SUMMARY:

• I am an accomplished servant leader with 5years’ experience as Scrum Master helping teams enforce Scrum rules by coaching, removing impediments and fostering self - management.
• I am a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance and experienced in Project Management. I bring overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying sound judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint review, retrospective, print and quarterly release planning.
• Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and priorities, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing.
• Expertly prompted continuous improvement and helped team increase productivity and foster innovation.
• Created collaborative environment which allowed the team and stakeholders to interact closely.
• Excellent technical command to work with Agile project management tool like JIRA and TFS.
• Excellent experience with several agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP and Safe.
• Successfully implemented the use of Kanban for projects with high dependencies leading to quicker releases.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led daily scrum-ups and Agile Development sprint planning meetings, concurrent projects.
• Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
• Define workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile, and distributed models using tools such as whiteboarding, mind mapping and tool.
• Data collection templates and data management process, operational processes (ITIL for run and Agile for patching and expanding feature sets), run reports templates and dashboards, RACI documents and defining and measuring plan for identified KPIs.
• Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications, and translate into product backlog.
• Worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation, and implement risk reduction action plans.
• Attended Scrum Apps Monitoring Framework meetings.
• Recommended strategy and configured the monitoring of Docker containers.
• Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approached.
• Stayed current on emerging technologies and trends that could benefit production process.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily scrum, iteration planning, sprint review and retrospective meetings for multiple teams.
• Increased team efficiency by inspiring motivation and changes for quality and timeliness.
• Managed multiple internal and outside scrum teams, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.
• Utilized Agile/Scrum and Kanban methodologies to monitor steer and develop project objectives and get the work delivered faster.
• Developed timelines for project delivery and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
• Implemented and maintained various projects in Java.
• Coached team on Kanban principles and practices.
• Team leader on numerous projects utilizing Java, Java EE, Enterprise Java Bean and Apache Struts Web applications to create fully integrated client management systems.
• Assisted my team to remove of impediments and monitoring defects logs, which in turn assist in velocity calculation for superior planning of upcoming sprints.
• Attended CAB meetings to get CR approved.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily scrum, iteration planning, sprint review and retrospective meetings for multiple teams.
• Support teams by removing impediments and coaching on successful team performance and interactions.
• Train new employees in Scrum methodology.
• Maintained and monitored projects schedules and progress.
• Coordinates activities, resolving issues and proactively managing the risks and opportunities.
• Built, refined, and facilitated training and workshops including Agile Principles and Practices, Scrum Master Training, effective story writing, and Agile Estimation and Planning.
• Facilitated and helped in the decomposition of roadmap items actions into epics, developed user stories with the INVEST technique and created tasks with team members with SMART technique.
• Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.
• Timekeeping in clarity /tracking ability to organize people and follow the SAFe process.
• Experience leading projects using Agile/SAFe methodologies in a product-based model.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicates with projects teams, other areas, other divisions and outside vendors.
• Excellent relationship management, organizational, coordination and collaboration skills.
• Led daily scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and leverage organizational resources to improve capacity for projects work increasing the average time to deliver new features.
• Led all sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and daily scrums with the development team resulting in product features that reached many users.
• Analyzed network security and current infrastructure to assess areas in need of improvement and develop solutions.
• Guided implementation of company-wide enterprise security strategy for network and hardware, disaster recovery, data protection and endpoint protection.
• Created cost-saving business relationships by being first Secondary Support to partner with Account Managers on large implementations.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming and Retrospective meetings.
• Monitored the development progress throughout beach sprint to ensure project within scope and budget.
• Provided recommendations to Tier 3, Service Delivery team, manage on process.
• Managed the insight and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helped to ensure all stakeholders agreed with the current scope and roadmap of the product.
• Able to communicate with clients providing management with reports.