SUMMARY:

Certified Scrum Master and Scrum professional. Knowledge of other Agile approaches: Scrum, Kanban, and Safe. Ability to work creativity and analytically in a problem - solving environment. A vast experienced of servant leadership. facilitation, empowerment, increasing transparency, and situational awareness.

SKILL:

• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) Organization and time management skills, work hard, work effectively with team members and strong team player.
• Experience with LTSS and ISAS
• Experience with management tools such as Jira and Rally.
• Extensive knowledge of multiple Agile framework: SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring Agile and Scrum principles are adhered to within the teams
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize deliverables
• Status reporting into a scrum of scrums for cross-team synchronization.
• Facilitation of release and iteration planning and business prioritization sessions
• Facilitation of daily “stand up” meetings with the Delivery Team
• Removing technical blockers to ensure the team are as efficient as possible
• Facilitation of iteration retrospectives
• Day-to-day management of the technology change cycle
• Self-motivated and able to work under pressure
• Identification, prioritization and delivery of tangible process improvements in each cycle (continuous improvement)
• Ensure technical dependencies in release are understood and managed
• Builds relationships with key stakeholders and actively manage expectations
• Proactive management of internal and external assumptions and dependencies
• Ensure reporting is provided to stakeholders (status, risks and issues, blockers etc.)
• Identify, assess and manage risks to the success of the delivery
• Extensive experience working as a Scrum master in a software development team
• Extensive experience with Agile practices and iterative development practices
• Understands fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
• Understands incremental delivery and the value of metrics
• Coach and support colleagues in new processes and ways of working
• Detailed delivery planning for each sprint
• Primary point of contact for the Delivery Team
• Understands backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Must be proficient at Stakeholder management and dealing with competing priorities
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Understanding of automated testing techniques applied to solution delivery
• Experience of leading a team (not necessarily managing a team) and the ability to influence others

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies: daily scrums, story grooming, sprint planning, stakeholder demos, and retrospectives
• Track and manage dependencies (internal/external)
• Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team practices and work products
• Ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery
• Acts as an Agile mentor/coach to other Scrum Masters or any Agile role
• The ability of distinguish between that what is “scrum” what is “not Scrum”
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of skill.
• Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories
• Introduces new and advanced practices to improve the team and their delivery
• Good written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrates ability to balance data with other factors when making decisions
• Expert knowledge of Agile techniques such as User Stories, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing Continuous Testing and Paring.
• Experience in working for a Co-located team with different time zones
• Supporting and educating the product owner when as needed
• Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve
• Removing impediments in the way of the team making progress.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Agile champion and coach teams and stakeholders on agile principles and the agile mindset and drive home the value of agile/scrum
• Work closely with Product Management, Development, QA and other stakeholders on planning and delivering high quality software using agile/scrum framework
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies for one or more scrum teams including the daily standup, sprint planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives
• Participate in scrum of scrum ceremonies to communicate and mitigate risk, escalate blockers, and drive progress on cross-team dependencies
• Provide and track agile metrics as it relates to scrum team predictability and productivity with an eye towards continuous improvement
• Ensure the team has clear understanding of the quality of software they are developing and is constantly working to improve that quality
• Understand the product and technology well enough to support the project, identify and communicate risks, and facilitate issue resolution

Project Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Perform management reporting activities, such as: Internal Reviews (with customer), Peer Reviews (within contract and client staff), and ensure advanced distribution of relevant materials at least 2 days before scheduled meetings
• Provide status reporting for all projects being managed
• Create and maintain a project schedule for each assigned project which lists all tasks/milestones required for successful delivery of the project within a timescale to allow transparency for current activities and preparation for future activities
• Use Microsoft Project to create and track project schedules, major milestones, risks and supporting project artifacts to store in Clarity (a project portfolio management tool)
• Organize, direct, and coordinate the planning and production of all project management documents and activities
• Monitor workflow and suggest timeline and resource adjustments
• Assist in programs making more informed decisions by formulating transparent performance and cost data
• Develop a formalized Communication Management Plan to define how and when project communications will take place for all audiences impacted by the project
• Engage all stakeholders often, via a variety of modes (email, status meetings, etc.)