Scrum Master Resume VA - Hire IT People

OBJECTIVE:

An experienced scrum master and a lean agile change agent with 5years of experience in financial and health department. Here I lead teams and organizations in implementing projects using different agile framework to meet robust market changes.
My main goal is creating a successful team with self - organization and cross functionality to drive continuous improvement. Coach my team on best practices and principle. Every team that I work with has a smooth sail from waterfall to scrum environment.
I identify impediments and resolve them in a timely manner which made everyone regard me Confidential my job as a great scrum master.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Scrum Master
Scrum, Kanban Principles, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Jira, Rally, confluence
Scrum Ceremonies and Product Backlog Grooming
User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration feedback, metrics and data when making decisions that align with project and organizational goals
Word, Excel, Power Point.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

Responsible to have all the required artifacts created to comply with the quality assurance audit process
Scrum master for 15 products, completed an average of 10% under budget
Coordinate and participated in weekly estimation meetings to prove high-level estimate story point for backlog items
Enforce Kanban usage, cutting circle time 25%
Improved team velocity be incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning session.
Act as a shield between the software development teams and any distracting influences
Ensure that the Scrum process is used as intended and continually improved
Conduct grooming meetings, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings
Enforce the rules of Scrum, facilitate key meetings, and challenge the teams to innovate
Help the team with the planning of the Sprints, prioritization of the sprint backlog, coordinate the development process, identify and eliminate obstacles that prevent the team from achieving their goals, prepare burndown charts, and ensure crystal clear communication among everyone involved in the project
Support the team through servant leadership in bringing them to a self-organized state
Utilized JIRA, CONFLUENCE and Rally

Scrum Master

Confidential, IRVING TX

Responsibilities:

Introduced Scrum and implemented across teams.
Led 2 scrum teams, working with cross-functional team to increase revenue from 1.5 million to 2.3 million in 2 years, slashing time to delivery 22%
Identified, removed and escalated impediments.
Proactively and effectively communicate in various verbal and written formats with internal and external stakeholders on project scope, budget, and schedule status of implementation
Employed Kanban to improve team velocity by 35%
Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Daily stand-up meeting, sprint planning, Backlog refinement, spring Demo, Retrospective)
Worked closely with the Product Owner to ensure that user stories were property written, groomed and prioritized on the backlog.
Assisted the Product owner and the Development Team in writing user stories using Story template and INVEST criteria.
Assisted the Development Team with estimation Techniques.
Encouraged the team to develop potentially shippable products, in a series of small, frequently updated versions.
Coordinates with the Project Owner in identifying and prioritizing user stories to identify those that would make up the Product Backlog; creates and documents acceptance criteria, estimation, and prioritization for product
Co-ordinated efforts of a 7-persons team for 8 projects

Confidential, Baltimore MD

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Successfully migrated more than projects from Waterfall to Scrum within a short period of time months.
Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organized and coached the team to higher levels of maturity, Confidential a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
Coached scrum principles and practices and ensure they were followed
Kanban and Scrum a team
Removed impediments or guided the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
Organized and led release planning for a delivery of group of multiple scrum teams.
Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.
Managed sprint backlogs, iterations as well as facilitating daily standup meetings.