SUMMARY:

Accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile Principles
• Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
• Communication
• Relative Estimation
• Project Management
• Story-Based Development
• Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings
• Conflict Resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Glen Allen, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Agile/Scrum Framework Discipline for the Datawarehouse Project for the Data & Analytics Program.
• Facilitation and execution of Scrum Ceremonies to ensure that Scrum processes are adhered throughout the Datawarehouse Project.
• Coaching and mentoring another scrum team in our product team. Ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams.
• Create and Manage Scrum lean documentation in the form of User Stories to define the scope of work for the Datawarehouse project
• Communicate the Project status updates to project stakeholders by Agile Governance reporting using the CA agile central tool (Formerly known as Rally)
• Assessing the readiness of the team and organization leading to coaching the team to higher level of maturity, at pace that is sustainable for organizational development.
• Facilitating getting work done via discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and develop a collaborative culture.
• Analyzing and transforming the source data model from the Legacy Application into the Datawarehouse solution to fulfill Data Analytics Program analytical and reporting needs.
• Creating Data Modelling and Data Mapping documents for each source application from the Data Analytics program.
• Assisting the Release Management Process and Operational Readiness tasks.
• Participation in Lead agile transformation events and initiatives at the enterprise level.
• Reaching out to a larger company network for impediment removal and take responsibility for managing dependencies between our team and third parties, release managers or between our team and other scrum teams.
• Report Key delivery team decision back to Business users and take feedback to aid in team development.
• Maintain close working relationships with product owner and shield outside influences that may impact team success.

Environment: Windows 10, Scrum, Scrum-Kanban, XP, Crystal, .Net, Oracle, Rally, Confluence, MS Paint, MS Word, MS Excel, Watson, Box, AWS, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, SharePoint 2010, RTM, Excel, UDeploy, Github, CICD.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.).
• Facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of agile processes, principles, and practices.
• Providing high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close co-operation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace
• Stepped up as a Scrum Master for two teams and since the project involved Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) so collaboratively interacted with Scrum Masters from other teams.
• Providing training to fellow Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Teams (i.e., individual and workshops).
• Identifying the projects that can be run in Agile as Pilot.
• Guiding other Scrum Masters on becoming better at facilitation and focusing teams on completing tasks.
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers and how to get the most out of self-organization.
• Estimations - Planning Poker, complexity bucket & T-shirt sizes.
• Metrics - Team Velocity, User stories completion rate/ratio, Sprint closure, Burn-down/up charts, Team capacity in hours.
• Work with senior leaders to define strategies and roadmaps for transitioning to Lean/Agile practices (SAFe).
• Worked on a project in Scrum Framework using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Interacted with Release Train Engineer (RTE) and other Scrum Masters during Scrum of Scrum to discuss the status and track dependencies (SAFe).
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Responsible for communicating program performance to program management office - include areas such as onboarding, training, sprint plan, deliverable signoff, monitoring velocity, backlog, project cost management.
• Adopting Scrum &Kanban frameworks (Visual Workflow, Limit Work in Process (WIP), Measure and Improve)
• Conducting Daily Stand up calls with the teams to get the updates on team’s progress.
• Conducting Collaboration call after the Daily Stand ups for the team members to discuss on their technical issues and concerns to work on the user stories.
• Leading teams in implementing Scrum to maximize velocity. Worked with Product Owner to ensure highest value features are delivered at agreed time.
• Assisted team to decompose the story into technical tasks.
• Prioritized product backlog for grooming and sprint planning while product owner was absent.
• Creation & Implementation of agile best practices (Product vision, Backlog Prioritization, CI, BDD approach, Regular refactoring, Promotion check-lists, Simple design, Code review/approval, War-room, small release cycles, document late, time-box, Scrum of Scrums, coding standard etc.)
• Creating and managing user stories using Jira Agile Management Tool.
• Using Confluence to create team Calendars, plan projects and events and schedule team leaves and rosters.
• Communicating with release management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.
• Conducting 3 Amigos Meeting with the Business Analyst, Dev and QA lead to develop a shared understanding of the expected behavior of the features and identified tasks.
• Removing impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Environment: Windows 10, Scrum, Scrum-Kanban, XP, Crystal, .Net, Oracle, Jira, Confluence, HIPAA EDI, X-12 MS Paint, MS Word, MS Excel, Watson, Box, AWS S3, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, SharePoint 2010, RTM, Excel, TOAD.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Mentored and coached 2 teams which were new to Agile and Scrum
• Successfully led the development in all the phases of the agile development- Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt and Close.
• Led strategic Release Planning and tactical Iteration Planning sessions.
• Created User stories with Acceptance criteria's in Rally for technical implementation.
• Worked with Product Owner on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burn down, and Release Burn down.
• Helped the organization in agile transformation from traditional Waterfall methodology.
• Participated in Product Increment Planning to determine dependencies and coordinate with other teams to identify risks and dependencies.
• Facilitated scrum of scrum meetings with Agile Release train engineer.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Backlog Grooming, Daily stand ups, Sprint planning meeting, Review and Retrospectives).
• Communicated and presented weekly updates to stakeholders and program managers.
• Coordinated software development with product and marketing groups to ensure feature release based on manufacturing commitments.
• Developed the roadmap for all teams to evolve toward predictive velocities.
• Brought in Agile best practices such as time boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training resulting in realized velocity improvement.
• Coached and mentored agile team members and provided constructive performance feedback to help with organizations’ transition from traditional waterfall methodology to agile scrum.
• Effectively managed change by deploying change management techniques such as Change Assessment, Impact Analysis and Root Cause Analysis.

