SUMMARY:

• Coach team members on Agile Methodologies.
• Lead the application development team in scrum and sprint planning sessions.
• Groom requirements and help determine priorities with the business.
• Establish best practices for resource allocation and vendor management.
• Analyze process flows and define efficiencies across functional teams. .
• Coordinate requirement gathering and carry sole responsibility of maintaining all project artifacts in JIRA.
• Agile, Scrum, Quality Center, Rational Test Manager, ALM, Clear Quest, Track Record, Quality Manager, JIRA, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, MS Office Suite.
• Guided Team on Agile/Scrum practices and values
• Mentor and coach agile teams and business owners in agile scrum
• Serve as ScrumMaster for Mobile (Windows, iOS and Android), web application and UX teams in implementing the Scrum frameworks which resulted in a consistent delivery cadence and increased overall team motivation.
• Roadmap Planning, backlog grooming, pre - planning of sprint, story grooming, sprint planning, Kanban board.
• Assist the team in generating key SCRUM (Velocity, Burn up and Risk Burn down) metrics to help them improve team's productivity / forecast and nurture them opportunity to inspect and adapt.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Wayne, IN

SCRUM Master

• Follow Agile Scrum Methodology
• Interact with Stakeholders, SMEs from different business units to gather their concerns and suggestions
• Supervise technical resources on the project. Providing leadership and guidance as subject matter experts to onsite and offshore personnel.
• Facilitate Release planning, Agile estimation (story points), Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review and Retrospective meetings to track progress, eliminate impediments and setting goals.
• Meet with the project sponsors, management and key stakeholders to provide them a status of the project. Identify all issues/challenges on the project. Maintain an Issues log and actions taken to resolve them.
• I help and mentor other Scrum teams in executing Agile Scrum framework for their projects.
• Form/ motivate the team, empowering them and ensuring that they are self-organized.
• Organize and facilitate meetings with the product owners, SME and the development team, and carried requirements gathering sessions with the purpose of defining the functional, business and system requirements.

Confidential, Chicago,IL

Scrum Master

• Managed Agile Scrum framework for software development and coached the development/QA teams in 2 weeks’ sprint cycle.
• Coordinated Scrum ceremonies- Daily scrum stand-up meetings, backlog grooming/sprint planning, sprint review / Demo and sprint retrospective
• Maintained capacity planning with alignment with program resource plan in order to achieve release goals.
• Collaborated with management to achieve release goals, production goals within timeline and budget.
• Defined specifications for our applications ensuring that stakeholder requirements are met
• Worked proactively with direct teams to deliver both strategic and tactical initiatives throughout the entire SDLC
• Analyzed impact of proposed solution across the business, develop us to explain/demonstrate business requirements/specifications to IT team, and contribute a business or process
• Authored and execute tests to ensure that developed solutions implement defined requirements.
• Supported external testing team's activities, ensuring appropriate test and stakeholder coverage
• Facilitated implementation of new functionality through training sessions, demos, and the development of appropriate end user and support team documentation
• Established Agile Scrum Framework, coached the team on Agile Scrum best practices, reporting on several metrics - burn-down chart, Velocity, performance mgmt., Risk mgmt. and timely / accurate communication to leadership
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Daily standup meetings, monitored production progress, conduct retrospective meetings, facilitated Demos.
• Identified risk/issues & dependencies, facilitated communication among team members (Dev., QA, DBA, & Product Owners)
• Maintained production team focus on tasks within a sprint and help resolve issues that are potential barriers/showstopper to team productivity.

Confidential, Chicago,IL

SCRUM Master

• Worked with product owner to prioritize and groom user Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation of the sprint planning.
• Worked with development team to decompose the User Stories into tasks and assign hours to the tasks.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.
• Ensured the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of working product.
• Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owners priorities.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features to ensure that development team efforts on sprint backlogs are of maximum value to stakeholders.
• Leveraged Burndown and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improvement estimations.
• Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.
• Maintained Project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.
• Ensured the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.
• Provided internal and external communications to improve transparency.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Empowered the team to self-organize and self-manage.
• Tracked & report on milestones, identified risk/issues & dependencies, facilitated communication among team members.
• Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.

Confidential,Hoffman Estates, IL

Business Analyst

• Thorough working experience of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile methodology.
• Customized the product, create mapping document, coordination for integration testing and follow up.
• Experienced estimating, identifying projects risks, constraints and dependencies, root cause analysis, impact analysis, conflict management and managing improvement initiatives from inception to completion.
• Managed end user needs Confidential all phases of systems analysis while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment.
• Developed User Stories for a new rollout and for some of the minor enhancements.
• Analyzed the business and user needs, documenting requirements and revising existing system logic difficulties.
• Partnered with business and technology subject matter experts to elicit business requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, client relations, presentation and negotiations with creative
• Participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with all levels of User Groups.