SUMMARY

• Coach, Train, and Mentor Agile - Teams to drive change across the organization.
• 6 years of experience in coaching, mentoring and supporting Agile-Teams in Adopting and Practicing Agile Methodology to Develop and Deliver Values
• Experience with Software Development and Product Leadership
• Ability to manage Web-applications Development Projects and IT Infrastructure with a degree of competency using Scrum-Practice.
• Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team size, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed)
• Focus on Agile-Mindset through Proactive Coaching
• Proven Excellent Communication skills with the ability to Facilitate Agile Meeting to assist Agile- Team toward achieving a common goal
• Proven Excellent Facilitation skills with the ability to coordinate across multiple departments using the best Agile Practices
• Proven Experience in Program/ Project management with an emphasis on Web Application.
• Self-motivated driver and Visionary who make Progress despite Obstacle
• Experience in various Scaling Models such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, Scrumban, ScrumXP and Large-Scale Agile Framework.
• Strong Technical command of Project Tracking Tools such as Jira, Rally, TFS, Azure DevOps, Trello, ServiceNow, Kanbanize and Confluence.
• Facilitate Lunch and Learning Sessions to Incorporate DevOps Culture and mindset within Agile-Team and Integrated Continuous Process Changes during Inspect and Adapts Workshops.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAFe Scrum Master

Confidential, Grand Rapid, Mi

Responsibilities:

• Providing Guidance to the team on how to embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles and Implement SAFe Practices.
• Enabling the team to be Self-organize, Self-manage and deliver through effective Lean-Agile practices
• Emphasizing and Helping team follow Scrum rules, Work in Process (WIP) limit from Kanban, Built-in Quality practices from XP and any other process rules the team has agreed.
• Using Azure DevOps to Track team’s Progress and Performances to ensure delivery of value and quality at the end of iterations
• Supporting and ensuring the team keep challenging old norms of development to point out improvement in areas of Performance Quality, Flow and Velocity.
• Facilitate team meeting such as Iteration Planning, and Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective, Program Increment Planning breakout session etc.
• Assist the team in preparation for ART activities such as PI Planning, System Demos and Inspect and Adapt.
• Help team focus on daily and Iteration Goals in the context of the current Program Increment (PI) Objectives.
• Planning and Coordinating roadmaps and Resolve Cross Team Dependencies with other Agile-Teams on the Train. By representing the Team in Scrum of Scrums
• Coaching the team to a higher level of Maturity, at a Pace that is Sustainable and Comfortable for the Team and Organization.
• Building an Environment of Trust and Psychological Safety where team members can raise a problem with an emphasis on healing and Problem-Solving. Coaching Problem-solving techniques that will help the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
• Helping the team improve and taking responsibility for their actions
• Assist with Internal and External Communication, Improving Transparency and Radiating Information across the Organization.
• Assisting the Product Owner with Managing a Healthy Product Backlog by coaching the team in writing and breaking down user stories to meet the INVEST criteria and prioritizing the product backlog using a MOSCOW technique.
• Using my Leadership skills to serves the team and leading by example.
• Coach stakeholders and other non-agile teams on effective interactions with agile teams.
• Review and maintain Definition of Ready and Definition of Done across the team and curate it as per process changes if needed.
• Assist the development team to use KANBAN board and techniques for handling impediments.

Environment: Essential SAFe, Scrum, Scrumban, Agile, Digital Technical Service, Enterprise Support Services (ESS)

Tools: Windows, Azure DevOps, Splunk, Kanban, .Net application, Java, SharePoint, Zoom, Teams, Slacks, Confluence.

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported and enforced the rules of the scrum process and other rules agreed by the team.
• Assist the PO and the Development team in their pursuit to understand customers’ requirements and to do everything possible to satisfy customers.
• Guide and Coach the scrum team and the organization on how the use of Agile/Scrum practices and principles to valuable delivery product to customers.
• Lead by example, use my Servant Leadership skills, to support the team to become Self-organize and Self-manage. \
• Used Jira to drive the team project prioritize and organize backlog into the sprint, run scrum ceremonies such as daily stand up, sprint planning, review, bug triage and release planning. Track releases, and the team progress during the sprints.
• Facilitated, Schedule and Coordinated, useful Scrum/Agile Ceremonies such as Grooming, daily standup, sprint planning, retrospective and review.
• Coached the team to a higher level of maturity at a sustainable and comfortable pace for the team and organization. And Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization.
• Assisted and guide the team to identify impediments by finding the right personnel to resolve the issue.
• Facilitated discussions for getting the work done, decision making or conflict without forcing, assigning or dictating the outcome.
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information
• Built a good rapport with various project stakeholder/ business owners, QA, ScrumMaster, Project Manager and other interface developers internal and external
• Coached with numerous patterns and techniques such as burndown techniques, various retrospective formats, handling bugs to help the team to approach and practice scrum effectively.
• Worked independently with organization business partner.
• Assisted with scheduling and facilitate all scrum ceremonies, monitoring KPI’s as well as raising and mitigating risks.
• Monitored the health of the team by managing the implementation of improvements as suggested in team retrospectives
• Helped agile teams to solve technical and complex problems that come along during development.

Environment: Scrum, Agile, Scaling Scrum, Kanban, Banking Industry

Tools: MS Office Suite & Project, Rally, Confluence, ALM, GitHub, MS SharePoint, UI Path, JAVA, Web browser.