Agile Transformation Lead, Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY

Agile Scrum Master, Servant - Leader, Team Facilitator, Agile Coach.
Over ten years of product management experience using Scrum Servant-Leadership approach.
Experienced in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe PI) release planning, product road-map meetings, retrospectives and various Scrum ceremonies & aiding product owners with stakeholder expectation management.
Experience facilitating Story Mapping workshops, Story Writing workshops, and Affinity Estimation workshops with low fidelity prototypes to kick start new project/ product initiatives and do release planning.
Proven track record of success in leading & mentoring Scrum teams through each stage of Scrum process.
Expert in working with large scale organizations and establishing Scrum environment best practices (LeSS, SAFe).
Expert in guiding transition from Waterfall to Scrum & Kanban.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Transformation Lead, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Help product owners use “sprint goals” to prioritize backlog and thereby facilitate teamwork & create focus.
Gather key leaders together, developed a common understanding of the existing processes and the key challenges.
Brainstorm ideas with developers & business analysts & establish practices to improve cross team communication, thereby bringing alignment amongst key leaders.
Kickstart a cross-team, multi-sprint Agile release planning (SAFe) event to help align program-wide priorities and minimized dependencies.
Ensure that each retrospectives action item gets proper attention to truly utilize this crucial “inspect and adapt” loop.

Confidential

Co-Founder/ Co-Organizer

Responsibilities:

Confidential

Agile Scrum Master, Team Facilitator

Responsibilities:

Supported & led Scrum development processes & phases, including project initiations from start-to-finish, definitions of entry & exit criteria for each product increment as well as key deliverables for each stage of Scrum product increment. Gather key leaders together, develop a common understanding of the existing processes and the key challenges.
Kept a track of team velocity and maintained product burndown to help product owners get a sense of the progress towards the release goals and adjust release dates and/or change priorities if needed.
Served as Scrum Master to Agile Excellence team. Agile Excellence team is composed of 8 members from various departments (Eng manager, Director of Engineering, Product Owner, Developer, Scrum Master, Quality Manager, Scrum Masters etc.) that works on organizational Agile improvement backlog.
Agile Excellence backlog included items like “Improving Scrum Master Effectiveness”, “Facilitating Agile Lunch & Learn”, “Facilitate Scrum Community of Practice”.