Scrum Master Resume
Fort Worth, TX
SUMMARY:
- In PM capacity - managed large scale Project involving multiple vendors and teams spread across multiple locations (20+ resources and $500K to $12M)
- Experience Identifying cost effective people, process and system recommendations to improve processes using different methodologies, tools and frameworks
- Excellent knowledge of SDLC methodologies: Agile (scrum) & Waterfall.
- Experience in user story creation and acceptance criteria in Rally, HP ALM and as well as in STORM
- Experience in collaborating with business owners to determine opportunities and priorities
- Experience in Organizing and facilitating Scrum ceremonies, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum related meetings
- Experience in Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress and other metrics across teams
- Experience in communicating with developers, product managers and technical support specialists on product issues
- Experience in assisting team with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs
- Experience in assisting Product Owner in planning, backlog maintenance and grooming change management and risk management
- Experience in gathering businessrequirements through interviews, surveys and observing from account managers and conducted controlled brain-storming sessions with project focus groups and documented them in theBusinessRequirement Document
- Align and lead cross-organizational resources to ensure successful delivery of the project.
- Ensure project tracking and status are maintained appropriately. Provide regular status reporting on plan progress.
- Ensure appropriate testing and quality reviews are conducted.
- Facilitating the Release planning, Daily Scrum Meetings, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
- Project specific on boarding with new associates.
- Facilitated Scrum of scrums across teams and coordinating with other Scrum Teams for identifying, tracking and resolving dependencies.
- Collecting and analysing project metrics data and working with the Product Owner and team to identify and in corporate corrective actions when needed.
- Work with stakeholders and PO to prioritize user stories and formally plan sprints.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Language: Java 8, C/C++, Proc*c, C-ISAM, PL/SQL, SQL, Perl scripts, Forms2.5/6i
App engine: JBoss EAP 7
Database: Oracle 7x/8x/9i/XE 11, Teradata
Messaging Queue: Tibco EMS 8.4
Frameworks: Spring boot 1.5
Build tools: Maven
Test Automation: TestNG, REST-Assured, Mochito, JMeter, JaCoCo
Code Repo: Git, GitLab
Documentation: Confluence, Sharepoint
Project Management: Jira, Rally, MS Project
Code Review: Fisheye with Crucible Integrated with Jira
Continuous Integration (CI): Jenkins
Code Analysis: SonarCube, integrated with Jenkins
Development Tools: IntelliJ, Toad
Git Clients: SourceTree, SmartGit
BPMN Designing: MS-Visio, Aris
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Fort Worth, TX
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Facilitating the Release planning, Daily Scrum Meetings, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
- Project specific on boarding with new associates
- Facilitated Scrum of scrums across teams and coordinating with other Scrum Teams for identifying, tracking and resolving dependencies
- Collecting and analysing project metrics data and working with the Product Owner and team to identify and in corporate corrective actions when needed
- Work with stakeholders, PMO and PO to prioritize user stories and formally plan sprints
- Hold regular sprint reviews to demonstrate finished work to stakeholders and celebrate team s
Confidential, Dublin, OH
Responsibilities:
- Coaching and mentoring agile team members on Scrum processes and provide constructive feedback.
- Facilitating the Release planning, Daily Scrum Meetings, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective across the teams located in different geographical locations (USA, Canada, India)
- Project specific on boarding with new associates
- Facilitated Scrum of scrums across teams and coordinating with other Scrum Teams for identifying, tracking and resolving dependencies
- Scrum Team communication with on & off shore resources
- Collecting and analysing project metrics data and working with the Product Owner and team to identify and in corporate corrective actions when needed
- Responsible for facilitating & collaboration with vendors and vendor resources working on projects
- Work with stakeholders, PMO and PO to prioritize user stories and formally plan sprints
- Hold regular sprint reviews to demonstrate finished work to stakeholders and celebrate team s
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and facilitate all Scrum cadence ceremonies - Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Scrum, Show & Tell, and Retrospective with onsite and offshore teams
- Assisted the team in creating prioritized product backlogs with plan estimates and acceptance criteria as well as task identification and estimation for each iteration
- Assisted the product owner to create a comprehensive set of non-functional and functional requirements, prioritize requirements for all Sprint Meetings
- Collecting and analysing project metrics data and working with the Product Owner and team to identify and in corporate corrective actions when needed
- Provide regular updates to the Leadership Team (Business Management) on the agile and scrum processes being followed
- Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards
- Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.
Confidential
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
- Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
- Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
- Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
- Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders
- Track and communicate team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint/release progress
- Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product
Confidential
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing the resources, timelines, budgets, change and risks of multiple, simultaneous projects (Waterfall and Agile methodologies used)
- Align and lead cross-organizational resources to ensure successful delivery of the project. Identify project resource requirements including on-shore, off-shore, employee and contractor resources and work with plan sponsors to ensure adequately skilled resources are available to deliver on project commitments
- Manage all financial elements of assigned projects; including cost planning, budget
- Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan, which includes resource plans, contingency plans and other related project management artefact’s.
- Evaluate and monitor overall and individual work performance to determine effectiveness in providing quality products within time and cost restraints.
- Presents regular reports to client, corporate office and peers on progress and forecast of project team’s work status, escalating issues and evaluating needed support
- Maximizes utilization of team, preparing alternative work for periods without projects and/or billable work for other teams and units
Confidential
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Develop business architecture using requirements such Goal, Objective, constraints and root cause
- Analyse business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis
- Translate stakeholder requirements into different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user stories, workflow/process diagrams
- Conduct testing including functional, user acceptance and performance to verify the client’s needs are met
- Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models
- Provide input into developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and develop business specifications to support these modifications
- Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications
- Conducted stakeholder Joint Application Design (JAD) interviews and facilitated meetings with project teams to explore potential solutions
Confidential
Technical Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Application Development
- Requirement analysis, design and design reviews
- Develop the Web based application
- UAT & System Integration testing - Test Case preparation, Test execution, Code deployment and version control. HLD, LLD and Test case documentation & review
Confidential
Project Lead
Responsibilities:
- Working with client business analysts and architects for the requirements analysis
- Coordination with offshore team by resolving their functional and technical queries
- Estimation, scheduling and tracking of the deliverables
- Design, development and provided implementation and warranty support for the releasesProduction support, ticket resolution within agreed SLA and ticket volume reduction.
- Technologies and Tools used were C/C++, Oracle 8i, Rational rose, TOAD
Confidential
Project Lead / Sr. Developer
Responsibilities:
- Managing Knowledge Transition of Value link systems
- Managing development and product support team (24*7) Team from onsite and offshore
Confidential N.A
Project Lead/System Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for requirement analysis, design LLD/LLD, coding and enhancement of Confidential systems
- Worked on Swift messages, Risk reporting and internal messaging system
- Technologies and Tools used were Pro*c, C-ISAM, Oracle 8i, Oracle Forms Rational