SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with 6+ years of experience. In addition, he facilitates and leads Scrum meetings, daily standup’s sprints, and retrospectives.
• While as a Scrum Master his goal is to increase velocity for the development team, remove roadblocks and impediments, and maintains the backlog and Kanban board.
• He’s tracked backlogs, defect by priorities, tracked multiple teams cross dependencies, burn down charts, using Rally and Jira.
• Confidential enjoys learning the business aspects of his position along with being the liaison for the developers and upper - management.
• Confidential is an Agile SME and a strong communicator.
• He very much enjoys being a scrum master by removing obstacles, helping his team be self- organized, being the advocate for his team and assisting them to meet their deadlines.
• Although he is local to Saint Louis, but he is willing to relocate can start interview as soon as possible and start a new position 1-2 weeks after an offer is made.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: and Utilities: JIRA, Rally, Lotus Notes, Citrix, Clarity, VPN, Primavera, IQN, Quality Center, TFS, MS Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Lync, Visio, Project, Access, SharePoint, My SQL, Blueworks Live, SnagIt, Yammer, Adobe Captivate, SAAS (Rally)

Industries: Financial, Insurance, Retail

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Waterfall, ITIL

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master (consultant)

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated meeting with various stakeholders to collect and validate business requirements.
• Worked with senior leaderships to scope and define roles for all groups involved with Network Standardizations.
• Tracked backlogs, defect by priorities, tracked multiple teams cross dependencies, burn down charts, using JIRA.
• Coached scrum team regarding scrum frame work, scrum value and owned and supported scrum process.
• Updated and managed sprint backlog.
• Updated sprint burn downs.
• Worked to remove impediments, and facilitated team discussions.
• Guided the teams on self-organization to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Developed process Standardization life cycle in coordination with senior leadership
• Developed structures for a common document repository based on service offering for each Advanced Engineering Team per ITIL framework.
• Worked with the teams to prioritize legacy Standards and place into backlogs.
• Developed and maintained backlog and Kanban board for Network Standardizations.
• Facilitate and lead Scrum of Scrum meetings.

Environment: Windows, MS Office, JIRA, SharePoint, Visio

Scrum Master (consultant)

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Updated and managed sprint backlog.
• Updated sprint burn downs and features.
• Coached the team regarding scrum frame work, scrum values, and helped the team to self- organize.
• Worked to remove impediments, and facilitated team discussions.
• Led Program Increment Planning using (SAFe), daily stand ups, sprint retros, deployment plan meeting, poker planning, sprint planning backlog grooming and sprint retrospectives.
• Coached the team how to write User Stories using Confidential model for Business Intelligence, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Actimize, Risk Case Manager (RCM) and Customer Due Diligence ( Confidential ).
• Supported and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Facilitated various sprint ceremonies and removed impediments.
• Led various team building activities including team outing, games, painting.
• Coordinated with teams to documented code changes, requirements specs, technical specs, deployment plan, and get sign of test plan.
• Presented product demo to stakeholders.
• Participated in bug bash, and coordinated with Dev. Team and Testing team for high priority bugs

Environment: Windows, MS Office, Rally, Clarity, SharePoint, Oracle BI, HP Quality Center, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, MySQL

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Chesterfield, MO

Responsibilities:

• Managed and updated business objective, and project scope
• Elicited, captured, updated business requirements
• Developed and managed backlog using Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Developed level four process maps using BlueworksLive for Confidential project.
• Developed common terminologies.
• Identified Personally Identifiable Information (PII): primary attributes, secondary attributes, direct attributes, extended attributes to ensure data privacy.
• Developed global capabilities heat map and future state process tower.
• Participated with various gallery walk sessions presenting level four process maps, collected various SME inputs.

Environment: Windows, MS office, Visio, SharePoint, Oracle TOAD, TFS, BlueworksLive, Yammer, Agile, Scrum

Scrum Master (consultant)

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Drove daily stand ups, sprint review, sprint retrospection, Introspections sessions, release plan and deployment plan meetings
• Reviewed user stories in each sprint cycle based on the inputs received from stakeholders
• Coached the team to write with user stories using Confidential model.
• Coached the team how to do vertical slicing of user stories.
• Coached the team regarding scrum frame work, scrum values, and helped the team to self- organized.
• Worked to remove impediments, and facilitated team discussions.
• Updated sprint burn downs.
• Managed and updated business objective, and project scope
• Elicited, captured, updated business requirements.
• Coordinated with development team, Product Owner and SME to drive business requirements and technical requirements for Life Health Claim System ( Confidential ).
• Worked as a liaison between business and Learning & Development (L&D) team.
• Identified risks through daily stand ups and retro sessions, scrum of scrum and worked teams and management to mitigate risks.
• Maintained RACI and requirements specification document.
• Facilitated meetings with business users, stakeholders, and project SME’s.
• Partnered with change adoption, implementation team.

Environment: FINEOS, Windows, MS Office, Visio, SharePoint, JIRA, Lotus Note, Adobe Captivate, SnagIt, Citrix, PMBOK

Scrum Master (employee)

Confidential, Hutchinson, KS

Responsibilities:

• Coached scrum team regarding scrum frame work, scrum value and owned and supported scrum process.
• Worked to remove impediments, and facilitated team discussions.
• Coached developers to write user stories using Confidential model in conjunction, product owners and stakeholders.
• Drove sprint review, sprint retrospection, and Introspections sessions.
• Reviewed user stories in each sprint cycle based on the inputs received from stakeholders.
• Collected requirements for classroom training need and job aids.
• Facilitated discussions and meetings between business users, developers and provided weekly updates to business executives.
• Worked to identify project risks, monitored risks.
• Participated in UAT testing throughout the project.
• Tracked backlogs, defect by priorities, tracked multiple teams cross dependencies, burn down charts, using JIRA.
• Participated in sprint planning, release planning

Environment: Windows, MS Office, Visio, SharePoint, JIRA, Lotus Note, Adobe Captivate, SnagIt.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Used Interviews, mind mapping, job shadowing, brainstorming sessions to collect business requirement.
• Conducted gap analysis.
• Collected business requirements, functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Analyzed collected business requirements and developed system interfaces.
• Collected and documented business processes, business rules.
• Prepared and documented use-cases using Unified modeling language (UML) based on requirements gathered from stakeholders.
• Developed requirement specifications and process diagrams including data flow diagrams.
• Facilitated JAD sessions between the various teams involved in the development of the application.
• Acted, as a liaison between the technical team and the business team to ensure smooth flow of communication existed for the project.
• Collected requirements for online help.
• Coordinated with the quality assurance (QA) team to track bugs, wrote test cases and worked with offshore teams.

Environment: Windows, MS Office, Visio, SharePoint, JIRA, Lotus Note, Adobe Captivate, SnagIt.