SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master wif a Servant Leader style for halping teams adopt Agile and drive continuous improvement in a fast - paced environment.
• Strong team leader wif the ability to influence team and negotiating the prioritization wif product owner and Dev team.
• Servant leader skilled in managing incremental and iterative feature-based work.
• Managed numerous multi - million-dollar projects wif a high level of quality while completing on schedule and wifin/under budget.
• In collaboration wif the product owner & Scrum team, prepared sprint backlog, estimated user stories as per effort & organized daily scrum.
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement) ·
• Ability to work wif diverse and a geographically dispersed team·
• Agile Coach, halping teams to adopt the framework to be more agile.
• Burn-down chart to analyze the progress & tackle challenges causing variance.
• Experienced Business Analyst wif Agile and Waterfall experience.
• Excellent understanding of full project life cycle E2E and SDLC.
• Experience in any public cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS) is a plus· Experience in CI/CD pipeline

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: Agile- Scrum, Kanban Frameworks, Safe Waterfall, Scrumban, TDD, BDD, FDD

Business Applications: Microsoft Office Suite - MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Teamwork project, MS Excel, Smartsheets, Clarizen

Operating Systems: MS Windows, Unix, Linux, MAC, Solaris

Application Lifecycle Management Tools: Jira, Rally, confluence, Version One, Azure Devops Sever (TFS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, Illinois

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master & Agile coach for 2 agile teams responsible for varying telecommunication technology products.
• Work in agile team environment alongside product owners, scrum masters, developers, and architects for well-defined projects, ensuring dat the project deliverables meet business specifications.
• Assisted Product Owner wif Backlog grooming and refinement, User Story development, prioritization, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Scrum Meetings, and other agile activities.
• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives
• Facilitate and organize daily stand- ups, sprint planning, retrospective.
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Track and remove internal and external impediments for the scrum team.
• Identify and prioritize risk issues, facilitate development of action plans.
• Facilitate retrospectives at key project milestones and final project completion.
• Responsible for Product Backlog Grooming
• Facilitate the development of Acceptance Criteria for user stories.
• Facilitate estimation meetings using relative effort estimation techniques.
• Facilitate team discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

Confidential, New York, New York.

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for definition, adoption and optimization of an agile methodology, processes and practices
• Drove and facilitated sprint ceremonies including planning, backlog grooming and refinement, daily stand-up meetings and retrospectives.
• Guided, coached, and motivated the team to be highly TEMPeffective, self-organized, productive, and accountable, wif an emphasis on achieving sprint commitments.
• Partnered wif product owners to TEMPeffectively create, maintain, and refine the product backlog.
• Facilitated communication channels for the Scrum teams and associated business and technical stakeholders to ensure the vision, goals, progress, and product delivery commitments are visible and well understood.
• Identified and removed impediments and blockers preventing teams from delivering sprint goals.
• Taught, mentored, facilitated, and refined Scrum practices and Agile Principals wifin the teams.
• Monitored progress and team performance throughout the life of initiatives and monitor and manage project scope and deliverables.
• Used relevant metrics to guide development teams and show progress in meeting business objectives.

Confidential, Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented business, functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Conducted business stakeholder analysis and stakeholder workshop, identified roles and responsibilities and in turn produced a stakeholder map.
• Produced and validated the Business Requirement Document (BRD) wif the PM and SMEs to obtain signoff.
• Fully engaged and managed relationship wif internal & external stakeholders.
• Gather stakeholder requirement and input on issues and opportunities.
• Updated key business requirement and ensure dat the impact of process changes is carefully considered and communicated to stakeholders.
• Assist the product owner to ensure dat user stories are properly articulated and prioritized.
• Fully participated in daily stand-up, release planning, sprint planning, product backlog refinement, and sprint review.
• Reviewed UAT test plans, acceptance criteria and test scenarios; involved in UAT.
• Generated GAP analysis to ensure dat requirements gathered was extensive and thorough.
• Track record of delivering measurable business value through process improvements.
• Interfaces wif product owners and users of applications to understand business needs and desired changes for new or existing production systems.

Confidential

Project coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded many software developments projects.
• Developed Policies and Procedure Manuals covering my department and team.
• Consistently met project deadlines.
• Clearly communicated problems and progress to upper management through engaging and informative presentations.
• Built a trusting and safe environment where problems could be raised wifout fear of blame wif emphasis on problem solving.
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style.
• Reviewed UAT test plans, acceptance criteria and test scenarios; involved in UAT.
• Team wif Product Management and other process owners to define the business need and business value for the project.
• Creating visual modeling or diagramming of the current and proposed workflows.
• Leading the design and change control meetings including agenda preparation and meeting facilitation.
• Maintaining and updating requirements documentation as needed throughout the software development life cycle.
• Collaborating wif the development team, business users, customers, team, product management, and upper management on various activities dat will improve the product.
• Identifying, documenting, and reporting discovered product anomalies and recommending options to increase software consistency.