Scrum Master Resume
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Marysville, OhiO
SUMMARY:
- Scrum Master and Project Manager with 7 years’ experience in delivering advanced technologies for Healthcare IT and Finance clients.
- Extensive knowledge of Agile (Scrum and Kanban) and Waterfall software development life cycles; as well as all aspects of change and configuration management.
- Experience in Agile tools such Version one, Jira and Rally.
- Excels in adapting to a dynamic environment with constantly changing requirements while coaching and developing self - organized teams.
- Trusted advisor, creative problem-solver, and skilled communicator.
- Respected team player who successfully collaborates with others and is a servant leader of teams.
- Transformed waterfall teams into high performing, cross functional, Agile teams (Scrum, Lean and Kanban).
- Outstanding communicator interacting effectively with management, distributed teams, vendors, and users at all skill levels.
SPECIALTIES:
Visual Management, Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean, Kanban, Coaching,, Agile Project Management, Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Agile Release Process, Facilitation and Team Building.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
Agile PM Tools: Jira, Rally, VersionOne, TFS, Rational, Redmine
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Scrum Master, Marysville, Ohio
Responsibilities:
- Working with developers, as well as multiple product owners, acting as Scrum master for two (2) co-located sprint teams
- Resolving impediments, conducted standups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and created tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.
- Performing gap analysis to compare all elements of existing “as is” with desired “to be” processes.
- Utilizing use case, workflow, activity and sequence diagrams to define functional requirements for the development team.
- Participating proactively in developing and maintaining teams engineering best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, test automation, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment.
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
- Preventing distractions by identifying and removing impediments.
Confidential
Scrum Master, Baltimore, MD
Responsibilities:
- Championed agile software development best practices and acted as a coach to the Scrum teams.
- Gathered and reported Scrum team statistics to stakeholders.
- Build on the analysis and recorded experience of similar projects to construct better quality estimates.
- Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization.
- Coached the teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- Communicated with other managers within the business and managed expectations for the projects.
- Evaluated information radiators and Scrum issues on daily basis.
- Supported the Product Owner in grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Took responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and others, collaborated within the Scrum Master network especially in regard to items necessary for product release.
- Instructed and modeled core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
- Maintained relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance.
- Encouraged continuous improvement in engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery.
Confidential
Scrum Master/Project Lead, Buea, Cameroon
Responsibilities:
- Facilitated multiple scrum teams both co-located and distributed.
- Facilitated daily scrum, sprint planning, spring demo, and retrospective meetings.
- Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (story points for backlog items.
- Determined the teams’ capacity (velocity) from past d Confidential
- Teamed up with product owners to prioritize user stories
- Assisted the team in successfully completing task on-time while resolving any impediments encountered by them.
- Monitored the progress of projects and released the information to stake holders.
- Used the burndown/burnup chart to monitor the teams work
- Established a more trusted and collaborative team environment where my team can bring up problems without the fear of being blamed or judged
- Active participating in establishing and provide Vision of the term and gain consensus base on acceptance criteria.