SUMMARY:

Results oriented scrum professional with experience leading agile development teams in IT solutions within chemical, financial, and pharmaceutical software domains. Profound knowledge of web and mobile software development lifecycle, SDLC. Proficient in waterfall and other agile techniques, including lean kanban and scaled agile framework, while applying innovative approaches assisting with technical issues and ensuring timely delivery of reliable data and outcomes. Proven success adopting agile and scrum values and principles through coachingmentoring, teaching, and empowering cross - functional and self-organizing teams to deliver value predictably. Articulate and refined communicator providing exceptional leadership and establishing strong relationships with business and customers.

AGILE TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY:

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Agile Facilitation | Sprint Planning |Sprint Review | Sprint Retrospective | Backlog Refinement | Release Planning| SAFe Execution | Scrum Metrics | Velocity | Burndown Chart| Release Burndown Chart | Team Development Leadership | Dynamic Conflict Resolution | Cross-functional Collaboration | Complex Problem Resolution | Continuous Learning and Improvement

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Delivering fast-tracked high quality value through exceptional coaching of teams and organization on agile and scrum values, principles and best practices.
• Collaborating with other scrum masters in the scrum of scrums meetings to address impediments and progress challenges of the customer ISP application feature teams.
• Improving accountability and increasing inspection, adaptation and transparency facilitating PI, release planning meetings and other ceremonies including daily stand-ups, demos, and backlog refinement.
• Supporting two geographically distributed teams, monitoring pulse and morale, influencing team spirit and creating excitement around deliverables while capturing constant feedback of satisfactory results for continuous improvement.
• Overseeing a successful agile transformation of organization from 20% to 40%, while supporting teams in development and modification of subsidiary application, Record Management, through stage-wise coaching and workshops.
• Organizing coaching sessions for stakeholders and three product owners helping them understand their role and how to create cohesive product vision to improve buy-in and shared understanding.
• Helping in improving business decision making and meeting sprint goal while leading 2 delivery teams in application development.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated discussions and conflict resolution while empowering teams to self-organize and own their accountability.
• Trained and led delivery team towards successful adoption and implementation of scrum values, principlesand practices empowering team to become collaborative and self-organizing.
• Improved transparency, inspection, and adaptation by identifying and documenting areas of continuous improvement for seven delivery teams before and during retrospective and other inspect and adapt meetings.
• Reviewed and upgraded product backlog with product owners to ensure proper assembling and prioritizing f documents, including definition of ready and done, acceptance criteria, epics, user stories, bugs, and defects for inclusion in upcoming sprints.
• Eliminated redundancy, collaborating with scrum team to establish acceptance criteria and develop user stories accomplishing refinement and analyzing requirements across two platforms, including mobile app and website.
• Maintained and enhanced tracking of team progress, capacity and velocity for continuous improvementbetter productivity and efficiency by sustaining metrics like burndown/burnup charts and product releases in JIRA.
• Ensured team success by eliminating impediments and road blocks through analysis and escalation of software license issuance to adequate team members for quick resolution.

Confidential

Software Developer / Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Served as integral part of digital transformation and portfolio modernization team, while developing and upgrading HR platform of company from old legacy system to advance COTS system.
• Administered control over legal, operational and technical support of processes by collaborating with product owners to analyze and assemble user stories along with acceptance criteria ensuring successful prioritization.
• Enabled business stakeholder collaboration and continuous delivery of value-added roles at the end of each iteration by cooperating with product owner and distributed teams, while facilitating scrum ceremonies including daily stand-up, sprint planning, grooming sessions, and reviews.
• Maximized operational efficiency and ensured fulfillment of HR objectives by conducting GAP analysis and gathering required information, while realigning key business processes.
• Efficiently lifted-up 10 projects from waterfall to Scrum in 6 months to increase business efficiency and utcomes.
• Spearheaded increase in organization agile maturity, enhancing cross-functionality across organizationwhile adopting best practices.
• Embraced Servant leadership role across scrum teams and supported them by proactively identifying and removing impediments.