SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master with well - rounded experience in development of IT projects and programs. Specialties include: Agile Methodology with experience and knowledge in Scrum, Kanban and XP and good knowledge of SAFe. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Frameworks: Agile Scrum Kanban SAFe XP - TDD, Pair Programming DevOps

TOOLS: TFSRally Confluence JIRAHPe ALMVersionOne SharePointSkypeSlack FlowdockOffice 365

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Newark, DE

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with key stakeholders and leadership in constructing the foundation necessary for transitioning from a waterfall framework to scrum Agile Framework (waterfall to agile), for 2 digital transformation projects.
• Escalate to leadership where needed and where possible to remove impediments for the team(s)
• Working with teams to maximize the inception, adoption, transformation, process maturation of agile methodologies.
• Serving as an Agile Coach/Scrum Master for an agile development team creating a web-based Quality Improvement and Evaluation System for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
• Coaching/Consulting on Agile principles, roles, responsibilities, ceremonies and practices across multiple teams.
• Defining and developing an approach to reporting of Agile metrics and measurements specific for each team i.e Establishing Team velocity, defect counts
• Act as a liaison to assist the team in managing dependencies between the team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other agile teams.
• Provide a variety of materials, and artifacts related to Agile practices.
• Implement a Cross functional working environment across BA/UX/Architecture/Dev Teams.
• Facilitate working sessions to identify resolutions to impediments.
• Assisting the Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) Director to develop and administer Agile team maturity assessment and coaching plans.
• Strategize BA/UX Team efforts towards better user story decomposition and execution.
• Maintained metrics and implemented many agile assessment surveys that provided visibility to stakeholders on team-level and program level progress, quality and overall agile maturity
• Worked with Agile Delivery Lead and other Scrum Masters to drive continuous improvement for the Agile Release Train or program via Scrum of Scrum meetings and team level retrospectives
• Coached BA’s & PO on better ways of Story Development and creation of Epics/Features/User Stories.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of Business Analysts consisting of full time and contractor direct reports, as well as onshore and offshore resources.
• Strategize and define quarterly /team goals as it relates to departmental and organizational goals.
• Responsible for developing internal processes/procedures to ensure quality and consistency within the team.
• Participated and helped drive enterprise wide initiative to implement Scrum.
• Facilitated Development of enterprise level A/B testing, Personalization strategies.
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
• Facilitated work allocation and manage capacity of the team on work items ranging in complexity and size - Projects/Routine/Production support.
• Develop/manage new team members onboarding/off boarding activities.
• Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards continuously improving performance, quality and velocity.
• Worked with Team, PO, DevOps and ALM team to improve release management, architectural runway and center of enablement thereby improving continuous integration and delivery pipeline.
• Driving decisions/prioritization based on overall business value as it relates to the work in the Product Backlog.
• Facilitate Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives and sprint planning sessions to engage Stakeholders feedback, ensuring continuous team improvement, and efficient planning respectively.
• Conducting Team working agreement sessions and managing team accountability.

Confidential, New York,NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Manage Web Development projects from initiation to production.
• Build process and system solutions relative to quarterly and yearly marketing initiatives.
• Assist business partners with building SEO Optimized sites/pages for affiliated campaign efforts.
• Identify Web Analytic and Tracking Solutions.
• Contribute in creative/JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions to build out Web Design Concepts.
• Provide Content Editing guidance to the business.
• Manage efforts between development team in identifying approving functional solutions.
• Assist team with identifying web technology solutions for Business partners.
• Complete requirements analysis in accordance with the following Methodologies:
• System Development Life Cycle
• Agile
• Prototyping.
• Identify, document and present business processes and system solutions.
• Develop Business Requirements and Functional/Design Documents.
• Coordinate and support development resources and manage design sessions.
• Manage project timelines
• Facilitate IT meetings with project team on a regular basis (daily/weekly/monthly/etc)
• Prepare all working project documentation and deliverables.
• Engage in analysis, design, modification, and testing of small-mid-large range projects.
• Support an existing production environment by designing and changing software to meet the needs of the business.