SUMMARY:

• Dynamic, hands - on Certified Scrum Master with experience in managing several agile projects.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations.
• Skilled in providing effective leadership in fast paced environment with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Proficently Organized and facilitated dailyScrum, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, and sprint planning.
• Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were read for sizing.
• Effectively tracked team’s progress including burn down, velocity and release forcasting.
• Encouraged the team to follow the rules, values, practises ofScrumall the time.

CORE COMPETANCIES:

Agile/Scrum Methodologies

Product/Project Management

SDLC

Sprint Ceremonies

Prioritizing/Multi-tasking

Logistics

Digital and Social Media

Engagement models

Communication Management

Business Analysis

Onshore/Off Shore Teams

Requirement Gathering

Water Fall Methodology

Team management

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY PROFILE:

Confidential, Santa Clara, California

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating SCRUM ceremonies-sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, Sprint review and Sprint retrospectives.
• Worked with product owners and team on scope and roadmap for the delivery and on sprint planning, product backlog, backlog refinement, story sizing and estimation.
• Promoted an environment and culture of open communication, transparency and innovation.
• Protect team from over-commitment, maintain product backlog, helping team to manage and update task.
• Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecast.
• Evangelizing the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Train new team members and transition teams to adopt agile framework with scrum to enhance team skill level.
• Improved teams’ performance by 30% by ensuring they have the tools needed, a well thought out backlog, they communicated and collaborated often and frequently, impediments were removed quickly, no outside interference, worked closely with QA on testing and definition of done.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Company-wide agile coaching and managed all the scrum ceremonies and established the agile processes for the projects with local and remote teams.
• Provided group and one-on-one training sessions to the teams.
• Evangelizing the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Roadmap Planning, backlog grooming, pre-planning of sprint, sprint planning, story grooming, burn-down.
• Improved team participation, accountability, ownership, focus and velocity.
• Facilitated sessions to define and improve definition of done and set a process for the team to follow it.
• Implemented relative estimation technique using story points across all the teams.
• Used collaboration and facilitation techniques to help solve problems.
• Set milestones, planed releases accordingly and performed product backlog and grooming, set priorities and monitored progress.
• Stakeholder management and communication.

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the adoption, implementation and sustainability of the agile scrum processes, principles, and practices.
• Conducted sprint activities (story refinement, planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives); Impediment identification and removal; Product planning; Backlog management (definition, grooming, and prioritization); Story sizing and task estimation; Deployment activities; Continuous delivery; Team building and communication; Gathering data and providing metrics.
• Collaborate closely with the product owners on backlog grooming, to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized.
• Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecast.
• Contribute to product roadmap planning and release management.
• Identify and remove organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Promoted an environment and culture of experimentation, innovation and continuous improvement by helping teams to continuously reflect and improve to become more effective in their roles and increasing their predictability, collaboration, and quality practices.
• Evangelizing the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Business Analyst for a supply chain management product for a company based out London, UK.
• Involved in requirement gathering & functional design scoping of a Supply Chain Management product.
• Interact with development team, customers and interpret functional specification.
• Identifying and documenting all business, technical, product and process requirements.
• Developing a Requirements Management Plan and disseminating the Plan to all stakeholders.
• Involved in project requirement gathering & planning, understanding the concept of the project, business context.
• SRS creation, Functional & Non Functional requirement documents, Development Methodology, Project planning & Management.
• New system conceptualization.
• Consulting on features, functionalities & entire system.
• Experience in different stages of the SDLC.
• Experience in working with waterfall and Agile software development methodology.
• Acting as a liaison between clients and development teams providing business/functional requirements.
• Experience working with clients to identify uses case, business rules, and other relevant information.

Business Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identifying market opportunities & exploring opportunity for new account acquisition
• Assess competitors and their relative positioning within the market
• Market & Client Research-Business Plan Analysis.
• Experience working with clients in gathering requirements and identifying product roadmap.
• Involved in preparing the Business Presentations etc.
• Prepare presentations, Mock-ups & demonstrate to the clients.
• Co-ordinate with UI team and direct the list of requirements to create a corresponding UX Strategy that executes on the product plan.
• Coordinate with technical team for new account acquisition.
• Hands on experience working with RFI’s, RFP’s and requirements from different business verticals.
• RFP Analysis, Business Model Consulting, Functional/Technical requirements gathering & providing assistance in document preparation.
• Business Model consulting(Fixed Bid, Retainer & T&M)
• Posses excellent interpersonal, communication and people management skills.
• Was a mentor to 7 people team and have trained them.
• Identify and coordinate with Delivery manager in organizing Rewards & Recognition Programmes.

Confidential

Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identifying market opportunities & exploring opportunity for new account acquisition
• Market & Client Research, Business Plan & Process Analysis
• Prepare presentations, Proposal & demonstrate to the clients
• Ability to relate business & technology requirements & consulting
• Business Model consulting(Fixed Bid, Retainer & T&M), Price Negotiation and Closing Deals
• Organizing presentations and Client Meetings.
• Coordinating with Development team to prepare Work breakdown structure.
• Experience in acting as a liaison between clients and development teams providing business/functional requirements.
• Experience working with clients to identify usecase/ userstories, business rules, and other relevant information identified in requirements specification documents.
• Market & Client Research-Business Plan Analysis.
• Involved in preparing the Business Plan, Presentations etc.
• Prepare presentations, Mock-ups & demonstrate to the clients.
• Coordinate with technical team for new account acquisition.
• Handling matured leads, positioning Aspire’s services and gathering the client requirements.
• Hands on experience working with RFI’s, RFP’s and requirements from different business verticals.
• RFP Analysis, Business Model Consulting, Functional/Technical requirements gathering & providing assistance in document preparation.