PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY.

• Agile value driven and principald Professional Scrum Master through with over 6 years’ experience in coaching and leading Scrum teams to achieve timely and incremental delivery of value.
• Accustomed to managing multiple teams and priorities in fast - paced environments.
• Work seamlessly with other members of teh Scrum Team to maintain teh artifacts of scrum and facilitate transparency to reduce risks, mitigate loss and optimize value.
• Facilitate issue resolution, decision-making and consensus among Scrum team members, cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.
• A listening servant-leader who supports teams by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies.
• Coordinate Scrum Events and ensure all parties adhere to timeboxes.
• Exceptional use of Jira and Rally for tracking and managing multiple projects.
• Certified professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MD

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives while coaching team on Agile best practices
• Tracking and communicating team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint release progress
• Empowering teh team to be self-managed and cross-functional
• Removing impediments and protecting team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Providing oversight for teh development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes and procedures that ensure compliance with policies of teh Bank
• Applying creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.
• Monitoring teh development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.
• Coordinating with Stakeholders and product owner towards meeting sprint objectives
• Building positive working relationship between stakeholders and project managers.
• Maintaining accurate source of project records for project approvals.
• Maintaining and establishing data quality, completeness, and metrics for leadership review.
• Coordinating multiple project review meetings across different project milestones.
• Enabling process standards and best practices for effective project execution.
• Working closely with Product Owners in product backlog management and coordinating product backlog refinement
• Articulating business user needs to software development teams
• Conducting Daily Stand up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Managing timely communication between various internal and external stakeholders.
• Helping team inspect and adapt to process and resolving team conflicts
• Identifying potential project risks and helping to develop a mitigation plan to resolve potential issues.
• Managing teh insight and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helping to ensure all stakeholders agreed with teh current scope and roadmap of teh product.
• Communicating timely functional technical/managerial feedback to Development team.
• Preparing development status reports and timely communication to various account stakeholders.
• Enabling improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction
• Proactively identifying & escalating risks to stakeholders.

Confidential, MD

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with product owner to prioritize and refine user Stories, define teh goal, objectives and scope of teh project in preparation for teh sprint.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily standup, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
• Worked with development team to decompose teh User Stories into tasks and assign story points to teh tasks.
• Coached and empowered teams to be self-managed and cross-functional
• Ensures teh team is practicing teh core agile principals of self-management, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward teh consistent delivery of working product.
• Built a trusting and safe environment where problems was raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving
• Facilitated weekly backlog refinement sessions with teh team, ensuring work items are properly estimated and 'ready-for-work' per teh product owners’ priorities.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features to ensure that development team efforts on sprint backlogs are of maximum value to stakeholders.
• Guide scrum teams in establishing normalized estimation
• Tracked and reported team progress utilizing metrics such as velocity, burn up and burn down charts while providing visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality
• Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulting in increased team performance and overall product quality.
• Maintained project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.
• Ensured that teh development teams are practicing teh Agile principals
• Monitored teh project progress and radiated teh information to stake holders.
• Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments on daily basis.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review and retrospectives
• Tracking project progress, managing teh budget, and analyzing workloads using utilizing tools like Jira and MS Project Plan
• Embraced a servant leader role across scrum teams and supported them by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies
• Liaised between developers and project stakeholders and fostering quality communication
• Developed best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics
• Working closely with Product Owners in product backlog management and coordinating product backlog refinement
• Aggressively helped teh team determine and remove all obstacles that may interfere with teh ability of teh teams’ to deliver assigned goals
• Ensured that teh team is practicing teh core agile principals of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward teh consistent delivery of working product.
• Facilitated weekly backlog refinement sessions with teh team, ensuring work items are estimated and ready
• Promoted continuous improvement and help teams to increase productivity
• Assisted in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating teh continuous improvement of existing processes
• Removed impediments and protected team members from external interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Manage stakeholder expectations by demonstrating and communicating key indicators of improved effectives on a periodic basis
• Maintained project documentation and reported project progress to management through status reports.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Promoting an empowering teh team by shielding teh team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries
• Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress
• Worked closely with executives, engineering, marketing, product and sales teams to define teh scope of each project and teh schedule of deliverables
• Developed and maintained direct relationship with stakeholders to identify and remove roadblocks in obtaining teh most value
• Coached teh team in continuous improvement at a sustainable pace for teh organization
• Coaching product owner; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in teh needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
• Monitoring teh pulse and moral of teh team, influencing teh team spirit and creating excitement around teh deliverables.
• Provide direction and coaching to teh team to encourage adoption of best practices
• Worked with management and transition teams to implement training and integrated legacy systems with new systems and processes
• Identified clients' needs in order to recommend teh most effective production based on individual project budget.
• Facilitated weekly conference calls with stakeholders to review goals and project progress.
• Managed project change requests and functioned as an escalation point.
• Monitored projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing issue resolution and taking corrective action as necessary.
• Facilitated team meetings and one on one meetings with team members
• Managed impediment and motivated team members to identify necessary action