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• Establishing true collaboration with the VA compliance and the Benefits Sustainment Managed Service (BSMS) and the Life Insurance Policy Administration Solution (LIPAS) and VFEP scrum team that are responsible for building and deploying enhance software within the cloud, that enables Veteran to gain access to the VA benefits
• Facilitated and created Product Backlog activities, proper PBI grooming, maintained, prioritized, and ready for commitment
• Schedule and facilitate the scrum events such as the Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, the Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective and maintain the team’s work visibility using tools such as JIRA
• Guiding the team in capturing, tracking, and utilizing critical metrics like burndown chart, Burnup chart , velocity, and other key metrics to improve team performance
• Helping the team understand the Definition of Ready (DOR) and Definition of Done (DOD) before commitment
• Facilitate crucial team conversations when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower delivery teams to self-organize, focus on outcomes, get to a done increment, and manage blockers
• Understand technical user personas in multi-product business by being the voice of internal and external developers, partners and customers who build on our platform
• Validating functionality and workflows
• Understanding of complex, technical architectures, with the ability to map out data flows between dependent systems
• Customer-focused, with solid execution and product delivery skills
• Led and coached high performing agile scrum teams on how to write good user stories that meet the INVEST criteria, story estimation and breaking down EPICs if necessary., As Scrum Master, I was responsible for managing implementation activities for various scrum teams
• I also collaborate cross-functionally with the business and technology development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions, while building trust and loyalty across the teams
• Manages projects/ initiatives from initiation to delivery, so the projects are completed on time, with quality, and within budget
• Project: Designed development and delivery of hospital Management Software, which handles all patient data, doctors and medical staff information, and hospital billing
• Protect teams from outside influences and undocumented changes in project scope to ensure teams remain focused on Scrum Team’s priorities
• Monitor and manage dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are identified and resolved so the team can meet its sprint goals
• Gain a comprehensive knowledge of requirements gathering processes, proposal development, and business case development via extensive knowledge of application and solution development methodologies within the Scrum framework
• Schedule scrum of scrum meetings with other scrum masters, acting as coach to scrum teams
• Support the team’s transition from waterfall to agile, constantly educating them on agile and scrum practices
• Track and communicate team status and progress via burn-up and burn-down charts and other information radiators to the team, management, and stakeholders, ensuring it accurately reflects the current state
• Assist the team in embracing and internalizing the values and principles of the agile manifesto
• Follow up with other scrum masters for impediments and assist with internal and external communication
• Participates in planning and forecasting exercises based on team capacity and resource availability and implements an operational plan for completing projects as well as monitoring progress and performance against i
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Facilitates internal and external communication, removes impediments, and serves as the intermediary between multiple product owners, managers, and team members.
• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• i removes impediments, and serves as the intermediary between multiple product owners, managers, and team members. As Scrum Master, I was responsible for managing implementation activities for various scrum teams. I also collaborate cross-functionally with the business and technology development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions, while building trust and loyalty across the teams.
• · Manages projects/ initiatives from initiation to delivery, so the projects are completed on time, with quality, and within budget.

· Project: Designed development and delivery of hospital Management Software, which handles all patient data, doctors and medical staff information, and hospital billing.

· Protect teams from outside influences and undocumented changes in project scope to ensure teams remain focused on Scrum Team’s priorities.

· Monitor and manage dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are identified and resolved so the team can meet its sprint goals.

· Gain a comprehensive knowledge of requirements gathering processes, proposal development, and business case development via extensive knowledge of application and solution development methodologies within the Scrum framework.

• · Schedule scrum of scrum meetings with other scrum masters, acting as coach to scrum teams.
• Support the team’s transition from waterfall to agile, constantly educating them on agile and scrum practices.
• Track and communicate team status and progress via burn-up and burn-down charts and other information radiators to the team, management, and stakeholders, ensuring it accurately reflects the current state.
• Assist the team in embracing and internalizing the values and principles of the agile manifesto.
• Follow up with other scrum masters for impediments and assist with internal and external communication.
• Participates in planning and forecasting exercises based on team capacity and resource availability and implements an operational plan for completing projects as well as monitoring progress and performance against it.
• I Identify, resolve, or escalate issues to minimize delays.
• Acts as a liaison with other areas in the organization to secure specialized resources and contributions for the project.
• Facilitates internal and external communication

• I am responsible for developing project plans and managing implementation activities for various projects
• I collaborate cross-functionally with the business and technology development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions, while building trust and loyalty across the teams Project: Design, develop, and deliver financial data and reporting platform to comply with qualified financial contracts and records keeping
• Leading and assisting project leaders in project start-up and coordination activities, meetings, requirements gathering, and developing project documents, estimates and project plan
• Assisting project leaders with monitoring, tracking, and communicating progress against project plans
• Lead with issue and risk identification and resolution through adherence to IS defined metrics, baselines, and best practices
• Includes cost, schedule, scope, critical path, resource, quality, and scope
• Leading or working with the Project Leaders to gather all information required to support any sourcing activities the project requires
• Was responsible for allocating, on boarding, assigning, and oversight of resources to achieve project objectives
• Escalated issues to more experienced project managers to source solutions to ongoing issues and risk
• Collaborated with product owners and team members to define solutions and drive progress
• Designed and implemented test suites that exercised and validated product functionality in scope, performance, and load
• Checklist process to drive accountability, mitigate risk, manage content, and report issues
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospective
• Developed a firm understanding from product owners and other business stakeholders of internal and external customer problems
• Performed onsite demos and created training documentation for end-users for multiple business channels
• Worked with product owners and team members to create product/sprint backlogs and prioritized user stories backlog items
• Set and communicate product vision and goals at the beginning of release/development cycles following agile methodology
• Developed and tracked release schedules
• SharePoint and Excel to manage scrum projects backlog, task board, burndown charts, etc.
• Led project teams through design, construction and launch process.
• Modified and directed project plans to meet organizational needs.
• Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
• Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
• Facilitated communication between internal personnel, contractors and vendors for project cohesion.
• Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
• Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.