SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with 8 years of experience in agile software development methodology. Proven ability at motivating and enforcing theAgile principles and removing impediments. Result driven servant leader with skills in delivering projects by efficiently collaborating, coaching and counselling multiple Scrum Teams.
• Strong knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Life cycle.
• Experience in different development methodologies like waterfall model, Agile, SCRUM, SAFe and Waterfall - SCRUM hybrid.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Refinement.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to negotiate scope boundaries, approaches to mitigate risk, priorities of specification elements, and adjustments as indicated to alleviate conflicting requirements.
• Worked closely with product owners in Backlog grooming and managing the product backlog. Coordinating & collaborating with other scrum teams to help identify and track user story dependencies
• Helped the team and product owner to prioritize the PBI’s using prioritization techniques like 100 Dollar test, MOSCOW, Business Value based etc.
• Managed multiple off-shore and on-shore teams. Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning helped the team commit to a sprint goal with and break all stories into tasks. Used Estimation techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing and relative mass evaluation.
• Helped the team in Sprint Review to review the Potentially shippable product increment (PSPI) to the business users, higher management and all the other stakeholders.
• Facilitated Agile Retrospective using techniques like Silent Writing, Happiness histogram, Sad Mad Glad, Speed dating etc and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.
• Protected the team over-commitment and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs. Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.
• Worked on decomposing EPICs into smaller user stories for effective utilization by Considering and identifying SMART tasks with the help of the team.
• Removed team impediments on a daily-basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Working knowledge of other Agile concepts such as continuous development and deployment, Test Driven development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) etc.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Also, Created and maintained Sprint Burn-down Chart and Product Burn-Down Chart to keep the track of the teams and also created Product Burn-up Chart to show the progress of the team to higher management using JIRA.
• Coached and mentored team members on Scrum, SAFe process.
• Worked on multiple sprints at a time in Scaled Agile Framework model (SAFe).
• Experience working as a Scrum Master for 2 Agile Scrum Teams using the Enterprise Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) model.
• Worked in SAFe environment and was involved in Scrum of Scrums in enhancing the effectiveness of the application.
• Expertise in using the Atlassian Products- Especially Jira and Confluence, Rally, MS Project, MS office suite.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile-Scrum, SAFe.

Requirement Management Tools: JIRA, Rally, TFS, MS Project

Languages: SQL, C, C#

Operating Systems: Windows XP, 7, 8, 10, Mac OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Mechanicsburg

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Analysts, Product Owner, Development team and other stakeholders to define the scope and set the expectations.
• Coached multiple teams on SAFe program activities, events, various roles and responsibilities.
• Reported to head of IT, Release Train Engineer and helped setup the SAFe framework.
• Participated in the SAFe PI Planning and managed dependencies with other teams.
• Attended and actively participated in Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Facilitated and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and backlog refinement meeting.
• Educated and reinforced both offshore and onshore teams in Agile and Scrummethodology. Facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.
• Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers and QA occurred early and often, and removed barriers and blockers for the team
• Helped the product owner in writing user-stories that meet the INVEST criteria and in prioritizing the product backlog using MOSCOW technique.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.Estimated the stories using the Planning poker technique.
• Helped the team understand SMART tasks and helped them in task breakdown for user-stories in sprints.
• Facilitated and time-boxed the daily stand up meeting with both off-shore and on-shore resources.
• Conducted Physical and Virtual Retrospective meetings using techniques like silent writing, happiness histogram etc. every sprint to improve the upcoming sprints and also team’s productivity.
• Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.
• Providing all the required support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible by example- Escalate and resolve impediments to the team’s progress.
• Report sprints progress, release notes, metrics like Burndown, Burnup, and velocity to the upper management and the team and maintain dashboards.
• Tracked stories using JIRA software and maintained all the project related documents and decisions in Confluence.

Environment: Scrum, JIRA, MS Visio, MS(Powerpoint, Excel, Word etc., ), .Net, SQL, Microsoft Azure, MVC, SSRS, HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS.

