SUMMARY:

Experienced Agile Consultant with over 10 years of experience in Information Technology. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Team - oriented individual with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams . Demonstrative Servant leader with background communicating effectively with and driving alignment, collaboration, transparency, and accountability among leading high-performance teams.

SKILLS:

Problem Solving

Product Development

Automated Testing

Cadence

Coaching

Linux

Mentoring

Network Security

Retail, Scheduling

SCRUM

Software Development Life Cycle

Team Building

Agile, Agile Methodologies

Continuous Integration/Delivery

CI/CD, Continuous Integration

Unspecified

Software Integration

Unspecified

Problem-Solving

Mitigation

Cycle Time

Kanban

Budgets

Workflow

Offshore

Docker

Microservices

Deployment

Metrics

Continuous Improvement

Estimation, Software Development

JIRA, Devops

Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery

Amazon Web Services

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Coach/Transformation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coaches the team for Team Agility with various agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban and Lean
• Acts as an embedded team coach, and train Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development team to be effective and efficient Agile team members.
• Guides and assists the testing team with testing strategies, BDD and ATDD, provide guidelines for automation testing, and agile testing cycles.
• Inspects, monitor sand reports bi - weekly coaching progress to various stakeholders.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to the teams for SAFe practices, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scrum-Ban, and Paired Programming, project management, team building, teamwork, team cadence and progress.
• Participate in team cadences and scrum ceremonies, advice the Scrum Master for team capacity and velocity, and suggest facilitation technique.
• Train the Product Owner to gauge stories, story length, dependencies, and define functional and business acceptance criteria.
• Focus the coaching on individual team member progress, highlights, lowlights, impediments, risk-impact-mitigation analysis, team target achievements, and suggest improvement strategies.
• Present the overall team progress during the coaching and communications meetings and training guilds, highlighting work in progress, successes, impediments, and failures.
• Guide the team to analyze the stories that meet the Definition of ready, and successfully close stories after achieving the definition of done.
• Work with the assigned teams to track team transition progress, maintain team transition, and update project progress charts, and perform risk and SWOT analysis.
• Act as the team Scrum Master for the newly created teams, assign a team member to be the team Scrum Master, and train the Scrum Master in facilitation, estimation, and successfully running Scrum ceremonies.
• Provide feedbacks during the Team retrospective meetings, analyze individual and team commitments, and guide the teams to improve their upcoming Scrums
• Focus on individual stakeholder coordination in tracking the progress, receive stakeholder/management feedback to in achieving the goals, and coach the team on how to achieve goals in striving the team's success.

Confidential

SR. SCRUM MASTER/KANBAN LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated daily scrum stand - ups, Iteration planning meetings, iteration reviews, iteration retrospectives consistently achieving the intended outcomes of these ceremonies.
• Helped multiple teams self-organize and adopt best engineering practices such pair programming, constant refactoring, automated testing, and continuous integration reducing defect count.
• Optimized workflow with WIP Limits, and Swarming as needed increasing teaming by 15% and reducing Lead Time by 20% overall
• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both onsite and remote and offshore
• Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
• Coordinated leadership workshops to educate other teams on Scrum Framework to optimize productivity
• Collaborated with Product Owner to maintain a healthy, refined, and prioritized backlog to maximize value delivery to happy customers.
• Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
• Assessed team metrics such as velocity, throughput cycle time, team morale and collaboratively worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches for continuous improvement.
• Worked collaboratively with Release Train Engineer and other scrum masters by participating in Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies between Agile teams and ensure team readiness for PI planning and system demos.
• Tracked team progress towards sprint goal and reported Agile Teams' velocity and managed sprint capacity Coached Agile teams and Stakeholders on the use and practice of scrum and Agile values and principles which helped increased stakeholder engagement by 15%.
• Adept in Software Development Life Cycle with ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experienced leveraging tools like Jira, confluence, Microsoft Teams, slack, Azure Board to foster communication, collaboration and alignment among teams driving continuous delivery of value.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Guided teams towards attaining sprint goals by ensuring shared understanding of sprint goal, expectation and Definition of Done and quickly addressing impediments endangering sprint goal Generated quality improvement and 25% increase in efficiency by encouraging excellence and introducing new processes and workflows such as pair work, frequent refactoring, architectural spikes, and WIP limits.
• Improved and maintained high team morale through appropriate, timely and effective resolution of conflicts in teams. Resolve or escalated impediments as needed and coordinated dependencies between teams with other Scrum Masters.
• Scheduled and facilitated all Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives coached team members and clients on Agile process. Successfully led initiative to introduce Scrum to corporate IT department of over 50.
• Coached and mentored other team members in Scrum ceremonies which helped to improve engagement and cohesion by 30%.
• Assisted PO in User Story creation and educated PO on backlog prioritization and collaborated with product owners to maintain a healthy, value-optimized, refined, and prioritized Product Backlog.
• Customer satisfaction on Agile-led projects increased by 23% in the first six months, benchmarked against non-Agile projects

Confidential

DEVOPS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Significantly contributed to needs analysis, product development, testing, enterprise-wide deployment, and support.
• Administrated GitHub repositories and permissions
• Helped clients develop and implement DevOps roadmaps including requirements specifications in coordination with multidisciplinary internal teams
• Maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment through GitHub, Jenkins, Azure, and Octopus. Broke monolithic app into Microservices using Docker to streamline Developer workflow, increase scalability, and optimize speed.
• Demonstrated expertise in full life-cycle project management, from application conception to deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Halved system and process defects through consistent focus on security and adherence to best practices as such TDD, BDD and ATDD.
• Boosted efficiency of automated build and continuous software integration process by 40% by elevating build/release failure resolution through constant monitoring.
• Assisted PO in User Story creation and educated PO on backlog prioritization and collaborated with product owners to maintain a healthy, value-optimized, refined and prioritized Product Backlog.

Confidential

Linux System Administrator/Junior DeVops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented network security improvements to resolve vulnerabilities.
• Configured, tested, and managed software installations.
• Designed and deployed disaster recovery systems to ensure business continuity.
• Consulted users to determine areas in need of improvement.
• Configured and updated Linux servers using ansible
• Planned, tested and supported high - availability infrastructures.
• Improved job tasks and mentored junior team members on best practices and standards.
• Improved operations by working with team members and customers to find workable solutions.