SUMMARY

• 7.5 years of experience as a Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager
• Able to manage multiple teams Confidential a time and ensuring team’s success and progress are transparent to Stakeholders.
• Empowered teams to self - organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Specialized in implementing different framework like Kanban, Scrum and Scrumban.
• Extensively used Rally for managing User Stories, Epics, updating tasks, Planning Iterations and Releases.
• Expertise in driving and facilitating story mapping, sessions for new Projects.
• Ability to bring teams to an even higher level of performance.
• Taught the Product owners and BAs to create clear and concise epics/stories.
• Experience in managing all aspects of end to end release process.
• Expert Confidential driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments.
• Co-ordinate and Manage Code Releases and Database releases for my teams.
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as - grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects.
• Ability to work well under pressure to achieve deadlines. Ability to take ownership and manage multiple tasks according to their priorities.
• Flexible & Adaptive as per project needs. Self-motivator, adept in conflict Management and conflict resolution, excellent verbal and written communication.
• Used Jira as bug tracking tools.
• Successfully transformed waterfall team to Agile.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WPF, WCF, LINQ

Languages: C#, Java, .Net, VB

Database: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS Access

Frameworks: .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0

Web Technology: HTML5, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, SOAP, Web services

Server Platforms: TFS 2010, IIS 7.0/6.0/5.0, Windows Server SPI

Version Control: MS­Visual Source Safe, MS­Team Foundation Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully handled role ofScrummasterand having expertise in conducting story estimation, Sprint planning, DailyScrum, Sprint review and Retrospective meetings when usingScrum Framework.
• When development teams are besieged by a variety of clients, to take pressure off them, enabling them to concentrate on the work Confidential hand, channeling requirements, chastening clients through open communication so they won't be insulted, and using other methods pertaining to such concerns.
• Moderate Agile retrospectives, making them most pleasant for team members and focused on results, to bring teams to an even higher level of performance. With this and the help of continuous development processes, I have methods to outdistance your competition, to their great detriment and confusion.
• Managed all aspects of end to end release process.
• Successfully managed Project Backlogs, Release Scheduling, Project duration estimation and forecasting.
• Worked closely with Agile teams to understand their needs and make sure that the Rally tool meets those needs. Provided guidance to the Agile teams on the Rally tool so it is used to maximum their efficiency.
• Coaches and mentors Agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback.
• Trained and coached multiple development teams of 6-8 and management team to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.

Environment: Tibco, Oracle10g, Eclipse, SVN, Windows XP, UNIX, Spring IOC, Spring AOP, Xsd's, Xml, Jenkins, Itrack

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitating the dailyscrummeetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 and management team of 12 to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum.
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices.
• 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.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Environment: ASP.NET, VB.NET, C++, .NET framework, Share Point, HTML, Java Script, CSS, SQL Server, My SQL

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• I played the role of Scrum Master with managing 3 scrum teams with 5 to 7 members Confidential a time.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums for all time.
• Facilitated the Daily Scrum Meeting, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective.
• Provide visibility to team impediments, risks and helped them in removing.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%.
• Coaches and mentors team members and provide constructive feedback.
• Worked closely with Product Owner and Stakeholders to prioritize the requirements in a sprint.
• Drew strategy of Release plans for product backlogs, created sprint back logs according to the release cycles and estimated hours of work for user stories, reviewed the Burn down chart to target the delivery dates for each sprint, and facilitated daily stand up meetings.
• Designed Solutions as per Business needs that included Designing Site Architecture, Site Navigation, Reports, Dashboards, Views etc..,
• Motivate the team to come up with quality shippable product Confidential the end of each sprint.
• Tracks and report team velocity, team capacity and software quality and other metrics against goal on ongoing basis.
• Performed requirement traceability to ensure all the planned requirements are developed and validated and documented.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solution about it.

Environment: VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL SERVER 2008, PL/SQL, User Controls, Visual Studio 2008, .Net Framework 3.5, XML.

Confidential, Roanoke, VA

Scrum Master/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interact with business users for better understanding of individual subject areas and modified specifications to user needs.
• Used AGILE methodology and worked in short Sprint to achieve goals.
• Discussed the open issues and statues with Scrum team.
• Developed the Epics and Themes for theScrumProject.
• Devised and prioritized the Product Backlog by conducting requirement churning sessions with various Business/Product Teams.
• Created and explained the User Stories to theScrumTeam and helped them design the tasks.
• Presented lunch and learn introductions to Agile and Scrum
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
• Coach Agile values and principles to the team and business
• Train the team on Agile values; helping them realize the full value of Agile
• Designed acceptance criteria for validating the output of each Sprint.
• Participated in Sprint Planning and Sprint review meetings for finalizing the Sprint Backlogs and Verifying the sprint outputs respectively
• Created Release Tracking Document in order to track the necessary changes.
• Participated in Business Demonstrations and Decisions for the Release of the Sprint Output to production.
• Worked on preparing the Test plans and test scenarios for testing the functionality part of the application.
• Performed UAT and addressed the issues to ensure proper action was taken accordingly based on priority and requirement.
• Performed requirement traceability to ensure all the planned requirements are developed and validated and documented.

Environment: Visual Studio .NET 2008, Silverlight, NET Framework 3/3.5, C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2005

Confidential, San Fransisco, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Involved in initial stage of design and wireframing of the web application.
• Established a Scrum project management process and helped the team meet the sprint commitments.
• Acted as a Scrum Master and have successfully led the team to adopt and succeed using the Agile development methodology.
• Updating Component Manager about the service performance on monthly basis.
• Working on quick fixes and permanent solutions for daily flow issues
• Discussion with Component Managers on new projects and the resources availability
• Work Allocation to the team and monitoring the progress
• Suggesting Process improvement and automation where required
• My responsibilities included working on project scope definition and requirements prioritization, identifying dependencies and resolving impediments.
• Facilitated daily Scrum meeting, maintaining sprint and release backlogs.
• Facilitated burn-down charts, conducting sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective meeting, developing progress reports for tracking purposes.

Environment: .Net Framework 3.0, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, C#, AJAX, SQL Server 2005, HTML, CSS, IIS

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, Daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Protect team from over-commitment, mange backlog and prioritize resolution of defects as evidenced by the on time delivery.
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues as soon as possible.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprint to deployment.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility, ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Created Cardinalities, Contexts, Joins and Aliases for resolving Loops and checked the Integrity of the Universes.
• Analyzed Business Objects old Universes and Reports. Designed and developed new Universe and Reports as per the requirements.
• Deployed solution packages to the Test environment and coordinate with the onsite testing team on regular basis.
• Worked with engineering managers to identify cross team dependencies and mange inter team tasks.
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.
• Assisted team with making appropriate communication through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time.

Environment: VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL SERVER, PL/SQL, Visual Studio 2000, XML.

Confidential

Jr Agile Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 and management team of 12 to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices.
• 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.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Environment: .Net Framework 3.0, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, C#, AJAX, SQL Server 2005, HTML, CSS, IIS