Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY:

Highly organized and motivated Scrum Master with 3+ years of professional on - site client experience in providing support to the team using servant leadership style.
Successfully managed and delivered mid to large sized initiatives.
Vast experience directing client services, processes, and IT support initiatives.
Have team-based management style with excellent interpersonal and communication skills .
Seeking an opportunity to work with an organization that offers performance-based career growth while allowing opportunity to broaden my skills while adding value to my employer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: RedHat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6&7

Agile Frameworks: Scrum, SAFe, Kanban

Agile Project Management Tools: Visual Studio, Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies and backlog refinement under minimal supervision
Champion Agile software development best practices, acting as a coach to the Scrum teams
Support the Product Owner in grooming and maintaining the product backlog
Track and communicate team status and progress via burnup and burndown charts, as well as other information radiators, to the team, management, and stakeholders - ensuring it accurately reflects current state
Supporting product owner with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
Monitoring and tracking all assigned projects both co-located and distributed
Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum team and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master Network - especially with regards to items necessary for product release
Proactively remove or escalate roadblocks to allow team progress
Maintains relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance
Encourages continual improvement in engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery (Pair Programming)
Coach team members on Agile values and principles
Removing impediments as well as guiding team members to remove impediments
Coordinates timely response and support to production line customer issues, when escalated

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Facilitate daily Standup to measure Sprint progress. Remove any impediments and re-prioritize Sprint Backlogs as required.
Conducted Daily Standup, team Retrospective and Sprint Planning with Product Owners, Developers and Testers
Extensive knowledge in application development, support and maintenance and all phases of project life cycle, Kanban, Safe, Agile, and Scrum
Product backlog refinements with Product Owners, Business users (SME) and development team. Project Management
Managed off-shore teams working on multiple development and technical support projects using visual-platforms such as zoom, skype, Google Hangout
Used Visual Studio and Jira as the primary Agile Project Management and Planning tool
As a Scrum Master was responsible for facilitating the creation and prioritization of Product Backlog, establishing Sprint goals and Sprint Backlog during the Sprint Planning Phase
Facilitated Sprint Retrospectives applying different techniques based on the outcome of the Sprint

Confidential, MD

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installation, configuration, and maintenance of RedHat Linux servers
Performed server installation using Kickstart,
System Configuring/hardening by turning off unnecessary services
Disk configuration, created and managed File Systems
User management, creating and managing user account, groups and access levels
Created, managed, and troubleshoot LVM
Implemented Confidential and Confidential on RedHat Linux servers
Managed system processes and scheduling processes with the Cron utility
Setup, administered and managed LAMP Stack, Implemented virtual host directives in apache 2.x