SUMMARY:

• Scrum master with 7+ years of experience working with cross functional teams. I am a a proven decision maker who is willing to work with new teams.
• I hold a bachelor's degree in engineering and have successfully led and coached my previous teams to successfully implement the agile process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Oracle PL/SQL (TOAD, SQL Developer, Query Analyzer), UNIX (Shell scripting).

Database: Teradata, Netezza, DB2, Oracle 10i, 11g.

Data Warehousing: Proficient in data warehousing concepts. ETL Tools - Ab Initio (GDE 1.13 to 1.15), Informatica

Big Data: Hadoop Framework (HiveQL, HBase, Impala)

Cloud Service s: AWS Cloud (S3, EC2, RDS, VPC)

Analytics: Netezza, SPSS Modeler, SAS DI

Data Modeling: Erwin Modeler (Logical & Physical model)

Reporting Tools: SAS VA, Cognos

Scheduling Tools: CONTROL - M, Tivoli

Management Tools: Atlassian JIRA (JIRA 20), Atlassian Confluence, HP Quality Center (QC), HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Peregrine, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Project, ITSM, ISM.

Version Control Tools: Apache Subversion (SVN)

Domain Skills: Mortgage Banking, Regulatory Risk, Capital Markets, Originations

SDLC Process: AGILE using Scrum and Kanban methodologies.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple teams of different projects managing 3 to 4 Monitors, reviews and maintains the sprint backlog and project backlog as necessary in coordination with business and other team members resources per project to deliver the Customer Insights, Models in the Scrum Methodology.
• Collaborated with employees and stakeholders to understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development.
• Coached the development team in organizational environment in which Scrum is not yet fully understood.
• Ensured that goals, scope and product domain are understood by everyone on the scrum team as well as possible.
• Performed policy compliance scans, compiled, verified, and prepared performance metrics for technology owners and management reports.
• Acted as an internal consultant within technology and business groups by using quality tools and process definition/improvement to re-engineer technical processes for greater efficiencies.
• Participate In PI planning protecting teams interest, relating dependencies and risks.
• Educated and reinforced SAFe Agile framework to team members when needed.
• Directed and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.
• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good Agile practices.
• Tracked data from the spring process and report regularly to facilitate understanding of where we are and want can be improved on.
• Report creation on burndown charts, velocity charts.
• Faciliated spring planning, daily standups and sprint demo.
• Motivate team to maintain discipline and agile best practices.
• Working closely with Product Owner in product backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features.
• Generating and posted end of Iteration review reports for project managers on confluence.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Ensured Agile/Scrum concepts and principles were adhered to, by assessing the Sales Team backlog for Healthcare Quoting Solutions, resulting in new customers enrolling quickly.
• Guided the Development Team on how to get the most from self-organization, overcoming challenges with meeting Business goals, by empowering the team to manage their committed work, removing obstacles so they can focus on the Agile process and making sure time boxes were adhered to, resulting in the team self-guided themselves through the Agile process.
• Facilitating Sprint Planning by sizing the work, looking at the backlog, selecting stories, discussing for clarity, and creating a definition of 'Done'.
• Empowered users by eliciting what they valued in products, resulting in higher satisfaction in Sprints Reviews.
• Held effective Retrospective by celebrating the success of Sprint, discussing challenges, determining what/how to improve and monitor for next sprint, while encouraging freedom to speak truthfully.
• Maintining daily report metrics from JIRA and velocity charts.
• Scheduling agile and sprint meetings according to schedule.
• Facilitating Daily Scrum within 15 minutes, getting status, showing burndown, identifying barriers, tracking remaining hours, and giving updates on obstacles.

Project Co-ordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on different projects co-ordinating and facilitating daily meetings, scrum meetings.
• Clear understanding of project deadlines, scopes of work and life cycles.
• Coordinated the purchase and delivery of the necessary materials and equipment needed to complete client deployment projects.
• Consulted with customers to facilitate process improvement efforts.
• Allocated and assigned internal technicians and/or external partner resources to perform technology services for customers.
• Assist with creating and maintaining complex program budgets.
• Excellent time management; ability to multi-task and balance several important project tasks at one time.
• Assign tasks to internal teams and assist with schedule management
• Coordinated deployment of Hardware at Client locations remotely.

Confidential

Project Co-Ordinator.

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative support to supervisors.
• Use sound judgment to make independent decisions regarding projects.
• Proficient in software testing tools like HP-ALM and JIRA. Participated in test plan review and provided feedback on coverage and optimization based on results with clients.
• Worked on Inter Company Change Management Testing.
• Clear understanding of project deadlines, scopes of work and life cycles.
• Coordinated the purchase and delivery of the necessary materials and equipment needed to complete client deployment projects.
• Consulted with customers to facilitate process improvement efforts.
• Allocated and assigned internal technicians and/or external partner resources to perform technology services for customers.
• Assist with creating and maintaining complex program budgets.
• Excellent time management; ability to multi-task and balance several important project tasks at one time.
• Assign tasks to internal teams and assist with schedule management
• Coordinated deployment of Hardware at Client locations remotely.
• Managed new product introduction or pilot projects, working in conjunction with Product Management, Engineering and Operations