SUMMARY

• Agile certified practitioner and certified Scrum Master with about 9 years of industry experience with good understanding of Software development Life Cycle.
• Good client interaction and communication skills.
• Experience in Agile framework and Waterfall methodologies.
• Working Knowledge of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Experienced in agile tools Version One and Jira.
• Experience in leading, planning and coordinating projects from initiation through implementation.
• Skilled at motivating people and building relationships in complex project environments.
• Experience with all the phases of project life cycle and the creation and management of various artifacts.
• Highly analytical in developing methods and measures to meet deadlines and escalating issues that arise during the project.
• Experience and skilled in creating and analyzing Process flow diagrams and Entity Relationship diagrams.
• Experience in customer/client interaction, deep understanding of business systems functionality.
• Managing vendor contracts with outsourced development and external vendor partners in an on - site/off-shore model.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC, NY

Agile Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the execution lead and closely partnered with the delivery owner and the Product Owner to guide one agile release train
• Lead the release train and multiple teams to self-organization
• Establish program-level cadence and drive program level ceremonies (e.g., PI Planning, Product Management Council, Scrum of Scrums, Release Retrospective, HIP Sprint)
• Work with other program leaders to drive the definition and refinement of the program backlog
• Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to scrum teams and Scrum Masters
• Agent of change in identifying opportunities to improve processes and remove
• Served as an escalation for impediment removal for the Scrum Masters and scrum teams
• Maintained metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress, and quality
• Facilitate alignment dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other scrum teams
• Understand emerging Agile processes and methodologies and, where beneficial, leverage them to provide value to the release train

Confidential, Boston, MA

Agile Scrum Master and coach

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated release planning, sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives
• In collaboration with Product Owner, managed the product backlog, requirement features and workflow of incremental product
• Participated in backlog grooming sessions and assisted the product owner in maintenance of the product backlog
• Identify and remove impediments for the team by directing them to the appropriate owners for quick resolution
• Partner, build and maintain close working relationship with stakeholders and partners
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Participate in agile sessions and forums and act as a subject matter expert in agile across the team and organization

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Advocated the scrum process, assisting teams to transition from Waterfall to Agile (Scrum)
• Coached the team in newly adopted Agile best practices
• Coordinated training activities and necessary team preparation by educating individuals
• Interacted with Business Groups to assess needs, identify key challenges and define project deliverables.
• In collaboration with Product Owner, managed the product backlog, requirement features and workflow of incremental product
• Managed project releases using the SDLC 2.0 Agile methodology
• Monitored and maintained scrum team productivity, pursued steps to achieve continuous process improvement
• Coordinated and facilitated release activity and release planning sessions
• Conducted sprint planning sessions and managed sprint backlog including the sprint zero envisioning phase
• Facilitated and engaged the team in daily scrum
• Coordinated with AET Management to resolve conflicts and remove day to day impediments
• Facilitated Sprint reviews, coordinated feature demonstration of build functionality with business and stakeholders
• Managed release and sprint burn down charts for progress updates
• Facilitated sprint retrospective sessions

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Project Manager - PMO

Responsibilities:

• As a supporting member of the BACC (Business Analysis Competency Center) in PMO, transitioned processes to follow the enterprise SDLC guidelines.
• Adopt agile team member within BACC.
• Provided practice direction to teams considering using agile in their projects.
• Managed the project from initiation through implementation.
• Responsible for gathering requirements from Subject Matter Experts(SME’s) to produce Business and Functional Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM).
• Participated in Research to determine User Requirements and Goals and converting them into Business and Functional Requirements.
• Authored business and functional requirements with supporting use cases, data modeling and traceability matrix.
• Conducted walkthrough sessions of Business Requirements, Functional and Technical documents with Business groups.
• Created several business flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Developed additional processing and data models that will be added to existing system using MS Visio.
• Reported status, milestones, and project plan tracking to project management and project owners on a weekly basis.
• Supported and guided Developers, business analysts and QA in developing Quality Control (QC) test plans and test scripts, as well as supporting and assisting in all testing phases through UAT.