SUMMARY

• Scrum Master wif over 5 years of experience in coaching and leading both new and high performing cross - functional software development teams both onshore and offshore to adopt teh Agile mindset.
• I am passionate about problem solving and finding solutions to resolve impediment as quickly as possible so teh team can accomplish teh sprint goal on time.
• A resourceful team leader wif teh ability to hold team members accountable, while keeping team engaged and on task.
• Experience in providing exceptional servant leadership that meets teh organization's needs, requirements, and goals.
• Strong knowledge in Jira and confluence, I am a highly motivated individual and can quickly adapt to a new and constantly changing environment.
• I have a solid technical background as well; having worked as an Oracle database administrator prior to transitioning into a scrum master role.

• Software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Release Management
• PI Planning (PI)
• Jira Administration
• Agile Project Management
• Cloud Migration
• Good communication
• Good listener
• Detailed oriented
• Scrum and Kanban

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• JIRA
• Confluence
• MS Word
• MS Teams
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Outlook
• Google Apps
• MS Project
• TFS
• VSO
• Kanban
• Team Foundation Server
• SDLC
• Agile/Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCrum MAster/Agile Project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching 2 Scrum teams responsible for developing software products and automated tools that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation.
• Organizing and facilitating scrum ceremonies and backlog refinement for two distributed scrum teams
• Coaching teh teams on agile processes and principles
• Educated teh team on story estimation by introducing t-shirt sizes and planning poker along wif teh Fibonacci sequence.
• Collaborating wif product owner and development team in backlog refinement to ensure any open question is clarify and stories are estimated.
• Ensuring that teh team stay focused by helping them to remove obstacles, minimizing distractions, and making sure team meetings are well-organized
• Supporting and educating teh Product Owner, especially wif respect to grooming and maintaining teh product backlog and planning releases.
• Organizing and facilitating backlog refinement so questions can be answered, stories are estimated and can be ready for teh upcoming sprint.
• Clarifying roles and responsibilities and offers motivation and support, as necessary.
• Assisting teh team to become self-organize to accomplish sprint goal
• Participating in cross team activities such as Scrum of Scrums
• Working wif other Scrum Masters during across teh organization to find ways in managing risks, issues, and dependencies between teams
• Providing support to teh team and leading by example
• Attending Scrum of Scrum wif other scrum master to find TEMPeffective ways in helping each other grow professionally
• Removing impediments/blockers and work wif team members when those impediments need escalation
• Providing weekly status reports to teh Management to provide transparency of sprint status.
• Scheduling and attending one on one session wif team members to build relationship and ensuring they are following teh scrum processes correctly.
• Scheduling and facilitating sprint review sessions wif team members and stakeholders.

Scrum MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated and supported 2 weeks iterations for development and software delivery for 2 distributed teams.
• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to program manager and product owner.
• Ensured teh development teams are practicing teh core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Updated agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
• Recommended improvements and assisted in changes to agile best practice.
• Supported teh development managers and project leads as necessary.
• Protected teh team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by teh on-time delivery of major initiatives.
• Assisted wif internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assisted teh team wif making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition during sprint planning.
• Identified and removed impediments, prevent distractions that interfere wif teh ability of teh team to deliver teh sprint goal.
• Empowered teh teams to self-organize, improve teh productivity of teh sprint teams.
• Ensure teh team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable.
• Collaborate wifin and across teh agile teams to TEMPeffectively manage risks and dependencies.
• Consult wif teh RTEs and Product Managers on TEMPeffective ways to utilize agile techniques.
• Created and maintained teh appropriate channels for open communication wifin teh scrum team to create a trusting and safe team environment.
• Ensured that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on teh Scrum Team.

Oracle DBA/AWS ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working wif EC2 and creating instances using company’s AMI’s.
• Provide administrative support for instances hosted in government cloud environment.
• Creating AMIs and volume snapshots as backup for instances.
• Configure VPC wif subnets, security groups and NAT instances manually as well as wif teh VPC creator.
• Perform web application installation and configuration such as Tomcat on RedHat, Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances needed for website development.
• Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating Security groups, Auto-Scaling, Load balancers (ELBs) in teh defined virtual private connection.
• Create roles and policies using AWS IAM tool.
• Strong experience in migration to AWS platform.
• Worked wif various AWS component such as EC2, VPC (NAT, VPC Peering and VPN), Identity and Access management (IAM), S3, RDS, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, and Cloud Trail.
• Migration of on premises data to Amazon RDS using teh amazon Data Migration Service.
• Knowledge of networking and system security, including firewall management and VPNs.

Confidential

Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Oracle 12C, 11g, and 10g Database Administration in Production and Non-Production Databases on Different Platforms.
• Experience in installation and configuration of Oracle 11g/12C Data guard, switchover and failover.
• Installed Data guard standby databases and performed disaster recovery testing.
• Configuring teh physical & logical standby databases using sqlplus & RMAN.
• Experienced in configuration of ASM for RAC and NON- RAC environments.
• Configured Repository and clients for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM 12C GRID Control) and also implemented DB Control for some databases.
• Migration from on-premise data center to AWS cloud
• Database security Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Data Masking
• Unix Shell scripting and programming in PL/SQL, sql*plus, Bash shell scripting, cron jobs for database operation, and database security.
• Excellent Interpersonal communication, customer care/billing and Documentation Skills.