SUMMARY

• Dedicated certified scrum master wif more than 6 years experience coaching and mentoring high performing teams.
• Proven knowledge in managing Full Life Cycle (SDLC) projects using Agile frameworks; scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
• Great knowledge of agile methodology and framework.
• Extensive experience working wif waterfall and agile methodologies, serving teh scrum master role simultaneously for multiple scrum teams.
• Organize and facilitate sprint planning meetings, sprint retrospective and sprint demo.
• A servant leader, an excellent motivator and mentor wif great communication, problem - solving, critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Responsible to identify and remove impediments for teh scrum team.
• Experienced in using various agile collaborative tools like: Microsoft(MS) Project, Jira, Confluence, Version One Jira, Rally (CA Agile) and SharePoint.
• Well-versed in building positive relationships wif my teams and stakeholders ensuring deliverables are of high quality meeting business needs

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Kanban
• Scrum
• Agile SDLC
• SAFe
• Web Development technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating scrum events (daily Standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives and sprint planning), making sure scrum is being implemented correctly across all business units at Confidential
• Actively involved in discovery sessions, requirement gatherings and documentation meetings, ensuring features and stories were business centric around delivering teh highest ROI
• Training and coaching team members on Agile best processes and techniques
• Coordinating wif systems partners and business analysts to finalize designs and confirm business requirements.
• Responsible for interacting wif business, multiple technology teams and partner systems in understanding business functionality and requirements.
• Acting as a servant leader to my teams, resolving conflicts, removing impediments and coaching teams to adopt scrum values
• Facilitating process reviews, product reviews, defect reviews, CoPs, research spikes and capturing lessons learned.
• Actively providing status reports to business stakeholders, program managers, on new enhancements to teh work product, making sure it's consistently being aligned to teh business needs.
• Preparing and analyzing sprint Burn-down charts and reports, ensuring crystal clear communication among all team members, stakeholders and business users
• Coaching management and teams on Agile best values and practices while emphasizing continuous improvement.
• Using JIRA metrics to halp understand team’s performance and work-pace constraints

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 13 engineers in all aspects of teh agile SDLC, ensuring smooth transition from waterfall to agile; Trained team of sprint ceremonies, story estimation and capacity planning
• Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and release planning meetings.
• Coached and educated product owner and team on agile best practices and scrum values.
• Worked wif PO to maintain and prioritize teh product backlog in a way dat ensures teh needed work is well understood so teh team can continually make forward progress
• Provided timely, accurate, and actionable information to program stakeholders in a structured and transparent way.
• Helped foster self-sufficiency wifin teh team while identifying risk, bringing up issues, and removing impediments to drive process improvements
• Closely collaborated wif project members to identify issues and resolve project impediments
• Helped teams in velocity and capacity planning to ensure accurate business stories estimations and commitments.
• Gatheird requirements, defined scopes, and facilitated all sprint ceremonies including planning and retrospectives.
• Used Jira as main agile project management tool, halping wif issue tracking, and risk mitigation including working wif broader organization to remove any impediments teh development team encountered

Confidential, Portland, OR

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Trained and coached team members on Agile best practices and processes. Facilitated planning meetings, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Coached teams in becoming self-organized, self-managing and high performing
• Assisted internal and external communication between developers and stakeholders, improving transparency and radiating information to stakeholders and functional managers when required.
• Worked wif IT teams and product owners to refine ready backlogs, maintain task boards and produced daily burn down charts.
• Liaised between business units and IT teams to synchronize business needs and technology deliverables
• Assisted development teams and Business Analysts to refine product functionality, Communicating project progress and issues to product owners and program managers.
• Represented my teams in SOS meetings, reporting project completions, challenges and impediments. Radiating feedback and process improvements from SOS back to my teams
• Worked wif product owners to maintain product backlogs ensuring all work items teams select, reflect teh correct status, ensuring accurate traceability to business user stories and NFRs.
• Extensively involved in Agile Scrum calls to review epic user stories wif product owner, business partners and end users.
• Communicated wif all stakeholders and keep them informed about teh project status reports, issues and milestones
• Collaborated wif other scrum masters and stakeholders to manage dependencies and roadblocks effecting a project.

Confidential, Livermore, CA

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in Joint Application Development (JAD) session for gathering user requirements and all teh phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Process.
• Facilitated interactive discussions wif business units and technology teams in order to accurate define and align requirements.
• Developed long - term business strategy by using customer feedback to identify necessary process improvements.
• Engaged clients to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment wif development teams
• Responsible for Translating stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, and workflow/process diagrams
• Created full-fledged implementation plans, accounting for ROI, cost-benefit and other analyses.
• Played a key role in converting business requirements into functional specifications and then into detail system requirements.
• Performed root cause analysis and provide resolution of highly escalated system related issues in production environment: .
• Worked wif senior leadership to ensure complex projects were completed on time and wifin budget
• Developed process improvement initiatives and analyzed problems to create corrective action strategy.