SUMMARY

• Seasoned scrum master with over 7 years of experience in the field of information technology with extensive knowledge and proficiency in coaching and mentoring highly capable teams in an agile environment, hands on experience in leading and setting up multiple scrum teams with Scrum, Kanban and SAFe Framework simultaneously, skilled in database designs, monitoring & tuning, security implementation and risk analysis, as well as backups and recovery in Windows, Unix, and SQL Server environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• ATDD, BDD and TDD
• DevOps, CI/CD, Jenkins and Ansible
• SAFe, Kanban, XP and SDLC
• JIRA, Confluence, Pivotal Tracker, Rational and Rally
• MS Office Suite, Power Point, Word, Outlook, Excel and Access
• Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c Database Administration
• Toad, SQL Developer, OEM 12
• Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Unix Shell scripting
• Automation using Crontab linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies: daily stand - up, sprint planning, sprint review/demo, and retrospective meeting.
• Assist with internal/external communications, share information on the task board to help improve transparency.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team by targeting the issue internally within the team, escalating to the right company personnel or to other external teams as needed
• Establish relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders to engage them in collaboration with our development team.
• Help and support the product owner with product backlog grooming to make sure it was always up to date and prioritized.
• Coach team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.
• Engage with other Scrum Masters personally and through use of scrum of scrums to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the company and to keep track of dependencies.
• Serve as scrum master for multiple teams simultaneously
• Effective communication with scrum team to make sure they always have what is needed to complete a successful sprint/release
• As a servant leader, I help my team to solve problems rather than provide solutions
• Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and developed team building events.
• Track and communicate team health and progress using metrics such as velocity charts, burndown charts, and capacity.
• Make sure task boards were being updated to ensure transparency and effective communication.
• Support the implementation of automated testing and DevOps

Oracle Database Administrator/scrum master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured software for Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c on both Windows and UNIX platforms using Oracle OFA
• Supported daily administration, proactive monitoring and tuning, and troubleshooting on single instance on UNIX/Linux, Windows server 2003 and 2008 (Database sizes range 10GB to 2.3TB)
• SQL Tuning to optimize database using TKPROF, SQL Trace, and performance advisors (SQL Tuning Advisor, Memory Advisors)
• Capacity planning to meet the demands of the dynamic aspects of storage and memory for the databases
• Created documentation during project planning, project execution and project maintenance phases
• Database security policy creation and institution, using passwords, privileges in user profiles, basic data encryption, network security
• Implemented a backup strategy following company SLA; Implementation of backup schedule for both logical and physical backups using RMAN and DATAPUMP utilities respectively
• Planned and Performed Daily, Weekly and Monthly Backups. Tested and implemented restore procedures for complete and incomplete recovery using RMAN
• Installed, Administered and Maintained SQL Server Instances. (Installing SQL Server 2008)
• Performed database Refreshes from production environments
• Tuned PL/SQL scripts for triggers, batch files, scheduling on Windows AT Scheduler and Crontab in Unix/Linux
• Participated in change management board meetings for new releases, change implementations, removal, retirement and/or decommissioned of old services
• Monitored (ADDM, Alert log, dynamic performance views, DBMS STATS) and Tuning including capacity planning, report creation / distribution
• Configured Oracle tools like SQL*Net to access the database across the network
• Applied Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update(CPU/ PSU application) using Opatch utility to install, test, and deploy patches to all database instances
• Upgraded Oracle binaries and databases from 11g to 12c
• Worked on multiple Oracle database projects in a fast paced and dynamic environment
• Cloned databases using RMAN and DATAPUMP utilities for all database sizes
• Database Migration across multiple platforms of Oracle 10g to 11g and11g to 12c, using the Oracle Datapump and the old Exp/Imp utilities
• Full database migration using Datapump across different platforms of Windows Operating systems to and from Unix/Linux operating systems
• Created and managed pluggable databases in the multitenant container database of the Oracle 12c architecture
• Conferred with internal department managers regarding problems with and the capabilities of various internally-used databases
• 24x7 production support DBA working on a primary/ secondary pager rotation; and supported on holidays, weekends and beyond regular hours
• Lead DBA team occasionally on specific projects such database upgrades, database/schema migration and database patching