SUMMARY

• Project Manager / Scrum Master with 6+ years’ experience executing projects using PMI, Agile and company standards.
• I successfully managed projects ranging from information technology engineering healthcare to finance from initiation to completion.
• I possess some important qualities like self - driven, self-motivation, enthusiastic intellect, problem solving, team building skills and the abilities to manage projects within budget, scope and schedule.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: SAP, Primavera P6V8, MS Project, Jira, Confluence, google suite, SharePoint.

Methodologies: Waterfall Methodology (PMI); Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); Agile Methodology; Scrum, Kanban, Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Roswell GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Creating user stories for features
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (events and activities) as necessary and ensure the team is realizing value from them (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement).
• Exhibit servant leadership approach in leading.
• Encourage team continuous improvement via interactions, practices, and process (inspect and adapt practices).
• Empowered teams to be self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Identification and mitigation of sprint risks and issues.
• Backlog grooming with Product Owner
• Track and communicate team KPI (metrics) velocity and burn down.
• Worked with cross-functional team and product owner to deliver business solution to provide expert guidance.
• Liaise between onsite and remote teams to share and gather information, for the successful and timely deliveries of deliverables.
• Develop detail work plan capturing estimates, capacity and dependencies
• Attending scrum of scrum meetings to call out issues and give updates.

Confidential, College Park GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the transitioning process from Waterfall to Agile methodologies
• Manage the transition issues and Risk that arises
• Manage all project schedules in MSP and store documents using SharePoint.
• Provided change status updates leading to the transitioning
• Ensure a common understanding by setting expectations regarding the project plans to align the stakeholders and team members
• Coordinated with project teams and business partner in achieving agreed milestone for the SAP project
• Manage activity improvement in areas related to the switch process and supervise effort for effective and consistent results
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor the progress of the project
• Identify and quantify variances, perform required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders
• Manage changes to the project scope, schedule and cost using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized changes.
• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies- sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review and retrospect, backlog refinement and grooming
• Perform project audits/reviews and extracts lessons learned.
• Lead development team in the process of transition for MDM 2.1 Release

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Continually refined and evolved agile processes for predictable and rapid software delivery resulting in hitting deadline
• Led all sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and daily scrum with the development team resulting in product features that reached the end users, work closely with product management and technical stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status and details of each project
• Implementing Agile methodologies using a scrum framework throughout the organization from executives to software marketing across employees
• Supported the product owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables and managed internal stakeholder communications resulting in increased customer engagement with new features
• Promoted empowerment of the team and encouraged a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team which improved employee retention.

Confidential, Tampa FL

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Plan, direct, and coordinates the activities of clients' projects to ensure that engagement goals are accomplished
• Help capture and track requirements for project requests, which may vary from feature development to marketing tactics and research initiatives
• Keep a pulse on engagement progress and actively works with team and client to end successfully and on time
• Coach and empowers team members to resolve roadblocks, and knows when to raise the flag for management help
• Employ strong organizational skills and takes a very organized approach to all engagements
• Master agile principles and applies them to every team’s workflow
• Challenges and refines team structure and processes to foster continuous improvement
• Promotes communication of process improvements and learnings across teams
• Guide the development of common standards and guidelines
• Onboard clients for our agile-scrum approach

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Trained in SAP implementation
• Schedule and facilitate meetings with stakeholder as needed
• Led project execution planning
• Practically apply project management concepts to facilitate the achievement of project goals ensuring predictable, consistent, and successful project delivery
• Facilitate project risk assessment to drive successful project execution and ensure efficient project process
• Monitor and update project schedule and progress
• Ensure a common understanding by setting expectations regarding the project plans to align the stakeholders and team members
• Responsible for ensuring team alignment on project goals, objectives, and business outcomes.
• Provide technical supervision and assistance to ensure project activities are technically valid and result are coordinated for project continuity and control
• Serve as a key contributor partnering with the Business Unit in successful delivery of infrastructure, tech refresh and compliance projects.