SUMMARY

• IT Project Co - ordinator/ Scrum Master with over 8 years of experience in client/server applications, design (Logical and Physical), development and administration.
• Having 5+ years of impressive experience as a Scrum Master and experience in Agile Engineering Practices, efficiently handling the entire gamut of activities pertaining to Scrum methodology which includes daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, review, retrospective, and backlog refinement meetings.
• Substantial experience (over 5 years) and knowledge of SDLC methodologies, SAFe, Agile best practices including Kanban and Scrum.
• Skilled at leading Agile teams to complete agreed upon objectives successfully.
• Facilitate teams planning and tracking activities while coaching in Agile principles.
• Successfully transform the team’s waterfall mindset to Agile by developing effective training materials for teams to understand Agile delivery.
• Support the team with gathering and clarifying business requirements.
• Creating user stories and updating the JIRA board.
• Managing delivery of multiple Support and Development projects.
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills; expert at managing multiple projects simultaneously and people manager.
• Translate business requirements into software specifications.
• Experience in interfacing with Software engineering team to track timing and development status, and lead SW design reviews.
• Creating and maintaining tasks and requirements in AZURE DevOps.
• Building and managing client relationship and expectations and creating a trusted partner status
• AGILE trained and inculcated AGILE development methodology which includes daily scrum updates, bi-weekly sprints, sprint retrospective, sprint planning, backlog grooming etc. as part of development methodology.
• Understand the scope and business benefits to help prioritize the projects and get alignment with all the stakeholders in terms of success criteria, project timelines, budget, funding model, support strategy etc.
• Work closely with SME’s and Project Owners to define clear milestones, timelines on the projects.
• Managing resource requirements and workload of project team
• Oversee sprints, review burndown charts, and facilitate daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint planning
• Manage expectations of all relevant stakeholders, senior leaders, and focus groups to avoid redundancy and minimize costs
• Mobilize team to focus on continuous integration, application re-design, and re-usable components
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, problem solving, and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Project Manager/Scrum Master, Planning, Designing, Controlling & Monitoring, Closure, Agile Maintenance, Clarity tool.

Databases: Oracle, SQL server

Tools: JIRA, Service Now, ALM,Clarity

Environment: AGILE, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead, plan and prioritize project activities in a dynamic environment.
• Scrum Planning, Retrospective, Arrangement and Optimization of Product Backlog.
• Organize scrum events or daily stand ups.
• Requirements and Business Process flow establishment.
• Tracking project progress and communicating to project stake holder as needed.
• Lead project team to major milestones by getting involved in software development life cycle (SDLC) of the project like requirements gathering, Analysis, Detail Design, Development, Unit Testing, and Integration Testing.
• Lead brainstorming sessions to gather requirements.
• Prioritize and delegate key project tasks to team members

Confidential, Cary, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Guide the team and organization on how to use Scrum & Agile practices.
• Proficiently facilitated in all Scrum Ceremonies - Pre-Planning Meetings, Planning Meetings, Task Splitting, Daily Scrums, Review and Demo Meetings, Retrospectives, etc.
• Experience of collaborating with team(s) distributed across Geographical Location(s).
• Conducted workshops regularly on Scrum, Kanban and Scaling Agile.
• Facilitate Scrum Events (Planning, Daily Scrum, Review & Retrospectives) along with team.
• Coached and mentored team/stakeholders in adoption of Scrum reinforcing Scrum Principles/values.
• Working with PO on Product (re-architecture of OSS/BSS system for CSP/ISP) Roadmap, manage prioritization & trade-offs among stakeholders.
• Coordinated with client(s), stakeholder(s) and team(s) to keep the Product Backlog groomed.
• Resolved Impediments raised by team members, helped team members to get to speed in successfully delivering product in frequent releases.
• Quick in Conflict Resolution by focusing on scrum values Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness & Respect.
• Determine Team Velocity/Capacity Utilization of Scrum Team(s).
• Educated team on Story points, planning poker for Sprint planning.
• Shield the team from external interference & ensure team is fully functional & productive.
• Coordination with Dev Team(s), PO, Business, and stakeholders to educate & ensure a mutual understanding on process/practice.
• Ensured team follow all processes and workflow by updating Jira and add relevant documents at Confluence.

Confidential

IT Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Lead, plan and prioritize project activities in a dynamic environment.
• Requirements and Business Process flow establishment.
• Tracking project progress and presenting to project stake holder on status.
• Lead project team to major milestones by getting involved in software development life cycle (SDLC) of the project like requirements gathering, Analysis, Detail Design, Development, Unit Testing, and Integration Testing
• Lead brainstorming sessions to gather requirements.
• Prioritize and delegate key project tasks to team members.
• Deployment and Production Support
• Requirements and Business Process flow establishment for enhancements
• Project Billings and Invoicing
• Project Delivery and Resource Management