OBJECTIVES

• An Agile Certified Scrum Master with over 8 years of hands - on experience working on enterprise-wide projects through several Agile project management tools like Rally, JIRA/Confluence, Visual Studio. Worked with co-located, distributed, and offshore teams where we used different virtual platforms like WebEx, and Skype for Business.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgement to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on expertise in implementation of project life cycle in various phases and stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM, XP, Kanban) and Hybrid (Waterfall- Scrum) methodologies.

SUMMARY

• Experience with Agile Software Methodology
• Experience in creating Dashboard for adequate Sprint reports update.
• Advance knowledge in API, UI, UX, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Mobile Device Management, DevOps, DevSecOps, AWS, Salesforce, and Cybersecurity
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Familiarity with Microsoft Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Word
• Proven ability at driving and motivating the adoption of scrum rules, removing impediments, fostering self-management, and empowering my team.
• Experience with Cloud Security (AWS & Azure-Deep Dive)
• Familiarity with AWS monitoring (Lambda, Simple Storage Service(S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), LightSail Instance and S3 Object
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums meetings following the Agile Methodology.
• Good Communication and Negotiating Skills.
• Advanced knowledge in SolarWinds SIEM Security and Monitoring, Splunk Enterprise SIEM, Datadog, McAfee ESM and LogRhythm.
• Excellent experience with several Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, XP and SAFe. Assist the Scrum Master from the transition from Waterfall methodology into Agile.
• Advance Knowledge in Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Experience with Operating Systems (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
• Knowledgeable in Appian(Digital Process Automation(DPA),Intelligent Business Process Management Systems(iBPMS)
• Excellent technical command to work with Agile project management tool like Jira, Confluence, TFS, Visual Studio & Rally.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Silver Spring MD

Senior Agile Certified Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Transitioning teams from waterfall to agile: Motivating the team to adapt Agile Values. Evaluating the importance of various scrum ceremonies to the scrum team. Imbibing the Scrum principles like Transparency, Inspection and Adaption. Successfully transitioning the team to self-sufficient scrum team from totally waterfall background.
• Organizing and facilitating SCRUM meetings (Product backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily SCRUM, Planning Poker sessions, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective, Release Planning). Ensure that agile principles and processes are properly implemented and adopted. Facilitated an atmosphere of team creativity to foster increased productivity and production of higher quality products.
• Tracking and communicating sprint release progress through burn-down charts. Proactively managed sprint and program level risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, ensuring that they are identified, coordinated, mitigated, as necessary.
• Manage the product backlog and prioritization with the business. Facilitate the negotiation of priorities amongst multiple stakeholders/product owners. Manage the deliverables forecasting in each iteration, based on evidence and system data.
• Manage risks and issues proactively, escalating as required to ensure deliverables are met on time and on budget. Assist the team in clarifying development objectives and goals and define the actions required to achieve them.
• Track and remove obstacles or impediments. Perform estimation, forecasting and time tracking/reporting for the team resources. Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice, guidance and resolving problems to technical performance and financial objectives.
• Advancing the firm’s Roadmap programs- Single Souring of data, Architecture Convergence, and Rationalization of platforms. Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous Improvement of existing processes.
• Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Master on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams. Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.
• Create program level dashboards and reports from VSTS/TFS/JIRA/Confluence for presentation to Senior and Executive Management. Track team performance using agile metrics and Jira reports like Burndown chart, Sprint Report, Velocity Chart, Control Chart, Release Burndown, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Version Report and Epic Report.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills and can work and inspire others in a multi-functional team environment. Providing resource management for projects including team training and staff allocation. Working with Program Manager on staffing allocations for projects. Coordinated activities for multiple Scrum Teams.
• Define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely deliverable of value of the project. Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work increasing the average time to deliver new feature.

