Senior Scrum master Resume

SUMMARY

Nine years of experience using Agile frameworks, principles, practices and tools to expedite the development and delivery of technical solutions that support the emergence and persistence of highly collaborative self - organizing teams.
Thirteen + years of diverse experience with co-located and distributed teams planning or re-planning enterprise-wide programs and projects to ensure their overall success with a demonstrable high degree of individual, team and customer satisfaction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Scrum master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Facilitated execution starting with product visioning and release planning activities through Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos and Sprint Retrospectives
Coached and coordinated between PO, Project Managers, Vendors and other relevant stakeholders to define the continuous evolving backlog. Formulated business epics, feature, backlog and establish prioritization process for ART.
Ensured team’s productivity and effectiveness through continuous improvement culture. Established transparency and productivity Metrics like Velocity, velocity increase, happiness metrics and focus factor
Assists the team in preparation for ART activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt.
Facilitated ART SOS to resolve internal and external blockers that help in achieving Sprint objectives and focus factor.
Base lined the technical practices as per Confidential COE, such as building regression suites, migration on Test case management & Agile Craft tool
Fueled team to implement the best engineering practices - pair programming, continuous integration, code reviews, automated testing, ATDD, DevOps
Utilized effective tools for productive team like Story Map, Innovation Games, Big Room Planning, Fun Retrospective, Product Mapping
Conducted Agile maturity assessments for various delivery teams across Confidential to share the gaps & process for improvements.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Worked closely with the ART teams for PI planning and I&A workshops throughout the program execution.
Resolved/escalated team and ART roadblocks in SoS and Program Teams to ensure program objectives and program velocity
Handled two agile teams - Scrum and Kanban. Conducted scrum team ceremonies - program planning, review, retrospective, release planning, backlog refinement. Also facilitated Kanban ceremonies - system replenishment, Release planning, Stand Up and Service Delivery Review meetings
Supported team with creating team agreements, defining DoD & DoR, Developing and prioritizing backlog, estimation techniques.
Coached and supported team to build Continuous delivery mindset and pipeline (DevOps)
Provided status, defect reports, retrospective outcomes to the ART & Value stream stakeholders

Senior Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Lead and effectively coordinated the onsite and offshore cross-functional teams to ensure delivery
Implemented Agile Scrum Methodology to improve transparency within Engineering, Product Management, and Business across the departments; and to obtain great business value with short turnarounds
Conducted market research and delivered MRD / PRD for new product development
Tailored & Implemented the SCRUM and Kanban methodologies of Agile.
Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings. Communicated Team Velocity, Sprint/Product Burn Down charts with all stakeholders
Collaborated with Product Owners to shape epics into features and prioritized them in the product backlog.
Worked with Release Teams and Product Management to initiate the development activities necessary to delivery business epics and meet strategic business objectives.

Senior Executive

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Introduced agile practices, tools and techniques for product development delivery.
Instituted team room and initiated daily standup meetings for one local and two distributed product development teams
Managed product and sprint backlogs; stories and tasks sized and maintained in a stakeholder meeting
Planned and led product owner demos
Facilitated Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Review meeting and team techniques
Planned and executed the quarterly scope meeting and release planning meetings

Senior Executive

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Facilitated Stakeholder meeting to gather the requirements, roadmap and budget
Set the pull based process for team to work on the requests based on priority
Developed and published the metrics on lead-time, business delivery, defect and deployments tracking & budget/resource utilization.
Supported team on blocking issues, resolving outside dependency, necessary access grants and submitting the estimates