Agile Project Manager/Sr. Scrum Master Resume Example

While waiting for my EAD (work authorization) to get approved, indulged and expended time to gain more insights through multiple forums and learning portals to enhance my knowledge, broaden my horizons and also prepare for leading industry certifications which includes Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Safe Agilist (SAFe) & Lean Six Sigma.

Additionally, invested in achieving basic knowledge on prominent technological trends including independent learning of AWS Cloud.

Tech Stack: MS Office, JIRA

Project : Kraft Foods
Duration : Feb 2016 - July 2017

The primary objective of the project was to ensure Marketing data retrieved from multiple third parties to be available for analytical purposes. The data was retrieved through REST API call using Python Flask Framework and then was loaded to MYSQL Databases for further processing .

Responsibilities :

• Empower teams to self-organize and facilitate decision making during sprint planning sessions, ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold principles
• Mentor, coach, and confirm team delivering stories such that they meet the Definition of Done
• Mentor & coach agile team members and provide constructive performance feedback
• Facilitate retrospective meetings to ensure key learning is incorporated into the next sprint
• Determine and improve team capacity (velocity) from historical data and create Work Breakdown structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks)
• Monitored and managed the user stories and product backlog on the JIRA and reported updates to stakeholders as requested

Project : ICICI Bank

Duration : Mar 2014 - Jan 2016

The primary objective of the project was to ensure Bank Credit Card data to be available in Oracle warehouse for further analytics by Reporting Teams in order to gain strategic and operational insights .

• As a Scrum Master, collaborated closely with business stakeholders and Product Owners to identify and analyze core requirements and key features for the program
• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospective
• Maintained task board and tracked daily burn-down charts in order to meet deadlines
• Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement
• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation, ensuring work items are estimated, ready-for-work and maintained
• Defined scopes, deliverable and provide regular progress reports and metrics
• Guided teams on estimation of story points, sprint planning, pre - planning for future sprints and working with business stakeholders to define sprint goals and prioritizing the product backlog
• Run continuous improvement initiatives to measure and reduce product development defects, to increase team velocity to standardize business process
• Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems
• Gathered and document user stories in JIRA for detailed requirements for the business process

Stellarix is a global research and analytics company, with particular focus on the practice of Data Analytics, White Space Analysis & Technological Scouting.

Projects : Multiple Clients

Managed multiple projects in Technology and Research Domain.

• Interacted with business executives to identify requirements and created project scopes to help meet objectives
• Supervised multi-disciplinary team and helped each member develop his or her unique skills and talents, promoting group productivity and cohesion
• Delivered projects to pre-determined budget, maintaining time parameters and quality standards
• Provided supportive link between external customers and internal operations
• Measured effectiveness of customer success by defining operational metrics, tracking systems and reporting to executive team
• Coordinated weekly meetings for internal and external groups
• Developed project database using MS Excel for use by team members to track progress
• Took active role in company growth by consistently providing quality service to promote growth