SUMMARY:

• As a Scrum Master was responsible for facilitating the creation and prioritization of Product Backlog, establishing.
• Executed role of a Scrum Master accountable for guiding the planning, tracking and day to day activities of two web development teams during its project implementation and transition from Waterfall to Agile methodology.
• Ensures the team follows Scrum processes by coordinating Sprint Planning and Sprint Review, leading Daily Scrums and facilitating Sprint Retrospectives.
• Help the team with their daily impediments by coordinating what is a called a Parking lot, immediately after the Daily Scrum meeting.
• Assisted Product Owner in grooming Product Backlogs.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum Team and others collaborating with the Scrum Master network especially regarding items necessary for product release.
• Track and communicate team status and progress via burnup and burndown charts, as well as other information radiators, to the team, management, and Stakeholders ensuring it accurately reflects current state.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND TOOLS:

Skills: ATDD, BDD, AWS Cloud DevOps, Continuous Integration, SAFe, Kanban, XP, SDLC, IAM Console ( AWS Console)

IAAC: Infrastructure as a Cloud (AWS)

SDLC Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Pivotal Tracker, Rational, Rally

Microsoft Office Suite: (Power Point, Word, Outlook, Excel, Access)

Virtual Communication Tools: Skype, Google Hangout, Join Me, Zoom, Team Viewer.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, JACKSONVILLE, FL

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master was responsible for facilitating the creation and prioritization of Product Backlog, establishing.
• Executed role of a Scrum Master accountable for guiding the planning, tracking and day to day activities of two web development teams during its project implementation and transition from Waterfall to Agile methodology.
• Ensures the team follows Scrum processes by coordinating Sprint Planning and Sprint Review, leading Daily Scrums and facilitating Sprint Retrospectives.
• Help the team with their daily impediments by coordinating what is a called a Parking lot, immediately after the Daily Scrum meeting.
• Assisted Product Owner in grooming Product Backlogs.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum Team and others collaborating with the Scrum Master network especially regarding items necessary for product release.
• Track and communicate team status and progress via burnup and burndown charts, as well as other information radiators, to the team, management, and Stakeholders ensuring it accurately reflects current state.
• Champion Agile Software development best practices to improve code quality and delivery.
• Consistently striving for continuous improvement with the team, as well as Stakeholders - coordinating deliverables.
• Leading highly Self-organizing, Cross-functional and Collaborative team.

Confidentia

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies: daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review/demo, and retrospective meeting.
• Assisted with internal/external communications, shared information on the task board to help improve transparency.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team by targeting the issue internally within the team, escalating to the right company personnel or to other external teams as needed
• Established relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders to engage them in collaboration with our development team.
• Helped and supported the product owner with product backlog grooming to make sure it was always up to date and prioritized.
• Coached team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters personally and through use of scrum of scrums to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the company and to keep track of dependencies.
• Served as Scrum master for multiple teams simultaneously
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and developed team building events.
• Tracked and communicated team health and progress using metrics such as Velocity charts, Burndown charts, and Capacity.
• Made sure Task boards were being updated to ensure Transparency and effective communication.
• Support the implementation of Automated Testing and DevOps
• Successfully converted team from a Waterfall Methodology environment to an Agile Methodology and guide via the Scrum pillars, values and principles.
• Acted as a Servant Leader to my Scrum Team, by shielding them from outside distractions and helping them with known impediments/roadblocks. As a Servant Leader, I also ensure and enable my team to work in a safe and friendly environment.
• Facilitated a self-organizing team, cross functional team and a collaborative team.
• Collaborated with Product Owner via Pre-grooming, to prioritize, gain clarity and known dependencies on PBI.
• Led all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review (DEMO) and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Utilize JIRA to maintain product backlog, sprint backlog and create and track user stories, sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints, created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and the burnup and burndown charts.

Confidential, GLENDALE, MD

ORACLE DATABASE ADMIN

Responsibilities:

• Successfully worked as a Team member over a Complex Agile-Scrum Project for over 7 sprints.
• Successfully installed and configured Oracle 11.1.0.7, Oracle 10.2.0.5 databases on AIX plat forms.
• Monitored different databases and application servers using Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 10g Grid Control.
• Loading data from flat files to database using SQL*Loader, External Tables.
• Extensively used AWR, ADDM and explain plan for periodic performance tuning and Testing through all SDLC processes.
• Implementing Data pump, conventional export/import utility of Oracle 11g, 10g for re-organizing Databases/Schemas/Tables to improve the performance.
• Used import/export utilities for cloning/migration of small sized databases and Data pump import/export to move data between 9i and 10g/11g environments.
• Implemented proactive monitoring using Tuning Pack, Diagnostics Pack, and STATSPACK, SQL Trace & TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN.
• Database monitoring/maintenance, replication process and performance tuning are done using OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager).
• Implemented Flashback technology of the Oracle 11g, 10g along with Recycle bin for a faster recovery of the databases and database objects.
• Performed full & incremental backup (cumulative and differential) using RMAN and implemented recovery strategies.
• Refreshed/cloned databases using RMAN utility.
• Performed Database upgrade from Oracle 9i (9.2.0.7) to Oracle 10g (10.2.0.5) and to Oracle 11g (11.1.0.7) RAC database.
• Successful in applying RDBMS patches, security patches for improving the security and functionality of the databases.