SUMMARY

• Certified scrum master with over 4 years’ experience as a scrum master and 2 years of experience as a systems administrator.
• Climbing the ladder of technology with open source and agile methodology, outstanding in the agile environment and responsible for working with teams to better secure applications and products.
• Possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a great ability to collaborate with other team members. Advanced in all aspects of Microsoft Office suite 2016 at the latest.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and other Scrum ceremonies. Also tasked with - analyzing and tracking agile metrics to optimize project delivery
• Facilitating bi-weekly grooming sessions to provide high-level priorities and estimates (Story Points) for product backlog items
• Constantly Communicating projects' Agile transformation progress via weekly updates to management highlighting successes, risks, areas of improvement, and suggested resolutions
• Facilitated documenting, publishing and executing the team's continuous improvement plan for high process improvement items (based on retrospectives)
• Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/ Scrum practices and values for continues delivery of features.
• Assists in the planning, execution, and analysis of user acceptance testing to ensure test cases and completed user stories meet Acceptance criteria and Definition of Done
• Planning and tracking work with Rally, using confluence for daily collaboration and documentation of requirements, meeting notes and retrospectives
• Supporting the transformation of Beyond Finance IT services from waterfall to agile, helping in the formation of new Agile teams through training, establishment of norms and coaching throughout project lifecycle
• Coaching development teams to become self-organized, cross-functional and highly efficient while delivering high quality software
• Participated in the implementation of Beyond Finance's Agile strategy and setting in place Key Performance Indicators to monitor project goals and deliverables.
• Collaborated with team and project leaders to identify and resolve impediments and risks impacting the continues delivery of value.

Confidential, Maryland

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate backlog grooming, Kanban workflow management, and team retrospectives
• Facilitate meetings, planning, review, demo, standup, working sessions
• Utilized what works best for the team as best practices to help the team increase delivery
• Assertive in keeping meetings focused and team on track
• Able to weigh in and guide the scrum team in the correct direction, must be able to assist the team in incremental development
• Worked with scrum team in identifying and removing impediments, clearing dependencies and escalating risks to enable a constant workflow and delivery
• Notice/ recognize issues are present and escalate as necessary
• Instill an atmosphere of continual improvement within the team
• Coached the scrum team to be self-organizing while adhering to department culture and standards
• Coached the scrum team define acceptance criteria and review that story meets the Definition of Done along with complete stories
• Perform production readiness review
• Facilitated and engage other teams to ensure excellent transparency and communication as needed to ensure dependencies are cleared and the completion of work.
• Experience working in various team delivery models including both waterfall and Agile

Confidential, New York

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the Product Backlog grooming meeting and helped Interacted with Business, Product owners, and stakeholders to gather requirements.
• Helped product owner with backlog grooming and reprioritization, define project scope and objectives, and model business processes and workflow.
• Facilitated all Agile ceremonies including stand up meeting, sprint planning and tracking project progress using Agile tool
• Led team through sizing of user stories, burndown chart, and used Rally for managing backlog
• Facilitated the Daily stand up (Daily Scrum) meeting to monitor workflow and removed roadblocks
• Participated in creating a new template for the functional design document and data files
• Proficient with Jira in managing progress of each task per user stories using Agile / Scrum methodology
• Worked with Product Owner and Stakeholders to formulate and define system scope and objectives based on both user needs and an understanding of information technology, business processes, and industry requirements
• Designed and developed templates for functional design which included questionnaire and tabs for each requirements specifications, analysis, and testing
• Facilitated sessions with developers for project development of big data projects, and translate requirements into technical specifications
• Resolved local impediment and escalated the impediments to relies train engineer whenever needed
• Helped employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum framework

Confidential, Bethesda MD

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate team retrospectives, as requested, and help the team identify opportunities for improvement with a plan of action.
• Coach and assist product owners in best practices for managing and organizing the product backlog
• Establish and communicate the annual team sprint ceremonies and milestones calendar
• Coach team members on Agile principles and provide guidance on scrum methodology
• Proactively facilitate decision-making, issue resolution and consensus among the team members and dependent teams
• Support and empower the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building 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.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Empower the team to self-organize around achieving their sprint goals
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practices where appropriate
• Manages team risk, dependencies and all cross-domain collaboration
• Participate in SOS ceremonies to communicate and mitigate risk, escalate blockers, and drive progress on cross-team dependencies
• Create metrics to provide teams and the organization with relevant feedback.
• Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and Development Team in their quest to do everything possible to meet customer expectation

Confidential, Maryland

Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Creating and managing user accounts. For example, setting password aging and account expiration.
• Creating groups and adding group id to group as primary or secondary
• Group or removing user id from groups.
• Configuring and implementing network resources on an LDAP Server on the Linux system.
• Create configure and maintain logical volumes.
• Install new /rebuild existing servers.
• Managing Red hat packages.
• Kick start installation
• Create configure and maintain logical volumes.
• Monitoring the system logs on remote machines.