Scrum Master Resume

SUMMARY

Experienced Scrum Master with a passion for the work and a proven track record of delivering high - quality software, on time and within budget.
I have developed a wide range of communication and interpersonal relationship skills throughout the years that has aided growth as a team player and Scrum Master.
Seeking a position that fosters and will allow me to make an immediate contribution.
Experience in conducting requirement gathering and technical documentation development.
Familiar with the scrum framework
Versatile with PMI PMBOK, SDLC methodology, ASAP methodology and AGILE methodology
Project Scheduling and planning using Excel, MS project, MS Visio

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Skills: Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Project 2003, 2007, 2010 & 2013, Project Server, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, Salesforce, Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on sprint backlog and project timeline.
Coached different development teams to adapt agile methodology
Changed the culture of software development department
Acted as an agile coach throughout the state agency and educating team members on the agile framework
Work closely with project owner in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders when needed.
Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product. Assist the Product Owner with documentation of User Stories making them clear and stay within an acceptable criteria.
Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Organize and facilitate release planning, sprint planning, daily stand-up, demos, and retrospectives.
Conducted technical sessions regarding Agile development methods.
Work with Product owner to groom product Backlog, story prioritization, release and sprint planning.
Verify user stories with core team and ensure that all prioritized user stories have acceptance criteria.
Facilitate sprint and release demos to obtain product readiness approvals from the Sponsors.
Conduct daily standups and to remove any roadblocks.
Implement at least two lessons learned from each sprint retrospective into follow-up sprint to make continuous improvements in processes and with people.
Protect team from over-commitment, manage and prioritized backlog