SUMMARY

• Scrum master/servant leader with over 7 years hands on experience promoting the implementation of agile practice across several environments within which I have served.
• Dedicated mentor, educator, facilitator and coach within teams. Successfully implemented other frameworks such as SAFe and Kanban on product delivery following SDLC.
• Proficient with tools such as Jira/Confluence, GitHub and virtual platforms such as Skype for Business and Zoom.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Result oriented and skilled at working quickly and efficiently to complete all projects on time, able to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, strong organizational and interpersonal skills, profound ability to follow and accomplish instructions in less time, skilled in climbing to maintain upper storage.
• Scrum Master with 7 years of experience leading and setting up to multiple Teams with Scrum and Kanban Framework simultaneously.
• Extensive experience providing direction and coaching Scrum master’s on Agile and leadership skills.
• Transformation of client from Waterfall/Non - Agile Methodology to Agile Scrum Framework.
• Results oriented project manager with 3 years of experience, who partners with across enterprise to deliver to deliver on time, within budget projects that meet or exceed the business objectives.
• Identifies, quantifies, and monitors risks throughout project execution.
• Worked closely with Product Managers/ Product Owners in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Designed and developed project metrics reporting templates based on the Agile Framework used.
• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams to articulated project goals & scope, translating business needs into technical terms.
• Mentoring of teams to adopt continues Improvements practices.
• Concentrates energies on pulling together individuals to form a cohesive team.
• Experience in working with Jira tool for bug and issue tracking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Team Management
• Good communication skills
• Attentive listener
• Risk/Change Management
• Leadership & coaching
• Product backlog management
• Velocity and task breakdown

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Johnston, RI

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Use the Kanban board to limit work in progress and focused.
• Visualize work blockers on Kanban.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality allowing teams to fully own commitments of finishing sprint backlog items within the time box.
• Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Protected team from over-commitment, planning sprints according to team’s capacity.
• Introduced and facilitated team’s Agile Scrum Ceremonies (Iteration planning, Daily Scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software and System demonstrations) for scrum teams.
• Engaged with other Scrum master’s to increase the effectiveness of the Scrum framework in the organization through Scrum huddles and forming communities of practice.
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information from team level to management level.
• Provided coaching on dependencies management, risks mitigation and issues from scrum team to the ART.
• Provided training and worked closely with Product Owners in product backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features.
• Coached teams to adopt continues integration and pair programing for knowledge sharing and building quality codes.
• Directed and coached development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.
• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good Agile practices.
• Generated and posted end of Iteration review reports for team Deliverables and Agile Methodology adoption.

Confidential - Portland, OR

Agile / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing large, complex enterprise-level projects up to $5 Million, consisting of multiple agile teams.
• Serving to define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviation from plans; and perform delivering planning for assigned projects.
• Facilitates scrum ceremonies; backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews (demo) and retrospectives.
• Empowering teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Protecting teams from over-commitment, managing backlog, prioritizing resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 15 major initiatives.
• Managing the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.
• Coordinating and managing code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Experienced in different SDLC models such as Waterfall, Agile specifically Scrum, RUP
• Gathered user requirements, wrote user stories, and customized User Manual
• Created project schedules and dashboard.