Confidential - Columbus, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and backlog refinement meeting.
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop the Product Backlog.
• Helped the Product owner in decomposing the EPICS into user stories and maintain the product Backlog.
• Helped the team and product owner in prioritizing the PBI using prioritization techniques like 100-dollar test and MOSCOW.
• Facilitated the Planning sessions and helped the team not to over commit. Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Monitored SAFe-based Agile team and worked closely with Release Train Engineer through Program Increments.
• Involved in Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Facilitated and time-boxed the daily stand up meeting with both off-shore and on-shore resources. Completed plans for long term goals using Microsoft Project.
• Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.
• Conducted interviews to identify different process for each user while simultaneously identifying their pain points.
• Identified potential project risks and helped developed a mitigation plan to resolve potential issues.
• Managed burndown charts and motivated team members working toward goals.

Environment: Scrum, Confluence, Java, Spring MVC, REST, JSON, XML, JavaScript, AngularJS, Oracle, OAM.

Confidential - Raleigh, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed project scope to ensure delivery.Planned and monitored project budget/spending with the project management organization (PMO).
• Facilitated and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, daily scrum, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.
• Facilitated Agile Retrospective using techniques like Silent Writing, Happiness histogram, Sad Mad Glad, Speed dating etc., This helped the team perform better.
• Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget by enforcing the Scrum methodology at the project level.
• Helped the project manager and team in creating the user stories by conducting the user-story workshop sessions.
• Facilitated prioritization techniques like MOSCOW analysis and 100 Dollar Test to help the team prioritize PBI.
• Facilitated the planning meeting and helped the team in estimating the user stories using the t-shirt sizing technique.
• Removed any external and internal impediments faced by the team and made sure that team is productive in completing the tasks.
• Addressed problems by creating a Risk register through risk management and abbreviated technical and managerial risks.
• Mitigated risks by using various mitigation strategies and understood the probability of risk and jotted down in the register and maintained them by jotting down the Risk exposure with the probability and loss.

Environment: Waterfall-Scrum Hybrid, TFS, MS Office, .Net, SQL, MVC, MVVM, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, SSRS.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, daily scrum, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.
• Acted as a Servant leader to the team and shielded the Scrum team from both external and internal impediments.
• Coached both development team and product owner on Scrum practices.
• Helped the product owner along with the Scrum team to prioritize the product backlog.
• Tracked metrics like Sprint burndown chart, Epic and release burndown chart, Velocity and Control chart.
• Acted as a coach to the team to guide the team to ever higher levels of cohesiveness, self-organization and performance.
• Empowered and assured the team is productive and functional.
• Developed and motivated team members.
• Removed barriers or impediments.
• Sheltered team from over-commitment, helped PO manage backlog, prioritized resolution of defects.

Environment: Waterfall-Scrum, JIRA, Java/J2EE, SOAP, JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS, MySQL.

Confidential

.Net Developer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked with WebForms using ASP.NET and C#.NET
• Involved in the database design and data collection using SQL Server 2005
• Used C#.NET Technology for server side programming
• Used Data list, Repeater, Data grid, Place Holder controls to show the data in the UI
• Involved in Developing Components for Business Layer and Data Layer
• Designed and developed WebForms using ASP.NET, for the user interface
• Using the Code behind Class technique and retrieving data using ADO.NET with ASP .NET
• Involved in writing Complex queries, stored procedures in T-SQL
• Utilized ADO.NET technology extensively for data retrieving, querying, storage and manipulation
• Developed reusable and optimized .NET components using C#
• Validated user input on WebForms using validation controls like Compare Validator, Range Validator, Regular Expression Validator and Custom Validator. Also Performed Client side validations for the same.
• Writing JavaScript to improve client experience
• Performance tuning of stored procedures

Environment: C#, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, VB.Net, UML, SQL Server 2005, SSIS, SSRS, Visual Studio 2005.