Scrum Master Resume FL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with professional experience working in various comprehensive projects in Finance and Business domain.
Experienced in gathering requirements by using various methods of requirements elicitation techniques.
Excellent knowledge of industry standard methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle, Agile methodologies and Agile Scrum, Safe and Waterfall.
Well versed in facilitating Sprint ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming) for each Sprint in Agile Scrum Methodologies as a Scrum Master.
Excellent presentation and communication skills. High skilled in mediating between business and technical teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, FL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Managed a team responsible for identifying root cause and gaps for underwriting operating inefficiencies. Selected to lead Agile methodology adoption for underwriting department.
Successfully guided development team through transition from Waterfall to Agile development.
Spearheaded change to maximize Agile practice benefits, removed impediments and trained team to be self - organized.
Captured and defined the vision and scope of the project in the functional Requirement Document
Performed Gap Analysis of the process to identify and validate requirements.
Identify business needs of the stakeholders to help determine solutions to business problems and conducted JAD sessions.
Assisted Product Owner on working with User stories to create Product Backlog.
Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies like Daily Scrum stand up meeting, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Product Backlog grooming meeting.
Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning sessions into sprint planning sessions.
Worked closely with Change Management Team to enter Change Requests in JIRA. Implemented issue tracking in JIRA to effectively track impediments against user stories.
Encouraged and implemented process improvements.
Researched and proposed changes to processes and tools to drive innovation in the quality decipline.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Participated in the Agile/Scrum Community of Practice to introduce and continually improve agile processes within the organization.
Maintaining all documents as related to the current project, requesting and administering PO's as necessary and any other duties as assigned.
Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization.
Facilitated agile ceremonies. Empowered the team to be more independent.
As a servant leader helped remove the impediments both internal and external.
Worked with management to integrate the team’s effort with other teams.

Confidential

JR Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed business case for Wells Business Credit card team to support customers with rewards cash back.
Provided accurate information to customers, as it pertained to rules, regulations, rates and acceptance of all credit products.
Increased Small Business Credit sales by $550,000 in one quarter.
Developed preliminary new hire training guidelines, program goals and initiative.
Pioneered specified sales targeting program by supporting program development, documenting program concerns and formalizing Small Business invitational and welcome emails.
Obtained API requirements and priorities for cross functional Agile development teams.

Confidential - New Jersey

Business Analyst.

Responsibilities:

Implemented third party solutions which enabled a near real time order - based surveillance that highlighted potential intentions of market abuse activity..
Evaluated risk related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company on an average of $30,000 a month.
Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow, data flow.
Developed business architecture using requirements such as scope, processes, alternatives, and risks.
Communicated client’s business requirements by constructing easy to understand data and process models.