Senior Scrum Master Resume
SUMMARY:
- A certified and seasoned SAfe Scrum Master with a focus on team coaching, facilitating effective Enterprise Agile Transformations, and onboarding of new agile teams to deliver unique software development products. Over eight years of experience working in diverse roles such as Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach across cross - functional teams and stakeholders. As a skilled DBA who has evolved from a data analyst to a PM/Scrum Master. An excellent servant leader with leadership qualities, promoting good communication amongst the team and stakeholders, actively guiding the team's agile and scrum methodologies, and framework levels of business operations, management, vendors, service users, etc. Adept team's supporter in PI Planning cadences which is the heartbeat of SAfe agile framework, by helping Release Engineer aligned teams in the organization quarterly planning and the ART, that are working on the same projects together in a big room to plan for the next 8 - 12 weeks' goals while ensuring that teams were able to create effective and efficient alignment, encouraged collaboration, enable self-organization, deliver on time product value and eliminate waste.
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Senior Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- After joining intel smart edge teams within 3 months my teams were able to deliver from 25% - 45% of projects and user stories commitments of their sprint goals every sprint. As an agile Servant leader supporting my teams' performance and improving agile practices and organizational ability to accelerate commitments, growth, and continuous improvement efforts of product/ project delivery with experiences in soft skills, interpersonal communication, Risk and dependencies management, aligning my team's projects with Jira|Confluence plus eazyBI tools to help inspect and adapt improvements and Coordinate the development of new products, architectural designs, and processes with cross-functional teams on-shore and off-shore on-time product value.Ensuring that my team's projects are detailed, emerging, estimable, and prioritized as it is also researched well enough, with the development stages of project execution. Ensuring communication with leadership (lead through influence) with Stakeholders, experience participating in and facilitating discussions to discover solutions, capturing, and transforming business and technology requirements into high-quality features, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Work with the RTE to ensure the train meets its overall PI Objectives while working with the teams throughout each iteration.
- Coordinates with other Scrum Master, and the system team, shares services in the ART PI Planning events, and also participates in the Scrum of Scrum. Foster normalized story estimating within the team and coached the team on the strategy in estimations, coaching the best practice of user story sizing and its importance. Help teams operate under architectural and portfolio governance, system integration, and System Demos and Rectopestive to improve the agile process. With my experience in data warehousing using EazyBI with Jira board to create a data governance component to help the team understand how they are working and track their incremental of the sprint in real-time. Experience and support in all phases of data warehousing development using agile methodologies, working in end-to-end data warehousing projects Adopting an empirical method in coaching and guiding the teams with team's project KPI metrics outcome like burn down chart to show the outcome of their sprint goal by using Atlassian Jira with Easy BI to show working data and completed tasks. Expertise with Jira and Confluence instance in managing and guiding my team through the sprints and cadence while implementing continuous learning with increments.
Confidential
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach
Responsibilities:
- In joining Express Scripts, I assisted in helping the organization in implementing agile transformation with my teams from forming to performing Cross - functional delivery values for our customer needs on time. As an agile evangelist dedicated to supporting teams in ensuring effectiveness in the coaching and proactively helping our resolve the team's dependencies and impediments on the fly while facilitating scrum ceremonies ensuring that our teams successfully completed their committed sprint goals. Teaching and promoting knowledge in the correct applications of Agile methodologies and practices and educating Product owners and stakeholders in building a cohesive agile community of practice. Also, wearing a double hat as a buffer between the scrum team and Release Train Engineer in assisting the organization of our ART Safe Coaching and mentoring the scrum team in using
- Agile methodology and scrum practices Supporting the Product Owner is structuring and building a rich product value backlog and ensuring that any missing status and requirement are put in place so that it does not become a problem for the team, as the only single source of truth. Coached the agile and development teams in self-organization and cross-functional. Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments for themselves in achieving the sprint goal. Support my scrum team with my knowledge in API to work on components that allow different platforms, systems, and applications to connect and share information with each other to carry out diverse tasks. Help the scrum and development teams to identify and fill in blanks in the Agile framework In making sure that the SAFe Agile framework is successfully established, I ensure that everyone on the
- Agile Release Train team attends the PI Planning session, in one room to quickly resolve dependencies and have a conversation with product managers and stakeholders, to promote fast decision-making for the stakeholders and the agile team. Knowledge and understanding of the role of DevOps engineers as they deal with a dynamic workspace where the product has to evolve with the changing requirements of the clients Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity from Storming, Normalizing, performing, and adjoining. Empowers the Delivery Team and facilitates getting the work done without coercion, assigning or dictating the work. Facilitates discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution. Assists with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating (making visible) information. Data warehouse tools use an array of related technology, including structured and unstructured data, ETL software, and data mining. Undergoing rapid change, data warehouses now often use cloud computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to boost the speed and insight from data queries.
