SUMMARY

• An organized, creative and innovative Scrum Master wif more TEMPthan 7 years of intense experience wif strong leadership and problem analysis skills proven in high - pressure environments (Health Care, Retail, E-Commerce Industry and Federal Projects).
• Expertise in forming - storming - norming - performingmodel of group development.
• Expertise in Sprint Planning, Sprint Prioritization and increasing teh velocity of teh sprint.
• Expertise in mediating teh general conflict of goals between development team (high technical quality) and product owner (more features).
• Detail-oriented wif teh ability to adapt and learn quickly while demonstrating strong organizational skills.
• Expertise in guiding Product Owner prioritization of User Stories in Backlog and driving teh backlog refinement sessions.
• Exceptional hands-on senior level project management skills wif talent for establishing and communicating vision, motivating and empowering teams and individuals to achieve remarkable sustainable results.
• Create, managing, and prioritize backlog of user stories wif Product Owner
• Exceptional ability to managing Agile/Scrum projects, develop solutions and services dat meet and exceed client expectations.
• Skilled in using project management methodologies and leveraging pragmatism gained through real world experiences.
• Experienced in application upgrade and implementation projects wif budget around $1 million.
• Experience in driving team to keep focus (e.g. by acting as a buffer between external distractions and teh team).
• Coached teams on teh rules ofScrum, guided teams to self-organization, continuous improvement, and cross-functionality.
• Coordinating and facilitatedscrumceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning poker, as well as backlog refinement meetings.
• Expert Ensuring team delivered stories dat met teh definition of done.
• Collaboratively formation of Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
• Helping Organization by Understanding teh Stages of Team Formation Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.
• Partner wif teh Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of product features.
• Develop Scrum KPI's to communicate sprint and release performance, keeping teh Product Owner informed on Team's progression.
• Through coaching and mentoring of a IT reporting and analytics Scrum team, results have led to a 15% increase in velocity and five days decrease in time to deliver metrics.
• Serve as teh "Voice of teh Customer" in quality control and user experience to ensure maximum product potential.
• Making retrospective more interesting by team building exercise such as Escape Room.
• Coaching team about scope creep, technical debt.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, XP, Lean, SAFe, Crystal, Less) and Waterfall.

Change Management Tools: Rational Clear Quest.

Business Modeling Tools: Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest.

Project Management: MS Office Suite (MS Project, MS Visio, Excel, etc.), Office 360.

Databases: MS SQL server, MS Access, Toad for Oracle 10.6, NOSQL, SyBase, DB2.

Testing Tools: Rational Test Manager, Load Runner, Quick Test Professional.

Scrum Tools: JIRA, Rally, TFS and VersionOne.

BIG Data: HDFS, Hive, Parquet, Impala, Spark

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and building teh road map and doing teh initial analysis for teh mobile Application.
• Writing User Stories for Store procedure, GET and SET for ESB, restful and soap API
• Coaching to write Acceptance Criteria, business Logic and spikes user stories.
• Groom user stories into more detail using screen prototypes, and process flows to uncover detailed design
• Coaching team to slice User stories and using Opportunity Canvas
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues wifin 24 hours by Time boxing them.
• Manage teh lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs wif another IT group.
• Coaching team about Extreme Programming
• Coaching Product Owner to write Teh Given-When-Then formula is a template intended to guide teh writing ofacceptance testsfor aUser Story
• Using new Agile Retrospectives Ideas/ games to make retro interesting
• Assessing teh Agile/Scrum experience of teh teams and larger organization then continuously coaching to expand their understanding of Agile/Scrum
• Removing impediments when needed or guiding teh teams on how to remove impediments
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (Story Writing, refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, Review)
• Escalation of blocker in Scrum of Scrum to get it resolved
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, DailyScrum, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, and Product Backlog Refinement meetings.
• Tracked Burn Downs / Burn Ups throughout teh sprint and release.
• Coached teams to use improvement experiments from their retrospectives.
• Coached teams on teh rules ofScrum, guided teams to self-organization, continuous improvement, and cross-functionality.
• Expertise in using statistical techniques to generate reports dat maintain compliance wif industry standards. Experience in planning Disaster Recovery in Tableau Server
• Coordinate team efforts under architectural and portfolio governance, system level integration and teh biweekly System Demo.
• Created interactive, real-time dashboards customizations. Created data models for Tableau.
• Coach Rally to team to manage User Stories, Features, Sprints to bring transparency to RTE.
• Create and present Process flow diagrams to Management
• Coaching on capacity vs. task assigned each sprint.
• Protecting team from outside influences
• Coach PO and team about negotiation on A minimum viable product (MVP)

Environment: Agile Scrum, Office 360, SAFe 4.0, Jira, Confluence, Hipchat, Jerkins, Git.

