SUMMARY:

• Extensive knowledge in agile principles, values, and best practices. Adept at leading cross - functional teams, coaching, guiding and mentoring scrum teams in a fast-paced environment to achieve goals and objectives. Currently seeking a position as a Scrum Master.
• Relationship Management Scrum & Agile Principles Risk Assessment.
• Strategy Development Persuasive Negotiation Process Optimization.
• Project Management Business Development Cross - functional Teams.
• Sprint Planning/Daily Stand-Up/Sprint Reviews/Retrospective Stakeholder Engagement.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano TX

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acting as a scrum master for multiple cross function teams.
• Facilitating scrum events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective) at regular cadence and ensuring there’s full engagement.
• Ensuring teams adhere to scrum processes in support of product owner and development team.
• Supporting and educating the product owner with respect to refining and managing the product backlog items.
• Assisting scrum teams in identifying and removing impediments to teams work progress.
• Ensuring the outcomes of retrospectives are implemented towards continuous improvement.
• Facilitating organizational learning, change management and process of Agile via metric, benefit realization outcomes, and retrospective findings.
• Tracking key metrics through burn-down, burn up, team velocity and radiating progress to the teams and key stakeholders.
• Guiding Scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating and team velocity.
• Ensuring teams have clearly defined and enforced Definition of Ready (DOR) and Definition of Done (DOD).
• Facilitating crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-organize.
• Using Agile tools such JIRA and confluence to track team progress and delivery performance.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked to identify blocked or stalled stories by assisting the team in learning to resolve the issues.
• Ensured all work is tracked in the backlog and accurately balanced across the team members.
• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Contributed to organizational process improvements, and scaling of scrum.
• Supported the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect.
• Facilitated the team’s progress toward team goals, continuously engaged in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Established an environment where team can deliver values, speed up delivery while increasing productivity.
• Guided, coached, and motivated agile teams by effectively, addressing team dynamics.
• Identified and remove impediments from the team; protect from outside interruptions and distractions.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Requirement’s elicitation using interviews & workshop facilitation.
• Documented functional & technical requirements based using structured techniques.
• Partnered with cross functional teams to create, edit, revise, and design policy and procedure documentation required by IT Quality Assurance.
• Created user guides, FAQs, quick start guides, and materials as appropriate.
• Maintained related documentation and provide implementation as well as on-going application support.
• Participated in software development life cycle, including test script, requirement mapping and verification.
• Ensured all artifacts complied with SDLC Policies and guidelines.
• Led two project implementing a more robust, electronic documentation management system.
• Used of Rally to track project status, bug detection and adjustment as needed during sprint iterations.

Confidential, New-York NY

Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Continually coached and worked with the team with a focus of improving the business value delivered.
• Aided in managing the backlogs and release planning.
• Utilized metrics for initiating continuous improvement and the development of high performant team.
• Worked with one or more scrum teams to continually coach, educate and promote Agile practices.
• Guided the organization on Agile, its values and benefit and how best to use agile and scrum practices.
• Ensured the product backlog is properly refined.
• Determined ways to improve throughput, velocity and allow the team the team flexibility to self-manage themselves especially on items identified from the retrospective.
• Managed issues, risk, dependencies, and change request following the established PMO guidelines
• Disseminated relevant information to the team, stakeholders, leadership, and the programs as needed.

Confidential

Business Analyst 

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with data migration to ensure new system formats/requirements were met.
• Assisted in maintaining a Procurement Management Plan in accordance with the Project.
• Performed sanity test, integration test, system test and user acceptance tests.
• Communicated clearly with concise updates and give feedback using MS PowerPoint presentations.
• Possessed a strong sense and knowledge of data gathering through research and compilation.
• Collaborated with other members on a cross-functional team to create, edit, revise and design policy and procedures in line with the IT QA.
• Documented functional & technical requirements based on using structured techniques.
• Maintained related documentation and provided implementation as well as on-going application support.