking Confidential day-to-day activities
• Strong knowledge of good software development cycle (SDLC)
• Sharp, fast learner with intrinsic curiosity
• Strong oral and written communications skills that demonstrate a professional demeanor and the ability to interact with others with discretion.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and use engaging, informative and compelling presentation methodologies
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills and Strong conflict management, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Google hangouts/ WebEx/ GoToMeeting/Visual Studio/Jira/Kanban

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Agile 101 sessions for the team to make sure team members were on the same page regarding what scrum is and what different ceremonies mean.
• Experienced working with multiple scrum teams, both located and co-located, distributed and offshore where we use visual platforms like hangouts.
• Empowers the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings. Worked closely with product owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
• Coordinated the work efforts of 9-person team for various projects. Tracked team complete tasks successfully and on-time; and resolved impediments encountered by team members. Created team-building opportunities.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Enabled improvements in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.

Confidential, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provide updates to weekly status reports and collaborated closely with product owner (P.O) with respect to managing the product backlog.
• Suggested techniques like recording demos for globally located support team to familiarize with new functionality, weekly check with development team to be in line with product knowledge and other scrum events
• I provided Servant leadership approach to the team, extended support wherever it was necessary.
• Facilitated daily standup (scrum), effort estimation (planning poker), sprint planning, release planning, sprint retrospective and sprint review (demo) meetings.
• Resolved team impediments at team and organizational levels.
• Assisted in defining and deploying new product Development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.
• I coached and mentored all features and principles of Agile methodology.
• Mentored teams through team management, one on one and retrospective activities on how to act as a self-organized, cross functional, ALL-STAR team with winning the game as the only goal in mind.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Business Analyst/Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Followed agile for application development and its implementation.
• Gathered requirements from end users of all the regional offices and business units and prepared Business Requirements Documents (BRD).
• Analyzed Business Requirements and create Workflow diagrams.
• Estimated new efforts, define business cases, and determine resources required from the business and IT to deliver the services. This also included the GAP analysis between the existing applications and “to be” implemented applications
• Meet with end users to gather requirements and understand detailed business processes to ensure that delivered solutions satisfy client requirements effectively and efficiently in the integrated system environment.
• Developed functional specifications based on the business requirement specifications document.
• Communicated functional specifications for development by programming resource
• Followed existing change management procedures and ensure appropriate approvals are obtained for all changes.
• Ensured documentation is up to date and needs are met for both team members and end users.
• Ensured effective d Confidential management & reporting for functional area
• Participated in Project Management duties such as prepared weekly status reports for senior management on the progress of the project, delivery schedules and commitments from different sub-groups such as QA, Development, Design and Requirements team.
• Used MS Project to assist Project Manager in creating Project Plans.
• Analyzed test results and created reports based on software testing.