SUMMARY

• Accomplished Agile practitioner with ten years’ experience in SCRUM, Kanban, XP in a scaled agile framework.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering complex projects and/or programs with focus and emphasis on quality and execution.
• Facilitate and lead sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming/refinement, sprint demos/reviews, and retrospective scrum ceremonies with local, geographically distributed and offshore teams and stakeholders.
• Represent scrum teams in SAFe PI preparation, planning, dependency negotiations, confidence votes, Inspect and Adapt sessions, system demos.
• Coach and assist product owners and stake holders in the writing of stories and acceptance criteria, building product and Sprint backlogs.
• Lead development of team working agreements, definition of ready, and definition of done documents. Manage and maintain documents through continuous input of new learnings from retrospectives.
• Represent teams in Scrum of Scrum, and ART coordination and sync meetings.
• Coach team members in the application of agile principles to facilitate high performing self - managed teams with a relentless focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with other Agile coaches and RTEs to standardize learnings and improvements across ART; facilitate and lead scrum team health checkups.
• Work with development team members to foster career growth by cross training development and ensuring key technical knowledge and skills sets are preserved and replicated with redundancy among team members.
• Identify and resolve story and feature dependencies, risks, and impediments and blockers to minimize or eliminate blocking and rolled over stories.
• Embrace and embody philosophy of continuous improvement by focusing on scrum metrics and KPIs to improve team performance and quality of deliverables.
• Analyze and present Sprint metrics including burn-down & velocity charts, cumulative flows, KPIs, sprint summary reports to senior management, stakeholders, team members.
• Strong written/verbal communication for communicating at all levels, conflict resolution, and agile coaching.
• Prior experience as Project Manager, Business Analyst, Quality Engineer, systems architect, developer, field support engineer - over 20 years’ experience in the information technology and wireless systems arena.
• Proficiency in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Waterfall, Agile including feasibility analysis, requirements gathering, and testing.
• Active inventor holding 28 patents granted by the US Patent Office in the field of wireless data systems.
• Version 1, JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce, Mural.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Senior SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Rated top Scrum Master by Confidential management, Agile coaches, and team members.
• Scrum Master for Vehicle MDM and Sensor MDM (Master Data Management) teams. Asset domain teams are responsible for being a single source for comprehensive data for enterprise. VMDM team is responsible for capturing diverse vehicle data sourced from multiple entities, standardization of data by establishing common mapping for data fields, creating promotion rules when there is overlap of duplicate data, and establishing a single version of data to support Confidential analytics, reports, quotes, policies, and operations. Sensor MDM team is responsible for telematics data from Confidential Drive wise Application.
• Successfully transitioned VMDM team from a pure waterfall team a high performing, highly successful agile scrum Team
• Coordinate and lead scrum team ceremonies - Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement, and grooming meetings.
• Coach teams to influence agile habits of team members to increase team performance.
• SAFe PI planning, Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync meetings. Proactively identify risks and dependencies and help manage them.
• Assist team with making commitments through story selections, sizing, task definition and participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards.
• Coordinate cross team dependency discussions.
• Facilitate proactive removal of impediments and protect teams from outside requests to allow Scrum team focus on delivery of sprint goals and initiatives.
• Track and effectively communicate team's velocity, and sprint release progress to management
• Foster communication between scrum teams, Product Owner, and Stakeholders to ensure quality delivery of user expectations.
• Collaborate with multiple Scrum Masters to analyze and resolve organizational impediments for the product.
• Version 1, JIRA, Confluence, Mural.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Senior SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple scrum teams responsible for developing mission critical LTE broadband system features.
• •Coach scrum teams from novice (waterfall) to expert self-organizing and cross-functioning teams. Organize and facilitate sprint planning, sprint review, product level retrospectives, product backlog refinement as well as roadmap planning meetings.
• Provide updates to C level leadership on the progress of Scrum teams.
• Lead development teams in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for customer solutions.
• Lead story writing session with an aim of decomposing the scope into epics and user stories with product owners. Also, worked on acceptance criteria for developed user stories.

