SUMMARY

• Sixteen plus years of IT and Eight plus years of Scrum Master experience in fortune 100 companies.
• Expert in agile methodology, product management, business analysis, system analysis, project management, change management experience.
• Diverse industries experience includes Banking, Insurance, Health care, logistics, and retail. Highly organized and detail oriented. Excels in influencing cross - functional matrix teams to align and implement a common goal.
• Certified Scrum Master/Agile Coach, recent job implemented agile best practices
• Expert user of Agile tools- VersionOne, JIRA, Rational tool concert
• Building, leading and managing matrix agile teams
• Team’s coaching, servant leadership
• Information sharing sessions, impediments removal by metrics driven methods.
• Foster communities of practices to connect people
• Agile software development methodology and story-driven development
• Scrum tracking progress and issues management
• Release planning, sprint planning, story grooming, backlog grooming
• User documentation, training materials and external and internal communication plans
• Financial domain subject matter expert
• Collaborator to facilitate a common goal with team members
• Dependable, punctual, goal-oriented, gets the job done
• Friendly attitude, team player, team leader, one on one coaching
• Works well with people, expert in conflict resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Scrum Master/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed Manager Access Review release plan for Confidential CIS and Converse teams in 10 sprints
• Enhanced SailPoint IIQ workflows for Confidential ’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) department
• Assisted the product owner on several high-visibility projects with the product backlog
• Collaborated with stakeholders and executed a workshop for SAP integration
• Expert user of JIRA, VersionOne and Confluence agile tools
• Conducted daily standup meetings, Organized sprint review and retrospective meetings
• Organized story grooming, sprint planning, release planning sessions with IAM team
• Remove impediments for the team so they can concentrate on their deliverables
• Executed training and communication plan for the SSO Ping to OKTA migration project
• Created Standard operating procedures for operation teams
• Coached team on scrum and served development team, product owner and CIS organization
• Collaborated with other CIS scrum masters to gain knowledge on their scrum ceremonies

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Scrum Master/ Transition analyst

Responsibilities:

• Instructed and modeled core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the team
• Performed stakeholder assessments and readiness evaluations to develop appropriate measures and objectives toward optimum outcome of change
• Created impact assessment and stakeholder’s analysis to build communication strategy and communication plan for the projects roll out
• Conducted sprint ceremonies for the team
• Extracted burn-down and burn up charts from JIRA for team’s visibility
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant to scope commitment
• Tracked and managed product backlog, velocity, and task break-down
• Served matrix team to coach Agile practices and best principles

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Consulted on conversion of a new application (replaced legacy application)
• Identified cost saving measures and collaborated with team for implementation
• Collaborated with training and development team and directed communication plans
• Gathered information from scrum master and product owners for implementation
• Delivered artifacts (Use cases, software specification document, functional documents, data flow and work flow diagrams, business requirement documents, test plans)
• Tracked Conversion was successful with in time and budget
• Authored changes that included standardized job aids which resulted in 50% reduction of calls for application issues by users
• Application interface with the user’s interaction with the workflow reduced technical issues ticket generation by 20%.
• Completed numerous compliance projects with tight deadline and budget
• Performed GAP analysis & root cause analysis on multiple projects based on PMO guidelines which ended up saving 15% project resources

Confidential, Portland, OR

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Communicated with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress using RTC (Rational team concert)
• Provided training to the team to create clear and concise epics/stories
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks

Confidential, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated scrum-of-scrum for offshore teams in India and Philippines
• Evangelized the benefits of scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Created use cases after interviewing stakeholders and business users
• Worked with engineering team to track the progress of use cases and provided clarity on requirements
• Performed test planning, script generations, daily interaction with QA team
• Performed UAT with business users, and managed defect resolutions