PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master with 6 years of experience in the field of information systems with emphasis on Agile Methodology and Oracle database management.
• Expert in facilitating meetings, shielding teams, resolving conflicts, coaching agile practices, tight grip on agile estimating and planning, forecasting, removing impediments and creating communication channel.
• A great record of success as a team leader with great coordination skills and time management and with effective communication, speak four different languages.
• Experience using agile project management tools like JIRA/Confluence, Visual Studios, excels, SharePoint, Microsoft calendar and Rally.
• Extensive Knowledge of SAFe, Kanban, and XP methodologies.
• Proven track record defining vision, strategy and value creation models for shaping strategic product designs, managing and transforming enterprise agile product delivery and digital transformations.
• Good exposure on developer tools such as Jenkins, Chef, Ansible GitHub, GitBash, Splunk, Artifactory
• Good knowledge of RDBMS and projects using Oracle, SQL Server and SQL

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Apache, DNS SERVERS, File systems, Firewalls, Account Mgt, Load balancing, TCP/IP, SSL SMTP, SFTP, Oracle Sql Developer, SQL*Loader, Exp/Imp/Data pump, Top, DBCA, DBUA, ADDM, Remedy, Toad, OEM Grid, RMAN, Microsoft Visio

Operating System: LINUX (Ubuntu, RHEL), Windows server 2008

Hardware: Sun Fire 15k, Sun 6320 storage, Sun enterprise servers 890/880/420/450 , 6320, Hitachi, EMC, Dell, servers, Compaq servers 6000/3000/1600/800 , HP/UX - 9000, Red Hat Linux 6.2

Agile Tools: Jira, Confluence, Rally, Visual Studio, SharePoint, Excel

Remote Tools: CiscoVPN, Checkpoint VPN, Remote Admin, VNC, Remote Desktop

EXPERTISE:

• Understanding of Agile (Scrum) methodology - Agile mindset, Evangelist of Agile/Scrum principles and methodology.
• Highly motivated with excellent verbal and written communication and presentation.
• Self-starter with strong organizational and time management skills, self-directed and able to handle multiple priorities with demanding timeframes.
• Able to think out of the box; apply the appropriate process/methodology or solution to a given problem, proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Project Management Methodologies and Project Management tools i.e. MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CATONSVILLE, MD

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Nurtured self-organization and cooperation to cultivate a level of power that helps the team bring the best of them and deliver the best value to the customer.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Protected the development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Used Jira and confluence to collaborate, define work, and track progress and issues with projects and teams.
• Worked closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to immature team members and key stakeholders.
• Directed and led development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.
• Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.
• Engage Product Owners, Portfolio Leads, and PMs to fulfill their individual roles.
• Participated and/or Led scrum adoption practices across the organization and related Community of Practices.

Confidential, ASHEVILLE, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw design, implementation, QA, and validation of programming code and products.
• Developed detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports.
• Facilitated daily scrums, stand-ups, and meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing.
• Ensured clear feedback in the team to approach changes and solve conflicts.
• Ensured milestones are reached and deadlines are met throughout project lifecycle.
• Built strong relationships with stakeholders, application users, and program owners.
• Documented progress and communicate to upper management and stakeholders.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Scrum Master/ Oracle database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Prepared for daily stand-up meetings, facilitated and scheduled meetings, demo and all scrum ceremonies (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective, etc.).
• Properly managed the backlog and aided the team to determine suitable commitments for product backlog items and sprints.
• Created a positive and easy communication channel (team, product owner, stakeholders).
• Protected the team from outside interruptions and distractions and removed impediments.
• Addressed team dynamics, resolved conflict and resource constraints.
• Fostered a culture of collaboration, creativity and innovation.
• Used Jira as a tool to assist scrum team efficiency.
• Perform Installation and configuration of Oracle 10.2.0.1 database on HP-UX platform.
• Used to run the scripts to check the status of databases such as growing table sizes, extend allocation, free space, used space, fragmentation etc.
• Performed space management, capacity planning, disaster recovery and overall maintenance of the databases.
• Maintain the data integrity and security using integrity constraints and database triggers.
• Provided 24X7 supports for all the production and development databases.