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SCRUM MASTER
Professional Summary
- Enthusiastic Scrum Master eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
- Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders.
- Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
- Guiding and coaching the Scrum Teams on how to apply agile values and principles, and use the Scrum Framework to delight customers.
- Protect the development team from outside influences and remove impediments.
- Works collaboratively with IT partner teams to support development and software delivery.
- Assists the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirements.
- Ensures the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
- Ensures cross-functional coordination (analysts, developers and testers) is occurring early and often.
- Identifies and manages issues and jeopardies with a clear grasp of the challenges/options until resolved.
- Not focused on a single approach, and open to experimentation and inspection and adaptation.
- Not focused on a single approach, and open to experimentation and inspection and adaptation
- Experience in Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development, or Specification by Example
- Facilitating various Scrum events such as: Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
Skills
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Work History
01/2019 to CurrentScrum MasterAmita Health | Bolingbrook , IL
- Facilitate Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint retro meetings.
- Coaching the team on Agile principles and processes.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving
- Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level.
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Track and remove internal and external impediments for the scrum team.
- Facilitate the Grooming sessions with product owner, to build product backlog.
- Working closely with the Product Owner to ensure product backlog is visible and prioritized towards business value.
- Demonstrates the ability to work closely with delivery teams to establish expectations and ensure tasks remain on track.
- Facilitate and plan for Go-live activities.
- Will be able to explain the differences between various Scrum Scaling frameworks and approaches
- Track and report Scrum team Velocity .
- Create and maintain team happiness, and demonstrate effective techniques for building happy teams
- Will be an assertive but friendly and communicative person with first class interpersonal skills
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
- Coach developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles.
- Help teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them.
- Shield the team from outside distractions, context switching and interference's.
09/2015 to 09/2018Scrum MasterAmita Health | Carmel , IN
- To facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meeting.
- Resolve conflicts by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.
- Estimate and plan for the whole software development project
- Coach the team in agile practices; emphasize on individuals & interactions over process and tools.
- Help the team members in clarifying goals and actions to achieve the goals.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
- Diagnosed and repaired computer hardware and network systems.
- Analyzed projects to determine resource requirements and procured necessary equipment and software.
- Built and utilized reporting systems to keep customers and management in loop with latest information.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Enforced alignment of project strategy with business objectives and made modifications to promote efficient project completion.
- Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
- Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
01/2014 to 06/2015Business Analyst ConsultantHighmark Inc. | Cranberry , PA
- Diminished process gaps and encouraged optimal productivity by closely supervising workflow of claims analysts and mail clerks.
- Worked one-on-one with clients to improve requirement specifications.
- Researched competitors to build report of rising trends in markets.
- Participated in JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
- Worked closely with all product development departments to create and maintain marketing materials for sales presentations and client meetings.
- Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.
- Involved in creating the Use Cases Diagrams, flow charts and process models using Rational
Rose. - Planned and executed events and marketing programs, producing times goal of qualified leads.
- Developed wireframes, site maps and content inventories for new website designs.
- Synthesized current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations, highlighting findings and recommending changes.
- Reviewed files, records and other documents to obtain business information and key data informing responses to development requests.
- Achieved success in automation by analyzing claim operations, data and system issues to identify discrepancies for troubleshooting and corrective action.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Established online configuration knowledge base to support functionality by developing robust system application overview.
- Mapped process activities to identify shortfalls and propose options to rectify operational inefficiencies.
- Evaluated competitive and Industry trends to understand competitive environments and assess current strategies.
- Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results.
- Optimized system and platform performance capabilities in most efficient, practical way possible.
- Created system and user acceptance test cases and scenarios.
05/2013 to 12/2013Business Analyst TraineeUnited Wholesale Mortgage Corp. | Pontiac , MI
- Collected, organized and modeled data using Data Modelling.
- Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.
- Leveraged on-site observation and personal interviews to identify team and individual strengths.
- Produced detailed and relevant reports for use in making business decisions.
- Recommend operational improvements based on tracking and analysis of data.
- Strengthened storage systems to enhance efficiency and minimize labor requirements.
- Evaluated current processes to develop improvement plans.
- Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
- Evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication and resource utilization issues.
- Gathered, documented and modeled data to assess business trends.
- Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time.
- Prepared detailed Project Plan using MS-Project to help the team perform the QA tasks on time
- Processed feedback from users in order to analyze and reproduce software problems.
- Sent weekly dashboard reports to management with updates of testing/story completion progress.
- Involved in planning and implementing both high-level and detailed system and integration test plans
- Attended weekly testing status calls to update corporate on our testing progress and address any testing concerns.
- Coordinated complex business to business area system and integration testing items.
- Utilized RUP (Rational Unified Process) to create use cases, activity, class diagrams and workflow process diagrams.
- Designed and created Strategy Reports according to design specifications.
- Prepared the Business Workflow using MS-Visio with input, output, pre and post conditions.
- Evaluated incoming project request for UAT support in order to determine the impacted systems, programs and/or downstream jobs or distributed applications which will need to be included in the project scope.
- Communicated frequently with team members and stakeholders to ensure project success .
- Maintained documents for change request to design (CRD) and implemented procedures for testing changes.
- Conducted System, Integration and regression testing of the application.
- Conducted walk through and defect meetings periodically to assess the status of the testing process and discuss areas of criticality.
Education
04/2017MBA | Human Resources ManagementLondon Management Academy, City
04/2015Bachelor of Technology Degree | Information TechnologyKeshav Memorial Institute of Technology, City
Certifications
- Scrum Master Certification
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
- Six Sigma White Belt Certification
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School Attended
- London Management Academy
- Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology
Job Titles Held:
- Scrum Master
- Business Analyst Consultant
- Business Analyst Trainee
Degrees
- 04/2017 MBA | Human Resources Management
04/2015 Bachelor of Technology Degree | Information Technology
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