SUMMARY

• Certified scrum master Professional.
• 7 years of diverse experience in Information Technology as a ScrumMaster.
• Expert in driving the adoption and enforcement ofScrumrules, removing impediments and fostering self - management.
• Proven track record in delivering Innovative products/solutions.
• Solid understanding of Agile and SAFe Lean-Agile principles.
• Experience in creating an effective agile team environment, building strong relationships, coaching, negotiating, solving problems and issues, resolving conflicts.
• Facilitated the transition of applications/team from waterfall to Agile as a coach.
• Experienced in various phases of Software development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies.
• Experienced in using application Rally and Jira for my Defect tracking purposes.
• Demonstrated ability to work creatively and analytically to problem - solving environment.
• Excellent communication and organization skills with the ability to adapt to new environment.
• Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building, leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown
• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning
• Engage Product Owners, Portfolio Leads, and PMs to fulfill their individual roles
• Participate and/or Leadscrumadoption practices across the organization and related Community of Practices
• Knowledge of multiple Project Management Methodologies
• Understanding ofAgile(Scrum) methodology -Agilemindset
• Strong familiarity with project management software, such as MS Project
• Highly motivated with excellent verbal and written communication, presentation and problem-solving skills
• Self-starter with strong organizational and time management skills, self-directed and able to handle multiple priorities with demanding timeframes

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tools/ CI(Devops) Tools: Jenkins

Atlassian Tools: JIRA, Rally, Confluence

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, PL/SQL, Cassandra

Logging frameworks: Splunk, Log4j

Version Controls: Git-hub, Git-lab, SVN, CVS

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum & Scaled Agile framework), V-Model, Waterfall, Kanban.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr.Scrum Master

Confidential -Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Senior Team Members (STMs) to define technical scope of products and their features. Ensure milestones are reached and deadlines are met throughout project lifecycle .Build strong relationships with stakeholders, application users, and program owners .Document progress and communicate to upper management and stakeholders .Take responsibility for successful product delivery. Facilitated sprint planning, dailyscrums, backlog refinement, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on sprint backlog andprojecttimeline.
• Worked closely withproductowner in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educated and reinforcescrummethodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders when needed.
• Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints andprojects.
• Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.
• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.
• Generated periodic peer review reports forprojectmanagers
• Participated in design, code reviews and updated the document with unit testing results of application.
• Resolved issues with configuration and deployment in various environments.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential -Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked with theScrumTeam and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.
• Facilitated the build of requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
• Provided concise and transparent status report to the management team about the current status of numerousprojects.
• Determined the team capacity and velocity from historical data. Also, supported the creation of user stories and corresponding tasks.
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Engaged with otherScrumMastersto increase the effectiveness of the application ofScrumin the organization.
• Validating and verifying the Build-out of each section of the DBR; in doing this, I compare 2 different tables of Query that must match, if the tables do not match, the developers will need to change their codes and I will need to QA the tables again.
• Working on the Oracle database by running my queries for the program
• Managing the entire UAT setup & UAT testing effort with the business users.
• Creating of Base files from the SQL PLUS and loading of data's into the Database.
• Participating onScrumcalls with my team, giving updates on current challenges and inputs towards theprojectdeliverables.
• Creating the reports that the providers use to evaluate their performance in the PCMH Program and areas of opportunity Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and otherScrum-related Adobe ceremonies
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution and Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements
• Conducting Adopting the Overall PI plan & creating Sprint Plans and track all the activities including requirement consolidation, Story Grooming, Story Planning, Story Development, Story Testing, Story Review, Demo to all the Stakeholders, User Acceptance Testing & production deployment
• Training the team on Scrum Practices & Work with multiple Scrum and Support teams to remove the roadblocks
• Reviewed workflow, determined that work should be processed under the Kanbanframework.
• Setup and configuredKanbanboard to support workflow. Managed work under the Kanbanframework, aligned releases to existingScrumschedules.
• Work with multiple Scrum teams to identify the cross team dependencies and solve them with the help of Release Train Engineer
• Closely work with the QA team to align the team to the process expectation and make sure that the quality is maintained throughout Sprint delivery
• Maintain the JIRA dashboard and Confluence for the team
• Developed reporting dashboards capturing website and eCommerce KPIs - reported to stakeholders
• Maintain the long-term roadmap and set strategic direction for the product line
• Create, maintain and prioritize the product backlog based on the inputs from Feature/Epic Owners
• Maintain the long-term roadmap and set strategic direction for the product line
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India. Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time
• Ability to understand technical details to level needed to support the project team.
• Resolved conflicts, identify needs, and evaluate alternative business solutions. Proactively Collaborated with Product owner and development team to identify and prevent potential risks\issues.
• Define Epics, user stories and acceptance criteria to clearly communicate the business needs to the team through grooming sessions
• Assessed eCommerce user experience and performance leveraging quantitative data and qualitative research
• Clearly articulate the product vision across the board and provide prioritized sprint goals for the team for each sprint
• Define the UI requirements and work with UX team to create UI mock-ups
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22% Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 33 major initiatives Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Responsibilities:
• Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
• Agile transformation to Healthcare/Sales force Scrum team;Helping team to understand the need for clear and concise Product/Sprint Backlog items; problem-solving techniques and helpsthe team become better problem-solvers for themselves
• Facilitate impediment resolution in a timely, cost effective manner.
• Work closely with product owners and development teams to ensure quality, business value is achieved; Enable product owners to accurately define the backlog and finding techniques for effective PBI
• Facilitating team with scrum events, artifacts and continuously engaged in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity
• Facilitate ad hoc meetings with Business owners and Product managers;
• PI Planning readiness by fostering the preparation of Goals and Backlogs, by conducting pre PI Planning meeting
• Attend PI Planning and work on Team Risk impediments and dependency for current PI
• Working with DevOps team, deployment activities and production environment challenges; Metrics - health check on team performance
• Facilitate interaction and appropriate communication between Scrum teams, architecture, and UI/UX
• Collaborate with other contractor teammates and customers on a daily basis
• Ensure project objectives/requirements are clear and agreed to by all stakeholders
• Develops project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Track the status of deliverables and any decisions made regarding Project Change Requests and outstanding issues.
• Manage sprint backlog items and tasks Manage all Scrum boards (physical or virtual) Leads the teams efforts towards continuous improvement
• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
• Coaching and mentoring other ScrumMasters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
• Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes
• Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines