SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master with 6+ years of experience and a proven track record of raising revenue and cutting costs. Boosted earnings and Delivered products 10% under budget.
• 5.5 years of Scrum/Kanban experience
• 6+ years of technical and leadership experience in a software development environment over Finance, Banking, Brokerage, Investment, E - commerce and various applications
• Certified Scrum Master and preparing for advanced levels of scrum
• Evangelist of Agile/Scrum principles and methodology. Experienced in guiding teams on how to get the most out of self-organization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Documented and tracked requirements, completed use case documentation, documented and tracked risk and reported team performance to upper management and customers. Consistently worked to improve the processes and quality of our team's work by: implementing test-driven development, ensuring that software conformed to architectural standards and participating in design and implementation reviews.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Helped teams to Convert from Waterfall to Kanban, Scrum and Scrumban.
• Experienced in a fast-paced environment with regularly changing priorities (experimented and succeeded XP in this fast-changing environment).
• Organized many collaborative group events and creative problem-solving sessions.
• Knowledge of other Agile techniques such as ATDD, TDD, BDD, DevOps, Clean code, software craft, Clean Architecture, Solid principles, Conway’s Law, Parkinson’s Law, Pair Programming, Continuous Refactoring/Design Improvement, continuous integration/Delivery/Release/Ownership, Common Coding Standards, Test Automation Pyramid, Collective Code Ownership, continuous testing, automated testing and Agile games
• Experimented many other Agile approaches such as Kanban, Crystal, BDD, TDD and FDD
• Scrum Master for 2 major products and many small products, completed an average of 10% under budget
• Strong independent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills and Passion for communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Enforced Kanban usage, cutting cycle time 25%
• Ability to convert the Epics into smaller and clearer user stories which achieve the product increment
• Coordinated the work efforts of 8 persons team from three different continents and five different location for various projects. Helped team to complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline
• Worked closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members, stakeholders and organization
• Facilitated development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown
• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.
• Facilitated 2 Scrum teams, working with cross-functional teams to increase revenue and slashing time to delivery 22%
• Helped and guided 3 other teams to adopt Agile for other business units.
• Well versed in ALM tracking tools JIRA, KANBAN board and Confluence
• Actively participate in most of the Agile/Scrum meetups in and around Toronto and gained lot of knowledge about practical difficulties.
• Participate in many forum discussions to solve other and own team problems around the world by discussing and share own experience.
• One of the major projects for the organization in which the early delivery and improvements gained/increased the profit more than planned/aimed. This is about Artificial Intelligence suggesting for the investment percentage over funds depends on the investor’s financial and Fund’s market stability. Some additional responsibility and highlights are below:
• We have implemented Spotify model for the first time. We were totally 5 team worked for a single product from different locations and time zone
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to groom the product backlog by prioritizing most valued stories depends on the availability of my team, dependent teams and stakeholder
• Used excellent interpersonal skills and communications skills to make the team adaptable and flexible
• Accountable for coaching Agile practices to development team and removing impediments by working with vendors, product owner, stake holders and other dependent teams
• Trained and inspired the organizational teams and product owner to do release planning and timely delivery of developed templates, Macros and functionalities which has dependencies with other teams

• This project is to improve the customer interface in e-commerce to attract and increase the sale of our new product. In which 8 teams/3 different countries/ 5 different locations worked together to implement it. Additional responsibilities in these projects were as follows:
• Program Management, Activity Planning and Sequencing, Resource Estimation, Monitoring and Reporting, Benefits Realization, Relationship Building, and Risk Mitigation and Management
• Influencing in timely delivery of the entire Tribe
• Proposed pair programming to develop and deliver algorithm change in investment logic through which the application can automatically smartly invest on depends on the investor’s credit score and risk.
• Presented benefits and value additions of Scrum to C-level stakeholders and Vice Presidents helping them in strategic direction and planning
• AIMS (Automated Information Management System) team conversion to Kanban/Scrumban
• One of the report creation team for FINRA and Audit was facing lot of issues related with SLA.
• Implemented Kanban first and then helped them to solve most of the complex problems with SLA
• Day by day the team moved from KANBAN to SCRUMBAN by which their productivity increased to 30% and SLA reduced to 20%