SUMMARY:

• Detailed oriented Value - driven certified Scrum Master with over 4 years of experience in leading teams in successful implementation of Agile
• Excellent skills in facilitating and conducting scrum events such as sprint planning, demo, Retrospectives, daily stand-up.
• Ability to present project milestones, updates and roadmaps to stakeholders
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency
• Act as change agent to drive continual adoption of Scrum and operational and technical excellence.
• Ability to manage multiple scrum teams simultaneously.
• Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• Proven success in leading and driving complex, time critical software development projects.
• Good team leader, Player and can work alone with minimal or no supervision.
• Good problem solving, judgment, and decision-making skill.
• Highly organized, functions well in a high-intensity, and constantly changing environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PM Tools: Jira & Confluence, Rally, TFS, MS Project, Sharepoint, Slack, Cisco Webex, Skype for Business

Microsoft Office Suite: Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio

Familial Technologies: Java, .NET, C, Swift, React, SQL, Python,Node.Js

Database Environments: RHEL, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Windows, Oracle 11g, Oracle RAC (11g), Data Guard, Oracle Grid Control, RMAN, ASM, STATSPACK, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, SQL Developer, TOAD, Data pump, SQL TRACE

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration - both inside and outside of team - allowing them to self-organize
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
• Articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team's environment and progress toward them
• Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
• Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria
• Proactively manage dependencies
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
• Actively and purposefully engage the customer throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Gather meaningful and effective feedback
• Serve as the main point of contact for the customer
• Manage customer expectations
• Leverage agile and other processes (Scrum/Kanban) for assessing and prioritizing work requests, organizing and decomposing requests into tasks, gathering functional requirements and success criteria, developing user stories and all other associated artifacts to backlog the task in preparation for development
• Support the product owner by maximizing the plan work while also protecting the development team from an over energetic product owner.
• Make sure the Sprint review happens and is attended by the right individuals and the outcome is recorded/Documented.
• Assisted the product owner with prioritization product backlog items.
• Supports the Product owner in the effort to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
• Organize and facilitate sprint demonstrations to end users, managers, and executives
• Review materials and operating procedures; participate in sessions
• Apply communication skills to communicate information effectively and professionally to stakeholders, managers, and delivery teams.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Removing roadblocks/impediments to teams' progress
• Ensuring that the development team's practice and adhere to the core agile principles of collaboration, self-organization, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Liaison between technical and non-technical departments.
• Communicating with developers, management, and Stakeholders on development issues and providing guidance for resolution.
• Assisting the team in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level
• Enacting change & continuous improvement to increase the productivity of the team and quality of deliverables
• Coaching the team in organizational environments in which scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood
• Support each team through the complete software development lifecycle using the Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Help team members to create effective User Stories, write acceptance criteria to know when a story is Done, and break down stories into sub-tasks.
• Support each Product Owner to refine and prioritize their Backlog and Epics in alignment with business goals.
• Schedule/facilitate Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Ensure that the highest priority items identified in the Sprint Retrospective are appropriately addressed
• Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software
• Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective.
• Ensure all participants understand the ceremony's purpose and keep to the time-box.

SQL Server DBA

Confidential, College park, MD

Environment: Oracle 10g, 11gR1,11g R2, 12c, RHEL 5/6/7, SOLARIS 10/11, IBM AIX, OEM, RMAN, Grid, RAC, ASM, Data-guard, DATAPUMP, RMAN, TOAD, TDE, Shell Scripting.

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in installing the oracle RDBM software, creating and configuring the databases (PROD, DEV, and TEST)
• Extensively used BMC Remedy, Citrix ticketing systems for resolving user request associated with database issues.
• Installed Oracle 12c database in the test environment and tested the upgrade from Oracle 11g to 12c.
• Worked on all database activities such as User management, space management and database security management on 10g, 11g and 12c databases on SOLARIS, LINUX and WINDOWS servers.
• Worked on administering 10 Production databases and more than 40 non-production databases of size ranging from 100GB to 5 TB on Solaris/AIX/LINUX servers.
• Performed high level Troubleshooting and Tuning, Written Shell Scripts for monitoring performance and health checks using scripts, AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL tuning advisors and OEM.
• Involved in writing UNIX shell scripts for backup and recovery, Import and export procedure, PL/SQL functions, procedures, packages and triggers.
• Hands on experience in creating new redo log groups on ASM and NON-ASM environment to resolve performance issues by extending the existing redo logs.
• Responsible for setting up environments like installing, maintaining Oracle 12c RAC, Standby databases for High availability and Disaster recovery, upgrading and configuring the Oracle environment by creating databases, storage structures and objects, database backup and recovery, monitoring and optimizing database performance
• Analyzed the user requirements, designed partitioned tables and created indexes for improving performance and manageability because many queries can prune partitions.
• Expertise in Oracle networking, Performed Daily Monitoring of Oracle Instances, monitor users, and table spaces, Memory Structures, Rollback Segments, Logs and Alerts.