SUMMARY:

• Holding 8 years of experience as Scrum Master with 14 years of total experience in IT Industry.
• Certified Scrum Master who Demonstrates Leadership through Example.
• Dynamic, result oriented and passionate about working towards bringing life to Agile values and Principles by successfully transforming teams from Waterfall to the Agile way of thinking and working.
• Looking forward to opportunities where I can apply my expertise in Coaching and Mentoring teams to effectively adapt and transform to Agile.
• Ability to garner respect from the Team, Stake holders and willing to get hands dirty to get the job done
• Ability to challenge status quo and grow every day. Ability to build trust and earn respect at all levels within the company.
• Easy to approach and Communicate well with teams, PO and other Stake holders.
• Ability to Lead and demonstrate value - add principles to the team in a collaborative way.
• Ensuring Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, raise voice of reason and authority, and make the tough calls whenever required.
• First person to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
• Carry high-energy, inspire others and radiate positive energy in the work environment.
• Continuously learning new tools and be on top of Agile blogs and forums
• Facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
• Lead a team to self-organization
• Strong desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust.
• Committed to maximizing value while minimizing waste, relentlessly curious, and dedicated to building a culture of continuous improvement and lean thinking
• Receptive and enthusiastic towards accepting ownership for accomplishing new and challenging assignments
• Ability to prioritize tasks, and quickly adjust in a rapidly changing environment.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Responsive problem solver with ability to take proactive actions.
• Ability to adapt, to be flexible, and to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to quickly establish credibility and rapport with technical team members.

SKILL SUMMARY:

Agile/Project Management tools: JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office suite. Organizations Internal Project Management tools.

Agile Methodologies, Engineering Practices: SCRUM, XP, Kanban, TDD, BDD, DDD

Programming: Core Java, Servlet, JSP, Struts, HTML, Javascript, XML, Web Service, AJAX, ColdFusion, CORBA.