Confidential, Rochester, MN

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for identifying potential roadblocks ahead of time and discussing them wif teh teams, ensuring project delivery is undisturbed.
• Guiding teh teams on how to have transparent communications and be as self-organizing as possible
• Assessing teh Agile/Scrum experience of teh teams and larger organization then continuously coaching to expand their understanding of Agile/Scrum
• Removing impediments when needed or guiding teh teams on how to remove impediments
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing teh productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and teh quality of deliverables by 22%
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by teh on-time delivery of 33 major initiatives
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues wifin 24 hours
• Manage teh lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs wif other IT groups
• Communicate wif other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions
• Shielding teh team from interruptions during teh sprint
• Walk Scrum Team through teh estimation process by story point.
• Encouraging collaboration between teh Scrum team and product owner
• Act as teh Scrum Masterfor 2 to 3 Scrumteam.
• Facilitated teh breaking-down of epics into user stories (INVEST format) and handled requirements churn.
• Maintain transparency by Information radiator such as burndown down chart, velocity chart, team Health board, days left sprint, Nikiniko calendar
• Held expertise in facilitating workshops for teh prioritization and estimation of user stories using techniques such as MoSCoW, KANO, planning poker and T-shirt sizing.
• Expertise in implementing systems Development in Agile (Scrum), Waterfall Methodology and Hybrid (Waterfall + Scrum) Methodology.

Environment: Agile Scrum, Office 360, TFS, SAFe, Jira, confluence

Confidential, Wyoming

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Performed asSCRUMMasterfor 4 simultaneous teams; facilitated dailySCRUMmeetings/calls.
• Identified Current Processes and Impacted Applications and Processes.
• Conducted Sprint refinement and Planning Sessions.
• Provided Agile Training and developed supplemental processes to aid teh improvement of sprint velocity.
• Collaborated and ensure stakeholders representation on cross-functional business opportunities.
• Facilitate 2-week sprint cycles and coach teh development team in use of incremental delivery methodology to automate teh testing and to provide continuous delivery.
• Coach teh team to collaborate wif other scrum teams following teh SAFe framework.
• Work wif teh Scrum team to identify teh bottlenecks and to remove teh impediments and increase teh velocity of product delivery.
• Increased sprint velocity by 40% by implementing concrete definitions of Done for each sprint cycle
• Help assure teh team follows teh Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework processes. Teh SM will make sure dat sprint participants understand their roles and assignments.
• Coached and established four newscrumteams.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, DailyScrum, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, and Product Backlog Refinement meetings.
• Tracked burndowns harts throughout teh sprint and release.
• Coached teams to use improvement experiments from their retrospectives.
• Coached teams on teh rules ofScrum, guided teams to self-organization, continuous improvement, and cross-functionality.
• Coordinate team efforts under architectural and portfolio governance, system level integration and teh biweekly System Demo.
• Use normalized estimating to help teh program estimate larger features and epics.
• Facilitate preparation and readiness for release planning and Inspect and Adapt ceremonies.
• Removed impediments effecting teh teams.
• Act as teh Scrum Master for 3 Agile Scrumteam
• Coached teh Product Owners in understanding and practicing agility.
• Coordinated all phases of teh project life-cycle, including requirements gathering and analysis, budgeting and planning, design, development, testing, and implementation.
• Managed teams of employees and contractors on projects and responsible for all project deliverables, budget, and schedule.
• Coaching team about Relative estimation
• Ability to prepare Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed (RACI) Matrix to track accountability and in preparing teh Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experience in dealing wif On-shore, Off-shore and culturally diverse work-groups.
• Experience in various aspects of systems development including development, project management, business analysis, testing and UI design.

Environment: Agile Scrum, SAFe, JIRA, MS Visio, VersionOne, SAS, Tableau, Office 360

Confidential, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Help assure teh team follows teh Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework processes
• Coordinate sprint planning, lead daily scrums, coordinate each sprint review and participate in Agile Release Train planning sessions.
• Coordinate solution implementation and delivery wif other Scrum Masters on teh Release Train.
• Help foster Agile code quality practices, including providing guidance to assist teh teams in constantly improving code quality.
• Helped leadership informed, through participation in teh Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Made sure dat sprint participants understand their roles and assignments.
• Assure dat all aspects of Rally, teh SAFe software portfolio management tools are promptly updated for each scrum team.
• Help teh team meet their Program Increment objectives for all features committed to during
• Helped in Increment planning through solid execution of each of teh Program Increment Sprints.
• Help teh team meet their daily and iteration objectives, including working to remove impediments and communicating wif other teams
• Help teh team meet their Program Increment objectives for all features committed to during Program Increment planning through solid execution of each of teh Program Increment Sprints.
• Help teh team meet their daily and iteration objectives, including working to remove impediments and communicating wif other teams
• Facilitate Team continuous process improvement.
• Coordinate solution implementation and delivery wif other Scrum Masters on teh Release Train.
• Help foster Agile code quality practices, including providing guidance to assist teh teams in constantly improving code quality.
• Promptly updated teh leadership through participation in teh Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Leading global teams wif key focus on improving efficiencies, motivating teams and creating environment for performance excellence and process improvements using agile methodologies such as Scrum& KANBAN frameworks wif Test-driven development approaches.
• Facilitated teh breaking-down of epics into user stories (INVEST format) and handled requirements churn.
• Use normalized estimating to help teh program estimate larger features and epics.
• Facilitate preparation and readiness for release planning and Inspect and Adapt ceremonies.

Environment: Office 360, Rally, Agile, SharePoint.