Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Bilingual professional with more than 7 years of experience delegating tasks, managing projects and top-notch abilities in organizing workflows, solving complex problems and making accurate decisions based on sound judgment and analytical strengths.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAFe Scrum Master
Achieve Anything Group Llc
11.2018 - 01.2021
Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily work.
Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers, and QA occurred early and often and removed barriers and blockers for the team.
Support product owners and business analysts with backlog creation and refinement.
Track and communicate Agile metrics which may include team velocity and sprint/Program Increment (PI) progress within Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework.
Identify and remove impediments.
Ensure Scrum Framework is implemented effectively and provides coaching and training at the team level to maximize its benefits.
Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership.
Adopt positive attitude about Agile processes, ensure tasks are flowing from one phase to the next, facilitate basics of processes (i.e.
Transparency, project information is current, impediments are being eliminated).
Participate proactively in developing and maintaining standards, tools and best practices.
Acted as Scrum of Scrum master, coordinating four distributed teams all working on same product.
Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders, and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum.
Responsible for coordinating bi-monthly release of software, including planning and quality assurance.
Provided recommendations to Agile Center of Excellence on improving agile processes and practices.
Acted as Scrum Master (manager) for multiple distributed sprint teams, resolving impediments, conducting stand-ups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and creating tracking plans such as burn-down charts and burn-up charts.
Guided upper level management in Scrum and agile development principles.
Assist with internal and external communication to improve transparency.
Key player in global agile process initiative, teaching multiple courses on SDLC and concepts and providing input on best practices to multiple Scrum teams internationally.
Directly involved in identifying and assessing user needs and documenting business process via user Stories.
Acted as administrator for Jira, Confluence, Rally, Version1 and variety of other agile support tools.
Assist with making appropriate commitments to deliver business value through story selection, definition of tasks and estimation.
Provide support with risk management, release management, and facilitate release planning activities.
Scrum Master
Toys"R"Us
10.2015 - 10.2018
Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
Helped teams to get activated in agile format by conducting trainings for leadership and teams.
Increased readiness of the teams, defined roadmap for agile implementation.
Guided and coached the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum/Kanban practices and values to satisfy customer expectations.
Led both Scrum and Kanban team to get the most out of self-organization.
Collaborated with Product Owner on daily stand-up, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings.
Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standup's, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
Resolved several impediments faced by developers by contacting other stake holders.
Scheduled Retrospective meetings at the end of sprints and documenting action items to help improve the team.
Worked with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burn down.
SAFe Scrum Master /Program Manager
YEDA ,LLC
06.2013 - 10.2015
Tracked complete execution in JIRA – EPIC, Features, user stories, estimation, assignment, progress, impediments, approvals, closure, and retrospectives.
Serve as cross-functional point of contact, ensuring transparent collaboration across interdependent teams that resulted in storyboards and release plans that ensured common features within the app.
Lead coordination of in-house trainings, project communication to stakeholders, and preparation of end of Sprint team demonstrations to enable knowledge sharing across a project of 150 employees.
Participate in retrospectives, Scrum of Scrum meetings, Sprint planning, and ensure project management tools are up to date with team progress for management's review.
Sprint Planning: Ensured that the team was planning in as self-organizing a way as possible; estimation done using planning poker.
Daily stand up; Ensured that every team member was updating the team about their tasks as well as voicing questions to the product owner where necessary.
Demo (Sprint Review): Formal demo by the team to the product owner/stakeholders who would formally accept stories or reject them; partial acceptance was something I made a point to avoid.
Experience with writing queries to customize the Jira board so that the team can have a comfortable way of accessing and retrieving information.
Senior Software Engineer / Technical Analyst
Dagadu Logistics
06.2011 - 06.2013
Diagnosed software issues and applied troubleshooting techniques to resolve problems.
Applied knowledge of IT best practices to tackle new challenges and make educated decisions.
Monitored alignment of individual development teams with policies, suggesting changes and remediation efforts where needed.
Managed system-wide operating system and software deployments, as well as related software upgrade problems.
Tested programs and databases to identify issues and make necessary modifications.
Planned and implemented security measures to safeguard vital business data.
Wrote and maintained technical and functional specifications to document database intentions and requirements.
Administered, supported, and monitored databases by proactively resolving database issues and maintaining servers.
Modified existing databases to meet unique needs and goals determined during initial evaluation and planning process.
Created scripts and processes for data integration and maintenance.
Installing Oracle Golden gate on RHEL and setup table level replication as well as DDL replication too.
Evaluated Oracle 11gR2 Golden Gate for future purposes that is for reducing the complexity involved in Oracle Streams.
Recovering Golden Gate corruptions and managing host/cluster maintenance mode blackouts.
Configured Streams to capture propagate, apply changes in multiple databases.
Worked on Automatic Storage Management (ASM) with EMC Storage for managing data in SAN.
Set up, configured, and maintained data guard (primary and standby databases) to ensure disaster recovery, high availability, and data protection.