Confidential
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- After joining Confidential our team velocity improves from 20 story points to 45 story points for our team's commitments on every sprint and the team's on - time product delivery improves and cross-functional team performance. Responsible for helping with agile transformation on a team level Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective Working with Product Owner on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burnup, and Burndown, Release Burndown As my Scrum team uses APIs to create a solution that provides a better end-customer experience with insurance mobile apps.
- Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination Train teams on Scrum core principles and values Work with release train engineers (RTE) in the team's delivery Provide necessary for teams across the organization as SME Provides reporting to Senior level executives on team performance against agile measurements Help with courses for onboarding Scrum MastersAssist with all 5 ceremonies to maximize both teams and organizational goals.
Confidential
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Facilitated the development of Acceptance Criteria for user stories Facilitated estimation meetings using relative effort estimation techniques Gathered/ reported all relevant Agile metrics (burndown charts and team velocity) Coached team members on Agile principles allowing them to set standards for future projects Coached the team on developing software using test-driven developmentLed onshore/offshore team to test products across multiple test environments with the goal of delivering high-quality releases at reduced costs. Both onshore and offshore teams were trained and coached on multiple products and in about a year, the offshore team achieved productivity metrics comparable to the onshore team.
Confidential
Senior Database Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Working as a project manager and Senior DBA I was able to assist my teams in working in a cross - functional waterfall way which was useful in solving teams' dependencies and delivering product values to our customers on time. As the senior database administrator supporting my technical team in SQL database in securing and organizing more than 550 customer data in our data centers to increase usability, accessibility, and cost reduction still meeting the Naval's security and operational requirements Perform Data Analyst by maintaining data storage; assessing database design; and gathering, organizing, and interpreting statistical information based on the data in the database.
- Maintains current and accurate knowledge of data storage and management best practices A key player in ensuring my team can improve data management and security as needed to save company costs and improve data latency. Promote and Specialized in the use of SolarWinds for our database performance monitoring and optimization solutions to daily data management. Using SolarWinds database monitor to give you insights into database health and pinpoint performance issues in minutes which saves the company time in resolving database performance issues to promote security around database management Briefed company leadership and system owners on database improvement techniques and system integration issues and resolution statusTeam up with the development team for monthly patching of servers across all our customer and support environment
Confidential
Oracle DBA
Responsibilities:
- Working as the certified Oracle DBA I support my teams in solving customers' database queries, performance tuning, creating and setting up databases, troubleshooting SQL, and scripting issues experienced by our customers in a timely manner to improve customer database working conditions and improve customer ROI and good experience. Supported Team lead to speed up production databases 3 days ahead of deadline allowing resources to be used for alternative work demand Tuned, installed, maintained, troubleshoot, and resolved server and network configuration problems with Oracle 10g and Oracle 11g databases using ASM, AWR, Oracle
Streams, data warehouse, and Data Guard on Linux/Unix/ environments. Utilized Oracle Enterprise Manager/Grid Control and command - line interfaces to perform database analysis regarding the object creation and storage and security practices of mission-critical systems Implemented Remote Manager software suite to manage and execute Backup and Recovery processes across 10 applications Scripted Data Pump import and export commands to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of queries and RMAN Coordinated with the Linux team to create and configure new Oracle database environments for customers Recommended optimal Oracle Automated Storage Management (ASM) configurations to consolidate storage across multiple databases and improve the I/O performance of the hard drive arrays Worked with the Development team to optimize PL/SQL scripts before implementation in the Production environmentQualifications & s
