SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and a Servant leader with five years of hands - on experience and has ten years of IT experiences.
• He facilitates various Scrum Ceremonies including Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospectives.
• His goal as a Scrum Master is to hold on to Scrum practices and ramp up sprint velocity and help a team to reach a point where team no longer needs a Scrum Master.
• As a Scrum Master, Confidential had removed various team impediments, maintained sprint backlog, Information radiator, team metrics, tracked development dependencies.

SKILL:

• Agile Scrum/ Kanban
• Agile SAFe
• Business Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Systems Analysis
• Functional Design
• Business Process Modeling
• SQL
• Use Cases
• Fit/Gap Analysis
• Testing
• MS Access
• Data Warehouse
• User Stories
• MS Excel
• MS Visio
• 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, (Rally)

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coach and train Scrum teams and executives regarding Scrum framework, Scrum values, Agile principles
• Help the team to come up with Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Team agreements, Roles & Responsibilities.
• Facilitate Sprint Ceremonies- Daily Stand Up, Retrospective, Capacity Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review.
• Create and Maintain Product Backlog Items in Rally.
• Train team how to use Rally
• Ensure team does Backlog Grooming and has prioritized Stories
• Help the team to Identify Sprint Goals, Sprint Commitment, and Sprint risks. When a risk becomes issues or impediments- escalate to leadership for visibility.

Environment: Windows, MS Office, Rally, SharePoint, Blueworks Live

Scrum Master (consultant)

Confidential, Iowa City, IA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Sprint Ceremonies - Daily Stand Up, Retrospective, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Program Increment (PI) Planning
• Used Focus factors, historical velocity, and available capacity to drive Capacity Based Sprint Planning
• Identified Sprint Goal, and Sprint risks and asked the team for Sprint Commitment after Sprint Planning
• Created physical Story and Tasks board to represent & monitor Sprint progress and identify bottlenecks within Tasks levels
• Maintained, updated, and discussed Burn Up charts to the team by showing the progress or bottlenecks
• Maintained, updated various team metrics including Velocity trends, Defects, Say/Do, Rollover stories, Committed vs. Completed Stories
• Coached Scrum team regarding Scrum framework, Scrum values, agile principles and SAFe Framework
• Co-ordinated with Release Planning and Cross team coordination for deployments
• Ensured team does Backlog Grooming and has prioritized User Stories
• Identified Risks and Escalated to leadership when Risk became an Issue
• Kept track on Dependencies (GIVES/GETS) from my team to other teams and updated program board with Features
• Participated in Agile Community of Practices within the Confidential
• Surveyed Scrum team maturity and based on the survey developed an action plan for improvements
• Implemented Five Why s, Agile Games, DAKI, ESVP, One Word, Mad, SAD, GLAD, Sail Boat and various other techniques to help the team to focus on past and helped the team come up with SMART Retro Objectives for improvements
• Helped the team identify Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Team norms, and Team Identity

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

Scrum Master

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Coached scrum team regarding Scrum framework, Scrum values
• Updated and maintained Sprint Backlogs, Sprint, and various agile metrics
• Removed team impediments, facilitated team discussions, and guided the teams to Self - Organize
• Worked with the teams to prioritize legacy Standards and place into backlogs
• Facilitated Daily Standups and participated in Scrum of Scrum
• Identified cross team and feature dependencies
• Helped the team identify Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Team norms, and Team Identity

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

Scrum Master (consultant)

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Updated Sprint burn up charts, and maintained information radiators
• Coached the team regarding Scrum framework, Scrum values, and helped the team to Self - Organize
• Worked to remove impediments, and facilitated team discussions.
• Participated in Program Increment (PI) Planning using (SAFe)
• Led Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning, and participated in Sprint Review, Backlog Grooming, Deployment plan and in Release Plan
• Partnered with Product Owner to help identify Epics, Capabilities, and Features
• 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 (CDD)
• 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 signoff test plan
• Identified Sprint risks and project risks

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

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Chesterfield, MO

Responsibilities:

• Elicited, captured, updated business requirements
• Wrote User Stories, managed sprint backlog
• Developed business processes- As is and To be state using Blueworks Live
• Identified Personally Identifiable Information (PII): primary attributes, secondary attributes, direct attributes, extended attributes to ensure data privacy.
• Participated in various gallery walk sessions presenting requirement validations and collected various SME inputs.

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

Scrum Master

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Drove Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning, and participated in Sprint Demo and participated in Daily Stand-ups, 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 framework, Scrum values, and helped the team to Self- Organize
• Worked to remove impediments, facilitated team discussions, and updated sprint burn up charts Coordinated with the development team, Product Owner, and SME to drive business requirements and technical requirements.
• Identified risks through Daily Stand-ups, Retrospective, Scrum of Scrum and worked with various teams to mitigate risks

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

Business Analyst

Confidential, Hutchinson, KS

Responsibilities:

• Wrote user stories using Confidential model in conjunction, Product Owners, and other Stakeholders
• Drove Sprint Review, and Backlog Grooming sessions
• Collected business requirements and technical requirements
• Facilitated discussions and meetings between business users, developers and provided weekly updates to business executives
• Identified project risks, and monitored risks
• Participated in UAT testing throughout the project
• Tracked backlogs, the defect by priorities, tracked cross teams dependencies.
• Participated in Sprint Planning, Release planning and in Daily Stand Up

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