SUMMARY:

• IT experience and more TEMPthan four years’ experience as a Scrum Master. As a Scrum Master, l play a key role in coaching team members wif a focus on Agile practices and principals aligned to teh manifesto.
• I closely work wif developers and testers who maintain a vast array of skills ensuring each member is engaged, committed, and passionate about their work.
• Liaise wif Operations Division and Development team using Agile Central Rally, and JIRA to manage teh Scrum process to create user stories dat will deliver service model dat supports teh team.
• A Proactive, Analytical and Self - Organized Scrum Master wif strong Technical Background, wif comprehensive years of experience in Scrum Master, Business Analysis, and client management.
• Strong knowledge of software development practices
• Excellent team player and team builder wif strong interpersonal skills
• A background in retail financial services and a proven ability to quickly understand teh business strategy and objectives
• Highly organized wif teh ability to multitask
• Requirement Elicitation and documentation
• Requirements management, track and change control
• BRD, FSD/FRS, Requirements Traceability Matrix creation.
• Ability to build and maintain a strong working relationship wif all levels of Management.
• Good Presentation skills wif strong communication skills.
• Strong process modeling using UML (Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams)
• Excellent conceptual and working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, Agile Scrum and UML Methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain: Retail E - commerce Banking & Finance

Core competencies: Agile Methodologies Project/Product Management System/Software Implementation Technical Skills Conflict Resolution Business Analysis

Markup Language: HTML CSS XML

Tools: VersionOne JIRA Rally Rational ClearQuest HP Quality Center HP ALM MS Office MS Visio SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Played a major Role wif Agile adoption effort throughout teh organization; improved transparency between Engineering, Management, and Businesses value through continuous coaching.
• Used interactive techniques in Sprint Retrospective to guide, coach, motivate, introspect and stimulate team spirits to Improve future engagements.
• Work closely wif product owner in backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features, goals and milestones.
• Coached Stakeholder and newly assembled teams on agile values, principals, and frameworks to boost spirits and productivity.
• Work through Impediment logs and streamline processes and turn individuals into hyperactive self-organizing teams.
• Encouraged transparency across departments and teams to learn from each other’s challenge and change
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Tracked, escalated and removed impediments
• Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.
• Identified and corrected performance issues through work agreement.
• Managed and coordinate co-located and offshore team in a different time zone.
• Worked wif team members individually to improve team dynamic.
• Managed and tracked project using JIRA

Confidential, New Jersey

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Product Owner to create User Story, Groom User Story and Prioritized User Stories
• Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies; Daily Stand Up, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review Meetings, Retrospective.
• Coached Stakeholder and newly assembled teams on agile values, principals, and frameworks to boost spirits and productivity.
• Work closely wif product owner in backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features, goals and milestones.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members.
• Managed and prioritized team member’s daily tasks based on deliverables.
• Delegated action items to each team member based on request deadlines.
• Managed ongoing communication wif customers to ensure their expectations are aligned regarding teh development, delivery, and timely completion of their requests.
• Managed and tracked project using RALLY.
• Managed and coordinate an offshore team.
• Participated in program implementation (PI) meetings
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for establishing Scrum practices and rules and ensures teh process is followed.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective Meetings.
• Identify and remove impediments for Scrum team and leads teh teams’ efforts towards continuous improvement
• Analyzed business processes to identify functional gaps and points of external integration
• Embrace, coach, and evangelize agile values and principals
• Build team cohesion and foster open and honest team communication
• Collect, report, and refine agile metrics to quantify and communicate team performance
• Catalyze continuous improvement of process and practice through collaboration wif team and organizational leaders to identify and implement improvements
• Ensure dat teams are effectively executing against teh highest value priorities
• Conducted user and prepared material for user retention and future use.
• Conducted walk-through, requirements gathering meetings and worked wif teh stakeholders to ensure teh right solution
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Collaborated wif development team to ensure they first understand teh customer’s requirements and deliverables for each Project and Maintenance Request.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering, Analyzing and Documenting teh Business Requirements dat are critical to teh business and using those requirements to design application software
• Conducted user interviewstogather and understand different stakeholders' perspective;identified Business Opportunities and Business Goals.
• Used AGILE SCRUM methodology to manage teh software development process working closely wif teh Product owner in teh iteration cycles.
• Created Business Requirements Document, Functional Specification Documents (BRD, FRD, FSD)
• Reviewed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications to ensure teh quality of SDLC deliverables
• Assisted wif teh system testing/user acceptance testing (UAT)of teh functional enhancements as needed.
• Used MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and SharePoint for project tracking, documentation, presentation and managing teh documents
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Use Cases using UML modeling tools such as MS Visio.
• Ensured completed activities meet project specifications, requirements and Jumia Standards.
• Understand and articulate Business requirements from user interviews and then translate requirements into technical specifications
• Evaluated information gatheird from multiple sources, reconciled conflicts, decomposed high-level requirements
• Reviewed test cases and scenarios and met all project data deliverables and deadlines.
• Requirements documentation using Microsoft Office suite and Visio.
• Derived Functional Specifications Document (FSD) based on User Requirement Specification URS.

Confidential

WordPress Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provide web design services using WordPress
• Digital marketing, SEO/SMM marketing, social media consulting, and Email Marketing to small businesses
• Assisted SMBs wif their in-store and online marketing.
• Built\Managed web pages and social media contents, increased followers by about 120%.
• Increased traffic and enhanced page ranking by improving website structure, performing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for local improvements.
• Designed and reconstructed company website to appeal to teh target audience and increase electronic visibility