Scrum Master Resume Ashburn, VA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Highly a ccomplished and bi - lingual Certified Scrum Master with 13 years of experience and a proven track record of success in Enterprise project and program initiatives.
Leadership ability to introduce Agile innovation, DevOps, and best practices that resultin on-time delivery andconsistent, high-quality deliverables from geographically distributed development and testing teams.
Expertly led the implementation of a very large-scale HRIS vendor integration for Confidential, improving development velocity to meet an aggressive deadline of just 9 months.
Serves as a bridge between Operations and IT in highly successful collaborative efforts with product owners, vendors, and senior management.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Leads a team of software engineers, Test Engineers and Business Analysts, in multiple Scrum teams, guiding the team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values with the goal of getting the most out of self-organization.
Facilitates getting the work done by the scrum team, decision making, and conflict resolution. Assists with internal and external communication and improves transparency.

Confidential

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Selected by management to lead this global integration effort, capitalizing on cross-functional knowledge and experience in HR, PY,and QA testing to serve as a bridge between Operations and IT in a highly successful collaborative effort with the product owner, vendor and senior management.
Oversaw the integration of Scrum methodology with the vendor’s Waterfall modelto efficiently track IT code deliverables through agile sprints and align them to the vendor’s date driven test plan.
Devised an effective communication strategy for sprints that included organizing daily meetings and an innovative accelerated sprintthat reinforced valuable learning techniques andgeneratedquick results.
Introduced additional structure by leveraging JIRA & Confluence tools to develop a workplanto handle a project with many integration points and 3 workstreams with the necessary focus to build and maintainrapidvelocity through the delivery dates for each sprint.
Incorporated a “Kanban” board for daily standups to visualize work and optimize the flow of work among the team.
Reduced risk exposure to 80% through recalibrating test plans to meet new dates in the workplan.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Introduced Agile structure and a defined process that recast the PM/Scrum master’s role within 60 days,resulting in meeting 100% of release dates and project deadlines anddelivered quality deliverables into post-production with defect rates at less than 5%.
Coordinated functional and technical validation with IT and Business leads to more efficiently identify the required sequence of deployments tasks (code, configuration, schema change, etc.)
Decreased customer complaints 50% and increased customer satisfaction by 60% by championing theuse of DevOps model and Agile best practices.
Accelerated release cycles from 4 weeks to 1-2 weeks while increasing quality, managing releases for VZTIME module supporting the $40M+ HR and Payroll Services business lines in continuous delivery mode.
Capitalized on the customizable visual workflow capability in JIRA to improve system issue and defect tracking.