SUMMARY

• Skilled and experienced in Agile transformation and leading organizations towards best agile practices.
• Confident, results - driven leader with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills committed to agile collaboration and continuous improvement
• Over 12 years’ experience delivering business value across full software development lifecycle through coaching and facilitating cross functional teams.
• Possess extensive knowledge of Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Pair Programming, and SaFe.
• Embrace servant leadership and apply mindset shifts associated with being agile.
• Skilled in training Product Owners, Scrum Masters, scrum teams, and Stakeholders in agile processes
• Experience at enhancing team cohesion and maximized performance by continuous improvement
• Authorized to work for any employer.

AREA OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile Transformation
• TDD & CI/CD, SaFe
• Complex Problem Solving
• Agile coaching
• Process Improvement
• Quality Assurance
• Scrum, Kanban, DevOps
• KPI/Metrics
• Release Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Scrum/ Defect Management Tools: JIRA, Rally. Version One

Development Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid

Agile tracking tools: JIRA, TFS, Version One, Rally Testing (QA), Functional, Regression

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the transition from Waterfall to Agile frameworks.
• Delivered Agile training courses in support of Agile transformation, through fostering a highly interactive simulation, and other experiential learning methods
• Motivated team scrums to embrace agile and reached level 7 as assessed by metrics.
• Significantly increased productivity by 30% in backlog management by refining story pointing, and accurate acceptance criteria
• Fostered a culture of transparency, introspection, continuous improvement, learning and sharing.
• Develop a team of Agile Coaches through training, mentoring, and coaching while also supplementing as a Coach
• Wrote Agile FAQs, articles and success stories that were posted on a SharePoint site, to improve Agile maturity levels

Confidential, Plano, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As scrum master for 2 teams, evangelized the spirit of continuous improvement from sprint to sprint
• Promoted adoption of agile/scrum vision by team and enabled effective delivery of project goals by removing barriers, fostering understanding between teams and stakeholders.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies .
• Ensured team and stakeholders' understanding of agile and scrum constantly improved from sprint.
• Engineered Agile best practices by coaching team on process and meeting metrics at a 90% level.
• Ensured that team estimated user stories accurately through coaching in story pointing.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated scrum events (release planning, backlog refinement, Product demo, & retrospectives)
• Drove and motivated teams to achieve 100 % of sprint goals.
• Successfully ensured 90 % accuracy in capacity calculation through careful sprint planning, and refining estimation processes.
• Charted roadmap for the team to stay focused and achieve goals by removing impediments, protecting teams from distractions, and keeping meetings lean and efficient.
• Coached development teams in self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, and conflict resolution to increase team efficiency

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Shaped team’s technical excellence through teams enhanced understanding of user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Reduced delivery time by 20% and defects by 10% by rolling out Agile and Lean principles, and through improved understanding of functionalities and acceptance criteria.
• Introduced the concept of CI/CD and engaged in Continuous Delivery Pipeline and aligned team to organizations DevOps strategy.
• Coached teams, and C level stake holders towards continuous improvement and meeting metrics
• Wrote articles, and FAQ’s on Agile practices, that were shared through a SharePoint site.
• Coached teams on Kanban principles WIP limits, consistent work flow, lead and cycle times.
• Identified opportunities for continuous improvement utilizing feedback and metrics.

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Successfully coached and transitioned 5 teams from waterfall to high performing scrum teams
• Delivered multi-day Agile training courses in support of Agile transformation and DevOps, through highly interactive training method and simulation
• Coached Product Owners, Scrum Masters and teams on User stories, acceptance criteria, and the importance of KPI’s in the spirit of continuous improvement
• Planned and facilitated agile workshops, evangelized lean agile culture saving € 5M, and influenced € 7 M in revenue developing processes executed by multiple resources
• Trained multiple new product owners in agile processes, and assisted product owner in breaking down epics into granular user stories, story selection, and estimation.
• Trained teams on multiple agile frameworks like Kanban, Scrum ban, Scrum b esides evangelizing the concept of Shu Ha Ri in the adoption of agile
• Leveraged Scrum best practices to ensure delivery of incremental product features in each sprint.
• Collaborated with agile center of practice to draw road-maps and succeeded in agile transformation

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Delivered multiple large scale projects that had measurable cost savings, and shorter time to market
• Created self-organizing agile teams, training them in the scrum process and encouraging self-governance.
• Worked with product owners team to create sprint goal, Definition of ready & Done
• Partnered with product owner by communicating updates, and assisted with backlog maintenance
• Provided visibility to team blockers and risks to senior leadership while working on eliminating them

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Scrum events (stand-ups, planning sessions, and retrospectives), coached team on core scrum process, values, and related metrics.
• Trained scrum teams to write user stories using INVEST principles, and matching acceptance criteria

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Updated and maintained standards and best Agile practices across teams with attention to detail.
• Collaborated with product owner on Release planning, sprint planning, and story grooming
• Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress through careful tracking and supported continuous improvement within the team through retrospectives.
• Empowered team to improve continuously by following the inspect and adapt practice