SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master professional leveraging 6+ years of IT Industry experience specialized in managing technology products from concept to completion wif remarkable deadline sensitivity.
• Completed Scrum Master Certification (CSM) and have prior experience in dat role for 5 + years
• Successfully shipped consumer facing Web and/or mobile products
• Earned a BS in Computer Science degree
• Considered a JIRA expert
• Known as excellent communicator in both verbal and written form
• Have a knack for clearly distilling complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans for teams
• Passionate about productivity software and highly organized
• Seasoned project manager wif Agile Scrum methodology - Release planning, sprint planning, managing sprint backlog and facilitating scrum events for multiple scrum teams.
• Program leadership - working wif wide range of cross-functional teams, multi-location teams including product management, business architect, engineering, user experience, quality, operations, marketing, support, infrastructure and release management team.
• Leadership & People management skills - Continuous engagement wif teh teams (around 20 members), assessment and keeping them focused as per vision and mission.
• Experience in mentoring and supervising teh technical team members to have smooth transition phase from traditional waterfall to Agile Scrum and also experience in handling multiple scrum teams.
• Experience in translating teh customer requirements in to technical solutions
• Deployed continuous development model wif 9 processes to 850 test engineers for product delivery test (PDT) customer focused testing, feature test, regression test, and beta early customer evaluation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Reinforce solid Scrum practice wif development team
• Track dependencies, remove blockers, manage efficiency wif continuous improvement
• Facilitate teh overall planning, execution and success of high quality software releases
• Drive all meetings, process and operations including Sprint execution and daily stand-ups
• Provide metrics on team health via dashboards and reports
• Facilitating all teh scrum ceremonies - daily stand-ups, sprint planning, Story grooming, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Manage/track teh action items from teh scrum ceremonies and follow-up on teh closure
• Work wif PO, UE, business architects and Technical team to groom, size and prioritize teh user stories for future sprints. Validate and certify teh user story readiness wif readiness DOR checklist
• Identify and remove teh impediments quickly and also sheltering team from outside interference.
• Work wif PO and other scrum masters for teh cross-functional dependencies and their deliverables.
• Work wif team to triage teh open issues and defects.
• Share teh progress/status wif management/stakeholders/PMO.
• Analyze and present teh metrics report (CFD, burn down, velocity, resource capacity allocation, defects etc) to management/team and work wif team on teh improvements.
• Track and manage teh cross-functional dependencies. Also participate in scrum of Scrum.
• Work wif teh release management and also teh other services engagements like performance testing
• Publish, execute and track teh Go-live readiness and deployment plan.
• Drive teh adoption of agile process by teh team and do teh agile maturity assessments and take teh actions for improvements. Also helping and guiding other scrum masters in teh team.
• Responsible for organizing, managing teh artifacts in Rally. Also configuring teh custom fields, apps in Rally

Scrum Master

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating all teh scrum ceremonies - daily stand-ups, sprint planning, Story grooming, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Manage /track teh action items from teh scrum ceremonies and follow-up on teh closure
• Work wif PO, UE, business architects and Technical team to groom, size and prioritize teh user stories for future sprints. Validate and certify teh user story readiness wif readiness DOR checklist
• Identify and remove teh impediments quickly and also sheltering team from outside interference.
• Work wif PO and other scrum masters for teh cross-functional dependencies and their deliverables.
• Work wif team to triage teh open issues and defects.
• Share teh progress/status wif management/stakeholders/PMO.
• Analyze and present teh metrics report (CFD, burn down, velocity, resource capacity allocation, defects etc) to management /team and work wif team on teh improvements.
• Track and manage teh cross-functional dependencies. Also participate in scrum of Scrum.
• Work wif teh release management and also teh other services engagements like performance testing
• Publish, execute and track teh Go-live readiness and deployment plan.
• Drive teh adoption of agile process by teh team and do teh agile maturity assessments and take teh actions for improvements. Also helping and guiding other scrum masters in teh team.
• Responsible for organizing, managing teh artifacts in Rally. Also configuring teh custom fields, apps in Rally

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating all teh scrum events - daily stand-ups, sprint planning/pre-planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective
• Sprint planning and release planning - prioritize, estimation, task allocation, story points & velocity, monitoring.
• Provided teh team wif a vision of teh project objectives.
• Assist teams in removing impediments and by sheltering from outside interference. Also Handel cross-functional communications between all teh stakeholders including internal and external.
• Promote self-organization wifin teams through collaboration and TEMPeffective communication.
• Elicit well-defined user stories from Product Owners and internal business owners in order to ensure teh delivery of high-business value products.
• Ensured dat Product Management and Engineering are fully aligned on teh product roadmap, customer requirements, scope, resources, schedule, and QA acceptance criteria.
• Managed communication of progress/status/metrics wif customers and management.
• Provide risk management plan to optimize teh project success.

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed end-to-end project management using agile methodology -sprint planning, sprint backlog, user stories and release planning
• Client management experience - requirements gathering, handling customer queries & issues, demos, UAT, deployments and vendor interaction.(onsite at client’s place Tamp, Florida)
• Managed communication of progress/status wifin teh core team and external to teh team (customers, partners, etc); escalate issues as necessary
• Collaborating wif QE & other stakeholders and driving UAT. Final release to customer followed by training and hand over to support team
• Provide risk management plan to optimize teh project success
• Hire, mentor, coach and supervise technical team members and helped them take on