SUMMARY:

• Utilizes a unique blend of business and technical savvy combined with a big - picture vision and excellent leadership and management skills to get the product/project over the finish line on time and budget
• Demonstrated success in acting as liaison between the product owner and scrum team, listening to scrum team feedback, facilitating meetings, managing project milestones and keeping scrum team members focused.
• Proficient in settling internal and external uncertainties and maintaining harmony in the team at all times; displays sound technical and theoretical knowledge to understand issues and problems, takes strategic initiatives effectively when needed
• Articulate communicator fluent in English and French. Team player with proven ability to develop and maintain strong working relations at all levels.
• Remarkable history of motivating and improving Agile teams to reach highest performance potential by removing impediments as well as implementing best practices and tools.
• Expert in supporting product owners in writing user stories and prioritizing Product Backlog Items.
• Remarkable history of motivating and improving Agile teams to reach highest performance potential by removing impediments as well as implementing best practices and tools.
• Practical experience in working in large scaled agile/scrum environment (SAFe and LeSS) as well as working closely with distributed onshore, offshore and collocated teams.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Team player with proven ability to develop and maintain strong working relations at all levels.
• Attention to details, situational awareness, flexible, quick learner with a positive altitude, self-motivated and ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Possess deep knowledge and understanding of ALM tools: Jira, Confluence, version one, and rally and hands -on experience working with DevOps tools: Slack

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile Methodology
• Communication Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Attention to Detail/Scrum Processes
• Servant Leadership Skills
• Story Based Development/ Sprint Planning
• Project Management
• Team
• Critical Thinking
• Lean & Kanban
• Problem Resolution
• Innovation & Change Management
• Pair Programming & XP
• Lean Software Development/healthcare/CI/CD/FDD agile games test automatio
• DevOps/Aws

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington DC

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the adoption of scrum and agile principles to help organization transition to an agile culture which brought about an increase in transparency, stakeholder engagement and team’s productivity
• Assured continuous improvement by establishing cross team metrics and dashboard.
• Grew the maturity level of Scrum by timely analyzing maturity of Scrum and devising effective strategies.
• Facilitated discussion, decision making, conflict resolution and the delivery of committed work goals. lead team through requirement gathering, design specification, deployment process to ensure all process requirements are met
• Lead problem solving and coordination effort between various business units while working closely with the IT project manager to create, maintain product backlog and define user stories according to business values.
• Supported and educated product owners on grooming, planning and maintaining the product backlog
• Using operational metrics and reports, I performed daily, weekly and monthly review analysis of the current process.
• Managed deliverables and timelines for all initiatives under the responsibility of the team and served as subject/product matter expert for key areas of the product line and worked with the product manager to help train customers and conduct workshops and support implementation and development as needed.

Confidential

Management Data Warehouse

Responsibilities:

• Attended weekly Change Advisory Board meetings with all stakeholders to review changes from Developers and get a clear understanding of the changes that I will be supporting plus to get the necessary approvals before the changes can go into production.
• Supported information/data security using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Virtual Private database (VPD) Information barrier technology.
• Plan and communicate database outages in advance and send out advisories to end users regarding planned downtime in cases like Upgrades, Patching and configuration changes which can’t be done with database being online.
• Provide daily DBA support to engineering teams as well as life cycle projects
• Performed database administration, production support, installation, configuration, upgrades, patches, migration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and cloning.
• Database reorganizations and refresh schema-using Export/Import . Creating the database, table spaces, tables, indexes, setting privileges and user logins.
• Tools Used : JIRA, Golden Gate, GG Monitor, Autosys, Cron.
• Removed sprint roadblocks and facilitate solution development with the team.
• Supported a culture of continuous process improvement through sprint retrospectives and key indicators around team performance.
• Promoted transparency and team empowerment across teams.
• Coached and mentored the business delivery team in agile frameworks and principles and fostering the team’s ability to self-organize.
• Acted as a servant leader including facilitation, situational awareness, and conflict resolution.
• Build and maintain a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and solved

Confidential, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached and guided two co-located development teams, in Scrum methodology and continuous processes improvement
• Developed and implemented effective strategies aligned with organizational needs by working closely with team members and making work and progress visible to the team and those out of the team
• Trained agile teams in writing good user stories.
• Coached the agile team on successful story decomposition by making large items small deliverable chunks of work
• Collaborated with other teams in each project and review and/ refined strategy base on the organizational needs
• Expose impediments and coached the team on removing impediments and partnering with leadership to remove impediments outside the capabilities of the team.
• Served multiple teams (system and DevOps) under SAFe and ensured the core agile principle regarding collaboration, prioritization, visibility and team accountability are being practiced
• Involved in optimizing release management, architectural runway and the center of embattlement by liaising with the team, Product owner, DevOps to improve release thereby improving CI/CD
• Created a healthy environment for the team, product owner and stakeholders to negotiate time, scope and budget
• End-to-end visibility and control for improved decision making, coordination, and collaboration at portfolio level.
• Demonstrated improvement in productivity and efficiencies through improved processes and cycle time