Confidential, Newark, DE

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organizing and facilitating SCRUM meetings (Product backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily SCRUM, Planning Poker sessions, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective).
• Leading retrospectives, daily standups, and show-and-tell meetings to encourage collaboration, communication, feedback, and learning among the team.
• Practicing Scrum as an Empirical process: Successfully increased the efficiency of testers by slicing the stories into smaller ones. Reduce the number of defects per sprint by adapting customized Test-Driven Development. Increase the team's productivity by facilitating three amigos’ meetings. Practice several Inspect and Adapt techniques to improve the sprint velocity. Creating core teams (Scrum team) and peripheral layer (SMEs and architects) teams for effective communication.
• Collaborating with cross-team scrum masters through Scrum of Scrums to identify the dependencies and risks of each team.
• Resolve impediments/roadblocks to re-create the focus on accomplishing the sprint goal. Conduct retrospective meetings to inspect the team's performance and adapt to new changes. Steer the team to stick to short answers to the three questions: steer them away from discussing problems or details during the daily scrum.
• Create program level dashboards and reports from VSTS/TFS/JIRA/Confluence for presentation to Senior and Executive Management.
• Expertise in conducting Story mapping & Sprint planning practices and illustration of the vision of the project. Implement Extreme Programming practices to ensure good product quality. Involved in TDD, ATDD, BDD, Automated testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous delivery.
• Work closely with Product Management, Development, QA, and other stakeholders on planning and delivering high quality software using agile/scrum framework.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies for one or more scrum teams including the daily standup, sprint planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives. Assist Product Owner with Backlog grooming, User Story development and prioritization.
• Participate in scrum of scrum ceremonies to communicate and mitigate risk, escalate blockers, and drive progress on cross-team dependencies.
• Provide and track agile metrics as it relates to scrum team predictability and productivity with an eye towards continuous improvement.
• Ensure the team has clear understanding of the quality of software they are developing and is constantly working to improve that quality.
• Applying good judgment in balancing and advocating for the use of agile delivery concepts and business analysis tools and techniques.

Confidential, Washington DC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Grooming meetings, Sprint Planning, Scrum Daily standup, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Experienced in supporting and assisting the Product Owner during refinement sessions to do periodic backlog grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Took responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and other teams, collaborated within the Scrum Master network especially regarding items necessary for product release.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster cooperation, and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help teams resolve conflicts constructively and escalate to appropriate quarters when necessary.
• Conversant with creation and management of Agile reporting artifacts like Release/ Product Burndown Charts and Sprint Burndown charts.
• Effectively manage team relationship, coached, and supported the program manager to be the Product Owner. Identified and resolved impediments, tracked progress, facilitated release planning, coached teams on Agile practices, delivered high quality tested software with Agile teams.
• Coach Product Owners/Business analyst to reign in scope creep and adhere to MVP principles where applicable (postponing stories that do not support MVP where applicable, to later releases)
• Empowering the team to knock blockers out themselves and build trust to communicate clearly and objectively. Introduce Hand-shake meeting to facilitate effective transition of work between on-shore and off-shore team members.
• Protect scrum team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog and project timelines.
• Perform peer-to-peer coaching and mentoring. Conducted formal training programs in Agile and SCRUM to improve process competencies. Educated the Team, Management and Organization.Plan and execute software development to meet newly defined business strategies.
• Worked in partnership with project teams to deliver project objectives using Agile/ SCRUM and XP practices to plan, estimate and manage their work.
• Worked with Product Owners to prioritize and validate User Stories. Also work with project managers who handled the resource planning and utilization.
• Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
• Ensure that all the sprint repots are accurate. (Burn down Chart, Burn up chart, Velocity chart, Sprint Report, Control chart). Also, in charge of creating a Dashboard to track all the work done and to automatically update every 15minutes.
• Took responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and other teams, collaborated within the Scrum Master network especially regarding items necessary for product release.
• Instrumental in facilitating to produce aggregated, system/product demos for key program stakeholders during sprint reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster cooperation, and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help teams resolve conflicts constructively and escalate to appropriate quarters when necessary.
• Conversant with creation and management of Agile reporting artifacts like Release/ Product Burndown Charts and Sprint Burndown charts.