PROFILE:

Experienced Scrum Master with over nine years of experience in the IT Industry with versatile, cross - platform experience in Agile software development methodology, project management, software testing, and SAFe/Agile framework for diverse clients in finance, healthcare, and other industries. Able to successfully lead and motivate development teams for optimum productivity. With over seven years’ experience facilitating agile practices, in the delivery of enterprise applications through multiple release cycles. Strong ability to lead teams, coach/mentor team effectively. Quick thinking and self-motivated leader and a team player, Plan to continue to apply my skills and expertise to fill the Scrum Master role in different organizations.

SKILL:

• Solid experience leading Scrum event; Planning, Daily Scrum, Review/Demos and Retrospective
• Shrink and Time Management
• Experience with other Agile methodologies such as: Jira, XP, Kanban, and FDD.
• Knowledgeable with eCommerce Agile development, story creation, rally tracking, bug management, and test coordination.
• Experience with Agile techniques such as user Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Agile, sprint activities, daily standups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and sprint release planning. Assisting product owner to make sure that the product backlog is in good condition. Collaborating with the product owner and the team to get good estimation for the sprint.
• Enable improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks, which increase customer satisfaction.
• Facilitate agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guide teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.
• Coordinate and participate in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Utilize JIRA to track issues and manage product and sprint backlogs.
• Work with scrum masters and Product owners ensure transparency at all levels on Jira.
• Facilitated Scrum events as requested or needed; coaching the development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum was not yet fully adopted and understood.
• Facilitated scrum sprint planning, grooming, daily stand-ups, retrospectives and demos.
• Tracked and communicated scrum team capacity/velocity.
• Ensured the development teams practiced within the Agile framework.
• Introduced and implemented the scrum process across multiple teams in my organization.
• Experience using Jira/Confluence collaboration tools, excellent problem-solving skills, strong analytical skills, detail-oriented
• Identified, removed and escalated impediments that were unable to be resolved within the scrum team.
• Coach and assist team in internalizing the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto.
• Coach/Supervise all Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, daily stand ups.
• I am involved in day to day work with Dev teams, Scrum Masters, and Product Owner.
• Helped the organization adopt Agile by starting up and setting up Agile teams for them.
• Performed extensive work with Dev. teams on new product development/engineering and assisted them in slicing epic, features, and create right sized user-stories.

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams
• Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management
• Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process
• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices
• Removes impediments to the team’s ability to perform.
• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution
• Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics. Assist the team in PI planning, prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams
• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement. Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination.
• Attending and facilitating risks meetings with upper management.
• Coaching and teaching the team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments.
• Successful guide assigned teams through the Implementation Roadmap in SAFE.
• Understand and teach roles and responsibilities of the SAFe framework
• Familiar with and can teach/coach SAFe/Agile ceremonies.
• Experience with other Agile methodologies such as Jira.

Confidential, Allington, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Made sure the scrum team was cross functional and self-organized with continuous educating the team on agile and scrum practices
• Engaged with other scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
• Protect teams from distraction so they can focus on the work they initially committed for the current sprint
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Utilized Jira for metrics/reports, user stories and defect tracking.
• Facilitate Agile, sprint activities, daily standups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and sprint release planning. Assisting product owner to make sure that the product backlog is in good condition. Collaborating with the product owner and the team to get good estimation for the sprint.
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers

Confidential, Washington, DC

Scrum Master/Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Support the Product Owner in grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Track and communicate team status and progress via burnup and burndown charts, as well as other information radiators, to the team, management, and stake holders ensuring it accurately reflects current state.
• Function as a Scrum Master within inter-organizational collaboration and working with multiple-development teams designing UI/UX/accessibility, web management server and the creation and maintenance of mission-critical web-based software applications and high visibility/high demand websites through the use of Agile/Scrum framework and Kanban methodology.
• Facilitate the scrum teams, work with Product Owners to define the product backlog and priorities, and work to implement standards and best practices within the Project Management team.
• Improved the scrum team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Enhanced user stories creation, requirements gathering, and product increment review.
• Prolific with daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
• Stakeholders/subject matter expert interaction and other aspects of projects to iteratively take them from kickoffs to the final delivery and maintenance.
• Coach roles across entire Agile Release Train (ART) prior to, at ART launch, and during execution (e.g. Business Owner, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Product Manager (PM), System Architect/Engineer, Scrum Master, etc.)

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Monitored project progression and communicated pertinent information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues) on a daily basis.
• Collaborated with the scrum team members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.
• Worked with Product own to ensure that each release provides business value to end users, sales, and marketing.
• Facilitating scrum sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other activities as needed.
• Tracked and communicated scrum team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Provided internal and external communications to improve transparency.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Served as a scrum master and coach for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery.
• Utilized Rally for metrics/reports, user stories and defect tracking.
• Assess ART/Team structure to determine cross-functional teams for effective delivery. If changes recommended, coach appropriately.
• Understand and teach roles and responsibilities of the SAFe framework
• Coach the key deliverables which ARTs need to focus on to deliver value to stakeholders and organization (e.g. System Build, System Demo, PI System Demo, etc.)
• Assess the agile maturity of the team and organization and coach appropriately to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and appropriate
• Coach discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
• Collaborate with other coaches across ARTs, fostering a servant leadership culture.
• Ability to work both in a team and alone, experience with Agile software management tools, such as Jira, Microsoft, etc.

Confidential, Greenacres, FL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully guided two scrum development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile framework.
• Removed impediments and protected scrum team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.
• Facilitated Scrum events as requested or needed; coaching the development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum was not yet fully adopted and understood.
• Facilitated scrum sprint planning, grooming, daily stand-ups, retrospectives and demos.
• Tracked and communicated scrum team capacity/velocity.
• Ensured the development teams practiced within the Agile framework.
• Provided internal and external communications to improve transparency and accountability.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Utilized Rally for metrics/reports, user stories and defect tracking.
• Ensured that the Product Owner prioritizes features for the team so that the team delivers user stories at a consistent pace.
• Conducted retrospective and always push the team to follow the best practices.

Confidential, MD

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Agile, sprint activities, daily standups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and sprint release planning.
• Assisting product owner to make sure that the product backlog is in good condition. Collaborating with the product owner and the team to get good estimation for the sprint. Ability to work both in a team and alone
• Experience with Agile software management tools, such as Jira, Microsoft, etc.
• 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.
• Generated a streamline process to understand the various steps in the Online Bill pay services
• Contributed to the definition of Scope, performed extensive requirement analysis and defined functional specification.
• Engaged stakeholders, contributors and technical resources to analyze user needs and resource limitations. Worked closely with product owner to prioritize Epics and stories in the backlog while keeping in contact with product owner just in case my team members have questions and need clarification
• Made sure the scrum team was cross functional and self-organized with continuous educating the team on agile and scrum practices
• Engaged with other scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
• Protect teams from distraction so they can focus on the work they initially committed for the current sprint.