OBJECTIVE

• A proactive professional with proven success in both waterfall and Agile environment. Adept with leading complex projects and Scrum teams for over 8 years, seeking opportunities in leading development teams transitioning from Waterfall to an Agile environment. Coaching/mentoring cross - functional teams to maximize productivity and to adhere to team’s rules. Strategically eradicating impediments and providing necessary assistance as a servant leader for the delivery of high-quality software on-time and within budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile Methods: SAFe Enterprise Framework, TDD, Agile, XP, Kanban, Scrum, Scrumban

Business Modeling Tools: SQL Server 2012, MS office 365, Excel, Power pivot, Power Point.

Project Management/ALM: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, JiraProfessional Skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving TX

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led transition from Waterfall to Agile delivery model.
• Accountable for guiding, coaching and training in scrum methodologies, assisting the team in Scrum / Agile principles and driving process improvement.
• Make sprint and release progress visible through visual information radiators
• Work with the team to deliver value and coordinate within and outside of the team to facilitate the completion of the team’s backlog via managing dependencies.
• Ensure clear implication of sprint retrospectives to drive continuous team improvement.
• Mentor product owner on effective backlog management and establishment of criteria for Definition of Done.
• Successfully delivered encrypted payment gateways, increased capacity and reduced bounce rate for the conglomerate (external) website.
• Oversaw implementation of new CRM software, including integration to current environment.

Confidential, Irving TX

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, sprint reviews, daily scrums, Sprint retrospectives, and other needed meetings to help the team deliver high quality products
• Conducted Bi-weekly Sprint Planning and Retro Discussions of previous Sprints
• Acted as the bridge between the Product Manager and the scrum delivery team; align both parties to a common goal while managing stakeholder expectations.
• Created high level functional requirements and broke them down into User Stories in Jira
• Worked closely with the onsite QA Manager, clients, business analysts, designers and developers to develop comprehensive test plans during early phases of each project.
• Documented Team Impediments when reported and made sure they were addressed as soon as possible

Confidential, Dallas TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, sprint reviews, daily scrums, Sprint retrospectives, and other needed meetings to help the team deliver high quality products
• Involved in Gathering Requirements with Product Team/manager to ensure requirements were clear and concise.
• Acted as Support product owner, rewriting support ticket/bugs as user stories, prioritizing user stories and assigning business value.
• Worked with the development team to prioritize product backlog
• Demoed bug fixes to stakeholders while collecting feedback to fix in increments
• Created release cycles for products consistent with quarterly release targets
• Supervised writing User Stories, Acceptance Criteria with Stakeholders ensuring it meets stakeholder’s expectation.
• Coached Team members and trained co-workers about the agile processes, and framework
• Coordinated & Demoed Product to Stakeholders for feedback & comments to help in next Sprints
• Capture Metrics such as Sprint burn down, Velocity, Release burn down, & other metrics to measure overall team progress

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with partners to plan and conduct complex negotiations to reach agreements and commitments for project charter, scope documents, and change requests
• Formed project teams both internal and external and communicated individual roles and project expectations to ensure the alignment of resources across teams
• kept clear communication between project team members, sponsors, and stakeholders
• Planed, organized and led productive meetings with internal and external stakeholders to ensure positive outcomes and continual progression towards project goals, to deliver high-quality and complete solutions
• Oversaw the acquisition of resources and materials as needed before and during projects, negotiated price, and payment agreements with vendors to minimize cost
• Provided concise and timely status reports during the project life cycle to key stakeholders about strategy, changes, and progress
• Led interdepartmental project teams, worked with department Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to meet project goals and timelines.
• Employed project management tools such as Quick Base to manage project tasks and timelines; ensuring that projects are completed on-time and on-budget.
• Met project objectives by forecasting requirements; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions with departmental leaders.
• Conducted cost analyses; estimated expected costs for projects; prepared budgets; and managed the project within budget constraints.
• Conducted risk assessments report identified risks to management opportunities and provide recommendations for mitigation of risk (including termination of the project if appropriate