Scrum Master Resume Minneapolis, MN - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Scrum Master promoting over 4 year career in Agile principles and project management with background in mentoring.
Guided teams of mobile developers as a servant leader and trained 2 teams to achieve project goals and meet deadlines in the Agile development environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

Empowered teams to self - organize and grow cross-functionality, increasing team delivery by 10 story points per sprint
Facilitating daily scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for two concurrent projects
Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of scrum teams by up to 20%
Collaborated with scrum team to develop user stories and story point using planning poker
Guided product owners to prioritize and groom user stories in the product backlog to achieve enough READY items for the next sprint and reduce time of sprint planning by 80%
Set up two dashboards for sprint review and defects tracking using Jira
Coordinated a team of developers to implement different types of payment options in the mobile application within 6 months
Facilitated discussions between technical teams to analyze and solution issues with search functionalities and expanding the search options, resulting in 10% increase in search functions efficiencies
Ensuring the team and company achieves SMART goals

Scrum Master

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

Facilitated all scrum events and related meetings like Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog refinement
Tracked and communicated team velocity by interpreting the burndown charts which improved the team's sprint planning, reducing the time spent in planning by 30 minutes
Coached the advantages of Scrum values and Agile principles with development teams and stakeholders resulting in 20% increase in the attendance of stakeholders at sprint reviews
Increased team efficiency by 40% by inspiring motivation, spins, and changes for quality and timeliness
Facilitated discussion and conflicts resolution while empowering team to self-organize
Facilitated discussions to resolve dependencies between mobile application developers and API developers which led to a 1-hour reduction in story refinement sessions
Coordinated efforts to closely monitor the development cycles to identify and fix defects before every major release, reducing defects reported on mobile applications by 50% within the first 6 months

Snr. Project Coordinator/ Scrum Master

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

Planned, coordinated and directed projects to optimize processes, systems which increased achievements of business objectives by 10%
Developed methods for requirement definition, process and workflow design and data modeling, increasing deliveries by 20%
Developed best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics
Strategize ways to understand complex problems and focus on bringing issues to resolution or escalating as necessary to meet timelines, increasing product deliveries by 20%
Drafted project plans and budgets, ensuring that all funds and timeline for project deliveries are sufficient with a track record of 100% on-time deliveries
Created and delivered presentations to senior level management on project goals and plans, including progress reports and score card