SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master with 12 years of professional experience in IT industry comprising about 4 years as a Scrum Master (Coach) in Agile projects & Application Programing.
• Lead teams of about 30 engineers & Transitioned multiple projects.
• MotivatedScrumMasterwith focus on Agile Transformation,Scrum, Lean Software Development with technical background.
• Worked on projects involving Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud deployment & DevOps Software engineering culture.
• Worked in projects involving technologies such as Java, C++, Data Warehousing, DataStage, Oracle Business Intelligence, Reporting via Tableau, MySQL, NoSQL, DB2, JSON Files, IAM, RACF, etc.
• Have extensive experience of working on projects in BFSI (Insurance, Banking and Mortgage) and Investment Banking domains
• Has been a Servant Leader being a part of Agile Team and support the team to do their best and focus on removing their impediments and bring cultural change in organization
• Promote seamless Intra and Inter - Team communication to develop transparency and trust that helped to increase productivity and velocity of the teams.
• Relentlessly work to perceive continuous improvement by inculcating Agile principles & Scrum values among the team members
• Extensive business and IT experience driving full software and full system development life cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in Project Scoping, Sizing, Effort Estimation, Forecasting, Planning and Scheduling
• Conducted allscrumceremonies and ensure thescrumteams follow the Agile /Scrumrules
• HelpedScrumteam to mature and show the path towards the self motivation and work collaboratively along with sprint team and also with other teams
• Worked with the Agile(Scrum) Project Management methodologies such as budgeting, Backlog and story management and iteration planning and implementation of SAFe.
• Worked towards effectively resolving/ removing impediments/ blockers for the sprint team/ member
• Implemented Large ScaleScrum(LeSS) for Agile Software development. Knowledgeable on SAFe agile framework.
• Knowledge of other Agile methodologies like Kanban and Extreme Programming (XP)
• Experienced in Project Scoping, Effort Estimation, Project Scoping, Sizing, Effort Estimation, designing and developing project document templates based on Agile(Scrum), Kanban, Waterfall and SDLC methodology and successfully implementing them.
• Performed project planning, execution, monitoring, and resource balancing to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure
• Highly focused and results-oriented in supporting complex, deadline-driven operations; able to identify goals, objectives, priorities and resolve issues.
• Experienced in leading and managing teams, operating extensively in onshore - offshore working model.
• Working withScrumteams on agile practices such as Continuous Integration, Automated Deployment, Automated Testing, Test Driven Development, pair programming.
• Working with teams on Agile concepts of User Story Mapping, facilitating Release Planning and Release Roadshow.
• Coordinate with Product Owner, Chief Product Owner, Senior Business analysts and the Business team in gathering the requirements, refining the Product Backlog and guiding them on story writing.
• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software development projects by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multipleScrumteams
• Collaborate with Vendor partners, Business stakeholders, and Engineering teams to remove impediments to achieve project/ program goals.
• Working knowledge of Project Management tools like IBM-RTC, ALM & JIRA and

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Responsibilities:

• Increased Productivity, Increase in software quality and happiness in team, reduced Production Time & increase in experienced people willing to join the team.
• Develop Product backlog along with Product Owner for a given Application.
• Develop and follow Agile project management plan and Agile ceremonies
• Organize & ConductScrumDaily standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Continuously follow the Empirical Process to refine the Product backlog and track increment
• Remove team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables
• Collaborate with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
• Retrospectives to encourage Self-expression, uncover the concerns and Measure the health of the scrum team by employing appropriate techniques.
• Facilitate team meetings and teamwork to continual improvement of teams agile practices
• Strong ability to balance data with other factors when making decision, ability to integrate agile principles and work products
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process which includes Agile-Scrum and Waterfall.
• Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.
• Involved in Client interaction and support to the marketing team. User meetings resolve implementation and performance issue.
• Motivate team players with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and management, technical and written skills.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all level across the company to manage, inform and influence outcome
• Ability to work effectively in cross functional team environment, and able to balance workload and prioritizes effectively. Able to manage self and time to meet commitments
• Organize and drive the Demo to Internal teams, business and the End-User and follow-ups

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Scrum Master within the financial organization, collaborated with development to design, Web accessibility, and to support the creation and maintenance of mission-critical web-based software applications and high visibility/high demand websites through the use of an Agile/Scrum process with modified appropriation of the Kanban approach
• Facilitated thescrumteams, work with Product Owners to define the product backlog and priorities, and work to implement standards and best practices within theScrumframework.
• Experience with user story creation, requirements gathering and deliverable review
• Experience with daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
• Stakeholder/subject matter expert interaction and other aspects of projects to iteratively take them from kickoffs to the final delivery and maintenance