SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, result oriented professional with 5+ years of IT experience as scrum Master who mentor teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development and agile practice to cross functional scrum teams to deliver state of art quality product
• Outstanding communication skills. Able to successfully build strong working relationships with team members, stakeholders and leadership, while ensuring= cooperation among company.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Intermediate knowledge of SAFe principles, practices and theory.
• Experience managing distributed and multiple teams using Agile Methodologies.
• Maintaining the artifacts like Product Burndown chart, Sprint Burndown chart, and Sprint Burn Up chart and made them visible through Information Radiator.
• Experience in tools like JIRA, RALLY to maintain the user stories and artifacts.
• Helping the product owner to prioritize the Product backlog and prioritized the backlog.
• Worked with Agile Craft to improve the tool for Agile/Scrum/SAFe Teams, Business and Management.
• Certified Scrum expert in agile with proven track record for working with the team in defining product vision, strategy and value creation, product designs, managing and transforming enterprise agile product delivery and digital transformations.
• Understanding and hands on knowledge of both advanced and basic software development methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Lean, Six Sigma, Waterfall, SAFe etc.
• Have excellent intellectual, interpersonal, technical and communication skills.
• Motivated, inspired, and improved the lives and productivity of the scrum team.
• Have good knowledge in Agile/Scrum methodology, Rally Tool, Jira tool, Sprints and Waterfall methodology of Project Life Cycle.
• Maintained and monitored projects' schedules and progress. Coordinated activities, resolving issues and proactively managing the risks and opportunities.
• Responsible for identifying and communicating project risks to the project team, leaders, stakeholders, and proactively anticipating issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: Scrum Master, Agile Process, Mapping the requirements to the project

Tools: JIRA, TFS, MS Office, MS Project, Kanban, Confluence, HPe ALM, Slack, waterfall, Scaled Agile.

Applications: MS office suite, Share point, Google Docs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Radnor, PA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Stand - ups (SUM), Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review and Retrospective and Sprint report generation.
• Resolving impediments, conducted stand-ups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and created tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.
• Performing gap analysis to compare all elements of existing “as is” with desired “to be” processes.
• Utilizing use case, workflow, activity and sequence diagrams to define functional requirements for the development team.
• Participating proactively in developing and maintaining teams engineering best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, test automation, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
• Tracking Performance Indicators/Metrics and addressing any issues as they arise. These metrics include Velocity, Burndown charts, Release progress, etc.
• Assisted Scrum teams with User Stories generation and managing their progress.
• Experience in Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development practices.
• Experience in Scrum Release Planning and Release Life Cycle.
• Competent user of Rally Agile Management Tool. Familiar with JIRA, TFS, etc.
• As an Agile Coach/Practitioner, established and drove Agile methodologies and Release Planning processes for development teams across multiple Geographies (US/Overseas).
• Drove successful transformation of existing organizations from Waterfall to Agile.
• Facilitated and delivered Agile to development teams via coaching and mentoring.
• Monitored trends/progress of the projects and acted as an advisor to the management.
• Reported progress to key stakeholders through Release/Sprint Burn-Down, velocity target updates, schedules, risks, dependencies, etc.

Environment: MS Project, Agile (Scrum, kanban), MS Excel, MS Visio, JIRA

Confidential, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managing agile projects and personal accountability for delivering projects to time and cost.
• Publishing the Scrum Burn Down Charts, Velocity Charts and metrics etc
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily stand-up, Retrospective, Sprint Planning, Refinement/Grooming session, and Demo Used Azure
• DevOps to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog
• Coach Product Owner and Agile team how to navigate and use Agile practices
• Prioritize and execute marketing intent through lean and Agile process
• Partner with Business Analytics to ensure understanding and delivery of product intent through the product lifecycle
• Mitigated impediments during the sprint in terms of issues and risks
• Identify and communicate opportunities, while implementing process enhancements to internal scoring system

Environment: MS Project, Agile (Scrum, kanban), MS Excel, MS Visio, JIRA

Confidential

Jr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assessed and documented business needs, business processes and support systems.
• Participated in creation of Business Process Workflow Diagrams with Stakeholders.
• Develop research and maintain business rules along with associated artifacts such as requirements and models.
• Develop business rules via interviews, translation of governing documents and other means.
• Identified Epics, Features, Enablers and created user-stories and derived project-tasks in JIRA for tracking.
• Supported Reengineering of the business process of the legacy system process related to, 837,835 and other HIPAA transactions.
• Analyze the HIPAA rules and identify the compliance gaps.
• Facilitated JAD sessions for requirements veri cation with DHHS to gather requirements for the new MMIS.
• Actively involved in Implementing Agile Scrum Methodology throughout the organization between Engineering, Product Management and Business to improve communications, provide transparency and obtain great business value with short turnarounds.
• Mentor teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development and agile practice to cross functional scrum teams to deliver state of art quality product
• Taken responsibilities of all Scrum ceremonies(Daily Scrum call, Estimation sessions, Sprint Planning, Sprint retro, burn Down chart, updates/review, Demo, Sprint review etc) along with support towards Continuos improvement).
• Facilitating Daily scrummeetings, enforcing time boxes and responding to the impediments, tracking baseline, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Supported weekly product backlog and bi-weekly story grooming sessions with core teams, worked closely with offshore sprint delivery teams providing support and clarifications to acceptance criteria valuable and achievable test scope.
• Helped Product owner on scrum Artifacts to ensure that they follow Agile Scrum rules in having backlog intact and rules revolving Product and Sprint Backlog.
• Working with Business Stakeholders to gather requirements and helping them create and prioritize into Epics, Themes and User Stories and Managed story boards .
• Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state of the sprint. Work with product owners and stakeholders to refine vision and establish goals and metrics.
• Used cloud database tools like Sentience to migrate code from one database system to another. Used programming systems like JavaScript, JSON to run and/or clone code commands
• Worked with the team to improve Say/Do ratio and improve velocity.

Confidential

Senior-Applications Developer

Responsibilities:

• 1+ year of experience in applications development, testing, troubleshooting, and implementation.
• Strong hands-on experience with multiple development tools, programming languages, databases, and operating systems.
• Simultaneously handled the role of Security Analyst. Extensively trained in the Security Analysis program within Confidential.
• Performed security analysis, audits, and worked towards ensuring that the application is compliant with CSO's security standards and PCI standards.
• Measure and track metrics of team progress, productivity and use the metrics to help the team's progress through sprint reports, burn down charts, making sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.