SUMMARY:

• Dynamic and experienced SAFe 5 Certified Confidential Scrum Master with more than Seven years proven track record of successfully managing and delivering large software development projects while building self - organize teams and coaching the teams on agile principles and values.
• Skilled in helping create software organizations driven by culture and values, software team building/ and mentoring and agile thought leadership as well as the ability to teach scrum principles (and supporting values) for all roles and concepts of other agility and lean practices.
• My success so far as a Scrum Master has been greatly facilitated by excellent communication skills, critical thinking, problem solving, decision-making, task prioritization and workflows optimization skills.SAFe 5 Certified Scrum Master with more than 7 years of experience working with diverse teams
• Team player and self-starter with excellent communication, leadership, project planning, and interpersonal skills, adept at partnering with Confidential staff and cross functional teams to achieve goals.
• Proficient in driving organization wide agile adoption, TDD, BDD, Pair
• Experience working as a Scrum Master, Business Analyst in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Requirements Elicitation and Documentation, Waterfall and Agile Methodologies, Distributed (Remote) and Co-located Teams
• Management Tools: JIRA, Rally, VSTS, TFS, MS Project, MS Visio Core, Confluence.
• Competencies: Agile Principles, Agile Scrum Coaching, Business and Technical requirement documentations.
• Methodologies: Agile and Lean (Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall and XP)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• JIRA (5 years)
• Manual Testing (2 years)
• Rally (5+ years)
• CSM (4 years)
• Project Management (3year)
• ADO (3years)
• SAFe (3 years)
• Extreme Programming (2 years)
• Scrum Master (7 years)
• Waterfall (2years)
• Lean (3years)
• Mobile Apps Testing (4 years)
• Agile SDLC (3 years)
• Kanban (3 years)
• CRM (2 years)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum master

Confidential, San Antonio, texas.

Responsibilities:

• Managing Four Interdependent Business Teams in Charge of Sensitive Data Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile.
• Conducting Daily Stand-Ups, Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings, Demos/Reviews, Releases and Retrospectives for all four Teams.
• One on One Coaching and Mentoring Sessions with Team Members Who Needed Extra Attention in the Transition Process.
• Weekly Sync with DPOs, DBAs, Business Analysts, Managers and Directors for Updates on both sides.
• Developed plans and managed dependencies between scrum teams and lines of business.
• Liaised between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.
• Facilitated collaboration between both co-located, Remote/offshore Team Members on a daily basis.

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential ,Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Improving communication between development teams and Collaborate with stakeholders to increase the team's velocity by adopting the lessons learned from each retrospective
• Serve as Scrum Master for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban mobile team on both IOS and Android platforms.
• Educating and coaching executives, managers, stakeholders, and others throughout the organization regarding Agile practices and how their roles and interactions may change.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Communicated the progress to Confidential management through 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.
• Conducting Iteration Planning Meetings (IPMs), Daily Stand-Ups, Review/Demo (Technical and Business), Retrospective meetings (Iteration/Sprint, Release).
• Removing impediments and obstacles as well as driving continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution and building skills and capabilities. Facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers.
• Involved in reviewing Test Plans, Test Cases with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.
• Developed System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plan for testing the upgrade and new modules
• Train teams in Agile Development including the use of Project Management tools like JIRA and Confluence

Scrum master

Confidential, HOUSTON TEXAS

Responsibilities:

• Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution
• Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Championed cultural change and collaborated with stakeholders’ advance organization’s agile transformation.
• Developed meaningful relationships, and facilitated collaboration among disparate teams - to deliver strategic results
• Ensured team and stakeholders' understanding of agile and Scrum constantly improved from sprint to sprint. Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story grooming, and Release Planning.
• Assisted in identifying and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.
• Scheduled and allocated work, coaching, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives.
• Coached and worked with the scrum team to ensure sustainability and consistency.

Confidential

HOUSTON, TEXAS

Responsibilities:

• Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.
• Analyzed and produced monthly, quarterly and annual reports using historical data for clients in investment management and distribution management industries
• Created UML Diagrams like Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagram as well as created mock-up screens using MS Visio.
• Worked with QA team to design and develop Test Plan Test Cases to perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Develop graphic representations of complex business processes and user (stakeholder) requirements reflecting how the product/service will be designed, developed, and define how test cases must be formulated.
• Worked in close collaboration with the project manager, vendor team and business users to gather analyze and document the functional requirements for the project.
• Developed Business Requirements - project life cycle documents, what the needed s will be, and the quality measures.
• Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.