SUMMARY:

• As an agile enthusiast and Professional Scrum Master, my tenacious and servant leadership approach has resulted in numerous high performing teams. Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner, Development team and Stakeholders in their quest to do everything possible to delight the customers. Strong knowledge of Agile principles, concepts and framework. Knowledgeable in web development technologies with definitive leadership skills. Excellent communication, mentoring and team - building skills. Professional, excellent communication skills, detail-oriented, collaborative, motivated to drive projects from start to finish as part of a dynamic team.
• Evangelist of Agile Principles and Methodologies in Agile Project Management, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Extreme Programming.
• Proven success in assessing the Agile Maturity of teams and the organization and coaching teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable
• Experience with MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word,
• Proficient working knowledge of Agile tools (e.g., Atlassian tools - JIRA, Confluence), and various KPIs.
• Backlog management: definition, grooming, and prioritization
• Supported the Project Managers in defining the project's goals and objectives; creating and maintaining project's budget and schedule; variance analysis; resource planning; analyzing progress reports and recommending actions to improve progress.
• Identified resources and personnel needs in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners as well as tracking project invoices and payment schedule progress.
• Ensured that all deliverables to the client (i.e. all documentation) is defined and presented according to our client’s quality standards.
• Ensured project control procedures and policies are executed and functioning according to our client’s methodology & performance standards for all projects.
• Worked closely with Agile coach/consultant as the organization transitioned to Agile Methodology and scrum in particular.
• Coached and facilitated the scrum events and ensured its purpose was understood and kept within the time frame.
• Coached the development team on successful story decomposition by making large items small deliverable chunks of work.
• Facilitated the work of the development teams by monitoring, tracking, and resolving impediments both internally and externally and coached the team in self organization and cross functionality.
• Focused on developing a more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems are communicated without fear of blame or judgment with total focus on problem resolution, continuous learning and improvement.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem - solving environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Processes/Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

Agile Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Visual Studio & Rally

Office Tools: Microsoft Office suite, Google Office tools, Zoom Meeting tool, Webex, SharePoint, Slack, PowerPoint

Key Skills: Experience working with Co-located, Distributed and Offshore teams using different visual platforms

Scrum Skills: Agile/Scrum Coaching & Servant Leadership, Capacity Planning, Change Management, Miro board

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master/Agile Facilitator

Responsibilities:

• Generally leading more than one scrum team in moderate to high complexity workstreams. Oversee the scrum process and coach teams on how to apply Scrum and Agile practices and adopting the Scrum Pillars.
• Facilitate and lead daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and planning meetings to ensure full team engagement. Manage interdependencies between Agile teams.
• Collaborate with the product owner to support short and long- term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution.
• Assisting the RTE and Agile Coaches during SAFe projects, ensuring PI Planning 5and other related events are effective, facilitating Scrums of Scrums and Agile Community of Practices.
• Shield the teams from external interference or distractions to enable optimal functionality and productivity and resolved and/or escalated issues in a timely fashion.
• Liaising between developers (Front End, Back End and Full Stack) and project Stake Holders; fostered quality communication between engineering disciplines.
• Anticipate and address potential or actual impediments to team delivery (cultural barriers, logistic challenges).
• Provide guidance and assistance to product owner on User Story creation and product Backlog Grooming.
• Create and maintain program metrics that demonstrate measurable progress toward KPIs and delivery of planned work.
• Work on the SAFe framework with other scrum teams. Attend and participate in PI planning, attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across other scrum teams in Agile Release train, work Release Train Engineer, System, Subject matter Experts and System Architects.
• Led Scrum for small multiple web development teams in their independent sprints.

Environment: Scrum methodology, Kanban, Scrum ban, Jira, SAFe Framework, Visual Studio Team Services/Azure DevOps, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Word, Linux, .Net, AWS, Java, JavaScript, HTML.

Confidential, St Paul MN

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached and mentored the Scrum team/development team to facilitate the adoption and maturity of Agile Processes and acted as a role model for servant leadership.
• Coordinated all scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demo, Story Grooming and Release Planning; And decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaption process.
• Used Key Scrum Metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work, while managing Scrum Boards.
• Served as a filter to remove impediments to progress as identified by the team. Protected the team from outside influences to ensure the team remains focused on Scrum Team priorities.
• Partnered with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team.
• Provided coaching and leadership to all technical and non-technical team members (including a large component working remotely offshore) across the entire program delivery lifecycle.

Environment: Jira, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Java, SQL, Python, Kanban, Scrum

Confidential, St Paul MN

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Performed multi-platform system builds on Oracle Virtual Box and VMware EXSI
• Spanned and configured RHEL 7 & 8 servers in AWS cloud and installed web and application servers like MAVEN, TOMCAT, NEXUS, SONARQUBE AND NEXUS
• Created Git and GitHub repositories where I created organizations, teams and added team’s members for newly on boarded projects
• Performed volume management in both AWS hosted and On-prem servers using EBS and LVM
• Wrote basic bash shell scripts and used Ansible Playbooks for software installation and automation
• Created and managed user accounts and profiles on Linux and Unix systems
• Performed package management in Linux using YUM and RPM tools
• Installed and configured Jenkins as CI/CD tool.