SUMMARY

• 10+ years of experience as Scrum Master/Agile Coach with strong record of achievement in managing highly visible enterprise technology projects and programs
• Practical experience of successful Scrum based development team management as an Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master
• Experience with managing transitions of agile delivery teams from Waterfall to SCRUM or Kanban
• Hands on experience in various project management methodologies like Waterfall and Agile Project Management
• Highly experienced in using tools like Jira, Git, GitHub, Miro, MS Teams, WebEx, Zoom, Skype, VS Code and MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Also have good knowledge with Azure DevOps Concept
• Good experience of IT project management in Healthcare, Financial and Education industries
• Effective negotiations and vendor management skills
• Experience of projects related with Managed Long Term Care Plan, Care Transition Plan and Integration
• Hands on experience of writing effective and successful proposals and statements of work
• Management experience of the full project life cycle including requirements gathering, creation of project plans and schedules, obtaining and managing resources, managing budget, and facilitating project execution, deployment and closure
• Accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering large-scale software andWeb development projectson time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multipleScrum teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean Six Sigma and SDLC

Scrum Master: Confluence, SharePoint, MS Visio and MS Projects

Databases: MS Access

Tools: and Software: Jira, Git, GitHub, Miro, MS Teams, WebEx, Zoom, Skype, and MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

Others: Azure DevOps, Project Management, Product Roadmaps, Team Leadership, Active Listener, Conflict Resolution, Time Management and Product requirement gathering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CO

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint Retrospective using JIRA
• Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.
• Coached the team for continuous improvement at a sustainable pace for the organization.
• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to communicate transparently.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to define, plan, and maintain the product backlog.
• Actively seeks and participates in a variety of learning opportunities such as, Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training and independent study to further develop self and community.

Confidential, CO

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Backlog refinement, sprint planning, Daily stand up, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings using Agile Methodology
• Tracked the team’s progress (burn down, velocity, and release forecast) and present reports for the upper management
• Participated in scrum of scrum to share team dependencies items and come up with suggestions to improve team’s quality work
• Proactivelyhelpedtheteamidentifyandresolveimpedimentsandshieldsteamfrom interruptions on daily basis duringtheSprint
• Provided guidance to the teams in constantly improving the quality of their deliveries and definition of Done (DOD)
• Ensured that all user stories have an Acceptance criteria, and a good description of business requirement in the user story
• Identified, lead and escalated delivery issues and risk to management as needed

Confidential, CO

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint Retrospective using JIRA.
• Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.
• Coached the team for continuous improvement at a sustainable pace for the organization.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align product vision.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to define, plan, and maintain the product backlog.
• Actively seeks and participates in a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training and self-study.
• Led software development teams on multiple ecommerce projects
• Protected team from internal and external distractions
• Used Kanban and XP in combination with Scrum
• Helped facilitate Jira migration and managed projects in Jira
• Imported projects from Rally to Jira
• Managed two teams where we did ecommerce and digital work for mobile apps.
• There were 5-6 different websites we were working on and created the mobile apps for each of these websites
• Monitored the teams’ daily progress using the burndown/burnup metrics, ensuring that it reflects the current state accurately
• Worked with large, small, remote and collocated agile teams
• Coach the team to improve collaboration and self-organization especially with some team members being offshore

Confidential, VA

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning-Pro-actively manage all the details throughout the project ensuring all action-items are accomplished timely and accurately
• Proactively identify areas for improvement within process; suggest/implement solutions
• Responsible for scheduling, tracking, change management, evaluating, and controlling projects
• Protected team from internal and external distractions
• Used Kanban and XP in conjunction with Scrum
• Imported projects from Rally to Jira
• Managed two teams where we did ecommerce and digital work for mobile apps
• Schedule and scope management for multiple projects running using Agile / Scrum methodologies
• Providing status reports, burn down charts, velocity and business value charts to business and product owners