PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 5+ years of IT experience at small and very large organizations.
• Performed pure scrum master Role for 5+ years at my Company.
• A focused individual with a constant willingness to learn and continuously improve my agile skills and knowledge.

• I worked with multiple product owners and architects to ensure stories are ready for refinement.
• I have Jira / Confluence experience, Kanban / SAFe 4.6
• I led daily standups with corporate teams and teams in India.
• I Performed planning sessions and retrospectives with teams.
• I make sure roadblocks where eliminated for developers and quality engineers.
• I coordinated end of sprint reviews/demos.
• Developed and distributed end of sprint results including velocity charts and burn down charts.
• Coordinated program meetings and communications with stakeholders.
• Assisted with Release Planning and Deployments.
• Represented the team at Change Advisory Board meetings.
• Managed new team member onboarding.
• Owned issues, risks, and dependencies.
• Ensured teams follow SCRUM best practices.
• Motivated team to achieve results and make improvements to each sprint.
• Continually built relationships with other departments.
• Held monthly one on one meeting with team members to build close relationships.
• Worked with other SCRUM masters to share information and develop processes to achieve consistency among teams.
• Documented processes and procedures.
• Assisted and presented at quarterly Engineering hands - on meetings.
• Monitored resource workloads.
• Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Set up physical SCRUM / Kanban boards.
• Coordinate weekly meetings with other SCRUM Masters to discuss Agile Best Practices.
• Assist with gathering information for prospective new projects. This includes determining ROI and prioritizing upcoming work for the teams.
• Updated status and assisted with resource allocation and budgeting.
• Assisted in coordinating work with Offshore Team.

SKILL:

Agile Scrum & Waterfall, Communication, Issue & Risk Management, Kanban, Mentoring, Off - shore Coordination, Requirements, ATDD, TDD, BDD, SAFe, Team Leadership, Training, Servant Leadership, Jira, Meeting facilitation Rational Team Concert, Jira / Confluence, SharePoint, XP, ALM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Scrum master/Agile Coach/ Agile Project Manager/PM

Responsibilities:

• Work with two teams of developers, architects, testers, BA’s and quality engineers to create unique applications for the manufacturing plants.
• Work directly with the client Team Members to gather requirements to build applications.
• Develop user stories and prioritize them in Jira.
• Coach the team using full SCRUM. (Planning Meetings, Stand-ups, Refinement Sessions, Sprint Reviews/Demo’s and Retrospectives)
• Ensure the applications are of high quality and tested appropriately
• Facilitated Frost Bank's IT function in transitioning to scrum methodology through ETC (enterprise transition committee) engaging stakeholders during the process of the waterfall to scrum
• Facilitated Scrum framework ceremonies for multiple scrum teams (Internally and off-shore) - sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Planned agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Assisted in fostering smooth internal and external communication between development teams and stakeholders, improving transparency, and radiating information when needed
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues and remove impediments to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
• Actively participated in the scrum of scrum meetings with other scrum masters, and program managers
• Worked with the Product Owner, especially concerning grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Analyzed project's metrics to determine productivity, and subsequently added inputs to areas that added value to our scrum process
• Encouraged self-organization, meaning development teams can resolve internal impediments and conflicts wherever possible

Confidential, Boston, MA

Scrum Master/Agile Coaching

Responsibilities:

• Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Develops cost-effective plans and schedules for completion of projects following a logical pattern for utilization of resources.
• Maintain strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines, quality, and safety standards.
• Develop user stories and prioritize them in Jira.
• Coach the team using full SCRUM. (Planning Meetings, Stand-ups, Refinement Sessions, Sprint Reviews/Demo’s and Retrospectives)
• Ensure the applications are of high quality and tested appropriately.
• Assist with writing procedures and training plant employees on the new applications.
• Manage issues, risks, and dependencies.
• Provide status to all levels of management.
• Maintained team efficiency about average velocity and optimal velocity for each sprint helping the team to deliver consistent story points for each sprint.
• Facilitated PI planning meetings along with program management and RTE to make teams understand PI objectives necessary for the release.

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

Scrum Master/Agile Transformation Coach/Agile Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Work with two teams of developers, architects, testers, BA’s and quality engineers to create unique applications for the manufacturing plants.
• Assist with gathering information for prospective new projects. This includes determining ROI and prioritizing upcoming work for the teams.
• Maintained a physical story wall and utilized RTC (Rational Team Concert) for burndown charts and velocity, which is an open multi-platform tool for my team collaboration.
• Updated status and assisted with resource allocation and budgeting.
• Assisted in coordinating work with Offshore Team.
• Worked with a business team to implement project work through excellent communication, risk mitigation, and teamwork
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into project requirements
• Worked with a business team to implement project work through excellent communication, risk mitigation, and teamwork
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into project requirements
• Coordinated with other teams and participates in the Scrum of Scrums meeting with Release Train Engineer (RTE) to define, reinforce and maintain a consistent practice across the organization.