SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master and a Servant Leader bringing 10+ years of experience achieving goals in challenging IT environment.
• Diligent, forward - thinking, and adaptable to dynamic companies. Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction.
• Outstanding contribution to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
• Clear understanding of Agile, Scrum and SAFe framework and motivated to learn, grow, and excel in the industry.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Adaptability
• Analytical
• Coaching Agile practices
• Collaboration
• Complex Problem Solving
• Conflict management
• Creating communication channel (team, Product owner, stakeholder)
• Creativity
• Customer interaction
• Development team training
• CI/CD
• Documentation Management
• Enforcing Rules
• Facilitate meetings (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective)
• JIRA & Confluence
• Leading and Facilitating
• Negotiation
• People Skills
• PI Planning
• Problem resolution
• Process improvement
• Rapid Decision Making
• Relationship development
• Removing impediments
• Risk identification
• Risk mitigation planning
• Road Map
• SAFe
• Servant Leader
• Team Building
• Team management
• Facilitate Scrum Event
• Continuous improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate various Scrum activities such as: Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Working with the team to meet business requirement, create prototypes and analyze workflow.
• Supporting to setup JIRA board for SAFe Agile SCRUM Development, and Agile Kanban- development model.
• Provide guidance to the team and Management on SAFe Scrum Values, Practices, and Rules, essential adherence to SAFe Scrum methodologies
• Facilitates meetings and PI Planning with customers to gather and document requirements and explore potential solutions Communicating and working directly with the Product Owner to consistently maintain the product backlog and handle changes both to the product backlog as well as changes to the executing sprint
• Facilitating daily Scrum activities such as: Stand-Ups, updates to burn-down spreadsheets and charts, backlog reviews, as well as impromptu meetings as needed
• Creating and maintaining risk and issue logs including working with appropriate parties to create mitigation and corrective action plans with communication to the team, product owner, and executive management
• Building team cohesion and foster good communication between various development teams, also measure and improve team productivity
• Remove roadblocks reported by the team, which could require cross-team collaboration and or escalation, possibly up to executive management
• Facilitate a good and respectful Scrum environment, conditioning and empowering the team to be self-managed
• Work with Product Owner(s) to ensure product backlog is visible and prioritize the list to generate higher business value
• Assist in the creation of processes and procedures with input from other product development teams

Confidential, Tyson Corner, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
• Creates and manages project/program resource loading and budget; reconciles budget monthly and communicates risks to Leadership
• Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
• Build team cohesion and foster good communication between various development teams
• Guides team through continual improvement process
• Manage all Scrum boards (physical or virtual), Sprint Backlog items and tasks
• Remove obstacles for developers and testers
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives
• Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work
• Create and maintain risk and issue logs including working with appropriate parties to create mitigation and corrective action plans with communication to the team, product owner, and executive management

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance to the team and Management on Scrum Values, Practices, and Rules, essential adherence to Scrum methodologies
• Communicating and working directly with the Product Owner to consistently maintain the product backlog and handle changes both to the product backlog as well as changes to the executing sprint
• Facilitating daily Scrum activities such as: Stand-Ups, updates to burn-down spreadsheets and charts, backlog reviews, as well as impromptu meetings as needed
• Creating and maintaining risk and issue logs including working with appropriate parties to create mitigation and corrective action plans with communication to the team, product owner, and executive management
• Building team cohesion and foster good communication between various development teams, also measure and improve team productivity
• Worked extensively with Product Owner(s) to ensure product backlog is visible and prioritize the list to generate higher business value
• Remove roadblocks reported by the team, which could require cross-team collaboration and or escalation, possibly up to executive management.

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance to the team on Scrum Values, Practices, and Rules, essential adherence to Scrum methodologies
• Facilitate various Scrum activities such as: Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Facilitate daily Scrum activities such as: Stand-Ups, updates to burn-down spreadsheets and charts, backlog reviews, as well as impromptu meetings as needed
• Remove roadblocks reported by the team, which could require cross-team collaboration and or escalation, possibly up to executive management
• Communicate and work directly with the Product Owner to consistently maintain the product backlog and handle changes both to the product backlog as well as changes to the executing sprint
• Create and maintain risk and issue logs including working with appropriate parties to create mitigation and corrective action plans with communication to the team, product owner, and executive management
• Build team cohesion and foster good communication between various development teams Measure and improve team productivity
• Works with Product Owner to define project scope and objectives