Software Development Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban

Defect tracking tools: Rational Clear Quest, Clearcase, Jtrac, JIRA

Code Reviews and Continuous Integration tools.: PMD, Hudson, Jenkins.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, and demos.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution and building a trusting and safe environment.
• Help product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint / Technical prioritization of the stories / Bridge the gap between Core applications Team and Enterprise Partners
• Making sure the availability of DoR, DoD and Acceptance criteria for all user stories signed off with PO.
• Work closely with the Project Managers, Product Delivery Manager, Product Owner, and Technical Lead to assure that the work is strategically prioritized for value, risk mitigation and timely delivery.
• Facilitate high level planning to establish project baseline and sprint schedule for functional and non-functional stories.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of customer’s lifecycles, standards, and supporting processes and practices
• Provide support with risk management, release management, and facilitate release planning activities,
• Create and maintain information radiators and team tools: sprint board, burn-down charts, burn-up charts, progress dashboards, etc.
• Track metrics that are important to project success and continuous improvement
• Create reports as needed for Project Leadership including: progress, risks, dependencies, problems, delays, actions and decisions needed from leadership, etc.
• Conduct Scrum team training, retrospective workshops, and Lean software development workshops for infrastructure teams.
• Quality of Product: Ensure quality in deliverables, maintain and update impediment tracker on regular basis and own the impediments raised by the team, ensure no impact to deliverables for following Sprint’s.
• Support the development and execution plan to support the transformation to Agile methodology, including development of processes, templates, artifacts, training materials, and lessons-learned.
• Collaborate with Project Manager, Quality Analysts, and others in support of moving deliverables through the SDLC on-time and on-budget.
• Metrics Availability: JIRA and Confluence tool kept up to date with required reports populated on the dashboard which helps the skate holders to get required updates in one place.
• Act as safeguard for team, shielding from outside distractions and interferences.
• Conflict resolution, focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source.
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Provide support with risk management, release management, and facilitate release planning activities.
• Empower the teams to self-organize; improve the productivity of the sprint teams; ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable.
• Worke closely with Devops team and help in successful implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
• Team Building: Implementing creative team building ideas to bring in team harmony which leads to happy work environment, happy individuals and 100% productivity.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Agile Coach to Create, launch, and facilitate Agile collaborative groups, Communities of Practice, and Agile Working Groups.
• Conduct workshops on Agile, iterative process, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Pair Programming, etc.
• Participate in scrum of scrums, scrum master learning sessions, and release planning sessions as necessary.
• Facilitate the proper use of JIRA by teams to make it the source of truth and a useful tool for team members wherever they are located.
• Identify resource and skills gaps on teams to management in order to improve team performance.
• Resolve issues proactively with other scrum teams as needed; escalate to senior management as necessary.
• Embraced servant leadership and displayed the behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with Agile methods.
• Supported the Product Owner and Development Team in their quest to do everything possible to meet customer expectations.
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Removed impediments and guided the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Supported and educated the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coach the team on Agile values and practices while emphasizing continuous improvement.
• Enable individual project teams to share their learning with the organization.
• Track and ensure visibility of historical team metrics and progress of the iteration and release.
• Emphasize the need for incremental releases, iterative work and prioritization by value and risk.
• Assist with internal and external communication by transparently radiating information.
• Partner with project leads to ensure the team is producing a solution that meets established standards, procedures and practices.
• Collaborated with project leads to aggressively address issues, risks and mitigation plans.
• Instilled a sense of urgency by reflecting the goals for the current iteration, upcoming release, and project vision, while passionately emphasizing the importance of meeting these goals.
• Optimize, increase and sustain throughput; ensuring prioritization of work by value and risk.
• Collaborative in driving decisions and team behavior, guarding against making decisions and assignments for the team and instead creates and environment where teams have the context needed to make the best decision.
• Ensure iteration-based meetings are effectively facilitated, the outcomes are achieved and their cadence is maintained.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking.
• Proactively identified and removed blockers, limited work in progress and prevented distractions.
• Facilitated frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements.
• Identified, created opportunities for expediting feedback throughout the iteration.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Along with technical lead role, took additional responsibility as Scrum Master and started implementing Scrum Practices for team.
• Actively learned Agile, Scrum by participating in training’s conducted by “ Confidential Agile Wing”.
• Participated in Multiple Agile workshops conducted by Agile Coach to transform my mindset from Waterfall to Agile way of thinking and working.
• Run sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, backlog grooming and regular standup meetings.
• Teach and Drive the use of Good Agile/Scrum practices for teams, such as user story writing, definition of done, team estimation, timely JIRA updating, etc.
• Conducted regular training and workshop for team to show case the value of Agile.
• Involved in setting up of Agile software development working infrastructure for Scrum teams from Scratch.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with project stakeholders, SMEs, and staff to understand the requirements and specifications for new applications along with re-engineering the existing applications.
• Preparing business requirements documents (BRDs), system requirements specifications (SRS), system design specification (SDS), functional specifications, and defining project plans.
• Experienced in analysis and design of applications using OOAD techniques, UML and Design Patterns
• Hands on experience with Confidential Rational Software integrated tools like Requisite Pro, Rational Rose for requirements management and analysis use case development, business and data modeling.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process (SDLC) at all stages.
• Performing Gap analysis, Risk analysis, and Cost/Benefit analysis.
• Conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and verifying performance, reliability and fault tolerance issues. Also familiar with testing tools to develop test plans.
• Preparing daily workloads for staff & coordinating the daily allocation of work.
• Monitoring & reporting on standards & performance targets.
• Arranging & chairing weekly team meetings, focusing on targets & achievements.
• Involved in the recruitment of new staff.
• Ensuring all administrative and IT records are entered and updated correctly.
• Providing prompt and accurate information on individual performance.
• Building enterprise wide, Client/Server, Internet/Intranet application software using Java, J2EE technologies.
• Mitigating technical risks at the earliest by analyzing and executing feasibility studies on different technologies against the use cases.
• Ensuring the product quality by conducting code and document reviews.
• Preparing Unit test case documents and perform unit, system testing.