PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Seasoned and versatile Agile Practitioner in Software Development with a track record in delivering and leading Agile projects. Extensive knowledge in multiple Agile methodologies, Expert at driving the adoption of Scrum principles and best practices using several techniques that encourages collaboration and foster self-organizing teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile Techniques: TDD, Continuous Integration & Improvement, CD, FDD

Agile frameworks: Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban Principles and more

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Rally, Azure Devops (Visual Studio), Version one

Communication Tools: Google hangouts, Slack, Trello, Skype, Ms. Teams, Zoom

Other Tools: Notepad++, Ms. Project, MS. SharePoint, Snagit, Camtasia.

Team Locations: Co-located/Distributed

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Protected team from over-commitment; managed backlog and prioritized resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery.
• Coordinated the work efforts of 3 teams simultaneously and 7-person per team. Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
• Managed both co-located and distributed team members.
• Worked with customers and product owner to prioritize and validate requirements.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness of Scrum & Kanban application in the organization.
• Participated in the Scrum of Scrum (SOS)
• Develop, manage, monitor and report on all project/program tasks, activities, expectations, controls and deliverables; and/or provide management and oversight
• Ensure backlog remains healthy and necessary for the business.
• Monitor, manage and track issues on Agile software environment using MS tools and Azure Devops
• Quickly became the recognized Azure DevOps expert within Confidential.
• Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Resolved a complex infrastructure issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads within the project.
• Managed scrum & Kanban agile methodology team as scrum master, using Azure DevOps dashboards and helped team to keep up burn down chart.
• Helped build a re-usable automated process framework, saving infrastructure initiation costs on any future project and speeding up the development-to-production cycle.
• Coached and managed teams in utilized Kanban for visual workflow management by limiting Work In Process and tracking progress
• Report status on Agile metrics, milestones, and deliverables

Confidential, North America

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for helping with agile transformation on team level at Confidential
• Assisted to develop and delivered team and organization Scrum training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
• Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
• Initiate scrum methodology and Agile Framework for team members.
• Quickly became the recognized JIRA expert within BWM making sure I assist team members on using the tool.
• Coached team on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.
• Coach the team on different skill set to engage in Scrum.
• Coached on Agile, SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, and Jira at a large social networking startup during an Agile transition
• Championed cultural change and collaborated with other Scrum masters on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's transformation.
• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency.
• Provided reporting at the team and line-of-business (LOB) level on team performance against agile measurements.
• Facilitate Sprint planning Events, Daily Scrum Events, Sprint Review and Retro to maintain the entire team activities and engagement.
• Formulated document artifacts in JIRA including epics, user stories and other design deliverables.
• Managed burndown charts and motivated team members working toward goals
• Mediated conflicts, fostering team and coached individuals improving team dynamics
• Worked with stakeholders and product owner developing release plans
• Assisted product owners and business analysts with backlog creation and grooming.
• Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership.
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.

Confidential, Washington DC

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked together with other Scrum Masters to build an Agile Book of Knowledge guide to help educate the organization on Scrum practices
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum to provide updates on progress, impediments and cross-team dependencies.
• Create and maintain Artifacts and Information Radiators such as Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown.
• Assisted team members on the usage of Rally.
• Resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation reasoned discussion, or escalation.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, Grooming sessions, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Worked with product owners to prioritize and validate User Stories
• Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
• Ensure continuous improvement monitoring backlogs
• Helped the product owners to come up with a set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development
• Strong technical command of management tools; Rally

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.
• Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories.
• Strong Understanding and usage of Version One
• Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily QA activities to be productive and growing inability
• Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings
• Focused on developing a more trusted and a collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution
• Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Confidential, Washington DC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.
• Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company lots of money
• Modeled the detailed design of the system using Use Case Diagrams.
• Performed gap analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Driving the development/integration of products/solutions of Infrastructure & Core Banking Tracks.