SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with more than 9+ years of experience in consulting, managing and delivering projects to clients in Finance, Retail, Insurance and HealthCare Clients
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Coached, mentored scrum teams and product owner to prioritize backlog, elaborate and breakdown stories (grooming), develop acceptance criteria & conduct scrum ceremonies
• Led strategic Release Planning and tactical Iteration Planning sessions.
• Helped develop trusting work environment enabling open communication, identify risks and obstacles in time, excel at agile process, coached scrum teams become self - organized and high-performing to deliver higher business value, keep pace with business and be able to address changing business priorities and requirements effectively.
• Guided development team from project initiation to delivery of final product.
• Developed the roadmap for all teams to evolve toward predictive velocities.
• Experienced in Agile (Kanban & Scrum) including Sprint Planning, Backlog Management, and User stories, Epics, Story Points, Velocity Planning and Capacity Planning.
• Engaged with shared IT resources and third-party vendors to plan and manage external dependencies.
• Representing interests of the sponsor collaborated with senior / product managers to align IT with business priorities, managed risks, eliminated obstacles, optimized resource utilization and drove projects to closure.
• Worked as primary product specialist for the implementation team, manages the team’s sprint backlog, participates actively in all phases of the iteration (sprint), and a key stakeholder in product decisions and release planning. Product and technology focused and, as such, works closely with the Product Owner in leading the implementation team.
• Managing multiple Projects and their Delivery successfully within planned timelines and efforts, client interaction, Project & Program Management, Tracking of client deliverables.
• Experience of working across a portfolio of large-scale projects, ideally in a global environment
• In-depth experience of agile tooling and work management tools such as Jira, Confluence etc.
• Good exposure on using JIRA Reports (Burn down chart, Velocity Chart, Sprint Report, Control Chart etc.)
• Experience in managing End to End project implementation through all phases of SDLC.
• Brought in Agile best practices such as time boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews transparency, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training resulting in realized velocity improvement.
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information through useful reports and dashboards.
• Proficient in implementing successful Engineering practices like TDD, CI/CD, Pair Programming, and Test Automation etc.
• Working with Scrum Teams, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decisionmaking

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Documenting Management: SharePoint, JIRA, and MS Office

Requirement Management: JIRA, HP ALM

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum

Business Modeling: MS Visio, Rational Modeler

Other Tools: Miro, Mural, Pointing Poker, Jira, TFS, Teams,Slack

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, AZ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Release planning, Agile estimation (story points), Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review and Retrospective meetings to track progress, eliminate impediments and setting goals
• Working closely with the teams through agile events coaching on performing the activities, playing the roles and generating artifacts based on and Agile best practices
• Ensuring team adopt agile way of working and following the scrum process.
• Managing Multiple teams and helping other cross functional teams in process of creating the user stories and also checking the dependencies for our teams
• Using JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints, created Scrum boards, status reports and burn down charts, Velocity reports
• Using Confluence to maintain project documents such as project plans, project scope, architecture documents, test plans, status reports, sprint retrospectives, Biweekly sprint Review decks and demos
• Involving and facilitating Scrum of Scrum meetings twice weekly to tracks dependencies and blockers across domain teams and resolve them.
• Tracking team progress by creating sprint burndown charts and Release burndown charts
• Identifying and assessing the risk, mitigating the risk, handling exceptions & problems
• Eliminating dependencies of the team and enforced scrum and agile principles across the team, implemented processes so that team can be high performing
• Helping the teams in estimating story points and deciding the sprint backlog for every sprint
• Defining the resources required for completion of a project and allocated resources accordingly
• Ensuring that projects were correctly prioritized and resourced as well as met strategic demands
• Engaging with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the of Scrum framework in the organization

