SUMMARY:

• Accomplished and highly motivated Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Safe 4 Agilist (SA) with 8 years of IT experience and over 7 years as a Scum Master seeking new opportunities in facilitating development teams. Passionate about transitioning struggling or fledging teams to an agile environment and demonstrating the following listed professional characteristics:
• Agile/Scrum coaching and servant leadership
• Committed team player with excellent facilitation and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to work with co - located, distributed, off- shore teams and facilitate multiple teams
• Customer relationship management
• Strategic planning and risk mitigation
• Extensive Scrum ceremonies and product backlog refinement/grooming skills
• Track and monitor Sprint Cycle metrics and process workflow model
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to multi-task
• Excellent communication skills
• Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall
• Agile Management Tools (JIRA, Visual Studio)
• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Access)
• Virtual Platforms: Skype for Business and WebEx

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential - Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the team on better creativity and the efficiency of the development team
• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the scrum team in Agile methodology
• Coordinated daily stand-up meetings, facilitate members, schedule meetings, demo, and decision-making processes to ensure a quick inspection and use of the adaptation process.
• Lead sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos for multiple scrum teams simultaneously
• Help the team correctly identify as well as track metrics for the projects
• Mentor and coach the team on Agile practices and methodologies
• Basic understanding of Technology Infrastructure inEnd User Computer
• Partner with stakeholders in grooming and maintaining the product backlog, as well as building an understanding of the long-term product map
• Manage internal and external communication to provide transparency for my teams
• Advocate for Agile principles and contribute to our organizational capability by sharing findings, practices, removing impediments and enhancing thought leadership

Scrum Master

Confidential - Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, and backlog grooming sessions
• Coach team(s) to become self-organized and meet commitments at a high level of quality
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement and team empowerment so that our teams reach their full potential for productivity, engagement, and morale
• Support product manager with respect to priorities and scope
• Mentoring and coaching Scrum teams to instill agile values and principles
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on Sprint Backlog and project timeline.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution among team members
• Mastered backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition in all projects.

Scrum Master

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a liaison between the product owners and development team to ensure that all targets and requirements are met
• Removes impediments in the way of the team making progress and protecting the team from outside source of disruption
• Assisting and supporting the product owner and team to continually improve the business value delivery to their product
• Facilitate Scrum events and activities as necessary and ensure the team is realizing value from them (including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective and Backlog Refinement)
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values
• Facilitating productivity by removing impediments team will encounter, mediating through conflicts, helping team to make decisions, and adhering to continuous improvement principles.
• Exemplified the understanding of backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition in all assigned projects.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving
• Facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
• Supporting and educating the product owner and team, especially with respect to reviewing and maintaining the product backlog
• Providing all support to the team always using a servant leadership style
• Working with the Scrum Master community of practice to improve the organization’s product delivery capability

Oracle Database Administrator

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Experience in system Monitoring and Database Performance Tuning using Explain plan, SQL Trace, TKPROF, AWR and Cluster Interconnect Tuning (RAC).
• Configured and Installed Golden Gate for data replication.
• Involved in construction of DR sites for all the Production and IST environments.
• Performed Database Refresh from Production to IST, UAT and Development databases.
• Performance tuning of Queries by maintaining Aggregates, Compression, partition, Indexing and use of Hints, Stored outlines, Statistics for the same.
• Implemented and managed optimum physical database design (tablespaces, data files, extents, redo logs, archive logs) and assessed database capacity by monitoring online storage, growth, and file system space, in adherence to the Optimal Flex Architecture.
• Streamlined backup procedures and implemented RMAN for backup and disaster recovery.