Scrum Master Resume State of MarylandÂ - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Over 20 years of project management and IT/IS systems management with the State Government.
Proficiency in communicating complex concepts across all organizational levels.
Background in business analysis, QA Testing, Agile development methodologies, SDLC, Waterfall methodology, strategy development and execution, business process improvements, leading and mentoring employees, and driving state - wide projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, State of Maryland

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Derived epics, user stories through discussions with stakeholders throughout the State of Maryland and performed FIT GAP analysis for AS IS and TO BE processes
Work closely with Product Owner for Sprint planning, Sprint Review and Backlog refinements,
Setup daily Stand-up/daily Scrum meetings to remove any impediments faced by the teams while making sure the teams are focusing on the right priorities.
Coached a development team of 5 and management team of 8 to utilize Agile Methodology
Assist in prioritizing of backlog stories and review of new enhancement features with team and share information with development team.
Review acceptance criteria with development and QA teams to ensure understanding.
Prepare Sprint Burn-Down/Sprint Burn-Out charts to report progress and shared with the entire team.
Audit sprint metrics and convey all the data to Product Management teams.
Lead functional documentation design that includes use cases, functional specifications, reports, screen prototypes with the Business and Development teams to relate enhancement needs.
Perform requirements traceability matrix to ensure quality delivered by vendors meets contractual expectations
Manage all aspects of application support; analysis, maintenance

Confidential, State of Maryland

Information Technology/ Partnership Specialist

Responsibilities:

Engaged senior management to define business needs, establish IT/IS strategy and roadmap, and aligned technology initiatives with broader goals of growth, profitability, and productivity.
Communicated current IT specifications and procedures state wide Social Services departments on the federal mandated child welfare information systems - CHESSIE
Represented IT at the facilities workshop meetings and ensure that the IT leadership team is informed of all operations driven projects that require IT equipment, services, and personnel resources.
Coordinated the IT projects resources and timeliness required to support interdepartmental work projects and engaged BCDSS stakeholders to ensure open and transparent communication

Confidential, State of Maryland

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Detailed requirements from inception of system Concept of Operations document through loading of detailed requirements into IBM Rational ReqPro tool. Analyzed existing DARRTS 1.0 system requirements specifications (SRS).
Developed high level requirements document and conducted JAD sessions with project stakeholders and business.
Created ReqPro Implementation Environment for DARRTS SRS 2.0.
Wrote detailed requirements with emphasis on data migration, creation and modification of legacy system interfaces and UI Standards.

Confidential, State of Maryland

System Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

Ran regression test, system test, integration test and implemented bug fixes and enhancements to specific financial applications module.
Created test plan, test cases, test procedures and test components to perform automated update on Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable Maintenance and Collections from Rational Test Manager.
Interfaced with in-house application experts to determine functional requirements, and administration of release process through QA group.
Installed and configured Open Systems and Accounting Software.
Designed interface between Job Cost, Accounts Payable, Purchase Order and Payroll to automatically update Job and Phase records with actual cost information.