SUMMARY.

• An accomplished and business savvy professional with robust experience acquired over teh years in delivering optimal results & business value in high - growth environments and establishing key relationships with business segments. A Dynamic, versatile, and detailed-oriented leader well versed in all aspects of driving teh adoption of agile values, principles, and practices. Skilled in leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results dat are sustainable.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through teh delivery of teh final product. Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations, with a veritable track record of managing a complex project. Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practices. Adept at tracking key metrics through Burn down, team velocity, backlog health and defect summary reports, and radiating progress to teh team and stakeholders.
• Influence, educate, and coach team members, leaders, and business stakeholders on Agile values, principles, and practices related to process, technology, and/or product. Work across functions and business units on teh deployment and implementation of new and changing regulatory requirements. Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint-ready. Ability to execute highly complex or specialized projects; adapts precedent and may make significant departures from traditional approaches to developing solutions. Exceptional communication, presentation & interpersonal skills with proficiency at grasping new concepts quickly and utilizing teh same in a productive manner.
• Strategic & Operations Planning
• Agile Values & Principles
• Backlog Refinement
• Conflict Resolution
• Scrum/Kanban
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Waterfall Methodology
• Software Development (SDLC)
• Process Improvement
• Strong Interpersonal Skills
• Team Management
• Communications
• Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Time Management
• Attention to Detail
• Coaching: Working with teams to institute, practice, and adopt Scrum and Agile techniques. Identify and introduce opportunities for teh team to improve through coaching and questioning.
• : Collaborate to develop Agile materials, newsletters, and support communities as they relate to Agile practices.
• Mentoring: Serve as a mentor to Scrum Masters and team members with an aim to make Agile techniques successful, resilient, and permanent.
• Facilitating: Design and facilitate group processes, elicit contributions from group members, stimulate focused group discussions to achieve desired outcomes.
• Observing / Assessments: Observe program and team activities (e.g., sprint release and roadmap planning) providing constructive feedback to teams and leads. Critical impediments and non-adherence to teh Agile core principles brought to leadership attention immediately.
• Process Adherence: Work with teh teams to ensure adherence to teh defined Scrum processes and framework.
• Tool Adherence: Work with teh teams to ensure teh use of tools appropriately, ensuring they are being followed to enable consistency.
• Culture: Work with management and teams to strengtan teh Agile culture. Work with teams and individuals to inspire team goals. Exemplify Agile values and principles in organizations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos
• Track and communicate team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint/release progress
• Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing teh productivity of scrum teams by up to 30%
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Co-ordinate with Stakeholders and product owner for meeting sprint objectives •
• Build positive working relationship between stakeholders and project managers.
• Maintain accurate source of project records for project approvals.
• Maintain and establish d Confidential quality, completeness, and monthly metrics for leadership review.
• Enable process standards and best practices for TEMPeffective project execution.
• Articulate business user needs to software development teams - user stories.
• Conduct Daily Stand up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Manage timely communication between various internal and external stakeholders.
• Help team inspect and adapt process.
• Communicate timely functional /technical/managerial feedback to Development team.
• Prepare development status reports and timely communication to various account stakeholders.
• Proactive identification & escalation of risks to stakeholders.
• Coached teh advantages of Scrum values and Agile principles with development teams and stakeholders, increasing teh stakeholder's attendance from 40% from 70%

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with product owner to prioritize and groom user Stories in teh Product Backlog in preparation of teh sprint planning.
• Coached scrum teams on how to scale agile to enterprise level; team to program and portfolio levels using Scaled Agile Framework.
• Worked with development team to decompose teh User Stories into tasks and assign hours to teh tasks.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.
• Ensures teh team is practicing teh core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward teh consistent delivery of working product.
• Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with teh team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per teh product owners’ priorities.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features to ensure dat development team efforts on sprint backlogs are of maximum value to stakeholders.
• Leveraged Burndown and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improvement estimations.
• Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.
• Maintained Project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.
• Ensure teh development teams are practicing teh Agile principles

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develops and refines project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources
• Responsible for understanding all user expectations, processes, and inputs/outputs necessary to develop a specific functionality/outcome.
• Leads teh execution of teh tasks as defined in teh project plan in order to achieve teh project goals.
• Manages changes to teh project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep teh project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized project changes.
• Ensures a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with teh project plan, in order to align teh stakeholders and team members
• Developing methods and tools for requirement definition, process and workflow design and d Confidential modeling
• Developing best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics
• Develop project plans and budgets, works with users to understand complex problems, and focuses on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines.
• Create and deliver presentations to senior level management on project goals and plans, including progress reports and score card

Confidential

Snr. Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Tracking project progress, managing teh budget, and analyzing workloads with teh help of MS Project
• Planning, organizing, and directing projects to optimize processes, systems and to enable business objectives
• Developing methods and tools for requirement definition, process and workflow design and d Confidential modeling
• Developing best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics
• Develop project plans and budgets, works with users to understand complex problems, and focuses on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines.
• Create and deliver presentations to senior level management on project goals and plans, including progress reports and score card

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Provides oversight for teh development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes, and procedures dat ensure compliance with policies and dat teh
• Performance and quality of services conform to established standards and agency guidelines.
• Provides expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and agency guidelines to assure compliance.
• Assisted teh PM in Keeping Track of teh Project Budget in an excel spreadsheet
• Reported to managers teh development of teh project.
• Tracked Project milestones, Schedule, and Deliverables
• Managed changes and ensure TEMPeffective communication among project team members.
• Organized and maintained project team SharePoint site, ensuring required documentation are posted for team member access
• Facilitated project planning and scheduling across individual projects.
• Analyzed complex plans, issue and escalating where necessary.
• Liaised with customers, vendors, project managers and members of teh team to carry out relevant task.