Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY

Extensive experience as a Scrum Master, actively working to shield and protect development teams from distractions, failure, and impediments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Leading and monitoring the daily Scrum, working closely with the Business Outcome Owner while collaborating with the business and the Scrum team.
This position will be responsible for mentoring Agile practices on the development team; and works closely with subject matter experts to lead project efforts and build solutions for a high - volume, high-availability cloud-based system.
Organizing and facilitating project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress.
Removing roadblocks/impediments to teams' progress
Ensuring that the development team's practice and adhere to the core agile principles of collaboration, self-organization, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
Liaison between technical and non-technical departments.
Communicating with developers and Business Outcome Owners on development issues and providing guidance for resolution.
Assisting the team in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
Assisting with backlog maintenance, prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.

Confidential - Westborough, MA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Remove team impediments and coach scrum team(s) to allow for best - in-class solutions to emerge, and meet the business goals.
Build strong relationships with business divisions and departments; represent, champion and further the goals and opportunities of teams in support of assigned initiatives.
Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective meetings ensuring correct use of scrum practices
Forecast the numbers of deliverables that are possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable
Leverage JIRA or other tool capabilities to allow for transparent visualization of project execution
Coach team members in Agile practices according to the Agile mindset of individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
Help team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.
Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences.
Track and remove impediments.
Contribute to building a culture where continuous improvement of the development process is a focus with a common goal to deliver outstanding software as fast as possible.
Coach teams facing tough challenges
Actively identify areas of improvement and conceptualize methods on how to be more efficient
Performs additional duties as required.

Confidential - Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Serve as a business analyst for the accounting and tax team;
Work closely with client leadership and technical team to identify current and future data trends / issues / resolutions
Act as a Project Manager when required, by ensuring a portion of a project is moving a necessary
Work within the ITIL framework
Create BRD, FRD; WBS, project plans and other commonly used documents.
Create/propose solution to problem statements (in terms of both technical as well as functional)

Confidential - Boston, MA

Tax Analyst

Responsibilities:

Analyze tax forms and related laws to ensure our software is kept current
Design the client interface, such as input/output screens, in our tax products
Implement changes to our existing tax software products
Write and/or communicate design and system flow specifications for software engineers
Test software products
Write help documentation and work with technical writers to implement into the software
Provide phone support to our customers during peak season

Confidential

Tax consultant

Responsibilities:

Collecting, organizing and preparing tax documents and returns.
Evaluating a client's financial and legal circumstances to determine tax liabilities.
Assisting clients with tax issues during and after a significant life transition, such as a marriage, divorce, death of a spouse or birth of a child.
Completing complex tax forms and schedules that most tax preparers are unfamiliar with.
Representing a client in dealings with the IRS or other tax collection agencies.