Scrum Master Resume Rochester, NY - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Experienced scrum master with a proven track record for guiding software development teams to deliver high - quality software on time and within budget. Subscribes to an “inspect and adapt” philosophy that encourages teams to improve efficiencies and eliminate waste.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies for multiple teams including: Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Retrospective, and Sprint Review meetings
Coach and mentor team members on Agile/Scrum processes
Collect and chart sprint metrics, including sprint burndown and burnup charts, to ensure team performance remains consistent with expectations
Work closely with multiple Product Owners to ensure Product Backlogs are up to date and properly prioritized
Help teams to balance planned sprint work with their production support responsibilities
Work with the senior leadership team to ensure the organization’s agile vision stays true to the core agile principles

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Facilitate Daily Scrum, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Sprint Retrospective meetings
Coach team members on Agile processes
Maintain task board and produced daily burndown and burnup charts to monitor and communicate team progress.
Work closely with Product Owners to maintain and grooming the product backlog.
Successfully balance team’s diverse commitments and responsibilities to projects and support work
Maintain traditional Project Manager responsibilities such as creating and maintaining staffing profiles, and ensuring projects run within budget

IT Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Maintained software development lead responsibilities while acting as Scrum Master for two pilot teams
Successfully guided 4 development teams through transition from Waterfall to Agile process
Transitioned 2 scrum teams to Kanban
Facilitating all scrum ceremonies including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospectives

Software Development Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Managed all software development activities for the core payroll application
Coordinated all software releases
Participated in process improvement activities that reduced Test Engineers investigation time, during development cycle, from 21% to 3%.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Engagement with off-shore 3rd party vendor to develop a test data management strategy
Engagement with 3rd party software vendor for a Proof-of-Concept of their Test Data Management and Data Privacy software

Confidential

Software Project Manager/Software Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

Managed software development activities for all digital cinema software maintenance releases
Supported the Global Service and Support Group on complex field issues
Worked with customers to define requirements for key new features
Participated in defining product roadmap for current and future software products
Managed the commercialization process and provided software technical leadership for an OEM digital preshow projector
Managed the commercialization process for a low cost digital cinema preshow system

Software Current Engineer / Software Project Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Developed software for various printer and film recorder products.
Participated in several software development process improvement efforts, as defined by the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
Administrative supervisor for 8 software engineers