SUMMARY:

• Strategic and solutions - focused Agile Scrum Master with over 8 years extensive experience in various facets of project management.
• Extensive Agile / Scrum implementation experience as well as the ability to work in a hybrid environment.
• Effective in stakeholder engagement, customer relations, coaching, training, mentoring and communicating to diversified sets of team members that are co-located, distributed and offshore.
• I am passionate about empowering people and building high functioning teams who work efficiently together towards achieving team goals.
• Experienced in transforming organizations from waterfall into healthy growing agile environments with proven record of successfully meeting project deadlines and delivering high quality on-time software.
• JIRA/Confluence has been my tool of choice but also poses a great working knowledge of Rally Version One and RTC.
• I am also versed with other Agile frameworks such as KANBAN, XP, SAFe and SCRUMBAN.
• A committed team player with excellent facilitation and conflict resolution skills; with a proven ability to motivate, guide, train, and improve cohesion of project team members to ensure high quality deliverables.
• Committed Lean Agile thinker with proven ability at driving and motivating the adoption of agile values and principles, removing impediments, fostering self-management and empowering teams.
• Served as a Scrum Master within multiple Scrum teams facilitating the transition from Waterfall Methodology to Agile.
• Results driven Servant-Leader with a focus on facilitating and coaching self-organized teams in effective and efficient deliverables.
• Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and an excellent working knowledge of several agile frameworks like SCRUM, KANBAN, SCRUMBAN, XP and SAFe.
• Proven ability at driving and motivating the adoption of scrum rules, removing impediments, fostering self-management and empowering my team.
• Excellent technical command to work with Agile Project Management tools like JIRA, Confluence, Visual Studio and Rally.
• Strong ability/knowledge to work with both experienced and new agile teams, and to facilitate multiple teams simultaneously.
• Strong Problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills and a superb ability to multi-task.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Scrum Master

Confidential, Tysons, VA

Responsibilities:

• Coaching Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework teams for Lean Enterprises (SAFe) principles and practices, and identifying and eliminating impediments and facilitating flow
• Collaborating with key stakeholders in managing expectations and in communicating any changes
• Actively managing and resolving risks and impediments to improve team performance in meeting the goals
• Exhibiting Lean-Agile leadership and mindset, and help teams embrace SAFe Principles and implement practices
• Building quality by understanding the security, compliance and regulatory needs; helping teams deliver on the definition of done
• Facilitate the team's progress towards its goals by helping them to challenge the status quo, while focusing on delivering the iteration goals and the program increment objectives
• Leading teams through relentless improvement by effectively facilitating retrospectives
• Facilitate agile meetings at set cadence, where the team members and shared services collaborate and communicate and emerge as a self-organized team
• Bringing systems thinking in understanding all the relevant parties to engage and align in delivering value
• Supporting the Product Owner to prioritize scope and work well with the team
• Coach teams to improve their mastery in technical skills by organizing communities of practices, coding, brown bag sessions etc.
• Communicates the team's progress on commitment, and delivery, and any impacts to the Program Increment commitment

Scrum Master

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Coached Teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on the Agile Methodology while serving as a guide on the implementation of Scrum and other Agile Frameworks.
• Worked with Product Owner to ensure the Roadmap is up to date and top five epics identified prior to Program Increment (PI) Planning.
• Ensured top five epics at minimum have Business Value and Acceptance Criteria defined prior to Program Increment (PI) Planning.
• Worked with Teams to define target velocity for all sprints in upcoming Program Increment (PI).
• Facilitated breakout sessions with teams during Program Increment (PI) Planning.
• Assessed the Agile maturity of Scrum teams and train/coach the teams on agile principles, providing general guidance on Scrum to enhance skills level.
• Coached Teams to discuss PI Objectives, Confidence, Business Value, Risks and Dependencies; document on Confluence for readouts.
• Ensured Team preparedness for PI Demos, Coach Team to use consistent template and to ensure content is relevant and interesting for target customer audience.
• Participated in Scrum of Scrums; presented team progress towards PI Objectives including current impediments, dependencies, and/or risks to be discussed.
• Trained teams to write good user stories, prioritize the work based on business value and handling of the tasks by the team. Placing substantial efforts on team member role training, time boxing and providing strong metrics for all players.
• Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 63% within the first year of agile adoption.
• Increase team collaboration, transparency and productivity to promote effective and early product release dates.
• Proficiently organize and facilitate Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Sprint and Release Planning. Conduct Sprint Retrospective and follow up on action items for continuous improvement.
• Led Impediments and Roadblocks removal, Risks. Communicate status, risks and impediments to leaders and executives in a timely manner. Primary point of escalation with IT leaders, Product Owners and vendors

Scrum Master

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Placed substantial efforts on Team Member Role Training, Time-Boxing and providing strong Metrics for all Players.
• Facilitated all Scrum events to include Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Retrospective as well as Sprint Reviews.
• Boasted cultural change alongside other Coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's transformation.
• Facilitated the Product Backlog Refinement ceremony and ensuring continuous delivery of features to meet the need of the customer based on business value.
• Protecting Development teams from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on Product Backlog and project timelines.
• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision-making, conflict resolution and transparency.
• Facilitated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Reviews/Demos, Backlog Refinement, and Release Planning.
• Educated scrum teams and business on writing User Stories which that meet the definition of Ready (DoR).
• Facilitated team-building exercises to promoted communication, openness, respect and trust within the environment.
• Eliminated team distractions, which helped, improve the efficacy of the team as well as time management.
• Engaged team in retrospective to promote the continuous growth and improvement of Scrum framework within the environment.
• Liaised with developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines
• Directed and led development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.
• Proactively collaborated with other Scrum Masters and agile coaches across the organization to escalate and resolve impediments that could not be resolved in individual scrum teams.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Tysons, VA

Responsibilities:

• Coached multiple Scrum teams on the implementation of the agile methodology within their various departments with the goals of maximizing time management, improving accountability, reducing costs and adding value to individuals and interactions.
• Coached Product Owners and Teams on the Agile Methodology while serving as a guide on the implementation of Scrum values and incorporating the required pillars during our various scrum events.
• Led strategic Release Planning and tactical Iteration Planning sessions.
• Facilitated Scrum events to include; Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective as well as Product Backlog Refinement.
• Mentored Scrum teams in understanding and enforcing their different roles within the team so to achieve project vision.
• Educated and reinforced the Agile Methodology and scrum framework to Teams and Stakeholders.
• Increased team collaboration, transparency and productivity to promote effective and early product release date.
• Coached the team on working independently to achieve higher interaction and communication skills.

Oracle Database Administrator

Confidential, Framingham, MA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Logical and Physical Standby Databases for RAC cluster on Sun Solaris platform using Data Guard feature of Oracle 11g R2.
• Cloned/Migrated databases using RMAN and traditional Data Pump export/import utilities in Oracle 11gR2.
• Implemented recovery strategies whenever required and successfully recovered databases in case database crash, media/disk failures by using RMAN.
• Responsible for Creating Users, Groups, Roles, Profiles and assigning the users to groups and grant necessary privileges to the relevant groups.
• Used to run the scripts to check the status of databases such as growing table sizes, extent allocation, free space, used space, fragmentation etc.