PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Certified and experienced Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering high - quality software, on-time with more than 7 years of experience as a Scrum Master and Agile practices, which makes it easier to collaborate with teams of talented product developers.
• Generated new and unique solutions and embraced new ideas that helped sustain businesses; collaborated with systems, customers and other stakeholders; created inspection innovations that shielded and protected development teams from distractions, failures, and impediments.
• Over 7 years of experience as the Scrum Master for several software development teams that diligently applied Agile methodologies to deliver pipelines of JAVA, Ruby, PHP, Python, .NET, C/C++, Perl projects.
• Knowledgeable in various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach, such as: numerous Burn-down technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.
• Proficient in utilizing various Agile metrics, such as: Team Velocity, Burn-Down Chart, Burn-Up Charts, Sprint Report, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Version Report, Technical Debt Management, Actual Stories Completed vs. Committed Stories, and other Agile Metrics and KPIs.
• Proficient in widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, BDD, TDD, FDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous Delivery, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, coaching, risk management, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Coaching Product Owners on smarter strategies for value creation and maximization, which helped many clients become more profitable through greater value offering to end-users.
• Building high performing cross-functional and self-organizing teams while growing a healthy, collaborative, and continuously improving engineering culture.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Improving communication between development teams and collaborate with stakeholders to increase the team's velocity by adopting the lessons learned from each retrospective.
• Facilitating backlog grooming sessions for agile team to review and estimate the user stories for upcoming Iterations (Sprints).
• Facilitating and leading the Iteration Planning Meetings (IPM), Daily Stand-Ups, Iteration Review/Demo (Technical and Business), Retrospective meetings and ensured each Scrum event is time-boxed and delivers value to meet the Iteration goals.
• Removing impediments and obstacles as well as driving continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution and building skills and capabilities.
• Negotiating with Product Owners in backlog management for scope creeps and continuous delivery
• Assist in defect tracking and coordinating with developers to quickly resolve the defects associated with them.
• Working with RTE in preparing Draft PI plan, for Program increments and Facilitation of team breakouts during PI planning meetings, to come up with team PI objectives
• Leading the team to live with Agile core values and delivered the successful software to production with built-in-quality.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Stamford, Connecticut

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for Scrum teams that delivered high-quality Enterprise mobility solutions.
• Worked with SAFe Agile development team to execute the Sprint Build as per the Features/User stories planned for each release.
• Supported Business Analysts in the gathering of requirements from Business teams for Development and Test planning.
• Worked closely with Product Owners to groom Product Backlogs, and helped them to maximize the value of their products.
• Coached teams, and facilitated Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Supervised writing User Stories, Acceptance Criteria with Stakeholders ensuring they met stakeholders’ expectations.
• Coached teams on removing impediments empowering them to become self-organizing.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban).
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum teams.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Austin. Texas

Responsibilities:

• Led as the Scrum Master for teams that delivered the following projects (using Scrum, Kanban).
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
• Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum teams.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Served as the Scrum Master on a Data Analytics, Synchronization, Storage and Management project
• Led product implementation to meet business needs for Transaction Processing, Workflow, and Process Automation
• Facilitated sprint events on a Scrum project that built Mobile Applications, Mobile Platforms, and Communication Services for Confidential
• Collaborated with Product Owners and team members to define solutions and drive progress.
• Led multiple medium-scale Retail projects (for HEB, CVS, and Safeway) as a Scrum Master

Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders, including project contributors, business, operational and technical resources.
• Analyzing requirements, Test case design, Test Execution (Manual, Automation).
• Interacted with client companies and other service company personnel to ensure overall project objectives are understood and met
• Provided external customers with relevant information regarding job progress, problems, and solutions and provided accurate job data
• Coaching new team members for project induction.
• Recorded operational data and completed relevant job documentation, analyzed and interpreted well site data; and prepared status reports.
• Performed in-depth investigations of data problems employing statistical skills and developing predictions
• Served at various opportunities as Squad and Platoon leader.
• Trained military personnel for combat readiness.
• Supervised and maintained the security of highly sensitive equipment, materials, records, logs, and reports.