SUMMARY:

• Coaching Teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers & Executives on Agile values & principles to promote continuous improvement in practices & artifacts; helping in managing risks & dependencies; escalating & tracking impediments
• Championing cultural change and collaborating with other coaches on plans & techniques for accelerating & advancing the organization's transformation
• Imparted team training to write good user stories and prioritize the work based on business value; placed substantial efforts on team member role training & time - boxing and providing strong metrics for all players
• Expertise in providing reporting at the team and LOB level on team performance against Agile measurement
• Efficient organizer, motivator, team player & a decisive leader with the skills to motivate teams to excel & win
• Forward-focussed professional with expertise in managing the entire project planning & implementation from scope management, to activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management using Agile & Scrum methodologies
• Hands-on experience in managing Development Lifecycle right from coding to testing (preparation of test cases along with implementation) to maintenance of proposed applications using continuous delivery model
• Excellence in developing & delivering team and organization training materials & workshops; building knowledge & skills to facilitate the Agile transformation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Coaching, SCRUM, Product Management, Project Planning, Application Software, Coding, Continuous Integration/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Jenkins, Middleware, Rspec, Ruby, Rails, Ruby On Rails, Structured Software, Software Development, System Integration, Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, Requirement Gathering, SDLC, Technical Design, Access Control, Identity Management, RMAN, database, Database Administrator, Oracle, SQL, JIRA, Selenium,Selenium Ide, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium Webdriver, Eclipse, Java, User Interface, UI, DEV OPS, Devops, SMS, Orion, Cobol, WEB Based, WEB-Based, Safari, Risk Analysis, maintenance, Kanban, Best Practices, Liaison, Metrics, Continuous Improvement, Performance Analysis, Trading, Risk Management, Integrator, Integration, User Stories, Cost Estimation,Design Product, Product Engineering, Estimation, Sequencing, Sensors, Sonar, Cycle Time, Financial Services, Closing, Financial/Banking, Financial Project Management, Program Management, Business Analysis, ROI, Product Manager, Marketing, Marketing Communications, Strategic Marketing, Onboarding, Mentoring, Governance, excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook, Microsoft Powerpoint, PowerPoint, MICROSOFT WORD, Word, Windows 7, Performance Tuning, Test Cases, quality assurance, Testing Tools, Database Admin, Publishing, Process Improvements, Documentation, Data Services, Team Player, Offshore, Medicaid

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

6/2020 - Present

Confidential

Scrum Master

Designation: Agile Coach/Scrum MasterPortfolio: Health Care/ Insurance Services Inc.• Facilitating and organizing daily stand-up meetings, reviews, estimation, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, burndown tracking and other Scrum-related meetings.• Working collaboratively with Business and IT partner teams to support development and software delivery.• Assisting the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirements.• Asking difficult questions, removing impediments, and making issues and problems visible.• Making sure the development team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals.• Coaching the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.• Making sure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.• Making sure teams' cross functional coordination (analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often.• Recommending improvements and assists in changes to best practice.• Identifying and managing issues and jeopardizing with a clear grasp of the challenges/options until resolved.• Possesses excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams with diverse personalities, during high pressure scenarios, within extremely tight deadlines.• Being aware of Agile technology practices (e.g., Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration).• Having the ability to analyze project issues and challenges and proactively define alternatives.Accomplishments:• Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, rally tracking, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training, which resulted in the realization of velocity improvement of more than 80%• Spearheaded the agile transformation journey for several projects (Waterfall Teams to Scrum Teams and Empowered Teams to self-managed and grow cross-functionally)• Institutionalized the implementation of Kanban into Maintenance Teams and led them through continuous improvement mind set, which resulted in significant improvement in cycle time• Front-led change and continuous improvements, which resulted in increasing the productivity of Scrum Teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%

3/2020 - 6/2020

Confidential

Scrum Master

Designation: Agile Coach/Scrum MasterPortfolio: Banking Sector/Financial ServicesDescription: Working on a Middleware Application Software Project. My team focus was on holding data for both our vendors and the bank itself, so we were an application that supported both the banking system and our vendors at the time. My team focus was on creating rules/procedures/guidelines that will help facilitate the process for customers to close their accounts and to protect the bank if customers closing their accounts directly were in good standingRole:• Supporting Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined prioritizing to maximize value and using and elaborating on users' stories to be ready for upcoming 1-2 sprints• Facilitating Daily scrum, release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review and sprint retrospective• Ensuring all participants understand the purpose of a ceremony and keep to the time box• Fostering and encouraging conversations and collaboration both inside and outside of team allowing them to self- managed• Identifying and removing impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver sprint goal• Mentoring and assessing the team to maturity• Facilitating effective communication and working relationships between Scrum team Product Owner, stakeholders, and third-party vendors• Ensuring team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques like splitting user stories• Enforcing the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loop• Removing impediments and protecting team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity• Monitoring task board and burn down charts to track the progress of work and communicate with the team, achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria• Familiar with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes

1/2019 - 3/2020

Confidential

Scrum Master

Designation: Agile Coach/Scrum MasterPortfolio: Health Care/ Insurance Services Inc.Description: Working with onboarding applications project under a program called Identity Access Governance, maintaining over 6000 applications to protect our customers information from data breaches through Access Control solutions called Oracle Identity Management Centralized system. This project was about us getting all the assets, whether applications whether software into our centralized systems so we can authenticate an authorized access even from the vendors who owned these applications which was an extra step to our infrastructure and our services at the time.Key Result Areas:• Administering end-to-end project management activities inclusive of planning, effort, design, scope, estimation, resource coordination and delivery as per specified time frames• Maintaining key program performance data for evaluations to support key decision-making program performance analysis• Facilitating: Sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings and software demonstrations Communication between scrum team and product owner on a regular basis PI Planning Event, System Demos and Solution Demos• Working closely with Project Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features• Removing obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution and providing customer positive feedback• Tracking & managing product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown• Establishing & communicating the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PI)• Assisting PI Planning readiness by fostering the preparation of Vision & Backlogs and Pre- & Post-PI Planning meetings• Establishing & supporting communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and help individuals develop into them• Supporting the Scrum Master activities including running daily stand ups, sprint planning, grooming, Planning Poker, and retrospective and reporting iteration progress• Implementing Agile best practices to facilitate, enable & coach multiple teams in a hybrid environment• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies like backlog grooming, release & sprint planning, an impediment removal to ensure smooth project execution & delivery• Encouraging the collaboration between teams and System & Solution Architects/Engineering• Coordinating with Product & Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignmentAccomplishments:• Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, rally tracking, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training, which resulted in the realization of velocity improvement of more than 80%• Spearheaded the agile transformation journey for several pr

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