SUMMARY:

• A highly motivated adaptive Scrum Master/Project Manager with progressive and diverse experience with the ability to learn new business concepts and skills quickly.
• Experience in analyzing, and managing complex multidisciplinary projects for large enterprise applications serving as a bridge between business and development. Proven ability to build, manage, and motivate diverse
• Project teams in stressful situations to meet tight deadlines, and deliver high - quality services to the customer. A fluent communicator with strong investigation, problem-solving and decision-making skills. Proactive, industrious, thrives on challenge, works effectively with all levels.
• Deep understanding of Agile Methodology including; product vision and roadmap, release and sprint planning, daily commitments, story estimation, defining epics, gathering requirements, writing user Stories, conducting backlog refinement, writing and executing test cases, and coordinating Scrum of Scrums to assure maximum value delivery to the customer.
• Well versed with project management tools for managing and facilitating the agile development process using Jira, Confluence, Rally, Version One, MS Project and MS TFS, and Planview.
• Excellent presentation skills in preparing dashboard, contingency plans, forecasting and schedules.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Lead Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Servant leader for all the teams of assigned product; front end, back end, DevOps, UX and offshore teams.
• Working in partnership with product owners to maximize productivity by grooming, revisiting release plans and radiate Scrum artifacts as required.
• Formed cross functional development teams, empowering them and ensuring that they are self-organized to resolve minor issues.
• Performed gap analysis, identifying opportunities for enhancements, and making recommendations based on key findings during requirement gathering.
• Implemented Scrum foundation and personalized process to complement team needs in order to increase and maintain a consistent high velocity. .
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owners and stakeholders.
• Supporting business analyst in writing and reviewing requirements, user stories, functional specification, and priority.
• Creating metrics such as Burndown and Velocity charts for each Sprint and tuning the subsequent Product Backlog and release plan to meet feature delivery deadlines.
• Tracking and resolving and issues and risks, including removing impediments and team conflicts, mentoring scrum teams at department and individual level to maximize the benefits of Agile/Scrum process.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, JAD sessions and assisted the development of User Manuals for customers.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate release planning, sprint planning, daily stand-up, demos, retrospectives, and scrum of scrums.
• Work with Product owner to groom product Backlog, story prioritization, release and spring planning.
• Verify user stories with core team and ensure that all prioritized user stories have acceptance criteria.
• Conduct story estimation sessions for epic and theme level user stories to help product owner with story prioritization and mapping the releases to roadmap.
• Facilitate sprint and release demos to obtain product readiness approvals from the Sponsors.
• Ensured the development scrum teams practice the core Agile principles so the team moves toward becoming a self-organized and self-managed.
• Conduct daily standups and to remove any roadblocks.
• Involved in facilitating estimation sessions for epic and theme level user stories for planning releases and mapping the releases to roadmap.
• Implement at least two lessons learned from each sprint retrospective into follow-up sprint to make continuous improvements in processes and with people.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Brought management’s attention to help remove shortcomings exposed by the adoption of Agile Scrum.
• Motivated business/IT teams to switch from traditional waterfall model to more value generating and business focused Agile Scrum development.
• Formed cross functional development teams, empowering them and ensuring that they are self-organized to resolve minor issues. Implementing XP practices such as test driven development and refactoring. .
• Coordinated with Product Owner to prioritize requirements/Product Backlog based on Delivery schedule, Business Value based on ROI calculation.
• Coached and mentored the agile team members while providing constructive feedback and action items that generated through Retrospective meeting using sailboat, timeline retrospective etc.
• Worked with Product Owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown.
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum for Scrum teams that were not co-located.
• Developed and conducted Agile training courses on various Agile frameworks as needed such as Scrum, XP, Kanban and Scrumban.
• Managed the overall performance and modeled best practices and encouraged cross-functional collaboration, communication, feedback, and learning among the various team.
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
• Facilitated migration of the projects from Waterfall to Scrum in a smooth transition.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed gap analysis, identifying opportunities for enhancements, and making recommendations based on key findings during requirement gathering.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical teams throughout the project cycle. Managed Risk Assessment, Risk Mitigation, Risk Log and Issue tracking
• Provided Agile project management controls, project plans, timeline schedules, facilitate RAD sessions, and review software defects.
• Worked in an Agile environment and facilitated daily stand up meetings, developed burn down chart, project backlog and release backlog.
• Responsible for collecting status from offshore QA and DEV teams, monitoring performance of the team for the Sprint and create task sheet and timelines for the team to accomplish.
• Supported cross functional teams to address business requirements by converting use cases to user stories.
• Worked on creating the product backlog and the Sprint backlog.
• Worked closely with teams extensively on Estimating the User Story effort and priority.
• Coordinated the process for users which analyzed their current business practices, user needs, and then used that information to define functional requirements and a RFI’s and Request for Proposal (RFP) for a new system.
• Supported cross-functional teams to address business requirements.
• Worked closely with business users for to define UAT strategies and data validation for the web application development.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, JAD sessions and assisted the development of User Manuals for customers.