SUMMARY

• An innovative, resourceful CSM, CSPO, PMI - ACP, SAFe 4 Agilist with 8 years of professional experience in leading multiple teams, tailoring and adopting agile principles and frameworks.
• Ability to manage large software development projects at enterprise level that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations using SAFe Agile Framework and lean Agile mindset.
• Demonstrate ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations, with verifiable track record of managing complex projects while delivering on time, under budget and above expectations.
• Developer in a wide variety of business and IT applications, particularly in delivering the highest quality software products on time using Agile Software techniques such as Scrum.
• Experienced practitioner of Scrum, Kanban, Lean Product. Green Card Holder, Good knowledge of leading SAFe and SAFe RTE.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Office (Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Publisher
• OneNote
• Outlook)
• HIPPA Training Course
• Technical Troubleshooting
• Waterfall
• Agile
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Lean
• SAFe Agile
• Cloud Computing
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• HTML
• Adobe
• SharePoint
• PowerPoint
• SDLC
• FileMaker
• Linux and Mac OS X
• JIRA/Confluence
• Rally
• Agile/Scrum Coaching and Servant leadership
• Strategic Planning and Risk Mitigation Development
• Conflict Resolution and Relationship Building.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAFe AGILIST SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated iteration Planning meetings, Daily scrum, iteration review, product backlog refinement meetings and retrospective meetings with 6 scrum teams.
• Attended PI planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect and adapt workshops for future PIs and Release Management meetings.
• Worked closely with the Release Train Engineer for the ART in coordinating dependencies between various scrum teams.
• Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams, Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train, worked with Release Train Engineer, System Architects and system Team for Infrastructure requirements and to support integration testing,
• Helped the Product Owner/product Management in maintaining, refining and prioritizing the product backlog.
• Helping teams in deciding the sprint backlog for every iteration.
• Mitigated impediments during the sprint in terms of issues and risks
• Helping teams to write and split User stories, breakdown Epics.
• Used JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints, created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts.
• Confluence was used to maintain project documents such as project plans, project scope, and status reports and to assign tasks

SCRUM MASTER/KANBAN FLOW MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Help teams regularly check Kanban boards and making sure that no work item has been blocked for too long.
• Coach the team members on Lean & Kanban.
• Ensure that all of the team's work items are organized visually by type, state, parallel work stream and class of service.
• Help teams maintain WIP limit.
• Implementing Agile and Scrum practices for onshore and offshore teams.
• Facilitate discussion leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team
• Remove impediments to delivery success through the proactive management of external dependencies, complex problem-solving and the development of new solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges; has the authority to execute against new approaches and escalate issues through business and/or IT channels where necessary
• Facilitate discussion leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team
• Remove impediments to delivery success through the proactive management of external dependencies, complex problem-solving and the development of new solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges; has the authority to execute against new approaches and escalate issues through business and/or IT channels where necessary
• %- Cross-functional Communication

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Using Lean software development processes to address issues that affect the production value and helps the organization save money.
• Work as an Agile Transformation Coach where scrum and Kanban Techniques are applied.
• Worked with Product Owner to groom backlog and plan releases.
• Participated in Scrum Master Community and encourage cross-team sharing of agile and scrum practices.
• Help and assist my team members do less work while providing early and consistent valuable end products using Kanban methods.
• Strong knowledge of some Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Confluence.
• Place substantial efforts on Team Member Role Training, Time-Boxing and providing strong Metrics for all Players.
• Remove impediments as all the Projects relied on data from multiple Departments, hence requiring constant and effective communication to unblock the Team and making sure that the Team remains focused on the Tasks at hand.
• Communicate Team Status/Progress via Release/Sprint Burndown Charts, Story Acceptance Rate and made sure that the Stakeholders are aware of what is going on.
• Work with the Product Owner during the Sprint Review sessions to make sure that all Stories met the Definition of Done, and got the Stories accepted during the Sprint.
• Create sample Layouts for Audit Reports and facilitated Review meetings for Audit Report Layouts apart from Data Mapping for Compliance Actions.
• Implemented complex projects utilizing agile/lean frameworks such as Scrum & Kanban and less-complex projects using traditional waterfall approach
• Built the teams’ Agile knowledge and empowered them to make Process improvements captured in Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Handling 2 teams with 6 and 7 members

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Mentored the groups towards development at a pace that is economical and agreeable for the team and the company
• Worked with distributed teams both onshore and of shore - Costa Rica, India and Denver
• Implemented cross functional team structure and limited it to 10 people with varied skills for easy communication and interaction
• Created close feedback loops for the team to get immediate feedback
• Advocated and built dash boards to bring transparency and to shorten the feedback loop
• Implemented daily code checking by developers and supported it by writing smaller user stories which can be completed in a day. I also implemented blue/green deployments.
• Assisted the product owner in creation and grooming of product backlog
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings and software demonstration
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlog
• Uprooted hindrances and aided the groups to evacuate obstructions by finding the right staff to address errand blocking issues
• Tracked and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management