Environment: Windows 10, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Java, Oracle, Rally, MS Paint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, SharePoint 2010, RTM, Excel, TOAD.

Confidential, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a Scrum Master for the team with a focus on guiding the team towards improving the way they work.
• Assisting team to remove impediments by understanding the control and release processes.
• Conducting and Facilitating Daily Scrum Call with the offshore team.
• Working closely with the Business team to facilitate interaction between the business team and technical team.
• Working with the Product Owner to create Product Backlog.
• Helping team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.
• Ensuring all the sprint activities are recorded in the Rally tool.
• Engage with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Facilitating the work done without coercion, assigning and dictating the work.
• Helping team to solve problems rather than provide solutions.
• Interfacing with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met.
• Organizing and facilitating project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example.
• Participated in Program Increment Planning (PI Planning).
• Removing impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Taking responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks.
• Tracking and effectively communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.

Environment: Scrum, SAFe, SharePoint, Rally, UML, UML, Facets, Oracle DB, SQL, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the IT Business Analysts in creating Support and Admin Guide (SAG)
• Involved in updating the chapters in the Support and Admin Guide per the format given by the business to be used by all the regions.
• Worked on Rally during the project.
• Framed the Requirements into User stories by conducting a story writing session with the product owner.
• Used INVEST model to write user stories.
• Prioritized the user stories with the help of the product owner using MOSCOW and Planning Poker Techniques.
• As a Scrum Master, I was responsible for facilitating the Sprint ceremonies and helped the scrum development team in resolving impediments.
• Maintained Sprint Burndown Charts throughout the sprints to track the velocity of the team.
• Assisted in Claims Dashboard for the business users by using requirements elicitation techniques such as face to face interviews, group sessions, Questionnaires and surveys.
• Conducted requirements gathering session with the team of business analysts working on the business side and providing required information to the developers on reporting team.
• Worked on the Business Objects tool to create new reports and update existing BRDs and provide them to the developers.
• Handled the change requests coming from the business users and getting new requirements and ensure that the developers have sufficient information to work on the change requests.

Environment: MS SQL, Windows XP, Requisite Pro, Clear Case, UML, Business Objects, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Excel