SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scaled Scrum Expert (CSSE), Certified Dev - ops Generalist, Certified Agile Scrum Coach, Certified AWS Solution Architect wif over 8 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Digital Scrum Master and Agile Coach
• Experienced and accomplished Scrum servant - leader capable of delivering medium to large scale projects on time and on budget through effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching various Scrum teams.
• Proven record of transforming waterfall teams to scrum teams using different approaches dat complimented teh culture and management of teh organization
• Experienced in generating teh most value from teh Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review/Demo and Sprint Retrospective.
• Knowledgeable on Product Backlog refinement, Agile estimation, mid-sprint reviews and Sprint workshops.
• Experienced in agile mentoring, improving development team motivation, process innovation, removal of project impediments, working wif business/product owner to maximize business value and ROI in shorter period.
• Experienced in Scrum based iterative and incremental development showing increasing and sustainable business value every Sprint.
• Well versed in using project management tools for managing and facilitating teh development process using JIRA, Rally and MS Project.
• Created and maintained Responsibility Assignment Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Functioned as teh primary liaison between teh business line, operations, and teh technical teams throughout project cycle.
• Seasoned professional, wif outstanding client interaction, Sprint planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills.
• Ability to support multiple simultaneous application development projects in a matrix organizational structure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Scrum Servant Leader
• JIRA
• SQL
• SDLC (Waterfall & Agile)
• Team dynamics
• Iteration/Sprint Planning
• Presentation skills
• Project Management
• Cloud Computing
• Jenkins setup
• AWS Infrastructure
• NX
• VSTS
• TFS
• Requirement management
• .Net application
• Java
• Python development and MS Office (Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Kanban
• Agile Scrum coach.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Warsaw Indiana

Sr Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Providing oversight and management of multiple projects across teh department
• Helping organization to transition into Agile world.
• Translating surgeon plans into usable user stories on digital and medical device project
• Documenting workflows for FDA submissions
• Working wif product owners to deliver business value sprint after sprint and requirements
• Tracking and updating FDA documentations in Polarion.
• Leading other scrum masters and delivery of work-products across several scrum teams
• Coaching teh teams on Agile practices in teh context of teh scrum framework
• Tracking and following bugs till they are verified and closed out
• Fill in teh intentional gaps left in teh scrum framework wif other Agile techniques
• Helping team members to find a sustainable pace and also developing useful estimation techniques
• Removing impediments to development and also building trust and open lines of good communication to easily identify blockers
• Building a team where members hold each other accountable as well as responsible for one another
• Supporting and educating product owners especially wif good maintenance of teh backlog
• Providing endless support to team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
• Coaching team on how to better breakdown stories to maximize value
• Tracking project using Azure DevOps
• Coaching Junior Scrum masters to minimize dependences

Confidential, Dallas TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Positioned team to succeed by removing impediments while protecting Scrum team.
• Coach & Train Scrum team members to efficiently utilize Scrum Framework.
• Using Jira Created and updated detailed project budgets and resource estimates.
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Protect teh team from impediments, distractions and team conflicts.
• Direct and lead team form project initiation through teh delivery of final project.
• Educate and reinforced scrum framework and agile methodology to team members and stakeholders.
• Organize and facilitate Release planning, Sprint planning, Daily stand-up, Sprint Reviews/Demos, Sprint Retrospectives & and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Involved in facilitating estimation sessions for epic and theme level user stories for planning releases and mapping teh releases to roadmap.
• Support and coordinate wif Product Owners, especially wif respect to grooming and maintaining teh product backlog.
• Track and report Agile Scrum project metrics through daily burn downs and release plans through release burn downs
• Coached and empowered team to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Establish strong communication wif clients, keeping both internal and external stakeholders informed on project progress on a regular basis.
• Negotiate and foster communication across cross-functional teams while protecting teh team from unproductive disruptions Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
• Facilitate getting job done wifout assigning or dictating to teh team.
• Tracking and treating bugs as a disease till they are cured on Kanban board

Confidential, Arkansas

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Work closely wif IT personnel and business partners to identify and maximize opportunities to improve products services and program business processes
• Review detailed documentation of business systems and user needs, including workflow, program functions and steps required to develop or modify application programs.
• Facilitate sprint reviews and retrospectives meeting in line wif agile best practices of inspect and adapt
• Participate in backlog refining sessions tailored to tasking and assigning story as well as story pointing stories.
• Conduct backlog reviews, planning sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for teams during sprint cycle
• Provide input in creating a working software to maintain Employee logs
• Lead daily scums to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or concerns in an Agile Scrum environment
• Address problems through risk management and contingency planning
• Coached and reinforce Scrum methodology and agile values.
• Support and educate product team especially on grooming and maintaining product backlog.
• Tracking project / Bugs using JIRA

Confidential, Dallas TX

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies to champion idea of self-organizing team.
• Coach organization on effectively running an agile environment.
• Coach and train team members to effectively utilize scrum framework.
• Work wif software testers to write sophisticated stories so as to deliver good product.
• Work wif product owners to better understand requirements.
• Work wif team on test driven development to deploy a fully functioning product.
• Remove impediments from team to ensure a smooth sprint.
• Develop tool to better visualize velocity and capacity.
• Lead daily scrum to communicate current day’s goal and previous day’s achievements as well as any concern in teh agile environment.
• Facilitate team to better break down Epics into meaningful user stories following me.N.V.E.S.T
• Gatheird High level requirements from customers and other stakeholders to fill Backlogs
• Helped organization in developing better relationship wif new and existing customers
• Meet and exceeded ROI
• Managed teh operational aspect of client’s projects including budgeting