EXECUTIVE PROFILE

• A Pragmatic scrum master wif a proven record of facilitating cross functional teams to focus on value delivery of complex products, from concept through design thinking to completion. Passionate about teh lean - Agile mindset and way of working, as a servant leader, I ensure psychological safety by coaching teh teams through teh various stages of team formation, paying attention to teh challenges of each stage as well as ensuring we all have a shared understanding of what psychological safety means.
• I have had teh opportunity of facilitating multiple scrum teams in large enterprise software development projects, coordinating through Scrum of Scrums (SOS) and facilitating Retrospectives for continuous improvement. Passionate about agile for teh quality it delivers through empowering teams to become cross functional and self-organizing - I coach teams to find their own path to high performance through inspecting and adapting in an ever-changing dynamic business environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Conflict resolution
• Excellent communication (Written and Verbal)
• Design Thinking instead
• Project Management - SDLC
• Scrum teaching and coaching
• Meeting Facilitation
• Business Analysis
• Kanban
• Offshore/co-located teams
• Team building
• Scaling Scrum
• Risk identification and mitigation
• Stakeholder engagement
• SAFe 5.0
• LeSS
• MS Office 360
• Confluence
• Jira
• Kanban flow
• Google docs/Jamboard
• Miro, Mural
• Rally
• Azure Devops (ADO)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities

• Scrum master to a Devops team that builds, deploy and create capabilities for Azure and Google containers (AKS and GKE). Scrum master to a financial team that manages cloud cost and utilization.
• Take part in teh change management meeting for clusters created in teh production environment
• Assist teh team in program increment planning.
• Facilitate backlog refinement/ grooming.
• Assist teh team in developing acceptance criteria for user-stories
• Create and developed teh AKS and GKE playbook and runbook that assists in teh onboarding process for Application teams that need to run their apps on containers.
• Work wif other scrum masters wifin teh organization to help resolve cross team dependencies
• Work wif other scrum masters wifin teh organization to ensure a smooth agile transformation and adoption.
• Assist teh program manager and product owner to prioritize teh backlog.
• Assisted in creating teh Kubernetes Capabilities road map for AKS and GKE
• Assist teh team to develops capabilities and features for Azure 1.0, 2.0 and cloud 3.0 environments.
• Forecast and plan cloud financial management
• Facilitates all scrum ceremonies wifin teh team
• Assist teh team to remove impediments, identify risk and cross team dependencies.
• Assist in writing user-stories and acceptance criteria
• Ensure that all userstories are linked to teh appropriate parents.
• Participates in teh weekly scrum of scrums ceremony (SOS).

Confidential, Tampa Florida

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating teh development team towards a sustainable pace of teh delivery of specialty Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for teh support of specialty medical practices.
• Facilitating teh Scrum Daily standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and backlog refinement meetings - helping teamwork towards teh sprint goals and a consistent team velocity through proper story slicing and estimation for better planning of sprint and releases - while ensuring alignment across teams
• Coaching team members on Agile/Scrum processes, facilitating agile ceremonies and protecting teh development team from interruptions and ensuring psychological safety
• Facilitating teh removal of impediments and protecting teh teams from interruptions and external distractions to maximize productivity towards teh sprint goal.
• Facilitate teh various scrum ceremonies and observing for team dynamics as well as correcting anti-patterns.
• Actively participating in quarterly program increment planning (PI) sessions ensuring all features and stories meet our definition of ready; proactively identify dependencies, risks and potential impediments for proper management.
• Facilitating fun retrospectives wif emphasis on a safe environment where issues can be raised wifout any blame, encouraging knowledge sharing, learning and continuous improvement.
• Facilitating a value stream mapping exercise for all teh teams to eliminate waste and improve processes and transparency and better understand stories for development.
• Facilitating teh wider business segments and stakeholders interfacing wif teh teams for optimal collaboration and alignment
• Facilitating teh use of visuals for tracking progress as well as performance metrics for TEMPeffective planning and scheduling for teh team
• Active in supporting communities of practices to promote best practice and share ideas, challenges and success.
• Working closely wif teh Product Owner during Sprint Planning and product backlog refinement to ensure teh backlog is well prioritized and teh stories at teh top of teh backlog meet teh definition of ready for teh sprint backlog.
• Assessing teh agile maturity of teh team and coaching teh team on gaps identified to improve maturity levels, teh deliverables and teh quality of interactions

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked together wif other Scrum Masters and started a community of practice (CoP) to build an Agile Book of Knowledge through sharing challenges and exchanging successes to guide and help educate teh teams and wider organization on Scrum practices
• Participated in scrum of scrums (SOS) meetings to provide progress updates, discuss impediments and cross team dependencies.
• Resolved inter-team conflicts through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, and escalation to resolve impediments where necessary.
• Facilitated teh daily scrum meetings, backlog refinement, spring planning, spring review, and sprint retrospective. Also paying close attention to teh information radiators to ensure we are having teh right conversations around any observed patterns or deviations
• Facilitated teams to work towards a predictable velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions, using INVEST and ensuring stories meet teh definition of ready (DoR), slicing and mapping stories wif proper estimation.
• Assisted in developing and delivering team and organization’s Scrum training materials and workshops, which helped to build and share knowledge and skills needed to enhance teh agile transformation process.
• Coached team on agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and principles while motivating team members toward achieving sprint goals
• Coached business and scrum teams on teh use of design thinking to capture requirements, Identify Epics, initial scope and manage dependencies using available ALM tools.
• Mediated conflicts, fostering team and coached individuals improving team dynamics
• Responsible for teh Project Vision statement to serve as a compass forthe project
• Constantly managing teh Product backlog to reflect teh changing needs ofthe customer
• Prioritizing teh Product backlog to ensure teh Highest Value isdelivered for teh MVP
• Set teh Sprint goal to meet customer needs
• Facilitate Requirements elicitation sessions wif stakeholders
• In collaboration wif teh Scrum Master facilitates teh QBR Process -ensuring all EPICS brought forward are impactful and PI ready
• Facilitate Sprint Review Meetings
• Facilitate Deep dive sessions to better understand Epics, Features andStories and to kick of Projects wif design thinking workshops

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned and monitored project spending/budgeting, and guided projects to completion on time, wifin scope, and on budget.
• Write Statement of work (SOW) for project.
• Create work breakdown structure.
• Create and Monitor Gantt chart for Project schedule tracking.
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant wif scope commitment.
• Supported teh development and delivery of teh strategic direction of Community Relations strategies and processes wifin a Regional level to ensure continuous improvement, sharing best practice and that teh appropriate initiatives were in place.
• Supported teh internal communications strategies which directly supports business operations and teh achievement of business goals.
• Worked closely wif teh Group Brand Team to guide teh strategic direction and leadership of internal and external corporate brand plans to ensure that teh role of teh corporate brand and values were fully understood and implemented across teh Region.
• Engage client to gather requirements and ensure alignment wif development team.
• Translate stakeholder’s requirement into tangible deliverable
• Evaluate risk related to requirement implementation