SUMMARY

• Scrum Master with 9+ years of experience in Agile/Scrum and KANBAN. Also responsible for directing teams, ensuring organizational goals are achieved, monitoring progress of software development in a fast - paced Agile environment.
• Skilled in continuous improvement, problem solving and building a team that leverages and adapts to the Agile principles and Scrum Framework, delivering value to the customer and businesses.
• A Scrum Master with use of agile approach on variousprojects such as Data Enablement, Digital Solution and Financial Service Solution.
• Strategic thinker with excellent stakeholder relationships with active engagement
• Experienced in leading multiple, large-scale projects with frameworks such as scrum and KANBAN
• Skilled in team direction delivering working products to stakeholders and in advancement of critical objectives.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; comfortable speaking to large audiences and respective teams to gain feedback.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Extensive knowledge in analysis, issue resolution and administrative experience.
• Experience in implementing project portfolios that have dependencies with multiple scrum teams
• Excellent skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Experienced in using JIRA to run individual releases.
• Experience with tools like Microsoft Office Suite, Rally, JIRA, SharePoint and Confluence

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Office: Word
• Excel
• Visio
• Outlook
• PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential | New Jersey

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coaching of2 scrum teams on an enhancement and digital transformation project for engineering audit work and financial reporting system for data management. Also managing work dependencies between the two teams by actively tracking project work on Confluence and using JIRA for team management and reporting.
• Working with cross-functional teams to identify dependencies and manage inter-team tasks,aligning dependencies and working closely with product owner, prioritizing according to changes in requirements.
• Facilitation ofall 5 scrum ceremonies, such as daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint demo, retrospective and document all feedback and impediments for continual improvement of team.
• Coaching teams on resource planning and release planning as part of the agile ceremonies to work on team schedules and mitigating any risk or issues in team capacity
• Coaching of teams in Agile mindset and maintaining JIRA dashboards containing metrics like release burn-down chart and velocity that helps motivates team for clarity and improved work effort
• Removal of roadblocks by actively inquiring with development team about the progress of daily work activities.
• Encouraging team to move status of tasks, based on phase of development for better view of work in progress and increased team output.
• Educate development team on Agile principles and framework and actively using JIRA board to manage the Scrum artifacts and team performance
• Building high-performing teams and assisting them by managing interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for improvement by team participation in agile ceremonies, filling any gaps in work effort, capacity, and/or determination.
• Assisting in improvement of knowledge and experience with Agile techniques by ensuring that user stories are changed to appropriate issue types such as subtasks, enablers and bugs in each sprint to improve delivery and value on a “Go Forward” basis.
• Working with team as collaborative leader and responding to team concerns/issues with justification in a “Go- Forward” manner
• Communicating with Scrum team and business unit to align team to same goal, making sure we are meeting release dates.
• Assessing of team’s workflow, coaching team to higher levels of Scrum maturity and making sure team is moving at best pace to facilitate a healthy work environment.
• Assisting the team in preparation for ART activities, including PI planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt.
• Working with team to summarize PI Objectives and publish for visibility and transparency.
• Coaching of teams on CI/CD

Confidential | New York, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for taking on multiple Scrum teams in variety of different contexts with different team sizes, various organizations, and diverse cultures, co-located and distributed.
• Helped in facilitating ceremonies like sprint planning, dailies stand up, sprint review and retrospectives instilling Agile principles into these activities to ensure smooth functioning of development team
• Managed positive relationships with the stakeholders to communicate reports and updates as needed, and as well ensuring that Scrum team are in alignment to the same goal for effective delivery.
• Responsible for understanding development team’s environment, ensuring work is tracked from code merging perspective, and creating subtasks when necessary.
• Encouraged developers to make code changes with effective communication or debugging previously written codes.
• Guided Scrum team and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each sprint.
• Consistently use JIRA to track team productivity, preparing “tasks in progress” prior to meetings, and identifying possible roadblocks potentially impacting work development utilizing team in decision making.
• Used Jira to coach teams on continuous improvement.
• Acted as servant leaders to team, ensuring that highest priority needs of team are met, impediments are removed, and team can operate in efficient, high-performing environment
• Enabled team to self-organize and self-manage to collectively come to agreement on how the work will be delivered
• Lead teams through retrospectives which drive meaningful discussions to assist team continuously improved development.
• Helped in utilizing all Agile approaches and Agile/Scrum; and KANBAN to manage teamwork in progress and delivery status.
• Encouraging Agile behaviors, reinforcing practices, norms, ceremonies, and supporting the overall team performance and efficiency
• Ensuring all work is tracked in backlog and accurately balanced across team members

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Helped in coordination of daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and documentation all feedback for improved work development to remove impediments
• Responsible for managing Agile projects across different Scrum teams, facilitating Scrum meetings for 2 teams, and prioritizing with level of importance to reduce team stressors
• Constantly leveraged Scrum dashboard,accessed reports for Scrum maturity, optimized Scrum team velocity to organizational Metrics, and identified improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
• Encouraged team to quickly report any identified impediments to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.
• Demonstrated to team how to effectively utilize self-management, organization and playing key role to empower creation of best technology possible.
• Partnered with product owner and system analysts to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which include stories and well-defined descriptions and proper acceptance criteria
• Partners with product owners, program managers, and project managers to communicate delivery of work product from Scrum team; escalated key risks and issues impeding Scrum team effectiveness.
• Identifies skills and competencies of Scrum team members and adjusts accordingly to promote development of highly effective teams.