SUMMARY

• 10+ years of experience across industry capacities as a Business Systems Analyst and Scrum Master. Expertise in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, Scrum & SAFe Program Consultant.
• Proficient in Project/Release Management & Coordination activities wif proven results in Project planning, Financials/Budget tracking, Status reporting, Implementation Planning, Risk & Issue management and Inter - vendor coordination.
• Expertise in helping teams embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principals, and implement SAFe practices.
• Liaise wif key stakeholders to identify and define project requirements, budgeting, forecasting, estimation and scope of teh project.
• Adept at initiating and delivering large-scale software and web development projects by TEMPeffectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple teams.
• Facilitated SCRUM ceremonies like Sprint, Planning, meeting, Daily Stand-up meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Sprint Retrospective meeting.
• Helped teh team in Estimation Techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing, Bucket System, dot-net and prioritizing methods like Moscow and Kano method. Calculated teh sprint velocity and capacity. Used JIRA, Version One and RALLY to create and maintain Sprint Burn-down, Sprint Burn-up chart, Product Burn-down and Product Burn-up chart. Worked on Acceptance criteria, definition of done, definition of ready, Potentially Shippable Product increment (PSPI) and minimum viable product (MVP).
• Experiencing in Managing SDLC across multiple domains, application families, and locations, to ensure application enhancements are implemented on-time, according to specification, and wifin budget.
• Experience wif project/resource management tools, agile team management tools/information radiators, risk management, and software development life cycle/project management life cycle processes and disciplines.
• Detail oriented, self-motivated, resourceful team player, hardworking employee wif good decision-making capability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Methodology: Agile, Waterfall

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, C, C++, C#, T-SQL, Linux/UnixProject Management Software MS Project.

Testing tools: Quality Center, Win Runner, Clear Quest, SOAP UI, QTP, Jira, CA Agile Central (Rally), Share Point 2013, Confluence, JIRA AlignDatabase MS SQL Server

Operating Systems: Windows NT/98/2000/XP, UNIX, IOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Norfolk VA

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master facilitated scrum events including Sprint planning, daily Stand-up meeting, Backlog refinement, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Helping and Coaching various roles wifin GBD Medicare Enrollment area about Agile methodologies and frameworks
• Actively participating in CoP of scrum masters and facilitating sessions on various topics
• Managing two different teams
• Scrum Team - Feature team
• Kanban Team - Operations team - Scrum Ban
• Active participation in PI planning including but not limited to: Helping team to prepare for Demo, facilitation of demo during inspect and adapt, work closely wif PO and RTE, get and provide necessary support for team to do TEMPeffective planning during PI
• Developed and analyzed teh Sprint and Product Burn down Chart in order to calculate teh team’s velocity and track sprint progress. dis was then utilized for planning of teh upcoming sprints.
• Facilitation of Scrum of Scrums(S2)
• Working closely wif other Scrum Masters on Agile Train to analyze if there is impact on delivery and commitment by teams
• Facilitation of scrum ceremonies - Daily Standup, Refinements, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective
• Managing Kanban Board and helping Support team to understand WIP, CFD and how those can be used to make team more TEMPeffective and managing workload.
• Participation in different “Agile Awareness” activity and help CoE - Agile Champions to conduct different events for dis
• Managing different issues, risks and impediments for teh team and at program level
• Work wif Program leadership to make PI planning successful and at teh same time help team from over commitments and work
• Learning about DevOps tools and working wif DevOps team for ATDD, automations and release on demand progress

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for facilitating Program Increment Readiness via fostering teh preparation of Vision and Backlogs.
• Assist wif execution and Feature/Capability completion tracking
• Facilitate scrum Ceremonies -Daily standup, Refinement, Demo and retrospectives.
• Escalate and track impediments
• Manage and track program-level execution and Program Increments (PI) feature delivery, escalate impediments and risks.
• Successfully implemented strong application security throughout teh development process.
• Evaluated applications security in daily scrum.
• Manage and track ART-level metrics and score card.
• Drives program-level continual improvement and consistency across Agile.
• Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
• Encourage teh collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects/Engineering
• Leads lessons learned meetings to improve teh release planning process and facilitate process improvement and establishes/defines standards and procedures for release statistics reporting and documentation.
• Meets wif other IT and Business programs to align release schedules and timeline to minimize outages and/or production risks to ensure successful implementation of all release components to meet teh company commitments.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Product Owner in hiring and deploying resources. Assisted Product Owner in identifying teh dependencies, some of them are organizational Impediments.
• Successfully guided multiple development teams through transition from Waterfall to Agile process
• Encouraged and implemented process improvements techniques and ensure that there was room for change. Introduced a checklist during story time to ask teh right questions while reviewing each story.
• Adopted ATDD practice of creating acceptance test cases before development to ensure product quality.
• Reported defect status to business users and serious management by using Tableau 9.1 and JIRA.
• Used JIRA tool for Sprint planning, Sprint backlog management, Sprint Task list management, task allocations and report generation. Generated reports to track team velocity, issue tracking, teamwork load tracking and response time tracking.
• Worked collaboratively wif development teams, lead architect and teh business to determine technical direction and approach to system design and implementation, including both brand products and supporting systems
• Mentor teams on teh principals and practices of Scrum methodology through step-by-step assistance to endorse a learning focused approach to change
• Co-ordinated project management activities across organizations wif release managers to help ensure a successful release
• Manage project budget including acquiring estimates, monitoring actuals, developing forecasts,and communicating to leadership using PPM Optics.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed User Stories and helped Product Owner in structuring Product Backlog. Coordinated wif business users to understand their priorities and assisted Product Owner to employ Kano model.
• Worked closely wif Product Owner and SME’s to structure Resource Management Plan. Deployed resources as per plan and as project requires. Analyzed system requirement and created a Risk Management plan capturing high level risks, Risk Scores, Mitigation plans, Control Plans and Business Continuity Plan.
• Instructed and modeled core agile principals of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility. Ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across teh team.
• Worked in secured scrum which allows teh integration of security practices that contribute to secure application development.
• Part of teh team responsible for teh analysis, design and implementation of teh business solution.
• Analyzed business requirement document to acquire knowledge on teh functional requirements.
• Wrote numerous user stories and supported teh development teams in apprehending them.
• Elicited requirements by employing information-gathering techniques (e.g. Interviews, surveys, business process analysis, prototyping, observation of existing process, etc.).
• Assisted in teh Data mapping and Data modeling for conversions and resolved data type inconsistency.
• Defined teh business process re-engineering (BPR) roadmap to formulate teh “To-be” process.
• Served as liaison between teh scrum team, architect and key stakeholders, earning their confidence wif reliable follow-through.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements by conducting detailed interviews, scenarios and JAD sessions wif business users, stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Created detailed System Requirement Specifications (SRS) documenting teh Functional, Data, GUI, Interface and Reporting requirements
• Assisted teh product owner in teh onboarding of resources and also in teh prioritization and grooming of teh product backlog.
• Worked closely wif teh Agile coach and Scrum Master to implement best industry practices on Agile Scrum for teh scrum development team.
• Supported teh agile coach in implementing different agile games to ensure team adaption to teh agile environment.
• Performed data mapping and documented teh data requirements between teh source and destination databases. Helped create Test Plans, Test Cases and User Acceptance Summary Reports.
• Created a Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed (RACI) matrix to ensure that process flow is as planned and constructed teh Requirements Tractability Matrix (RTM) to ensure requirements are met.