Confidential, Addison IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Direct seller of high-quality kitchen tools.
• Retail Help foster communication between scrum teams, Product Owner, and Stakeholders to ensure quality delivery of user expectations.
• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos.
• Track and communicate team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint/release progress.
• Empower the team to self-organize
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Co-ordinate with Stakeholders and product owner for meeting sprint objectives.
• Work with various projects within PMO to report on resource capacity and portfolio activity.
• Build positive working relationship between stakeholders and project managers.
• Maintain accurate source of project records for project approvals.
• Maintain and establish data quality, completeness, monthly metrics for leadership review.
• Co-ordinate multiple project review meetings across different project milestones.
• Enable process standards and best practices for effective project execution.
• Articulate business user needs to software development teams - user stories.
• Conduct Daily Stand up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Help create visual information radiators.
• Manage timely communication between various internal and external stakeholders.
• Help team inspect and adapt process.
• Communicate timely functional /technical/managerial feedback to Development team.
• Prepare development status reports and timely communication to various account stakeholders.
• Proactive identification & escalation of risks to stakeholders.

Confidential, Madison, WI

SCRUM Master/Project Manager/RF Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with product owner to prioritize and groom user Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation of the sprint planning.
• Coached scrum teams on how to scale agile to enterprise level; team to program and portfolio levels using Scaled Agile Framework.
• Worked with development team to decompose the User Stories into tasks and assign hours to the tasks.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.
• Ensures the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of working product.
• Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owner’s priorities.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features to ensure that development team efforts on sprint backlogs are of maximum value to stakeholders.
• Leveraged Burndown and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improvement estimations.
• Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.
• Maintained Project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.
• Ensure development teams are practicing Agile principles.
• Provide internal and external communications to improve transparency.
• Empowered the team to self-organize and self-manage.
• Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to Scrum.
• Tracked & report on milestones, identified risk/issues & dependencies, facilitated communication among team members.
• Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
• Provide statistical analysis of system performance trends including call performance, resource utilization, and network capacity.
• Lead team of system performance analysts responsible for network performance, KPI development and analysis. LTE/EVDO/CDMA multi-technology network analysis and optimization.
• Analyze statistical data, service measurements, and call logs to identify single points of failures in mobiles, radios, or network components. Data analytics and modeling, SQL, and R programming.
• Provide regular executive summaries, dashboard presentations, recommend network software updates, upgrades, and reconfigurations.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

SCRUM Master/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting for complex projects
• Oversee, manage, and report on project budgets.
• Facilitate definition of project missions, goals, tasks, and resource requirements.
• Resolve conflicts between projects and functional areas.
• Ensure that projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
• Servant leader responsible for coaching SCRUM team.
• Remove impediments, facilitate SCRUM meetings, and work with product owners to ensure product backlog is well- groomed and ready for the next sprint.
• Act as a buffer between team and distracting influences.
• Facilitate Sprint Reviews.
• Work with Product Owner and team to determine agenda for review.
• Analyze and interpret sprint metrics.
• Provide status reports; communicate accomplishments, issues, and risks to product stakeholders.
• Facilitate Sprint Retrospectives, capture feedback and summarize for Sprint planning input.
• Work with Product Owner to administer, prepare, groom, prioritize and right-size backlog.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Project Manager/SCRUM Master Coach

Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for customer and project team.
• Ensure project goals and deadlines are met by planning and coordinating resource needs and project tasks for multiple projects.
• Full management of projects from beginning to end including compliance with all internal and external communication and reporting requirements.
• Coach teams to transition into self-organizing cross-functioning SCRUM teams.
• Work with stakeholders to convert functional requirements to user stories.
• Organize sprint planning, sprint review, product level retrospectives, product backlog refinement.
• Work with Product Owner and program stakeholders, communicate product vision, roadmap, and product backlog items to development team.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff/Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead a globally distributed standards delegate team responsible for WiMAX, CDMA2000, HRPD wireless systems standardization activities. Collaborate with wireless/cellular systems operators and globally distributed R&D teams to develop next generation network architectures and features, standardization, and reduce product development costs.
• Lead wireless network engineering and IPR portfolio teams responsible for creating IPR claim charts mapping intellectual property to wireless systems industry standards. project management, review, and analyze competitor IPR portfolios to support licensing negotiations. Patent committee responsible for reviewing IPR disclosures, investigating prior art, and recommending disclosures for Patent Office filing.
• Create wireless systems intellectual property monetized through standardization and sale and licensing of IPR portfolios. Granted twenty-eight patents by the US Patent Office including many standards essential patents which contributed to an eighty-million-dollar licensing revenue stream and strong defensive patent portfolio. Awarded Confidential Distinguished Innovator Award and numerous patent awards in recognition of these achievements.
• Create new market opportunities through standards leadership leading to multi-billion-dollar wireless systems contracts with Sprint, Verizon, KDDI, and wireless communication system operators around the world. Awarded Confidential Standards Sector Award, highest business award given to a Confidential technologist, in recognition of these achievements.