OBJECTIVE

• Scrum Master Agile Practitioner Innovative results - driven servant leader in technology with over 12 years of proven project success track record. Problem solver and mentor with a passion for technology grasping both big picture conceptualizations and atomic details for robust implementations.
• Identify and maximize value of product and development team output to maximize ROI
• Streamlined product development lifecycle increasing efficiency by 30 through adoption of lean agile development methodologies mated with continuous release and embedded quality assurance practices. Complete agile lifecycle
• Accelerated new feature release to over 200 within quarters increasing companywide competitiveness by following early feedback and early reviews of prototypes
• Utilized agile project management frameworks to cooperatively steer and prioritize product directions
• Leveraged cloud and private cloud infrastructure components elastic demand to reduce infrastructure costs by over 50 while increasing peak capacity by several orders of magnitude 100 times more peak capacity.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Herndon, VA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of twenty-five members to develop and deploy 20 web systems using the methodologies based on best practices from CMM, PMI PMBOK, and Agile/Scrum.
• Managed high-priority time-sensitive projects using Scrum methodology. As a Scrum Master, coordinated cross functional teams to develop business requirements using User Stories worked with Product Owners and team members to create product/sprint backlogs, prioritized user stories backlog items. Developed and tracked release schedules. SharePoint and Excel to manage Scrum projects Backlog, Task Board, Burndown Charts etc.
• Educated upper management and IT team on Scrum and championed the use of Agile/Scrum.
• Supervised and mentored multiple teams PM team, BA team, and development teams
• Led the JAD Joint Application Development sessions with project stakeholders to identify, gather, and define precise requirements for several HR systems.
• Developed project Estimates and Budgets. Monitored resource utilization across multiple projects. Reported estimates vs. actual to PMO office.
• Provided regular project status to Senior Management and PMO. Published project plans to enterprise project server, published project plans and work products to project SharePoint server.
• Managed project risks identified, documented, assessed, prioritized, and resolved by using PMI risk management techniques.
• Planned and coordinated all aspects of application testing including Feature Testing, System/Integration testing, Quality Assurance QA and User Acceptance Testing UAT.

Confidential - Tyson, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Initial stage of the project was to merge all the components into one standard reporting system which was under SEC and SOX guideline.
• Coached the teams, product owners, engineering leads, engineering directors and other stakeholders on Scrum/Agile processes, product backlog grooming and prioritization, product vision, story slicing and mapping.
• Coached the teams on story point development, sprint backlog development, how to do better sprint planning and backlog grooming.
• Implemented the concept of Lab-Weeks to foster sense of innovation in teams, three out of the five prototypes build during these lab-weeks got recognition at enterprise level and got budgeted to be full scale implementation projects.
• Introduced practices like pair programming and test-driven development (TDD).
• Worked extensively with Product Owners, Engineering Directors, Solution Architects, Engineering Leads, Delivery Managers and Operations teams to identify and refine business and technical requirements and develop realistic plans to ensure successful delivery of the features.
• Conducted weekly Product and Platform Intake meetings, work with Product Owners, Engineering Directors and Sr. Directors on various product and platform level initiatives, understand the high level asks and relay the information to respective teams.
• Helped Product Owners and Engineering Directors to decompose the initiatives into Features - identify and define the acceptance criterion and help Engineering Leads decompose features into high-level technical user stories and/or epics, spikes.
• Conducted the weekly One View, Portfolio Council and S2 - Scrum of Scrum meetings for the weekly status of all delivery teams.
• Conducted R2 - Retrospective of Retrospective every month for all engineering and test leads to discuss their pain-points, share their achievements, and resolve any inter-team dependencies.
• Conducted weekly grooming session for each team to groom the stories / epics, decompose them into shippable packages, and add definition, Dev and QA approaches and acceptance criterion.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a scrum master, I adhered to the Scrum framework, including all roles and ceremonies that practice agile methodology.
• Ensured that sprints are not started until all stories have adequate definition of ready - descriptions, acceptance criteria, and point assignments and other elements as identified by the team.
• Promoted and educated the development team to understand agile principles.
• Coordinated and facilitated sprint planning ceremony, where teams size stories, and have questions answered by product owners and engineering managers.
• Assisted the product owner and business analyst to create effective Epics, Features, User Stories and Technical Stories.
• Drive sprint planning through coordination of backlog story ceremony.
• Generated reports as needed to understand sprint burn-down.
• Responsible for creating the project space in confluence.
• Participated in ‘scrum-of-scrum’ meetings with other scrum masters as needed.
• Coached and supported teams in estimation and release planning.
• Mediated, arbitrated, mitigated, and facilitated impediments with the team members and the organizational hierarchy.
• Understood cross team dependencies and guides team as needed.
• Tracked and managed actual work done by Scrum Development team every sprint against the velocity.
• Coordinated and facilitates end-of-sprint ceremonies.
• Helped resolve impediments of progress, coordinating with other teams as needed.