PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Accomplished servant - leader wif more than 8 years of experience in delivering large-scale software and web development projects on time and on budget in financial Industry and other industries by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple scrum teams.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) wif proven ability to work wif self-organizing and cross-functional teams.
• Facilitated Scrum Events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) for Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Worked for planning, directing and executing enterprise Agile transformation.
• Understanding of other Industry standard methodologies like Extreme programming, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Lean, Kanban.
• Exposure to Agile engineering practices such as: ATDD, TDD, Continous Integration, Pair Programming, Agile games.
• Exposure in Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)- ceremonies, metrics, incremental and iterative delivery across enterprise
• Have extensive experience wif teh entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) that includes Requirement Elicitation, Gathering and Analysis.
• Coordinating wif Product Owner in grooming product backlogs to prepare for sprint.
• Assist team wif making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking.
• Creating metrics such as “Burn-down” and “Velocity charts” for each Sprint and tuning/adapting teh subsequent Product Backlog/development/Release Plan to meet feature delivery deadline.
• Conducted Scrum of Scrum between different team leads independent teams.
• Successfully led 3 Scrum teams size of 25 people
• Proactively identified and removed blockers, limited work in progress and prevent distractions.
• Instilled a sense of urgency reflecting teh goals for current iteration, upcoming release and project vision, while passionately emphasizing teh importance of meeting these goals
• Clear sense of priority when directing resources and tasks, monitoring development efforts and assembling key project deliverables
• Collaborated wif project leads to aggressively address risk, issues and mitigation plans.
• Expertise in developing Process-mapping documents to describe teh data flow between various systems in teh organization
• Experience in complex data warehousing projects and an understanding of data and information management concepts
• Experience in conducting GAP, Impact, SWOT, Cost benefit analysis, Root cause, Feasibility study, Impact analysis, Risk Analysis, and As-Is and To-Be business analysis.
• Experience in Using Estimation techniques, Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing, Relative mass evaluation.
• Possess good noledge of validation scripting like JavaScript, JQuery and Angular JS also familiar wif different control version tools, SVN, GIT. Worked on IOS and Android, Salesforce Platforms as well.
• Collaborative in driving decisions and team behaviour, guarding against making decisions and assignments for teh team and instead create an environment where team have teh context needed to make teh decision.
• Passion for operational excellence, attention to detail, and a demonstrated ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Demonstrated bias for action and results, wif strengths in problem solving and issue resolution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: JIRA, Rally, TDD, Version One

Reporting Tools: IBM Cognos, Tableau

Database: Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint 2013, MS Project, MS Visio

ETL other tools: Informatica, Salesforce

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NC

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach Scrum teams responsible for developing dozens of software products and automated tools for dis major Financial Services company.
• Facilitated Scrum Events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) for Agile Scrum Methodology, to track progress of teh work.
• Eliminate project impediments and setting strategies.
• Together worked wif teh Product owner, focused on wat can be done and identified a way to deliver something valuable at teh end of each sprint.
• Ensured everyone follows Scrum rules and practices
• Assisted Product Owner in grooming product backlogs to prepare for sprint.
• Optimised, Increased and sustained throughput, ensuring prioritization of work by value and risk.
• Tracked and ensured visibility of historical team metrics and progress of teh iteration and release.
• Anticipated and removed obstacles from project team’s path and pushed them to deliver quality results based on schedule.
• Trained new Scrum Masters on tools and best standard practices for Scrum in Confidential .
• Track project/program progress, identifying and escalating issues and identifying resources to provide solutions to ensure that program tasks are completed according to established timelines
• Coordinated wif product owner to communicate wif teh stakeholders, acting as teh primary POC, brain storming sessions, scope negotiations, Release planning meeting, stakeholder meeting, project status review, and customer feedback meetings
• Facilitate Iteration Planning meetings and coordination of release management activities for deployments
• Closely track iteration progress reporting velocity and managing capacity
• Developed and implemented repeatable processes related to production and fostered an environment of continuous improvement.
• Planned, managed and facilitated two SAFe Agile Release Train Program Increment (PI) sessions
• Ideally would involve leveraging Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or Agile/SCRUM methodologies
• Making working partnerships wif business/cross functional stakeholders to create enterprise culture of trust and transparency that are essential for agile development.
• Forming skilled development teams, empowering them and ensuring that they are self-organized to resolve minor issues.
• Coordinating Scrum of Scrums for 3 teams to identify stories at risk, blockers and conduct meetings to resolve risks and dependencies
• Inviting active participation from customer in user acceptance testing for every sprint delivery and focusing on pro-active customer collaboration rather than customer negotiation
• Used JIRA for issue tracking, user story management.

