SUMMARY

• Over 12 years of Project Management experience including 5 years as a Scrum Master. A Self - Motivated and achievement oriented professional with strongScrumMasterand ProjectManagerskills.
• Certified Scrum master and certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master with expertise in Scrum, Lean, and Agile methodologies in executing projectinitiatives across overall sprints/iterations andphases.
• Experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including design and documentation.
• Excel in fast paced environment, working with cross-functional teams, experience in prioritizing to deliver on requirements. Adopt and enforce Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Managed multiple projects and teams that are distributed globally.
• Effectively implemented Defect tracking tools such as TFS, Quality center, JIRA and GIT.
• Successfully guided development teams through the transition from waterfall to Agile development.
• Experience in preparing Project Charter, Monitor and Track Progress, develop Status Reports resolve issues, coordinate tasks and activities directed toward completing the project goals on Time and Budget.
• Facilitated Product Back log Grooming, Sprint Planning, Envisioning, Retrospective.
• Ability to handle multitasking, project management, meeting tight deadlines, result oriented and adapt to new technology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office

MARK UP/SCRIPTING LANGUAGES: HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS

DATABASES: Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft Access

VERSION CONTROLS: JIRA, GIT, TFS. Azure

SDLC: Agile, Scrum, XP, ATDD, TDD, Kanban, Lean

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with 3 scrum teams which included dev teams, PO, Subject matter expert and UX designers
• Facilitated daily stand-ups, limiting to 15 mins, and focusing on communication process and impediments. Made sure it was not a status meeting
• Facilitated, Sprint Planning with PO and Scrum team. Focusing on creating implementable Stories and tasks. Maintained Azure board while continually monitoring team burndown cart.
• Backlog refinement, coached and worked with PO to develop implementable, testable stories within the Scope of PBI that is sized by the development team.
• Facilitated sprint review meeting, initially coached the team to prepare and present the deliverable to the stakeholders and reviewed deliverable against the sprint goals
• Facilitated retrospectives, fostering a safe and constructive environment for the team members so they can collaborate and operationalize successful practices and suggested improvement to the existing process. A goal was set for the team to eventually become a high performing and self-managing team.
• Engaged release management team to understand and coordinate release activities.
• Worked with the PMO team and other business leader to align with sprint cadence with enterprise information and product delivery expectations. This enabled the Agile team to comply with Organizational governance and oversight requirement.

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in team Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospectives and Backlog Refinement.
• Assisted PM’s on a daily cadence for coordinate Project management tasks
• Monitored milestone completion, provided timely reporting of issues that impact progress.
• Maintained projects/release artifacts and continuously update on SharePoint.
• Engaged release management team to understand and coordinate release activities.
• Set and continually managed project expectations with team members, Technology/Risks partners and other stakeholders.
• Provided training and coaching in Agile Development principles and practices program-level leadership.

Confidential, TX

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Engaged continuously with teams and Product Owners on how to increase speed to market, optimize quality through technical excellence, and remain flexible while managing uncertainty.
• Facilitated daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospectives and Backlog Refinement.
• Led an Integrated WeeklyScrumofScrummeeting with otherScrumMaster across various initiatives to provide a platform to discuss dependencies, issues and risks from a delivery perspective.
• Monitored milestone completion, provided timely reporting of issues that impact progress.
• Maintained projects/release artifacts and continuously update on SharePoint.
• Engaged release management team to understand and coordinate release activities.
• Set and continually managed project expectations with team members, Technology/Risks partners and other stakeholders.
• Providing training and coaching in Agile Development principles and practices to development teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and program-level leadership.

Confidential, MN

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Responsible for utilizing aspects Agile Project Management best practices to conduct User Story Workshops, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 and management team of 6 to utilize Agile Methodology withScrum.
• Facilitated ceremonies and coached team on adoption of Agile principles and practices.
• Encouraged the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.
• Escalate issues to the management and seek timely resolution.
• Developed internal contacts which enabled quick resolution to impediments.
• Removed road blocks reported by team to ensure commitments were not jeopardized.
• Participate inScrumofScrumto ensure cross-team collaboration, coordination of release plans, report overall project status, and upcoming risks/dependencies.
• Accurately measure, track and communicate teams progress using Velocity, Burnup and Burndown Charts

Confidential, MN

Scrum Master/Project Owner

Responsibilities:

• Interfacing team, customer resources and vendors, establishing and meeting schedules, ensuring and evaluating customer satisfaction.
• Helped the Product Owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Facilitatedscrumceremonies like grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Ensure team practice Agile and facilitatescrumceremonies as a servant leader.
• Introduced new retrospective approaches producing more participation and better team improvement.
• Maintain accurate source of project records for project approvals.
• Maintain and establish data quality, completeness, monthly metrics for leadership review
• Trained new product owners in the concepts of velocity, grooming and providing adequate acceptance criteria for the delivery team.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage and prioritized backlog.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Encouraged and implemented process improvements.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Understand the core digital asset workflows within various business accounts.
• Participate in SAFe overview.

Confidential, MN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with customers to develop a detailed set of requirements and then interface with production, quality, engineering, and sales to integrate the requirements into an economically feasible and technically sound solution for the interconnect product.
• Removed obstacles for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue resolution. Customer provided positive feedback.
• Conduct highly detailed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using Waterfall methodology; including triage meetings, defect identification, and break fixes.
• Uploaded and maintained necessaryProjectdocumentation to SharePoint/ProjectWeb Access
• Research and propose applications and systems, presenting recommendations to upper management.
• Gather system and functional requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirement workshops, use cases, and workflow analysis.
• Report metrics, analyze data and assess service management performance for senior leadership and the customer as well as recommend improvements.
• Analyze issues and incidents for the call management system and helpdesk to effective service is provided to clients.
• Facilitated cross-group updates for management and end users when needed.
• Prepared estimates of new projects and estimates for customer change orders.

Confidential, MN

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead efforts on process improvements related to quality and efficiency; critical contributor with the design and execution of these initiatives, leveraging best practice.
• Responsible for excel reporting and sending out various weekly report updates.
• Assisted in the development of improvement plans with department/unitmanagersand supervisors in response to identified deficiencies (Quality Improvement).
• Maintained and tracked allProjectrelated documentation.
• Coordinated with involvedprojectteam to create and maintainProjectplan.
• Worked closely with multiple departments andmanagersas was the nature of the position/project.