SUMMARY:

• 12+ years experienced Agile Coach seeking c2h/full - time opportunity
• Proficient in cultivating Agile frameworks
• Expert in paradigm shift from plan driven to value driven development
• Motivated squads to be self-motivated, creative, explorative and self-organized
• Coached squad to know when to implement Agile and what are its needs
• Proficient in problem solving. Expert in developing squad’s chemistry and dynamics
• Great team player and good interpersonal communicator
• Motivated team to be vibrant, highly motivated and positive
• Squad dynamics - influenced with forming, storming, norming and performing skills
• Expert in Nonviolent communication skill- Observation, feeling, needs and request approach
• Assured squad to follow Scrum’s principle and values during the sprints
• Created cross functional, self-organized, maximum and continuous delivery squads
• Prioritization by-Concept to Cash, ROI, BV, Risk, Cost of Delay, Feature, Architecture runway
• Enhanced Product vision, Release plan, Story mapping to fit the MVP for market needs
• Expert in documenting operations such as Input requirements and Output deliverables
• Experienced in scaling Spotify framework for Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds
• Assisted team to hold the SAFe Principle and core value with practice
• Change in work model organization-Unfreezing, Changing and Refreezing
• Proficient in scrum organization tools like Jira, Rally, VersionOne, Trello, TFS and VSTS
• Identified the constraint to exploit, subordinate, elevate and repeat to next constraint
• Disciplined Agile to fit discovery board by observing Enterprise, IT, DevOps, Delivery (DAD)
• ADKAR -Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement during change
• User journey- Review goal, research, touch point, empathy map, brainstorm, refine and share
• Total cost of Ownership Pre-Acquisition,operation,maintenance,downtime and end of life cycle
• Worked closely with Product owners in backlog management and continuous delivery for feature
• Coached development team and product owners during entire cycle of product delivery
• Improved squads in - Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability and for End Results
• Efficient in coaching Agile methodology - clarity on definition of READY (DOR) and DONE (DOD)
• Immensely transformed Waterfall teams to Agile through Scrumban framework
• Proficient in Story slice and Epic grooming-3C, INVEST, Split and Breaking story formats
• Excellent in Story Points estimation games-Comparing and Fibonacci formula
• Adapted Agile methodology for projects by emphasizing on Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Experienced with Large scale project deliveries and Cloud E-Commerce domain
• Experienced in launching the Agile Release Train (ART) at program level
• Encouraged teams to use Pair Programming, Refactoring and Continuous Integration (CI)
• Facilitated Agile rituals- Grooming, Planning, Daily standup, Review and Retrospective
• Experienced in time and cost estimation, activity and sequence planning for the projects
• Good Information radiator- Release burndown, sprint burn up and burn down
• Established Scrum values- Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect and Courage
• Excellent communicator possess negotiation skills, flexible, good at understanding the situation
• Experienced in Lewin’s 3 stage, Total cost ownership, Anti patterns and Journey map
• Followed Scrum’s principle Inspect & Adapt for team’s continuous improvement
• Good at grasping organization’s needs, excellent in sharing knowledge and life-long learner
• Vibrant to stretch long hours and travel long distances to cultivate Agile frameworks

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Methodologies: Kanban, Scrum-Ban, SAFe 4.5, Scaling at Scrum and Spotify, LeSS, XP, TDD, FDD, ATDD, BDD, Disciplined Agile, Lean, Cynefin, Refactoring and Collective Ownership.

Tools: Jira, Rally, TFS, VSTS, Version One, Confluence, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, BamBoo, Bitbucket, Pointing Poker, Docker, MS Project, MS Visio, Story mapping, Comparative Agility, GoReflect, CI, CD, Real-Time Metrics, Discovery map, Release plan and WSJF.

Skill: Nonviolent communication, A/B Testing, Innovation Games, Minimal Viable Product, Minimal Marketable Product, why squad don’t work, Supply chain managementRelative Sizing, KPIs-Scope-Time-Quality, DOR, DOD, A/B testing and Mentoring.

Technical Environment: Oracle, Java, MuleSoft, API, SDK, .NET, SAP-FI, AWS, MS Azure, MS AX and CRM, SQL, SSIS, SSRS, MS-BIDS, MS Power BI, Microservices, Decoupled and Service-oriented architecture, SoapUI, Cucumber, Selenium, csUnit, JUnit, JenkinsGit, Feature Toggles, Dev-Ops, MS Dynamics CRM, Informatica and e-commerce.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Agile frameworks - Scrum, SAFe and Kanban were implemented
• Cultivated team with Scrum principles & values, Scrum rituals and Scrum Artifacts
• Raised team to become self-organized and self-explorative
• Facilitated the squad for PI readiness by clarifying features, user stories and tasks
• Tracked sprint progress- Defects, Impediments, Spike, Blockers, Issues, Sprint help report
• Maintained Velocity, Burndown/up, CFD, Log error, Test & Code coverage and Defect resolution
• Migrated team from hours to story point estimation by guiding relative/complex estimations
• Captured Team’s Capacity planning for each iteration and for every PI
• Conducted Scrum of Scrum meetings and Organizational retrospective meetings
• Helped team to have Product vision, Program Increment goals and Sprint goals
• Conducted variety of Retrospective games to engage team and enhance bonding
• Encouraged team to execute TDD, Paired Program, Refactoring, Continuous Integration and CD
• Increased the Product backlog value with with effective Pre-Grooming and Grooming
• Enforced the creation of design document before proceeding to the sprint
• Fixed the distributed team conflicts by conducting various retrospective meetings
• Guided Product Owners to own SRS, DOR, Acceptance criteria and DOD
• Resolved conflicts by implementing Root cause, Retro, highlighting owner to solve problem
• Facilitated squads in pre-grooming, grooming, planning, daily stand up, review and retro
• Helped team to create quality user stories by using seven dimension of user stories
• Guided squad and product owners to user stories as INVEST and Discovery board methodology
• Increased the vision of writing test plan and test cases first to improve Quality in build
• PI Planning requirements used - Velocity, Capacity, Load, Risk, PI and Stretch objectives
• Facilitated squad members who are in Silo, Distributed, Dispersed and Cross functional teams
• Produced key metrics like burnup, burndown, cumulative flow, velocity and sprint backlog
• Prioritized user stories in product backlog with product owner as per the business value
• Cultivated prioritization for Return of Investment (ROI), Business value and Cost of delay
• Protected teams from Over committing and encouraged to have Input/Output documentation
• Encouraged Unit, Integration, Performance, Acceptance, Build validation and vulnerability tests
• Provided boundaries on story comparison and estimation to avoid over commitment in sprint
• Supported distributed squad norms, time zone, honor their holidays, culture difference
• Optimistically aligned the team to work passionately towards the program mission

