SUMMARY:

• A proven leader with expert skills and abilities developed through professional experience and education. Partnering with organizations to motivate and empower teams to deliver value in a collaborative space, cultivate team work, Scrum Values and Agile Principles; while focusing on continuous improvement and building high performing leaders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Command of Project Management tools (JIRA, Rally)
• Well - versed in version control tools (Sharepoint, Clearcase)
• Technical skills in Web servers (Apache, IIS and IBM WebSphere)
• High-level Estimation
• Release Planning
• Product Management
• Roadmap/Milestone Planning
• Story-Mapping
• Kanban
• Scrum Framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Baltimore, Maryland

Agile Scrum Master/Agile Coach

• Served multiple teams simultaneously as a coach, mentor and trainer.
• Facilitated Backlog Grooming, Scrum Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review (2 weeks long) and Retrospective meetings.
• Coached and facilitated the implementation of the scrum framework within various departments. Scrum team was made up of SQA, java developers and product owner.
• Deliverables included release plans, sprint plans, burndown and velocity charts.
• Coached Product Owner in providing business and customer value, backlog refinement early and often
• Educated Product Owner, stakeholders and development team on Agile best practices
• Resolved impediments by finding the right personnel to resolve them, escalate when necessary and protect team from external interferences.
• Facilitate all scrum events (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective) and ensure all outcomes are defined, understood, and achieved for all scrum teams
• Partner with Product Owner to ensure product backlogs are continuously prioritized in line with business priority.
• Build and foster an environment of trust and teamwork
• Empower the scrum team by providing continuous improvement opportunities to efficiently solve problems and provide critical thinking skills.
• Proactively anticipate, detect and protect team from any distraction that may impede the team from achieving sprint goal.
• Direct and leads scrum team from project initiation through to the delivery of a “done” product
• Participated in Scrum of Scrum to provide updates on progress, impediments and collaboration with other teams.
• Facilitated two teams consisting of 9 members with focus on aligning the teams go agile while empowering teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Helped the Product Owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Tracked team's velocity to analyze productivity trend.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management with presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the agile manager.
• Created and maintained Artifacts and Information Radiators such as Sprint Burn-down, and Release Burndown.
• Collaborated with team members to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Tracked and report status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Represented the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Confidential - Atlanta, Georgia

Agile Scrum Master

• Used Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence) to track metrics and for documentation. To help team grow, I paid keen attention to team velocity, capacity and within sprints the burndown charts.
• Used in house Project Manager to handle impediments that needed to be escalated beyond scrum team resources.
• Estimated user stories using agile games such as planning poker.
• Held product backlog refinement meetings with Product Owner ahead of sprint planning to be more time efficient in meeting requirements during sprint planning sessions.
• Facilitated all scrum events including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews retrospective and other meeting as needed.
• Collaborated and coached team to be self-organized.
• Work with Product Owners of different applications and projects to groom the backlog and prepare for sprint planning.
• Tracked, escalated, and removed impediments using internal and external resources
• Identifies risks and issues and escalates them to management.
• Promotes good practice by ensuring team members update tasks often
• Utilize metrics such as capacity, velocity and burn down charts to keep track of team health
• Facilitated story estimation using agile games such as planning poker

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

• Participated and organized requirement gathering sessions with the stakeholders to elicit and analyze requirements.
• Implemented comprehensive management plan for each projects.
• Held regular stakeholders meetings.
• Developed technical solutions to business problems.
• Worked with all Facets Provider of software development from requirements gathering to testing, configuration and international deployment.
• Worked with Sr. Architects/Lead Developers to set up the design of all ETL mapping to load it to EDW as target systems.
• Performed Data Validation running SQL against new data source - Teradata, Integration and UAT Testing.
• Created use cases specifications, use case diagrams, swim lane diagrams to define the workflow and segregate high-level and low-level requirements using MS Visio.
• Wrote Defect Report, Test Plan and Test Execution Report
• Responsible for the full HIPAA compliance lifecycle from gap analysis, mapping, implementation and testing for processing of Medicaid Claims.
• Create UAT Plan and UAT cases covering different business, functional and non-functional test scenarios and creation of expected test results