Temp Consultant - Scrum Master Resume Sunnyvale, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Accomplished and passionate Scrum Master experienced in leading software teams through agile transitions and continuous improvement. Experienced in training and scaling agile development processes. Utilizes a unique combination of strong technical and agile project management skills to create high performing teams that produce quality software products.
Certified Scrum Master (CSM, PMI - ACP) and experienced Product Owner.

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Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Temp Consultant - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Rapidly formed productive Scrum & Kanban teams by providing ongoing training sessions, individual coaching for teams & management, and closely monitoring team dynamics & health.
Injected transparency into projects by creating physical Kanban/Scrum boards that are easily accessible, consistently communicating plans & progress across the organization, and removing impediments while training teams to perform these functions.
Stabilized work environment for teams by protecting them from outside distractions, establishing work in progress limits, guiding collaboration efforts, and ensuring retrospective efforts produce results.
Authored guidelines used to create autonomous, cross-functional teams in multiple locations and eliminating dependencies across teams.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Transformed distributed UI platform development & UX design teams into high performing Scrum & Kanban teams, resulting in a 50% team reduction size and utilizing the resources to accelerate product development and eliminate dependencies.
Championed feature based delivery effort, resulting in x-factor cycle time improvement, reducing a 200+ bug count down to a terminal-state. and eliminating the need to support several versions.
Provided ongoing education in Agile/Scrum through training sessions, individual coaching, and pairing with developers, testers, and Product Owners.
Organized and facilitated all scrum related events, removed impediments, maintained information radiators, communicated progress and plans across the organization, resolved conflicts within or across teams.
Mentored and assisted team members with technical aspects of agile development such as pair-programming, unit-testing, test-driven-development, and continuous integration.
Member of internal Agile coach forum, responsible for scaling scrum product development and guiding teams that are transitioning to Scrum.
Developed end-to-end data-store, user personalization, and UI state persistent components, enabling products to provide advanced UI features without any implementation effort.
Served as interim Product Owner while coaching new Scrum Master, preventing any delay in deliverables and driving process improvements through better story composition and continuous planning efforts.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

Successfully guided project to completion as stand-in Scrum Master, preventing any delays in project deliverables and saving expense for the business.
Developed sophisticated 2D histogram and scatter-plot graphs.
Enabled fast feature development by designing and implementing a centralized controller that receives and publishes events that components subscribe to.
Implemented AJAX enabled HTML pages using JSF, Spring, Hibernate, and Oracle.
Increased team velocity by mentoring developers in Eclipse RCP, JUnit and scrum practices.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

Successfully managed the development and multiple releases of a rich client GUI application for appliances that manage network protocols such as DNS, DHCP, and IP address management.
Developed components of a multi-layered Eclipse RCP GUI framework and build engine that enabled application developers to build rich client GUI screens declaratively in XML.
Implemented SOAP based APIs and created an auto-deployment solution for Java Web Start application to run in a specific JVM.
Accelerated release development by establishing daily sync-ups between development teams.