Scrum Master Resume Cambridge, MA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Agile practitioner with 7+ years of experience as an Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master in distributed and co - located teams.
Knowledge and experience of Agile, SAFe and Waterfall methodologies.
Focus on satisfying the customer and motivating teams to deliver valuable quality software.
Proven ability to serve on projects with challenging deadlines, while adapting to changing priorities.
Domain expertise includes Document Management Systems, healthcare and life science Information Technology, e-mail Marketing, Educational Software, SaaS.
10+ years of software development as a software engineer in startups and enterprise-size companies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Development Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Kanban, XP; Scaled Agile 4.6 (SAFe); Waterfall

Management and Communication tools: Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Rally, Slack

Software Languages and Technologies: Java, PHP, JavaScript (JQuery, NodeJS), AWS, Docker, GitHub

Databases and Web Servers: Oracle, MySQL, Apache Tomcat, WebSphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Agile teams achieved a 10% - 20% reduction in lead time, while continuing to deliver products with equal business value and improving agility.
Teams met goals of addressing and resolving most critical issues within 24 hours.
Led implementation of European General Data Protection and Regulation (GDPR) throughout QUOSA products.
Facilitated Release and Sprint events and ensured customer requirements are prioritized, communicated, and properly sized by the team.
Tracked, escalated and removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
Enabled teams to identify areas for improvement, adapt and change as needed to support continuous improvement, self-organization and cross-functionality growth.
Fostered Agile culture of cooperation and innovation throughout development process.
Worked with other Scrum Masters to resolve projects and products interdependencies and planned releases.
Resolved infrastructure issues by utilizing a network of Product Owners, Technical Leads within company and with outside vendors.
Documented, tracked and reported teams velocity, sprint/release progress and risks.

Agile Project Manager /Technical Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Contributed as project manager in application development and customization leading to QUOSA success and company acquisition by Confidential .
Participated in successful transformation of QUOSA teams from Waterfall to Agile Scrum and Kanban within first year after Confidential acquisition.
Participated as project manager and a technical lead in design and development of new products and features such as Single Sign - on (SSO) authentication, bibliography editing tool Cite While You Write, integration with Link Resolvers.
Managed all feature customization projects for Confidential pharmacological customers to ensure data integrity, Copyright compliance, Metrics and Reporting accuracy.
Managed requirements collection, development, UAT testing, continuous delivery and release on demand of complex bibliographic style customizations to comply with pharmacological vigilance requirements and regulations.
Managed QUOSA products implementation of Confidential cross-product telemetry to collect, analyze and present customer behavior and data flows using integration with Adobe Site Catalyst.
Delivered Confidential full text article ordering DocFlow application which allowed customers to save up to 30% of journal subscription budget.
Designed Conference Channels to facilitate scientific information gathering, search and analysis.
Designed citation information export/import in different formats -- XML, json, RIS, Medline.

Senior Software Engineer/Senior Linguist

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Responsibilities:

Participated in design and development of a new search engine based on BBN proprietary voice recognition and text transcription technology.
Participated in port of proprietary BBN speech recognition Perl/C code to C++.
Optimized Lucene search engine relevancy parameters for English language audio.
Lead team of software engineers in design of business logic, business rules, billing system and data access component for web-based content management application.
Designed backend application to edit and customize email templates.
Designed internal and user facing reporting system to display marketing campaign KPI such as open emails, number of clicks.
Integrated Constant Contact with CompanionLink application to synchronize large Constant Contact email lists with Microsoft Outlook®, ACT.