CAREER OBJECTIVE:

Looking to obtain an Agile Scrum Master role that will allow me to bring in my exceptional leadership, organizational, situational management style, motivational techniques, time management and planning skills while facilitating open communication to benefit the agile team in particular and boosting return on investment (ROI) for the organization as a whole and having an open mind to continuously learn, adapt, grow and do it all over again with a different approach based on lessons learned.

SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master cum Business Analyst, an agile fanatic with extensive experience in supporting complex software development with a servant leader attitude. Good understanding of other processes and methodologies (Kanban, eXtreme Programming (XP) and Lean) and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to an agile team/enterprise. Specialties include: Agile/SCRUM Methodology, eXtreme programming (XP), Kanban and Scrumban. Capable of leading a team to become self - organizing, collaborative and facilitate conflict resolution while maintaining a high energy with an attitude of empowerment and transparency. Maintain a positive attitude towards facilitating/guiding the team towards resolving impediments and maintaining focus on the sprint goal.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PM Tools: Jira, CA Agile Central (Rally), Microsoft TFS, MS Excel, VersionOne Scrum, Kanban, XP (TDD, BDD & Continuous Integration) - studying SAFe and LeSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Columbia, MD

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Product Owner, Project Management and Delivery Team on the Product Roadmap (User Story Mapping) and Release Planning.
• Facilitated daily Standups to measure Sprint progress, removed any impediments and re-prioritized Sprint Backlogs as required.
• Used TFS and Jira as the primary Agile Project Management and Planning tools.
• Helped the product owner in the creation and prioritization of Product Backlog, established Sprint goals and Sprint Backlog during the Sprint Planning meeting.
• As part of Sprint Review, I demonstrated success/failure of the Sprint to all stakeholders using Version One generated Project and Sprint Reports (Cumulative Flow, Burndown charts, etc.), and demonstrated functionalities achieved during the Sprint.
• Facilitated Sprint Retrospectives by applying different techniques based on the outcome of the Sprint.
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Protected teams from over-commitment, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.
• Managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprint to deployment.
• Coordinated and managed code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups.
• Communicated with other scrum masters, project managers, engineers, and support specialists.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Ensured that the prioritized Stories on the Product Backlog met all criterias (Definition of Done, INVEST, Definition of Ready).
• Ensured that the teams acted on velocity metrics to continuously improve.
• Assured team-level assumptions, risks and dependencies are captured, tracked and acted upon as part of the Lean Agile/Scrum process.

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Championed agile software development best practices and acted as a coach to the Scrum teams.
• Supported the Product Owner in grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Took responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and others, collaborated within the Scrum Master network especially in regards to items necessary for product release.
• Gathered and reported Scrum team statistics to stakeholders.
• Build on the analysis and recorded experience of similar projects to construct better quality estimates.
• Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization.
• Coached the teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Communicated with other managers within the business and managed expectations for the projects.
• Evaluated information radiators and Scrum issues on daily basis.
• Instructed and modeled core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Maintained relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance.
• Encouraged continuous improvement in engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery.

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assembled Requests from key business users, IT users and subject matter experts to outline the scope and requirements of online banking system.
• Worked closely with the development team to authenticate that business needs are contented, and deliverables are produced within quantified budget, excellence and time.
• Developed system requests specifications surrounding Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
• Piloted Gap analysis to guesstimate effort necessary in alteration of current architecture and progress of new business requirements.
• Aided project manager in managing of Iteration plans, Product backlogs, User stories, Action item list and Risk log.
• Designed and established Use Cases, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram and context diagram using MS Visio.
• Managed and documented requests from Project Inception using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Developed data maps for recovery of data from current systems.
• Applied a customary change control process in tracing shortcomings originating from post-requirement stages.
• Preconfigured, Customizable templates- Create collaborative imaging, data sets, charts and graphs using Business Objects.
• Wrote Queries to verify the system functionality and provided the users with the desired information and data during operational phase.
• Conscripted test approaches and test cases to validate exactness of the functionality, safety, fault- tolerance, presentation and prosperous system integration using Quality Center.