Scrum Master/ Leadership Coach Resume
OBJECTIVE:
To serve as a dedicated Scrum master for development teams, planning sprints and ensuring cross - team coordination. Act as a liaison between developers and product owners managing dependencies. Utilize strengths of individuals and harness their collective power and deliver results. Use Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban to create a focused and dedicated development team and deliver a high-quality product with maximum features in minimum time.
SUMMARY:
- Dynamic, result driven, highly motivated with demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach Scrum teams across multiple locations.
- Skilled to provide leadership and leadership coaching in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills.
- Promoted to positions of increasing authority and responsibility because of strong leadership skills, teamwork, customer service and overall performance.
- Excel at turning individuals into teams that work efficiently and exceed expectations.
- Certified Scrum Master and Certified Professional Leadership Coach
- Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace
- Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning
- Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing
- Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burndown, burnup, velocity and release forecasting
- Assist team members in identifying, prioritizing and either clearing or escalating impediments
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- Strategic Planning
- Project Management
- Prioritizing and Multi-Tasking
- Agile Principles
- Streamlining Efforts
- Story-Based Development
- Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Quality Assurance
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Defect Management Tools: JIRA, HPQC
Development Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall
Incident Management: Remedy, HPSM
Operating System: Windows 7/10, Mac OSX
Utilities: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio), Concur Expense Management, SharePoint
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Scrum Master/ Leadership Coach
Responsibilities:
- Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
- Facilitated regular sprint reviews to demonstrate finished work to stakeholders and celebrate team
- Assisted team to identify and remove impediments
- Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information
- Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects
- Built relationship with Product owner and the stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them
- Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
- Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
- Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
- Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
- Conducted workshops with offshore teams to enhance communication skills, scrum values of openness, honesty and respect
- Ensured team maintained focus on quality and continues delivery
- Coached the team to improve the collaboration and self-organization
Confidential, Valley Forge, PA
SAP Tester
Responsibilities:
- Working closely with SAP Implementation Team to create manual test scripts, scenarios, test data and test conditions in Quality Center
- Tested Customer Master Data and Vendor Master Data and ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for each Customer and Vendor
- Tested and executed special type sales orders that include Make to Order, cash, Rush order and Return Orders
- Manually Tested Functionality of Credit Sales Order, Display Sales Order, and Sales Order from existing Sales Order
- Tested new condition types, access sequences and maintained pricing
- Set up new plant and extended materials
- Used Mercury Quality Centre to log defects, maintain test script and track test execution
Confidential, Valley Forge, PA
Pricing Coordinator/Logistics Assistant
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for daily processing of customer invoices for two specific warehouses
- Created builder rebates for roofing contractors in Confidential system
- Adjusted client accounts through credits/debits and run reports for invoice verification
- Completed procedure documents and process maps for upcoming SAP implementation
- Maintained relationships with Confidential ’s carriers
- Communicated with customers and sent Proof of Delivery documents upon their request
- Handled daily pricing issues arising out of Pricing input from external sources multiple times a day
- Ran daily VFX3 report to fix billing issues which didn’t post to accounting