SUMMARY:

• More than 8 years of IT Industry Experience with 5+ Years as Scrum Master
• Moderate and facilitated Agile team activities such as daily stand - ups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and release planning.
• Expert at driving adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Worked closely with product owners, Business teams to groom product backlog (requirement gathering) and Sprint planning. Track burn down, issues and progress using Agile tools like JIRA, Rally, Version one.
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.
• Facilitated transitioning of Application development from waterfall delivery model to Agile model as Coach.
• Facilitated Backlog Grooming, Retrospective meetings and proactively worked on removing team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Assisted multi-location (onsite locations and India as offshore location) Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Release Train launches.
• Proactive in sensing risks, and work on mitigation plan, Track and communicate updates and sprint/release progress to the project stakeholders and raise any risks in Scrum of Scrum meeting as warranted.
• Drive weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the Product Owners priorities.
• Worked with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are 'sprint ready'.

SKILLS:

Microsoft Access

MS Access

MS SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 2012

SQL Server

SQL Server 2012

MySQL

SQL

Stored Procedure

IT Project Management

Project Plans

SCRUM

J2EE

Java

Spring

JIRA

Rally

Clarify

Informatica

Microsoft SharePoint

SharePoint

Tableau Software

Tableau

Application Development

C/C++, C++, Exchange, HTML

Javascript Frameworks and Libraries

Bootstrap

Python

Software Engineer

Visio

Visual Basic, ms office, ims, Web Design, Rational Rose

Requirement Gathering

UML

Cryptography

Router, excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Powerpoint

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted daily Stand-up Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Meetings Optimized the flow of value through Agile Release Trains, with focus on implementing agile principles through iterative and incremental delivery.
• Partnered with the Solution Train Engineer at the portfolio level, in managing the flow of epics through their lifecycle.
• Used key Scrum metrics in Jira (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work. Managed Scrum boards (physical and virtual) using SharePoint.
• Collaborated with the Product Manager in facilitating readiness of the product backlog to produce a stakeholder approved, prioritized feature list for PI Planning.
• Helped in driving relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops to assess the agility level of the ART and Solution Train.
• Established a sound alignment on the cross-departmental roadmaps and created a collective plan to manage dependencies and continuously improve communications and relationships with other teams.
• Represented the team during Scrum of Scrums, thereby helping the team perceive opportunities to engage and improve program effectiveness.
• Coordinated with scrum teams at program level for a successful System Demo of Program Increment.

Environment: Jira, Agile Craft/Jira Align, Confluence, Confluence, MS Teams, Slack.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated daily scrum(stand - up) meetings and monitored the team's performance using Sprint Burndown Charts.
• Used Rally to track issues, calculate team's velocity and in planned the future sprints effectively.
• Enforced time boxing for all the ceremonies (Sprint planning meeting, daily stand-ups meeting, sprint review meeting, sprint retrospective meeting) during the sprint by keeping the team focused on the tasks for that specific meeting.
• Worked closely with SMEs of different divisions to gain strong understanding of the current products available in the system and future products that would be implemented.
• Created documentation in relation to user stories, functional specification document, implementation plans and tracking overall status of the backlog using Rally.
• Responsible for product backlog grooming, estimation, and user demo of the product.
• Also interfaced with development team to clarify requirements.
• Worked proactively with the technical leads of other teams that have common functional dependencies to identify common needs and facilitate in identifying additional user stories.
• Managed technical appropriateness and feasibility of requirements and designs.

Environment: Java, Salesforce, Spring, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Bootstrap, Rally, MS Office Suite 2010 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio), Tableau, SCRUM.

Confidential

Jr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Scrum Master in conducting Daily Scrum Activities.
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures.
• Organizing, attending, and participating in stakeholder meetings. Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective.
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Engaging constantly with other Scrum masters in the organization through community practice to implement Agile Best Practices Coordinated with scrum teams at program level for a successful System Demo of Program Increment (PI).
• Collaborated with the teams to identify and resolve problems and remove impediments/ barriers for the team.
• Assisted Sr. Scrum Master in conducting Sprint Retrospective meeting for the teams, to reflect the process of the teams followed and to remove the power struggles between the team members to help improve the collaboration.
• Collaborated with the teams for better creativity and improve the efficiency of the development team and help the team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.
• On occasions conducted daily Stand - up Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Meetings

Environment: MS Office, SQL server, Visio, Project Tracker

Confidential

Associate Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Data Maps / Extraction groups in Power Exchange Navigator for legacy IMS Parent sources.
• Tuned Informatica mappings and sessions for optimum performance.
• Developed mappings that perform Extraction, Transformation and load of source data into Derived Masters schema using various power center transformations like Source Qualifier, Aggregator, Filter, Router, Sequence Generator, look up, Rank, Joiner, Expression, Stored Procedure, SQL, Normalizer and update strategy to meet business logic in the mappings.
• Adhered to high - quality development standards while delivering solutions on-time and on-budge.