PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Experienced Scrum Master with 5 years of hands - on working with software development teams. Extensively experienced individual working on enterprise-wide projects through several Agile project management tools like JIRA/Confluence. Expert professional acting as a coach to both Scrum teams and enterprise levels.
• Participating in different stakeholder and executive meetings to share ideas about Agile methodology and advising them on Agile Best Practices. A well oriented Scrum Master with multiple years of facilitating sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint reviews, Backlog grooming and spring retrospective.
• Responsible for teh administrative, coaching and leadership roles dat make Scrum development/delivery possible. Help product owners to prioritize teh product backlog and make teh backlog ready for teh next sprints. Expert in identifying and removing impediments. Strong knowledge of Kanban and XP Programming. Strong communication, analysis, domain knowledge, interpersonal andproblem- solvingskills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential -Van Nuys, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Experienced facilitating Scrum events like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review (Demo) and Sprint Retrospective respectively. Also facilitated Refinement sessions for Product Backlog Grooming.
• Expert facilitating sprint retrospective events by creating an environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with emphasis of problem solving.
• Ability to identify areas of improvement in Software and Product Development process to increase work productivity and efficiency.
• Expert individual focused on empowering scrum teams to Self-Organization and coaching teh teams to a level of maturity where they can function independently.
• A coach to teh Product Owner, ensuring dat teh Product Owner understands teh Scrum processes and is able to fully maximize teh Product Backlog in order to achieve teh best value, with main aim to satisfy teh Business Owner/Customers.
• Experienced in identifying impediments among team members and suggesting different approaches to remove those impediments.
• Experienced managing projects using Agile tools like Atlassian JIRA, Confluence with some knowledge on RALLY and TFS tools.
• Wide experience in facilitating teh preparation and planning of iterations by establishing Agile estimation practices (Planning Poker) and calculating team capacity.
• Coached organizations and teams on Agile values and principals (Agile Manifesto) and advising them on Agile Best Practices, while using Scrum to solve their problems.
• Good track record building a productive environment where team members own teh product and enjoy working on it, by encouraging and motivating them and also praising them at teh end of each sprint for a job well done.
• Enjoy working in an environment where me is teh point of contact for external communications with customers and stakeholders.
• Analyzed support tickets and found solutions to software issues utilizing previous halp desk support pages.
• Led team in creating account class spreadsheets to resolve technical issues.
• Generate weekly/ quarterly status reports.
• Prepare meetings with stakeholders.

Confidential -VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Expert in creating Sprints for all Iterations and developing a roadmap for all scrum teams and across teh organization.
• TEMPHas been able to coach and mentor team members who are new to Agile and halping to teach them Agile and halping to ease their transition from Waterfall by giving them Agile fundamental training.
• Deep mastery of teh Scrum Framework and facilitated Scrum Events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Supported Cross- Functional and teams while coaching and mentoring them to Self-organization and maturity.
• Highly motivated my teams by creating team dynamics and worked actively to boost good communication and collaboration, thereby achieving high performing teams.
• Coached Product Owners to create and maintain healthy Product Backlog assisting during Refinement session to groom teh Backlog and get User Stories ready for execution.
• Expert in guiding and supporting teams and facilitations to be able to reach a decision and halping to implement team’s decisions.
• Assisted my Scrum teams to identify impediments and halped them resolve and remove all impediments hindering teh progress of work.
• Experience in Agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, with good knowledge of Scale Agile framework like SAFe.
• Tracking project dependencies outside of teh project team’s control and escalating issues as necessary to appropriate quarters.
• Provide daily and weekly status reports. Supported team in implementing DevOps and best practices such as continuous integration, automation, ATDD/BDD, pair programming and continuous deployment
• Resolved impediment/blockers by utilizing internal and external resources
• Made risk and dependencies transparent in order to ensure they were properly tracked daily and resolved in a timely manner to avoid negative impact on timebox/schedule
• Track deployment schedules into various environments including DEV, staging, and Pre-Prod accounts.
• Coached teams in Agile best practices and provided necessary trainings and workshops to halp improve agile mindset of business units and development teams
• Worked TEMPeffectively with multiple Scrum with both onsite and offshore resources
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, program managers, business stakeholders and other scrum masters to define solutions
• Participated in weekly cross-functional IT status meetings. Schedule and facilitate planning and analysis sessions with vendors and internal

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TOOLS: JIRA, Confluence, RALLY, TFS, Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Power point.

Agile Flavors: Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe5.

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux.