Scrum Master Resume Houston, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Strategic Agile Transformation Consultant, with well over 18 years expertise in Project & Program Management experience in managing software development projects, product development & accelerated adoption, to deliver business value, improve processes and maximize team potential as well as product quality and efficiency.
Coached and mentored lean agile principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks.
Recognized Agile Champion with Confidential in driving the transformation agenda within the organization in adopting an Agile Mindset.
Successfully guided multiple work - streams simultaneously through transition from Waterfall to Agile development approach within 6 months at Confidential .
Assisted with lowering project execution time by 20% for Confidential PLC by streamlining procedures, implementing KPIs, and improving communication among engineers and stakeholders.
Team Lead on establishing the Project Management Office at Confidential Bank and creation of IT suite.
Recognized for providing strategic leadership on a high-profile projects and programs ($500K-$15M) in planning, designing, executing, automating, and reporting for personal investments, workplace investments, and managed accounts products.

SKILLS:

Expertise in SDLC methodologies - Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Kanban
Strong technical command of project management tools - Rally, TFS, JIRA/Confluence, Version One, MS Project, MS Office Suite
Well versed in Project control software, version control and collaborating tools - SharePoint, Primavera P6
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams
Strategic Planning & Execution; Process Optimization and Release Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Facilitate the estimation of work and efforts for “Story & Tasks” and helped the team to update their time against original estimate in JIRA, to keep track on each story’s efforts.
Serving as an Agile Coach and mentor to teams on adoption and improving agile methods and practice.
Facilitate Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, Retrospective and Release Planning events.
Help remove team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals.

Confidential

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Managed a project with multiple teams for the managed accounts and big data products - Private Wealth management, Sterling Portfolio Planner, Electronic Trading Functions, Portfolio advisory services Mobile applications, Rep Profile, and Customer notification.
Worked with the Business, Product Owner, Senior Management, and Release Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize the backlogs, and to develop the sprint release plan.
Facilitated Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, and Retrospective meetings for managed accounts and customer rep profile projects.
Tracked and communicated the team status and progress to the business, product stakeholders, vendors, squads, and executives via JIRA Dashboards - task report, burn up & burn down charts.
Served as an IT Project management liaison to the business client, and performed hands-on analysis of the business and technical environments.

Confidential

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

Partnered with development and cross-functional teams to define Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment strategy.
Participated in the change management and process improvement initiatives as well as provide recommendations to improve/enhance existing procedures and controls.
Prepared and Managed Implementation/Release Plan, Business continuity, and Disaster Recovery plan documents using MS Project.
Maintain excellent communication regarding project/program status and priorities with sponsors, driving planning and tracking of tasks, schedule, resources, dependencies and success criteria.

Confidential

Project Coordinator / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Conducted project presentations and coordinated with all project stakeholders to make sure that appropriate project controls are instituted, and developed federally required documents, procurement documents and project status documents.