Technologies and Tools: Angular, .Net, API- Application Programming Interface, VSTS, TFS, Selenium, Comparative Agility and GoReflect.

Confidential, Mooresville, NC

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Cultivated Scrum framework to teams
• Segregated the squads based on component, feature and domain
• Helped Product Owners to write well defined stories by splitting and breaking the stories
• Coached squad members on seven dimensions of story writing and invest methodology
• Created environment to become cross functional and self-organized teams
• Used Product Increment board to help Functional business leads on market delivery
• Improved Sprint planning meetings by keeping focus on time and precision on story selection
• Increased the visibility for the dependent stories by conducting follow up meetings
• Enhanced the KPI’s importance in the area of Time, Scope, Duration and Quality
• Helped squads in Definition of ready, DOD, NFRs, story selection and story estimations
• Used Pointing Poker for the squad who are Distributed, Dispersed and Silos
• Facilitated squad in pre-grooming, grooming, planning, daily stand up, review and retro.
• Identified issues in process, method, tools, technicalities and fixed them in each area
• Identified project risks and raised those proactively with escalations and frequent follow-ups
• Lean Practitioner - applied Agile practices and work based on its values, rules and artifacts
• Used SWOT techniques with PO - Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
• Created Sprint Health reports based on Defect, Impediment, Spike, Blocker and Watchlist
• Encouraged using Unit/Integration,User acceptance,Performance,Security and Build test cases
• Used Comparative Agility tools with teams to derive data for continuous improvement
• Used Jira portfolio to visualize the Epic, Features and managed the work
• Conducted Scrum of scrums (SOS) since the project team consists of over forty members
• Kept the Concept training and functional design documents ready before planning meetings
• Trained team to adapt to faster delivery by reducing the 4 weeks sprint to 2 weeks
• Worked closely with third party vendors Microsoft, Epam and Vertex for smooth delivery
• Coached Functional business lead, Functional consultant, Developers and BA to learn Agile
• Connected Legacy SMEs to load 250k Ecommerce products to MS Azure with commerce hub

Technologies and Tools: Microsoft AX and CRM, MS ERP, MS Azure, Microservice, MS-PowerBI, MS SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, MS-BIDS, MS Visio, MS Project, Atlassian-Jira, Structure, Dashboard and Pointing Poker.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Guided team to effectively utilize Scrum principle and Scrum values
• Conducted Agile workshops to Product Owners, Product Management and BAs
• Facilitated PI planning event as an RTE (Release Train Engineer)
• Levelled Work in progress (WIP) items to suffice Transaction cost and Holding cost
• Helped Product Owners to document Product vision/Release plan for the team to understand
• Conducted weekly Scrum brush-up sessions for Agile learning and lively discussions

Technologies and Tools: MuleSoft, Java, API- Application Programming Interface, SDK- Software development kit, MS Visio, Jira, Confluence, SoapUI, Cucumber, Unit testing, Junit and BRD lite.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Cultivated Agile frameworks - used Scrum, SAFe and Kanban
• Scaled using Spotify method and introduced TDD, CI, CD and Code Refactoring
• Extensively coached squads on Story and Epic grooming to avoid over commitment
• Launched the Agile Release Train (ART) at program level to achieve features
• Created operative user stories and acceptance criteria for user stories and defined "Done"

Technologies and Tools: .NET, MS SQL, SSIS, SSRS, MS-BIDS, MS Power BI, MS Project, MS Visio, Jira, VSTS, BamBoo, Pointing Poker, Cucumber, Encompass and Version One.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and coached Scrum & XP teams. Been Scrum master for two squads
• Established work life balance as possible for team members by stopping over commitment
• Added one extra week to the twelve weeks sprint for the squad to perform bug fixes
• Aided team to identify barriers and improve interpersonal communication

Technologies and Tools: Oracle, Java, SAP ERP, MS CRM, SSAS, SSRS, Rally, Jira, Cucumber, Selenium

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to manage the end to end project employing Scrum framework
• Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally
• Identified Sprint goals by closely tracking with POs and guided using Agile methodology

Technologies and Tools: Oracle, Java, SAP ERP, MS SQL, SSAS, MS Visio, VersionOne, TFS.

Confidential

Business System Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements, prepared Business requirement documents (BRD) and converted them into Functional design documents (FDD) technically with MS visio
• Introduced Scrum framework and explored a lot from inspect and adapt

Technologies and Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS SQL, SSRS, MS Dynamics CRM and Salesforce.