SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience as a Scrum Master in Software Development Environment and working on several software projects using various methodologies.
• Built high performance teams with agile mindset and also making workplace more fun.
• Publicized the team's progress and success to make sure they are highly visible to product owner/stake holders.
• Adept at gathering data and adept in conflict management and conflict resolution.
• Ability to conduct Scrum of Scrums in coordination with other Scrum Masters.
• Experience in Change and Release Management and Risk management.
• Leverage risk and issue management, leadership courage and proactive/timely communications to safeguard project resources and direct corrective measures to ensure project success.
• Personally responsible for every activity throughout the program delivery and self - motivated with high integrity.
• Experience in gathering requirements, building user stories off business needs.
• Experience in driving the projects with the Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Architects, Business Analysts, Development and Test teams.
• Exceptional presentation skills on status reporting, highlighting risks, issues or challenges potentially anticipated ahead of their occurrence to any level leadership teams and other important business stakeholders.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint).
• Proficient in using agile management tools Team foundation server (TFS), JIRA, Green hopper, Rally.
• Being a trusted advisor to the practice, PMO and account teams, providing a thought leadership - excellent coaching techniques to teams on Agile and process oriented approaches.
• Proven experience in executing the most complex projects in Waterfall and Agile approaches and also helped organizations in transitioning from traditional Waterfall to Agile methodologies smoothly.
• Project discovery and planning: Guide work from client needs and idea to goals and delivery. Build and delegate work plans, communicating progress to account executives.
• Set clear expectations and goals for project teams. Track progress against timeline, milestones and budget, revise as needed as a project manager.
• In-depth understanding and experience across technologies and industries globally.
• Rich experience in driving multiple projects (work streams) working with global teams in multi-vendor environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domain: Banking, Finance, Media, Natural resource management

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall

Testing Tools: Selenium, NUnit, Manual Testing

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, TFS, SharePoint, Rally, HP Quality Center.

Document Creation/Management: MS Office - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, MS Project

Database: PL/SQL, SQL

Language: Java, C, C++, SQL, XML, HTML, CSS, JAVA SCRIPT

Operating System: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/WIN7/Win8/Win 10, MAC

Education: Bachelors in Computer Science, Osmania university.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Virginia beach, VA

BA, Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies, grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and daily stand-ups.
• Facilitated sprint planning as Scrum master for multiple Scrum teams.
• Responsible for defining scope, creating work break down structure (WBS).
• Conducting Scrum of Scrums to ensure iterations across the platforms are planned smoothly, sharing the learning and building the improvement plans.
• Worked with Product Owner On Artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burn down and Release Burn down.
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%.
• Publicized the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner/stakeholders.
• Managed the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional.
• Handled sprint blockers by managing resources accordingly.
• Creatively and proactively communicate all the risks and issues to the management.
• Agile coaching, mentoring and training the teams on core Agile principles of collaboration, team accountability, visibility, creating/updating Epics, Stories, Bugs and walking through burn down charts.
• Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.
• Reporting on Work in Progress (WIP) to avoid any blockages during development.
• Helping technical teams on prioritizing ‘high’ bugs and resolution quickly.
• Release planning and execution with configuration and production support teams.
• Managing release patch activities, critical production outages that require high alert response, monitoring and special release cycles.
• Empower teams to self-organize, maintain team standards, tools and best practices.
• Producing status reports on multiple Iterations for senior management’s reviews.
• Experience in resource management through allocations and iterations.
• Maintaining effective communication between dependent teams.

Environment: Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, Pencil, Microsoft .Net, SQL Server, Rackspace.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

BA, Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Understanding existing business and get familiar with business system
• List out existing applications, services, databases and servers by enquiring users and technology departments
• Communicate with business users, gather and document requirements, analyze, review requirements with stockholders and update accordingly
• Discuss, define process and tools best suits for the project, create detailed project plans and schedule tasks
• Communicate with vendors on how and what to do issues
• Identify cost effective tasks and involve in requirements negotiation.
• Identify unique modules and tasks assign to developers in the team based on their skill sets
• Estimated time required for each module, figuring out problem and their solutions while merging all modules
• Conduct task status, functionality review, scrum meetings and adjust estimated time per completing a task.
• Created infrastructure document, tracking issues, delivering maximum viable product
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Environment: TFS, JIRA, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, Pencil, Microsoft .Net, SQL Server, Rackspace.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

BA, Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Highly adaptive in driving the team to deliver program, but always with business goal in sight.
• Acted as a Collaborative Team Player - being able to motivate the team and effectively have them work together.
• Organized and focused on execution.
• Lead sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos for multiple teams.
• Worked with product owners to drive backlog clarity.
• Facilitated effective agile sprint ceremonies, including leading sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives and daily stand ups.
• Worked with project management to keep release commitments on track.
• Worked across teams to deliver a high quality product.
• Worked with a small group to facilitate the departments move to Agile.
• Ensured teams are practicing in core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through user story selection, point estimation and task definition.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Communicated and managed key issues and risks.
• Discussed problems related to Agile projects with the Agile core team for devising training and interventions to help with problems.
• Coached other personnel on traditional project management and Agile practices.
• Presented training to general staff on Agile frameworks.
• Acted as Project Manager to assist the developers convert requirements into User Stories.
• Used JIRA for all Agile Scrum Change managements to track product defects and tasks for teams.
• Served as Scrum Master overseeing 4 successful consecutive release cycles, increasing content by 20%, decreasing bugs 25% and assuming 100% functionality with each cycle.

Confidential

Team Lead/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Allocating daily jobs and workloads.
• Training new team members.
• Acting as a resource for other staff members.
• Managing team performance and progress.
• Enforcing all company approved policies and procedures.
• Constantly looking for ways to improve processes.
• Managing and monitoring staff attendance.
• Giving prompt and accurate information on individual staff member performance.
• Attending and participating in team meetings.
• Ensuring a clean, safe and friendly working environment.
• Reporting to senior managers.

Environment: Siebel, Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, Oracle database.