SUMMARY:

• I am a Certified Product Owner and Scrum Master with a proven track record of successfully implementing software development projects in the most competitive environments.
• I come from a process oriented background, able to break down barriers and provide highly credible leadership to agile development teams. As a true professional I am excited by the work I do.
• I am a people person and team player who maintain positive attitude and outlook. I have the ability to stay focused in stressful situations, a gift given to me by healthcare industry and can be counted on when the going gets tough

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TECHNOLOGY TOOLS: Rally (CA Agile Central) JIRA Rational Team Concert Agile Craft TFS VersionOne SharePoint Lotus Notes Clarity HP ALM HP QTP MS Office Suite MS Project MS Visio SnagIt Visual Studio .Net - Testing SQL SQL Server SDLC Symphonia Flow Charts Windows FlowDock

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading scrum teams to deliver best quality software each sprint within defined timelines
• Lead as a change agent for the ART following SAFe principles
• Organized program confidence level surveys, designed Inspect and adapt workshop with fish bone problem solving techniques
• Presented data for agile adoption, confidence votes, velocity reports and client production readiness reports in leadership meetings and to broader audience Confidential the ART
• Served as an Agile Coach and lead the program towards a large solution level SAFe by adding new train
• Coached Scrum and Kanban principles to new and existing scrum teams
• Interviewed SM candidates and Mentored with Onboarding

Confidential

Scrum Master /Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master
• Design requirements, user stories and acceptance criterion in Rally
• Enable improvement in team delivery commitments, capacity planning, identifying & tracking hidden dependencies resulting in increased team velocity
• Collaborating with members of the Product, Business, Development and Release Engineering to develop, groom and maintain Product Backlogs
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies for 3 scrum teams - Daily stand ups, Backlog Grooming sessions, Sprint demos, planning, Reviews and the Retrospective meetings every sprint
• Remove impediments by working with the teams and escalate when needed to appropriate authorities resulting in decreased downtime
• Work with Product Managers to assign business value via WSJF
• Participate in resource planning for scrum teams
• Facilitate and actively participate in the Release planning sessions
• Identify cross team and cross train dependencies during planning sessions
• Performed dual role of Project QA Lead and Clinical analyst
• Educate teams on Burn-up and Burn-down charts, Backlog Projections
• Facilitated agile adoption Retrospective for the organization
• Work with offshore resources and ensure that the agile principles and processes were properly implemented
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Recommend and Implement process and practice improvements with Business, PMO, DEV, QA and UAT teams
• Participate in the Scrum of Scrums and raise concerns to decrease downtime.
• Support PO (Product Owner) to ensure that the Backlog is groomed and the user stories in “ready” status.
• Facilitate the Triage calls (Change Control Board meetings)
• Compile daily reports and status updates on Regression testing for executive management to make release based decisions
• Reduced defect escapes by testing, documenting, coordinating and facilitating triage meetings with Dev, PM and QA
• Designed and executed test cases in HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) within sprints and regression cycles to track percentage of applications tested resulting in efficient reporting
• Written and extracted information for defect & change control requests in TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• Experience with supporting customers - Pilots, go lives, resolution of service orders, troubleshooting, & requirements tracking
• Analyzed requirements for test case coverage

Confidential

Analyst - Quality & Performance Improvement

Responsibilities:

• Provided comprehensive analytical support and project management for performance improvement initiatives.
• Audited medical records and developed key metrics for performance improvement and maintain compliance for physicians & RNs.
• Trainer Cerner- EMR, CPOE and nurse documentation.
• Documented business and systems requirements of departments for use in development of processes and systems.
• Identified systems specifications and/or technical changes to procedures for transition and/or development of automated processes.
• Analyzed and organized data to facilitate targeted clinical interventions aimed at improving Confidential t care and institutional strategic planning.
• Designed complex data analysis tool
• Also worked as a RN- Direct Confidential t care- ED, Medical Surgical, Oncology, Renal, OR and Cardiology/ Telemetry units