SUMMARY

• Responsible, Collaborative, Committed and knowledgeable CertifiedScrum Master professional with 5years of experience in coaching and facilitating Scrum teams and above 10 years of experience in Information Technology analysis
• Always on schedule and under budget, able to prioritize and handle multiple tasks while effectively achieving and exceeding both corporate and project goals. A builder of high performance teams who thrives in environments requiring a high - level strategist and a big-picture thinker.
• Created program level dashboards and reports from VSTS/TFS/JIRA/Confluence for presentation to Senior and Executive Management
• Successfully Transitioning teams from waterfall to agile:
• Motivating the team to adapt Agile Values
• Evaluating the importance of various scrum ceremonies to the scrum team
• Imbibing the Scrum principles like Transparency, Inspection and Adaption
• Successfully transitioning the team to self-sufficient scrum team from totally waterfall background
• Practicing Scrum as an Empirical process:
• Successfully increased the efficiency of testers by slicing the stories into smaller ones
• Reduced the number of defects per sprint by adapting customized Test-Driven Development
• Increased the team’s productivity by facilitating Three amigos meetings
• Practiced several Inspect and Adapt techniques to improve the sprint velocity
• Creating core teams (Scrum team) and peripheral layer (SMEs and architects) teams for effective communication
• Expert in motivating agile transitioning teams to adapt agile methodologies and self-organizational traits
• Proficient in coaching, mentoring and training onshore and offshore teams on Agile best practices.
• Expert in doing Root Cause Analysis for identifying and resolving team’s performance hurdles and suggested fool-proof techniques for successful completion of agile sprints; effective utilization of the sprint retrospective meetings
• Expertise in conducting Story mapping & Sprint planning practices and illustration of the vision of the project
• Involved in Test Driven Development, Automated testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous delivery for over 6 years.
• Empowering the team to knock blockers out themselves and build trust to communicate clearly and objectively
• Highly experienced in tracking and communicating sprint release progress through burn-down charts
• Effectively handling sign off process with stake holders at different levels and executing good conflict resolution approaches.
• Dedicated & Self-motivated individual with proven leadership capabilities and time management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS word
• PowerPoint
• excel
• Visio
• Agile
• SCRUM
• Kanban
• Scrumban
• Lean-Agile ATDD
• TDD
• SAFe
• SDLC
• Waterfall
• Continuous Integration/Continues Delivery
• Automatic Testing
• Pair programing
• DevOps
• Project Planning
• Project Scheduling
• Project Budgeting
• VSTS
• TFS
• GitHub
• JIRA
• Version One
• Kanban board
• Splunk
• Sonar
• Jenkins
• .Net
• C#
• ASP. Net
• Web Service
• Java/J2EE
• JavaScript
• Angular JS 1.8/2.0
• Node JS
• HTML
• CSS
• XML
• SAP SD Pricing
• SAP OTC
• AWS
• Confidential Azure
• Hadoop
• MySQL
• PL/SQL
• Business Intelligence(BI)
• Business Warehouse(BW)
• Business Objects(BO)
• FileNet P8
• Duck Creek
• Jenkins
• Confluence
• Stories Onboard

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Sr. Scrum Master/ IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Being a servant leader coached the team to improve continuously using agile principles.
• Organized Product backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospective
• ProvidedAgilecoaching to management and developers onAgilemethodology.
• Taught courses and coached teams on the use of VSTS and it capabilities. Install the VSTS server and configured it for use by different teams.
• Acted ascoachto several teams on VSTS usage and benefits.
• Protect scrum team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog and project time lines.
• Acted as aScrumMasterforThree Agile teams within a Release Train
• Worked with the RTE to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs
• Attended team level SAFe events including with the Innovation Planning Sprints, Inspect & Adapt, and Quantitative analysis of Metrics.
• Developed team & portfoliolevel metrics for leadership and stakeholders for better transparency and visibility.
• Delivering Minimum Viable Product to the Business owners from where the consumption got productionable
• Negotiating with Product Owner in backlog management for scope creeps and continuous delivery
• Ensure (help) the Product Owner refines and prioritizes the backlog and ensure the product owner prepares a sprint goal
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours and managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Facilitated and participated in almost every Scope lockmeeting to finalize the Requirements and deliverables of each sprint.
• Assisted in defect tracking and coordinated with developers to quickly resolve the defects associated with them.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with cross-functional teams in an Agile-Scrum environment which transitioned from waterfall methodology
• Helped team to overcome impediments as a top priority and ensure relevant team members meet to overcome impedimentsbeforedoing regular work
• Audited sprint metrics and convey all the data to Product Management teams
• Rendered hands-on supervision and mentorship to a team which was entirely new to Agile Scrum methodology
• Scheduled releases and kept track of development status, inspected and adapted with the team to constantly improve performance and responsiveness.
• Introduced Hand-shake meeting to facilitate effective transition of work between on-shore and off-shore team members
• Facilitated daily standup meetings and multiple meetings for the development teams
• Facilitated product backlog refinement meetings for the product owner to refine and prioritize the stories
• Ensured Scrum Framework is followed including the required meetings and artifacts, worked closely with the Product Owner to ensure product backlog and release plans are clear
• Worked on documenting the project’s statement of work document and maintained product backlogs, current priorities with business and IT leads.
• Involved in Defect tracking & management & generating error reports with the testing team.

Confidential, Fresno, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conductedstory mapping and story boarding session to elicit high level features and goals from the Product owners
• Creating good user stories and tasks using INVEST and SMART Principles
• Developing user stories and grooming them with product owners throughout the agile lifecycle
• Serve as a liaison between product owner and scrum team for communicating well developed user stories
• Grooming well developed user stories with user acceptance criteria and mockups if required for developing a good product backlog
• Creating data flow diagrams and business process flow diagrams for better understanding of the business needs by the scrum team
• Negotiating effectively with Product owner on the release priorities and exceptional scope creep.
• Significant contribution to stories development in product backlog, sprint backlog and release backlog meetings.
• Active participant in Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective, Sprint review and Product review meetings.
• Utilizing Sprint retrospective Meetings to understand the impediments and improve the productivity of the team.
• Involving users actively in User Acceptance Tests (UAT) between development team and the end users from the business team
• Conducting smoke test, black box test, alpha test and beta test along with Quality Assurance teams.
• Coordinate development activities by managing the technical requirements in a requirements traceability matrix.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

DotNet Developer/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective, Sprint review and Product review meetings.
• Worked closely with developers in setting timeline and priorities for each project/release.
• Developed various web forms using ASP
• Added and modified user profiles, maintaining user feedbacks using encrypt and decrypt methods.
• Developed several COM components using VB.NET
• Used HTML, DHTML for generating interactive screens
• Good experience in developing components.
• Used COM to manage transactions and object pooling to improve the performance.
• Used ADO to interact with the database by using appropriate cursors and lock types.
• Involved in unit testing, integration testing and system testing

Confidential, Houston, TX

DotNet Developer

Responsibilities:

• Utilized SQL Queries in extracting data from the database system for analysis purpose.
• Worked closely with developers in setting timeline and priorities for each project/release.
• Developed various web forms using ASP
• Added and modified user profiles, maintaining user feedbacks using encrypt and decrypt methods.
• Developed several COM components using VB.NET
• Used HTML, DHTML for generating interactive screens

Confidential, Lubbock, TX

Graduate research assistant

Responsibilities:

• Built and modularized functions and used data mining techniques for real data analysis
• Helped develop functions andRlanguagepackages that facilitate the calculation of best parallel test
• Developed functions that summarize results using data tables in the web application
• Assisted researchers in designing the web application