Confidential . New Jersey

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Communicating wif Management on teh efficiency and progress of teh team
• Facilitated Scrum Events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective)
• Contributed to product roadmap planning, project scheduling and release management
• Identified and assisted in teh removal of organization and team impediments
• Training new team members and transitioning development teams from waterfall to Agile
• Monitoring and managing dependencies between Scrum teams and external projects.
• Facilitate frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements.
• Co-ordinated wif product owner in user story writing sessions.
• Customized and managed JIRA workflow.
• Assisted team wif working agreements, documentation and teh team's definition of done.
• Assisted Scrum team members wif user story estimation best practices.
• Created and managed burn down charts to help teh team visualize impact
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Ensured consistent application ofScrummethodologies across teh enterprise.
• Ensured teh benefits ofScrumto ensure its smooth adoption.
• Manage teh lifecycle of code development from ideation to sprints to deployment.
• Facilitated story point discussion to analyze teh level of effort on project specification.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage sprint/product backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by teh on-time delivery.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint release progress.Provide up-to-date, accurate, meaningful reports of overall program status to senior management
• Pro-actively manage project risks and issues and minimize their impact on teh project escalating issues and areas of concern to senior manager.

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for guiding teh planning, tracking and day-to-day activities of web development teams during its transition from Waterfall to Agile.
• Determined and implemented teh ideal Agile practice(s) for a specific project by pulling from teh breadth of Agile techniques including Scrum, Kanban.
• Facilitated Scrum events (daily stand-ups, sprint panning,sprint review, sprint retrospective).
• Tracked, measured, and reported Team progress based on best practices.
• Demonstrated expertise on Agile practices on teh program and portfolio levels, Servant Leadership.
• Utilized development techniques based on one on one discussions to enhance an individual's skills, noledge, and/or work performance.
• Demonstrated teh responsibilities begin mentoring across Enterprise roles and departments.
• Communicates effectively at multiple levels from team members to executive leadership.
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Continuously monitor teh progress of teh project, identify and quantify scope.
• Ability to understand technical details to level needed to support teh project team.
• Resolved conflicts, identify needs, and evaluate alternative business solutions.
• Proactively Collaborated wif Product owner and development team to identify and prevent potential risks\issues.
• Identified opportunities for improvement and make constructive suggestions for change.
• Highly effective wif engaging teams on projects and distributing responsibilities.
• Together worked wif teh Product owner, focused on wat can be done and identified a way to deliver something valuable at teh end of each sprint.
• Ensure everyone follows Scrum rules and practices.

Thomson Reuters

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted walkthroughs at various stages of development wif stakeholders
• Co-ordinated wif Product owner in interviewing area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording teh requirements hereby building a bridge between teh business people and technical people.
• Incorporated Scrum Events Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up meeting, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Helped in estimation and prioritization of teh user stories.
• Tracked team velocity and Sprint progress using Burndown charts.
• Supported teh Scrum development team by resolving impediments.
• Handled Requirement churn during teh project by performing Impact Analysis by checking teh feasibility in maintaining teh Triple Constraint and discussing them in Daily Scrum.
• Together worked wif teh Product owner, focused on wat can be done and identified a way to deliver something valuable at teh end of each sprint.
• Continously monitoring and tracking teh work of onshore/offshore teams.
• Assisted in teh creation of deployment flow chart in conjunction wif development, infrastructure, and network teams containing information for maintaining Application.
• Planned and organized team engagement activities to encourage self-organization among teh team.
• Proven record of Team Management and Leadership skills.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating teh Project initiation document (PID)
• Responsible for Cost benefit analysis, Risk assessment, and SWOT analysis.
• Analyzed and gathered requirements for preparation of Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and System Requirement Specification (SRS).
• Conducted GAP Analyses by understanding teh AS-IS business process and TO-BE business process.
• Helped teh Product owner to come up wif teh requirements in teh form of user stories
• Wrote Business rules pertaining to shipping functionality.
• Facilitated all teh Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning meeting, Daily Scrum Meeting, Product backlog refinement meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Sprint Retrospective meeting).
• Responsible for resolving impediments during teh entire project life.
• Responsible to update teh burn down charts.
• Provide up-to-date, accurate, meaningful reports of overall program status to senior management
• Responsible for creating use case, use case diagrams, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution and Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance wif teh Business Requirements.