SUMMARY

• I am interestingly seeking a remote Scrum Master job position. Experienced, dedicated, enthusiastic, and hard working professional with 8 years of hands - on working on enterprise wide projects through several project management tools like Rally, JIRA/confluence, Visual Studio and RTC.
• With many years of facilitating sprint planning meetings, daily stand up meetings, sprint reviews, backlog grooming and retrospective meetings. Helping product owners organize the product backlog, get the backlog ready for the next team and send memos to the teams before the sprint begins.
• Acting as a servant leader while leading multiple scrum teams at the same time. Removing impediments/roadblocks that could hinder progress. Great with transitioning teams from waterfall to Agile methodologies with coaching, teaching and mentoring teams on the core scrum values and agile methods.
• Expert at Data Warehouse. Experienced in SAFe and expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum rules, facilitating transparency towards optimized creativity and improving the efficiency of the development Agile/scrum teams.
• Strong skills in the knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, coaching, release management, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Strong ability to ensure Agile/Scrum principles and concepts are adhered to, be the voice of reason and authority, making the tough calls.
• Strong mindset to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust.
• Experience in RPA ( Robotic Process Automation) to improve processes.
• Experience supporting e-commerce related technical projects.
• Ability to communicate relevant details based on the audience and desired outcome, from senior leaders to individual team members responsible for execution.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment, deal with ambiguity, and remain focused on execution.
• Capable of balancing between quality and speed of delivery/fast iteration- moving the experience forward in parallel with remaining a stable and growing component of the overall Digital channel
• Commitment to delivering on my word and TEMPeffectively managing stakeholder expectations if issues arise
• Demonstrated experience building strong partnerships across teams (e.g. Product, UX, Design, and Development)
• Tireless commitment towards continuous improvement
• Endless commitment towards software development
• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach for example pre/post Mortems, numerous burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.
• Exceptional ability to remove impediments/roadblocks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with good negotiation tactics.
• Proactive and independent with the ability to take initiative.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: Scrum, Kanban
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
• Experienced in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: various burndown technologies, many Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Proficient knowledge of agile theory, methodology, techniques, rules, and practices, estimating/sizing, planning, reporting, conflict resolution and facilitation
• Knowledge of current and emerging competitor and market trends
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Excellent vendor management skills
• Strong experience in demand management
• Strong solid budget and financial analysis skills
• Ability to establish goals and objectives that support delivery execution for a single team
• Ability to contribute to the direction of the function and provide advice to the team and delivery leadership
• Ability to lead, plan, execute and evaluate project activities to ensure completion of initiatives
• Skill in mentoring, and performance management
• Skill in using analytical software tools, data analysis methods and reporting techniques
• Ability to lead, plan, execute and evaluate project activities to ensure completion of initiatives
• Ability to communicate TEMPeffectively in both oral and written form
• Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships on the team
• Ability to successfully drive execution of a team
• Ability to exercise sound judgement in making decisions
• Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - FL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies simultaneously between two teams and assist, coordinate, inspect and adapt (INA) and program increment planning (PIP).
• Coached the system team scrum master on wat the team should be focusing on and halped facilitate the system demo.
• Communicated progress to senior management through Burndown Charts. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored the team through the project management processes.
• Actively involved in the removal of impediments/roadblocks.
• Acted as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on the timely delivery of software.
• Built a high-performing team by focusing on ever-improving team dynamics and performance.
• Supported PO/PM in the effort to manage the backlog while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
• Facilitated technical coordination between scrum teams by participating in the “scrum of scrums” and proactively coordinating between inter-related work teams. Drives program-level continuous improvement via retrospectives and Inspect and Adapt workshops.
• Guided and coached scrum, Kanban teams on how to use Agile principles and values to delight customers
• Helped my train identify defects that has been in the system for more TEMPthan two years, reprioritize and cleanup.
• Helped the train in transitioning from RTC to Jira and an agile central tool.
• Used Jira to to create a scrum project, to create user stories in the backlog, to create a sprint, hold sprint meeting, and start to sprint
• Organized multiple sessions of community practice where we share knowledge and come up with solutions to issues faced within our teams.
• Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings.
• Actively used SQL to execute queries against a database, to retrieve data from a database, to insert records in a database, to update records in a database, to create new databases, to create new tables in databases, and to delete records from databases.

Confidential - NY

Responsibilities:

• Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Conducted Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Determine the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Breakdown structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
• Worked with product owners to prioritize and validate User Stories.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle processes which includes Waterfall, Rational Unified Process methodology (RUP) and Agile-Scrum.
• Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stakeholders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on a daily basis.
• Communicated the progress to senior management through 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored the team through the project management processes.
• Actively used SQL to execute queries against a database, to retrieve data from a database, to insert records in a database, to update records in a database, to create new databases, to create new tables in databases, and to delete records from databases
• Experience working with modern technology such as web service, xml, iOS and Android Platform features.
• Helped the team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.

Confidential - GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings.
• Mentored less experienced team members to adapt to scrum/agile best practices to deliver quality products in a complex project environment.
• Protected team from internal and external distractions to halp focus on daily QA activities to be productive and growing.
• Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stakeholders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on a daily basis.
• Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.
• Helped the team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
• Worked with product owners to prioritize and validate User Stories.
• I facilitated strategy meetings to review program requirements to assure the conformance within organizational policies and current statement of work. Ultimately, I was responsible for briefing senior leadership on section, unit and project status and earned value management reporting.
• Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.
• Evaluated impact on change of scope, looking into contingency plans and buffers
• Kept and ensured balance in the triple constraints on cost, budget and scope/schedule.

Confidential - TX

Cyber Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided services as security controls assessors (SCAs) and performed as an integral part of the Assessments and Authorizations process to include A&A scanning, documentation, reporting and analysis requirements. Analyzed current threats to information security and systems. Analyzed security findings and data. Published reports and keeps metrics for client systems.
• Worked with ISSO and Security team to Access Security Controls selected, in Updating SAP, ROE where Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing procedures are included in the assessment, conduct assessment meeting kickoff and Security Control meeting with ISSO and System Owner. Assessment finding results are reflected on the (RTM) or Test case and all weaknesses to be reported in our SAR report. Knowledge of SAN-20 and ISO 27001 Security controls and Mapping with NIST
• Risk Management Framework (RMF) Using NIST as a guide, assessments and Continuous Monitoring: Performed RMF assessment included initiating meetings with various System Owners and Information System Security Officers (ISSO), providing guidance of evidence needed for security controls, and documenting findings of assessments.
• Authorization to Operate (ATO),Security Assessment report(SAR) using NIST as a guide, FIPS 199 System Categorization using NIST Vol1/Vol2 based on confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA), policy and procedures, e-autantication, privacy threshold analysis (PTA), privacy impact analysis (PIA), contingency plan (CP) and interconnection security agreement as per NIST certification and accreditation (C&A) packages and system standard operating procedures