Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager Resume New york - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Innovative, results driven IT professional with extensive experience and excellent communication skills who will deliver best - in-class solutions, ensuring clients’ needs are not only met, but are exceeded.
Exercises outstanding strategic thinking to produce a solid vision for the organization as a whole, as well as for each major project.
Generates powerful business results with simultaneous high dollar projects by maximizing efficiency in a tough economic climate to ensure budgets are not exceeded.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile: Jira, Confluence, Balsamiq

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL, Access

Development: .Net, ColdFusion, ASP, Web Services, AJAX, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, UNIX

Reporting/Analytics: Business Objects, SQL Reporting Services, Crystal Reports, Qlikview, Tableau

Project Management: Project, Visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop, OnePPM, ServiceNow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,New york

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsible for two Agile (one Scrum and one Kanban) teams.
Successfully guided development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.
Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated all ceremonies.
Created and maintained task boards and burndown charts in Rational.
Worked closely with product owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
Worked with senior management and business to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning, and implement process improvements.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Supported the adoption of emergent Agile techniques (mobbing, BDD) that elevated teams to high performing status.
Oversaw the Agile development process with regard to time, budget, scope and quality.
Coordinated all rituals (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews and retrospectives).
Facilitated communications within the team, key stakeholders and senior management.
Identified and removed impediments that blocked the team and their ability to deliver product.
Worked with architecture and engineering teams in distributed locations to drive planning, issue resolution, and development of platform and project specific technical topics.
Partnered with the development and quality assurance managers to provide leadership and mentorship to the team.
Assisted management with tracking and using velocity, burndown and burnup charts.
Trained and mentored development teams in all aspects of Agile/Scrum processes.
Performed Product Owner role for multiple Verisk products.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Coached the development team responsible for providing key applications and reporting to the Corporate Real Estate and Service Department.
Acted as Product Owner for multiple applications and lead the efforts to stabilize and innovate the applications.
Coached and mentored development teams that had no turnover in staff for ten years.
Ensured teams kept to schedules and budgets and adapted to keep projects in line with expectations.
Coached team members, provided guidance and ensured teams practiced Agile principles.
Organized and facilitated project planning and all Scrum rituals.
Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all involved teams and senior management.
Facilitated discussion and conflict resolution in order to improve team productivity while promoting continuous improvement.
Updated project management systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
Assisted team in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
Worked closely with assigned product owners to tailor product backlog and ensured that the team was on the right track.
Provided direction on emerging technology to replace older technology stack.
Acted as gatekeeper by protecting the team from distractions and by removing impediments.

Confidential

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

Collaborated with senior business partners to understand business goals and develop programs to meet those goals.
Acted as liaison between development team and project management office.
Delivered “ad-hoc” reporting capabilities to provide quick information as well as self service capabilities.
Ensured the proper technology stack was utilized for each project including deploying new technologies or tools as needed.
Worked with IT Risk to make sure applications fulfilled IT Risk and SOX requirements.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

Confidential, New York

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

Interacted directly with business partners to gather, interpret and document requirements.
Held weekly status meetings, brainstormed technical ideas and ensured development remained on schedule.
Worked directly with other Federal Reserve Banks to ensure development and tools were usable by all Banks in the system.
Mentored junior team members and trained other development teams in ColdFusion.
Analyzed and developed multiple key technology projects across several distinct disciplines.