SUMMARY

• An enthusiastic certified Scrum Master with over 6 years of experience in scrum /agile environment. Ability to gather and document Business Requirements, writing Use Cases. Proficiency in SDLC, understands the workflow concept, gathering and document the 'As - Is' and 'To-Be' processes.
• Creative problem-solver with proven success managing multiple simultaneous projects as a detail-oriented team leader and self-motivated team player.
• Quick learner with exceptional interpersonal, presentation and communication skills. I have Iteration Lead experience with focus on servant leadership, continuous improvement, situational awareness, conflict resolution, empowerment and increasing transparency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: JAVA, XML, SQL, VB

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/8/7/2000/98/95/07/08/2010/XP Linux, Unix, macOS

Methodologies: Requirement and Solution Analysis (RSA), Agile, Waterfall

Databases: Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, MS Access ARIS BPMOther applications: MS word, MS Excel, MS SharePoint, MS Project, ALM, MS Visio, MS Jira, TFS, VSTS, Kanban Automated Testing, CI/CD, ATDD, TDD, BDD, Paired Programming / Mob Programming

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master (Consultant)

Confidential, Houston TX

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a team member while facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles, and practices
• Improved communication between development teams and collaboration with stakeholders to increase the team's velocity by adopting the lessons learned from each Retrospective.
• Act as a strategic partner in organizational road mapping and structuring to drive increased ROI, greater adoption and higher transformation success
• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
• Remove impediments and obstacles as well as driving continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution and building skills and capabilities.
• Support the development team by shielding the team from external interference and interruptions to enable optimal team productivity.
• Attended PI planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect and adapt workshops for future PIs and Release Management meetings.
• Creates visibility for the team by promoting transparency, establish big visible information radiators like burndown charts, task boards, planning boards and story boards
• Facilitate user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers
• Used JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints, created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts
• Develop, coach, and mentor team members to advance their skills including the use Project Management tools like JIRA, Confluence and TFS
• Assesses the Scrum Maturity of the team and continuously coach the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Guide the team through best Agile/ Scrum practices and values with the aim of meeting business owner’s objective.
• Ensured teams clarity on each user story, based on acceptance criteria agreed upon.
• Implement techniques to keep the scrum events fun, builds team morale (amplify the small wins, celebrate personal milestones
• Understands and promotes agile SDLC within the teams and the family
• Determining the number of stories that can fit into an iteration given the teams velocity

Environment: ARIS BPM, Jira, MS office tools/applications, MS Access, Oracle DB, Windows 7, MS Project, MS Visio, Skype for Business, MS SharePoint, MS TFS

Scrum Master

Confidential - Houston TX

Responsibilities:

• Educated Product Owners, Development team and stakeholders on scrum values.
• Worked with product owner to prioritize and validate user stories
• Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
• Provided the front end and back end developers with the exact information needed for the application development process
• Facilitated transparency, inspection, adaptation and continuous team improvement.
• Supported the development team by shielding the team from external interference and interruptions to enable optimal team productivity.
• Proactively identify and find ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep project on track
• Acted as servant leader to scrum team
• Oversaw design, implementation, QA, and validation of programming code and products
• Developed detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports
• Produced risk analysis and risk mitigation plans
• Responsible for project tracking and analysis
• Ensured milestones are reached and deadlines are met throughout project lifecycle
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, application users, and program owners
• Properly manage the backlog and aid team in determining suitable commitments for product backlog items and sprints
• Help balance the prioritization of technical debt against new feature innovation and software delivery
• Created a positive and easy communication channel between team’s, product owner and other stakeholders.
• Fostered a culture of collaboration, creativity and innovation
• Use Jira as a tool to assist scrum team efficiency
• managed complex high-visibility technical projects by supporting and escalating development team issues and concerns to project team.
• Worked in collaboration with the team and PO to write User Stories

Environment: JIRA, MS office tools/applications, MS Access, Oracle DB, IBM-Information Governance Catalog, Windows XP/7, MS Project, MS Visio, Cisco Communicator, MS Excel, MS SharePoint, Remedy ITSM

Jr. Business Analyst

Confidential - Ellicott City MD

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in jab sessions with business users and stakeholders to define project scope, to identify the business process flows and determine whether any As-Is and To-Be proposed requirement are impacted by new development efforts
• Conducted requirement gathering sessions with users; facilitate the requirement validation sessions, work-group meeting sessions, reach out to user through emails and schedule meetings to gather requirements
• Documentation of requirements to prepare the business req documentation(brd), functional requirements documentation(frd)
• Designed and develop flow chats, activity diagrams, decision tress and decision tables to support the business requirements
• Worked closely with clients, business users, testing team and technical teams to analyze the technical constraints, issues, and risk.
• Conducted research on the original scope of the project as per original contracts and changes to the scope in project due to various technical constraints in the original scope
• Participated and provided input in the test advisory meetings on deciding the testing methods and test conditions
• Defined KPI and metrics to measure business success.

Environment: MS office tools/applications, MS Access, Oracle DB, Windows 7, MS Project, MS Visio, Skype for Business, MS SharePoint, MS TFS.