SUMMARY

• Goal - oriented, resourceful, Result-oriented Business Analyst and Scrum Master Professional with extensive track record devising and implementing winning teamwork strategies targeting collaboration and communication.
• Teh applicant is a Certified Scrum Master and has a solid agile mindset with a great track record for consistently delivering results detailed analysis, creative solution and maintaining strong customer relationship.
• Applicant has exceptional interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.
• Core Skills: Scrum, Kanban, Team Facilitation, Business Analysis, Project Management, Product Management
• An expert on Business Analysis, Scrum Project Management, and Product Management: Program Management (Business and IT), Requirement Gathering, Requirement Analysis, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Product Backlog Creation and leading Scrum team.
• Strong experience in Project Management; leading estimation and backlog grooming session with teh team.
• Professional Domain noledge of Healthcare, Consumer goods, Finance, Retail (e-commerce) with an aptitude to learn new domains.
• Strong noledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Waterfall, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Exceptional skills in gathering, analyzing, and translating business requirements into functional specifications dat were used to design and implement business solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lexington, KY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully guided development teams through teh transition from Waterfall to Agile development.
• Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Removed impediments and protected team member form interruptions and distraction to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improved. created team-building opportunities.
• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
• Led and coached Product Owners to improve story writing and requirements gathering process, leading to an increases customer.
• Coached team member on Agile processes and facilitated planning meeting and retrospectives Maintained board and produced daily burndown chart.
• Partnered with Product Manager to elicited custom reporting requirements from highly sensitive external customers and converted them into Technical Specification document for teh marketing team. Conducted Scrum Daily Standup, Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviewed, and Sprint Retrospective meeting.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into teh sprint planning session.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meeting to provide high-level estimated story points for backlog items.
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principals of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across teh enterprise.
• Trained and mentored team members on teh best and most TEMPeffective ways to use Scrum processes.

Confidential, Lexington, KY

Scrum Master/ Analyst 

Responsibilities:

• Help teh team by implementing scrum core value and practices to meet teh project goals.
• Led daily standup meetings to capture impediments of team members and assisted teh team in removing impediments.
• Partnered with Product Manager to elicited custom reporting requirements from highly sensitive external customers and converted them into Technical Specification document for teh marketing team.
• Coached team members on agile principals and providing general guidance on teh methodology.
• Worked directly with other product owners system, system engineers, program managers, developers, tester, and customers to define features and technical user stories.
• Removed team Impediments on a daily basis to allow teh team to deliver teh sprint goals and deliverables.
• Speaking to details of teh projects to both teh business and technical teams from beginning to teh end of all project.
• In-depth noledge of projects planning techniques and automated project planning tools.
• Worked with teh team to plan sprint and holding daily scrum meeting.
• Provide technical support to Business Owners during teh implementation of new products/services.
• Responsible to implement and execute a disciplined Change control process including communication and estimation.
• Estimated hours for teh task and user story and communicated any roadblocks associated with teh user story to teh product owner.
• Facilitate meetings to ensure proper communication was held throughout teh building of product to deliver continuous value to stockholders and clients.

Confidential, Lexington, KY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from product team and created Business Requirement Documents and Functional Requirement Documents.
• Facilitated requirements gathering sessions to understand complex business needs, often eliciting hidden requirements and clarifying vague and unclear requirements.
• Developed process mapping of current and future business processes.
• Performed Gap Analysis to check teh compatibility of teh existing system infrastructure with teh new business requirements.
• Connected and built a relationship with teh client and stakeholder.
• Developed process mapping of current and future business processes.
• Mentored and internally promoted successful company sales and account management personnel into leadership positions to drive company growth.
• Actively engaged in and was a driving force in strategic planning meetings with shareholders.
• Developed TEMPeffective business plans, achieved profitability goals and grew business and client retention.
• Performed Gap Analysis to check teh compatibility of teh existing system infrastructure with teh new business requirements.