Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager Resume Santa Clara, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Accomplished Scrum Master and agile development enthusiast. Guides software teams through agile transitions and continuous improvement.
Utilizes a deep software development and technical project management background to accelerate the delivery quality software products and grow high performing agile teams.
Looking for new opportunities after taking sabbatical / family care leave during a good part of 2017.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Assessed agile adoption readiness and produced high - level vision of an agile environment for the organization.
Introduced Kanban to distributed team evaluating robotic process automation software tools.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Formed productive Scrum & Kanban teams by conducting training workshops, coaching team members & product owners, and establishing result-driven retrospectives.
Provided team transparency by creating accessible Kanban/Scrum boards, communicating plans & progress across the organization, and advertising change experiment results.
Stabilized work environment for teams by protecting them from outside distractions, establishing work in progress limits, guiding collaboration efforts, and ensuring retrospective efforts produce results.
Introduced teams to various agile metrics and how to use them for making and measuring improvements.
Educated new Product Owners on story composition, negotiation, prioritization, and acceptance.
Authored guidelines for creating cross-functional teams and eliminating cross team dependencies.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Transformed distributed UI toolkit/platform development & UX design teams into high performing agile teams.
Decreased time getting platform features into products up to 4 months using a feature-based delivery model.
Championed effort to eliminate 200+ bugs and deliver potentially shippable increments at end of each sprint
Shifted 50% of team resources to product development teams, resulting in streamlined product development, eliminated dependencies, and vastly improved product quality.
Provided ongoing Agile/Scrum education through training workshops, individual coaching, and pair-tasking with developers, testers, and Product Owners.
Organized and facilitated all scrum related events, removed impediments, protected team from distractions, maintained information radiators, and communicated progress & plans across the organization.
Mentored team on technical aspects of agile development such as pairing, unit-testing, TDD, and CI/CD.
Member of internal agile coach forum that scaled scrum using SAFe framework.
Served as interim Product Owner, preventing delays and driving process improvements through better story composition and continuous planning efforts.
Developed end-to-end data-store, user personalization, and UI state persistent components, enabling products to provide advanced UI features without any implementation effort.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Java Developer w/Scrum Master Duties

Responsibilities:

Successfully guided project to completion as stand-in Scrum Master, preventing any delays in project deliverables and saving expense for the business.
Developed sophisticated 2D histogram and scatter-plot graphs.
Enabled fast feature development by designing and implementing a centralized controller that receives and publishes events that components subscribe to.
Implemented AJAX enabled HTML pages using JSF, Spring, Hibernate, and Oracle.
Increased team velocity by mentoring developers in Eclipse RCP, JUnit and scrum practices.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

Successfully managed the development and multiple releases of a rich client GUI application for appliances that manage network protocols such as DNS, DHCP, and IP address management.
Developed components of a multi-layered Eclipse RCP GUI framework and build engine that enabled application developers to build rich client GUI screens declaratively in XML.
Implemented SOAP based APIs and created an auto-deployment solution for Java Web Start application to run in a specific JVM.
Accelerated release development by establishing daily sync-ups between development teams.