SUMMARY

• A Professional Scrum Master with servant leadership skills and a proven track record of successfully managing and delivering large and complex software development projects while building a self - organizing team and coaching the team on agile principles and values.
• Worked with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints.
• Track, escalate and remove impediments.
• Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings and create a friendly environment for the scrum team to easily collaborate on achieving sprint goal.
• Track burn down issues and progress in visual tool.
• Work with component teams to resolve issues.
• Work experience as Scrum Master, Business Analyst in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Requirements Elicitation and Documentation, Waterfall and Agile Methodologies, Distributed (Remote) and Co-located Teams.
• Conducted Stakeholder analysis for thorough understanding of the process and various roles and responsibilities of the team members.
• Solution-driven expert with exceptional problem-solving, multitasking, and decision-making skills.
• Strong ability to work independently and in team environment to establish excellent relationships.
• Resolve Team conflict, motivate cross-functional teams, and understand project objectives to produce high-quality deliverables.
• Project Status Reporting for internal and external stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Methodologies: Agile (Scrum and Kanban), Waterfall.

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Rally, Visual Studio, MS Project, MS Visio Core Competencies Agile Principles, Agile Scrum Coaching, Business and Technical Requirements Documentation, Product Strategy and Design.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and participate in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Develop and follow agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies).
• Facilitate build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
• Conduct Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings and assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Determine the team capacity (velocity) from historical data.
• Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
• Improve team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Work with product owners to prioritize and validate User Stories
• Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
• Monitor the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders.
• Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
• Communicate the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts'.
• Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team through the project management processes and provide all support to team using servant leadership style.
• Accountable for guiding, coaching, training in scrum methodologies and assisting the team in Scrum / Agile principles and driving process improvement.

Scrum Master

Confidential, SAN ANTONIO, TX

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 33 major initiatives.
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Engaged client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams
• Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.
• Evaluated risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company lots of money
• Identified and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.
• Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.
• Facilitated monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.
• Provided executives with analytics and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies.
• Partnered with developers to automate manual processes, saving time and money while decreasing errors.
• Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment.
• Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.