SUMMARY

• me am a dynamic Scrum Master with hands - on experience in managing large enterprise software development projects.
• Exceptional ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach Scrum teams across multiple locations by providing effective leadership to become high performing agile teams through sustained continuous improvement.
• As an experienced Scrum Master, my tenacious and proactive approach, has resulted in effectively leading high-performance teams to drive projects from start to finish.
• me have great interpersonal conflict-resolution, my success as Scrum Master has been greatly facilitated by excellent communication skills, critical thinking, decision-making, task prioritization and workflows optimization skills.
• me am highly motivated, a people-person, self-starter and very much solution-oriented. me bring 150% to everything me do.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile
• Scrum
• Agile Manifesto
• User Stories
• Servant Leadership
• Proactive Mindset
• Customer Focused
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Moscow
• Leadership
• Management
• Client-focused
• XP
• Kanban
• PBI
• Definition of Ready
• Definition of Done
• Estimation
• Planner Poker
• Scaling
• Epics
• Spike
• Defect Management
• Lean Management
• Quality Assurance
• Product Management
• Information Radiators
• Product Roadmap
• Acceptance Criteria
• Continuous Improvement
• Continuous Deployment
• Business Analysis
• Change Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acts as a servant leader for multiple teams and their stakeholders. Aids teh team and Product Owner in efforts to manage and sequence teh backlog.
• Manages team performance in teh areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity and identifies SAFe anti-patterns and resolves them with frequent support.
• Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised. Helps manages interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth within teh team.
• Participates, facilitates, and manages teh outputs of all agile ceremonies including Daily Stand Up meetings, Sprint review, sprint retrospective, sprint planning, backlog refinement sessions, prepare for Program Increment Planning Sessions and participates actively in its execution. Participates in teh Scrum Master Sync and Community of Practice (CoP) Sessions and Agile Release Train Sync Sessions, as well as any other sessions where their team needs to be represented by teh Scrum Master.
• Drive software development efforts and manage priorities for product development throughout teh complete software development lifecycle, from design through release.
• Manage risk by proactively driving cross-functional leads to identify and unblock issues, track, and resolve cross team dependencies.
• Drives teh successful delivery of projects for my teams, balancing priorities, and resources in collaboration with teh Product Owner.
• Coaches teh team to improve collaboration and self-organization.
• Facilitated weekly leadership (C-level, SVPs, VPs) meetings and provided status update for all my projects.
• Facilitated and helped in teh decomposition of roadmap actions into epics, developed user stories with teh INVEST technique and created task with team members using teh SMART technique.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Effectively facilitated scrum events and other working sessions such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-up, reviews, and retrospectives for 2 geographically distributed teams.
• Ensured impediments to teh team were proactively and reactively removed; also elevated awareness of any organizational impediments discovered.
• Conducted a root cause analysis to ensure problems were effectively identified and addressed.
• Coached team members on implementation of teh Agile values, principals, and practices by conducting effective daily stand-up meetings, focused on achieving sprint goals.
• Guided 2 teams to becoming high performing by being accountable and responsible for its agile process implementation.
• Coached 2 teams on how to write valuable user stories which resulted in an increase in value delivery in 3 months.
• Coached team members on agile estimation techniques aimed at delivering working software at teh end of every sprint.
• Worked closely with Product Owners to ensure product backlog is properly maintained and effectively prioritized to deliver maximum value to customers.
• Maintained transparency by utilizing qualitative and quantitative metrics to track teams’ progress every sprint, allowing teh team to inspect and adapt better ways of doing work based on empirical evidence.
• Facilitated teh creation of teams’ definition of done negotiations, leveraging on engineering practices, extreme programming behaviors and DevOps practices (TDD/CI/CD), to deliver higher product quality.
• Responsible for ensuring dependencies, challenges and risks were identified and addressed during quarterly planning.
• Provided resources such as workshops to foster teh implementation of Agile best practices across teams to enable them to succeed.
• Coached and empowered scrum team to own their agile processes by driving continuous learning, continuous improvement, and team collaboration
• Assisted 2 teams to generate scrum artifacts needed to drive an empirical approach towards delivering product of highest value within teh scope of scrum theory: taking into consideration transparency inspection and adaptation.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Created project deliverables such as communication plan, weekly status reports, teh project plan,project roadmap project kick off presentation, stakeholder register, Action Log etc.
• Produced different Jira dashboards for upper management and customized Jira to meet scrum team requirements.
• Served as an agile coach while empowering team self-organization, self-management andtransformed scrum team members to be more effective.
• Utilized agile scrum practices which helped scrum teams to increase velocity within a couple of sprints.
• Ensured team and stakeholders' understanding of agile and Scrum constantly improved from sprint to sprint. Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story grooming, and Release Planning.
• Protected teh team from outside distractions and removed identified impediments.
• Managed multiple scrum teams in different locations onshore and offshore me.e. US and India.
• Cultivated robust and sustainable working relationships between business and technology teams to foster a cross-functional team environment.
• Facilitated weekly leadership (C-level, SVPs, VPs) meetings and provided status update for all my projects.
• Facilitated and helped in teh decomposition of roadmap actions into epics, developed user stories with teh INVEST technique and created task with team members using teh SMART technique.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Encouraged Agile behaviors, reinforced practices, norms, ceremonies, and supported teh overall team performance and efficiency.
• Identified team improvement opportunities and looked externally for best practices to support continuous improvement.
• Led and coordinated logistics for Agile ceremonies and practices, e.g., backlog maintenance, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Ensured all work was tracked in teh backlog and accurately balanced across team members.
• Maintained and updated teh team's process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear communications to partners.
• Drove a collaborative and supportive team culture through team building and engagement practices.
• Communicated effectively to all levels from teh team to C-level executives.
• Created a viable working atmosphere with developers, as well as multiple product owners for two co-located sprint teams and one offshore team.
• Provided all support to teh team using a servant leadership style.
• Led Scrum and Kanban teams simultaneously with some Q&A’s offshore.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master and Agilist, me drove project streams/tracks following Lean Agile process. me led cross-functional teams to iteratively deliver complex and global-scaled products. me facilitated and managed teh success of each iteration and challenged my teams to refine processes to increase efficiencies and deliver well-polished, working software every iteration.
• Improved transparency and ensured product and project information was easily accessible to teh team, stakeholders, and organization in a timely manner.
• Facilitated Scrum meetings (daily stand ups, Sprint planning, retrospectives).
• Facilitated getting teh work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating teh work.
• Acted and advised proactively to remove teh impediments dat prevented teh team from achieving its goals.
• Built a trusting and safe environment where problems could be raised without fear of blame with emphasis on problem solving.
• Monitored team performance through quantitative and qualitative measures of value, outcome, velocity, morale, and satisfaction.
• Developed, implemented, and promoted Agile best practice standards including teh use of boards and tools where appropriate.
• Collaborated with executive leadership team on portfolio governance for Scrum, Kanban, and other projects.
• Facilitated organizational learning, change management, and process adoption of Agile via metrics, benefits realization, outcomes, and retrospective findings.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded Confidential ’s software development project.
• Identified, researched, and put in place various team training programs.
• Clearly communicated problems and progress to upper management through engaging and informative presentations.
• Developed Policies and Procedure Manuals covering my department and team.
• Identified and engaged key personnel for project kick-off.
• Utilized online tools to connect with clients, building an on-line brand, and enhancing business visibility.
• Performed tasks central to program progress, including scheduling, budgeting, and resource management.
• Consistently met deadlines with team, achieving commendations for four months consecutively.