SUMMARY:

• A dedicated and highly resourceful Certified Scrum Master with over five years of experience in delivering IT infrastructure, App development and App upgrade projects. An evangelist for
• Agile methodologies; effectively transforms organizations via Scrum/Agile. Possesses a strong set of skills, and offers a determined, resilient, persistent, goal - oriented leadership. A focused individual with a constant willingness to learn and improve Agile skills and knowledge.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with Product Owner and Tech Leads for setting velocity allocated for quarterly planning process and baseline demand estimation.
• Ensuring Jira standards are followed by product owners, tech leads, and team members while building product backlog items (i.e. fix versions, epics, stories and other issue types and tags)
• Ensuring the scrum events take place and that the product team understand the purposes and outcomes of events
• Represent what work can be done based on available capacity and velocity using burnups to give realistic timelines for product delivery in open/close meetings and retrospectives
• Partnering with product teams in continuous improvement of velocity cycle time and quality of product
• Coach and enable teams to be self-sufficient and self-organized
• Preparing and hosting the sprint retrospective by gathering data from team and observations during the sprint and identifying any action items to follow up
• Drives adoption of technical standards and agile processes, Jira usage, and reporting across product lines

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential - Miami, FL

Responsibilities:

• Protecting the development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline.
• Working closely with product owner in backlog management and constant delivery of features.
• Educating and reinforcing scrum methodology and agile frameworks to team members and stakeholders.
• Organizing and facilitating overall Release and Sprint planning - including daily Stand-Ups, reviews/demos, and retrospective.
• Keeping the teams focused on the sprint priorities, business values, and protecting the teams from over committing.
• Communicating team status via Release/Sprint Burndown charts, Story Acceptance rate and defects, making sure there’s visibility for stakeholders to be able to see what is going on with dev teams.

SCRUM MASTER/AGILE COACH

Confidential - Lorain, OH

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled and facilitated Scrum Events (ceremonies) daily Sprint planning, stand-up meetings, reviews, and retrospectives, release planning sessions, demonstrations and leading the SCRUM of SCRUMs meetings.
• Maintaining sprint backlogs storyboards, burndown/burnup charts, and communicating status to upper management and stakeholders.
• Providing direction and coaching to the Product Owner and BA’s in user story creation, sizing, and prioritization, and high-level estimating and release planning.
• Helping remove impediments, and foster self-confidence within the team.
• Ensured team is well-informed on internal and external initiatives and activities
• Keeping external stakeholders, collaboration, and other interested parties are well-informed on team progress and activities
• Facilitating all iteration planning sessions, Story time, Iteration Open/Close, and daily standup meetings
• Facilitating retrospectives (team alternates each retro) to promote team building/team accountability
• Onboard five collocated SCRUM members and one offshore developer.

SCRUM MASTER/AGILE COACH

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked side-by-side with Product Owners and Scrum Masters in role execution, backlog management, facilitation of meetings/ceremonies and conflict resolution.
• Ensured Agile Kanban, Agile scrum software through JIRA tool worked to track team’s progress while aligned with policy and synchronized towards optimal value delivery.
• Trained teams on how to write good user stories, need to stay within timeboxes and build good interpersonal skills that boost the teams’ spirit while inspiring trust, leading to goals being achieved.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint/release progress while ensuring stakeholders always had visible information radiators for transparency.
• Ensured teams gradually and sustainably adopted Scrum/ Agile practices while building skills through our centers of practice.
• Revamped retrospective meetings through approaches that boosted participation and engaged everyone. Encouraged team to be innovative while contributing to process improvements.
• Ensured the in corporation of Agile best practices like continuous integration, automated testing, accountability, paired programming, peer/code review all in a bid to build in quality.
• Worked with collocated and distributed teams using tools like WebEx, Skype, GoToMeeting and google hangouts to ease collaboration
• Followed up on proposed-implemented mitigations from each sprint retrospective for continuous improvement purposes.
• Kept an eye on team dynamics while discouraging anti-patterns that overlooked the growing of scrum/agile mindsets.

SCRUM MASTER/AGILE COACH

Confidential - Norfolk, VA

Responsibilities:

• Built team trust through attention to Scrum Values, 1:1’s. Encouraged team to embody an agile mindset. Fostered an environment of continuous improvement, empowerment and transparency within the organization.
• Mediated so conflicting viewpoints were heard and resolved, growing the team’s pool of shared meaning
• Scheduled and facilitated Scrum Events (ceremonies). Ensured effective Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews
• Guided team using physical and virtual boards to visualize workflow and quickly adapt.
• Worked with Delivery Manager and Product Owner to understand and align on roles and responsibilities.
• Worked with mixed onshore and offshore development teams. Collaborated with external vendors ensuring working software was delivered in regular increments.
• Coached team in improving cross-functional collaboration.