Confidential, FL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organizing and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, Sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, Showcase and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Working with multiple distributed teams in multiple time-zones and where cultural differences need to be considered
• Assisting Product Owner with prioritized backlog creation and management, sprint planning, allocations, execution of sprints.
• Introduced Agile maturity indicators (AMI) along with other Scrum masters, to monitor the maturity level of the Scrum team and educate the team on the areas where the guidance is essential
• Drive efficient team operations by promoting a common understanding of Scrum roles, rituals, artifacts, and processes, ensuring their adherence through a voice of reason and authority, and by facilitating all Scrum ceremonies.
• Working with the Product Owner to align team with the product vision and sprint goals and participate in product backlog preparation activities.
• Educating Scrum teams to use the empirical process to reach ever-higher levels of maturity and performance at a pace that is sustainable for the organization by being more self-organize and Cross functional.
• Ensuring team is highly motivated and delivering value with high morale by introducing various Techniques in defining the Story points, different practices in Retrospectives, Gherkin format for User stories etc.
• Involving in using metrics effectively to identify and implement opportunities for improvement in team processes, and to capture the effectiveness ofchanges.
• Instilling continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach teams to conduct continuous improvement events and guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver high-quality software in a timely manner
• Protecting the team and puts the needs of the team first, keeping each team member focused on their role by proactively flagging and removing impediments to the team's delivery on sprint commitments and overall performance, resolving conflicts both within the team and with stakeholders outside of the team.
• Optimizing the team to their highest potential and embodies the spirit of Agile and continuous improvement, by motivating the team towards self-organization, by surfacing data and learning that illuminate areas to improve, and by continually learning and applying new tools and techniques to manage and coach the team.
• Creating transparency into the team and trust with the business and stakeholders, by continuously honing team estimation capabilities, by keeping the team focused on delivering on their roadmap commitments, and by providing visibility into team progress through demos, sprint progress reporting, and communication.
• Monitoring sprint velocity and works with team to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature.
• Tracking and reporting key project metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate.

Confidential, FL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master drive Daily Scrum calls, prepare Burn-down chart, facilitate resolving issues and coach scrum teams including product owner / manager
• Provided various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approache.g.,Burndown reporting, Retrospective formats, Definition of done, user stories, epics, backlog.
• Assisted Product Owner with prioritized backlog creation and management, sprint planning, allocations, execution of sprints.
• Facilitated the Backlog Refinement, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings
• Coordinated with external/release teams to close dependencies and hand offs.
• Educated Scrum teams to use the empirical process to reach ever-higher levels of maturity and performance at a pace that is sustainable for the organization by being more self-organize and Cross functional.
• Interacted with clients to adopt agile principles and follow SCRUM processes.
• Performed duties within established guidelines and agile environments of the associated portfolio and greater Client organization, adhering to standards established across all agile teams.
• Facilitated multiple projects successfully within planned timelines and efforts, client interaction, Project & Program Management, Tracking of client deliverables
• Maximized cyclical Scrum meetings through clear communication, staying in time-boxed Scrum ceremonies resulting in team focus, more time programming, as well as removing impediments
• Coached the team to adapt to Agile Scrum process, ensured delivery of the committed work in Sprint backlog and remove any impediments.
• Managed Onsite/Offshore coordination and teams spanning across multiple locations (within USA, UK, India)
• Established effective communication plan with project team and key stakeholders.
• Prepared documents, status reports and budgets, Status reports to the client and Senior Leadership.
• Ensured the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed the sprint boards for teams, tracking the stories, time spent by team members and sub tasks for completion as per the sprint goals
• Developed and conducted Scrum training for new team members and stakeholders
• Collaborated, facilitated, leading, and coach scrum teams while working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Worked closely with the development team through agile events, coaching on scrum activities, playing the roles and generating artifacts based on agile best practices.
• Organized and facilitateddaily stand-up meetings, Sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, Showcase and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Assisted Product Owner with prioritized backlog creation and management, sprint planning, allocations, execution of sprints.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies for cross functional team(s) in a dynamic development environment
• Drive efficient team operations by promoting a common understanding of Scrum roles, rituals, artifacts, and processes, ensuring their adherence through a voice of reason and authority, and by facilitating all Scrum ceremonies.
• Supported the management of roadmaps and backlogs with Product Owners & Stakeholders
• Protected the team and puts the needs of the team first, keeping each team member focused on their role by proactively flagging and removing impediments to the team’s delivery on sprint commitments and overall performance, resolving conflicts both within the team and with stakeholders outside of the team.
• Optimized the team to their highest potential and embodies the spirit of Agile and continuous improvement, by motivating the team towards self-organization, by surfacing data and learning that illuminate areas to improve, and by continually learning and applying new tools and techniques to manage and coach the team.
• Created transparency into the team and trust with the business and stakeholders, by continuously honing team estimation capabilities, by keeping the team focused on delivering on their roadmap commitments, and by providing visibility into team progress through demos, sprint progress reporting, and communication.
• Performed duties within established guidelines and agile environments of the associated portfolio and Client organization, adhering to standards established across all agile teams.
• Monitored sprint velocity and worked with team to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature.
• Tracked and reported key project metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate.