Mohamed Karaly

Certified Sr SCRUM Master / Technical Project Manager

Phone: 1-858-***-****

Email: ad1j43@r.postjobfree.com

Highly resourceful, dedicated, detail oriented, results-driven, and well-respected Certified SCRUM Master with more than 15 years of experience in delivering IT infrastructure and software support. Recognized SCRUM/E-commerce leader for emerging chains; successful in scaling computing, and slashing client data storage costs. A passionate evangelist for Agile methodologies; effectively transforms organizations via SCRUM, FDD, Kanban, XP and Version One, Jira, Lean Kit & Rally tools. Possesses a strong set of skills, and offers a determined, resilient, persistent, goal-oriented leadership.

Areas of Expertise

Agile Mentoring

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

SmartSheets

SUPPLY CHAIN CONTROL TOWER–Implementation

Example mapping

TDD

Agile Project Management

Agile IT Profiles

Kanban

SAP Hybris

Database technology

Automated Testing

Cloud AWS

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Quality Management

Agile Scope

Agile techniques

RACIs

Conflict Management

E-Commerce/Hybris

Supply-chain technology implementations

Continuous Testing

Automated Testing

TDD

BDD

Entertainment /media

CMS content creation

.NET 3.5/4.0/4.5 Framework

Professional Experience

Royal Caribbean International, Miami, Fl Feb 2019 – until date

Role: Sr SCRUM Master

Technologies: Java, Java Script, Trello, ETL Migration/ Hybris TRANSFORMATION, Entertainment /media, CMS content CREATION, CONFLUENCE, SAP, JIRA, Agile/Scaled agile framework

Successfully migrated/landed 48 years of legacy data into our new e-commerce system (Hybris- SAP solution/SAP/ HANA)

Participating in SOS to discuss dependencies and blockers where 13 teams working under one program

Facilitate Daily stand-up, release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective. Ensure all participants understand the ceremony's purpose and keep to the time-box.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration - both inside and outside of team – allowing them to self-organize

Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal

Led and facilitated two teams in adopting Agile methodologies within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), orchestrating ceremonies, including planning, grooming, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.

Ensured the creation and maintenance of informative Jira dashboards, offering real-time insights into team activities and milestones, fostering transparency and informed decision-making

Incorporated innovation and engagement into team dynamics by implementing creative icebreakers, fostering a collaborative and enjoyable retrospectives and work atmosphere.

Automated dashboards, enabling real-time tracking and reflection of team progress, fostering informed decision-making.

Orchestrated exciting remote Program Increment (PI) planning sessions and using tools like Miro, ensuring effective synchronization across multiple PI cycles

Contributed significantly to enhancing TAP (Training Associated Processes) automation, streamlining processes, and providing full visibility into training activities.

Pioneered the use of Jira Align within the program, leveraging its full suite of functionalities and leading the successful rollout across multiple teams.

Spearheaded efforts in staffing planning, introducing Smartsheet entries, and integrating training targets, facilitating cross-training and agile staffing strategies.

Simplified Tableau UI and dashboard navigation, incorporating info icons and optimizing visualizations for improved accessibility and comprehension.

Led the adoption and implementation of Jira Align, enabling enhanced alignment, coordination, and visibility across the program's multiple teams and stakeholders.

Coordinated the successful integration of Jira Align into the Agile framework, fostering better planning, execution, and tracking of initiatives, ensuring alignment with overarching goals.

Demonstrated expertise in facilitating discussions and implementing Agile Staffing Execution Systems, driving network-wide deployment and flexible staffing pilots.

Conducted comprehensive training sessions for product owners, tech leads, and entire teams, empowering them to utilize Jira Align effectively and derive maximum benefits from the tool.

Successfully Onboarding external vendors involved in implantation

Understanding and ability to articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team's environment and progress toward them

Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined – prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-3 sprints.

Assisting team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition

Ensuring team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria

Proactively manage dependencies

Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs

Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice

Enforcing the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops

Mentor and coach less experienced Scrum Masters

Macy’s Technologies, Lorain, Oh Mar 2017 – Feb 2019

Role: Sr.SCRUM Master/ Project manager

Technologies: Java, Java Script, C#, Confluence, IOS, Android, JIRA, Agile/Scaled agile framework

Facilitate daily Sprint planning, stand-up meetings, reviews, and retrospectives, release planning sessions, demonstrations and other SCRUM and SCRUM of SCRUMs meetings. Onboard five collocated SCRUM members and one offshore developer.

Responsible for managing the scrum project and enforces the rules to meet the sprint commitment.

Employed Scrumban (Scrum with Kanban), Kanban and (TDD and Pair Programming) practices.

Scrum/Kanban/Agile Coach for Scrum and Kanban teams co-located and distributed.

Mentor and direct the team tasked with creating functionality-based epics/stories, spiking the stories with unclear functional releases. Ensure that the team remains focused and committed to story points, tasks, and subtasks. Train the team on cross-functional efficiencies to meet or exceed software production release standards.

Helping the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Story board, Action board, charts, and backlogs).

Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.

Provided continual hands-on supervision and mentorship to new Agile SCRUM members, working with the team to achieve continuous improvements.

Kaiser permanente, San diego, CA Jul 2012 – Feb 2017

Role: Sr.SCRUM Master/ Project manager

Technologies: Java, Java Script, IBM RTC, Clarity, Mingle,Oracle, SQL, RQM, SAP FI, SAP-SD, ETL, SaaS, Azure DevOps, Agile/Scrum Framework

Shielding the team from interruptions and removing obstacles that may impact the delivery of the product. Guiding the team’s operations by facilitating ceremonies (e.g. daily standup, sprint planning) and instilling Agile principles into daily activities to ensure smooth functioning of the delivery team

Facilitated internal and external communications (e.g. task coordination, progress tracking/reporting, dependency Management)

Ensured team is well-informed on internal and external initiatives and activities

Keeping external stakeholders, collaboration, and other interested parties are well-informed on team progress and activities

Managing and facilitating delivery within an iteration, also worked with the product managers on overall timeline

Ensuring projects team capacity and track product manager story readiness (e.g. stories ready to play)

Facilitating intra-team communication and owning project burn up/metrics (velocity tracking/forecasting)

Team support (focused on removing internal blockers), while managing storyboard and story management tool

Facilitating all iteration planning sessions, Story time, Iteration Open/Close, and daily standup meetings

Facilitate retrospectives (team alternates each retro) to promote team building/team accountability

Worked with teams to ensure process quality & continual improvement

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA Dec 2009 – June 2012

Role: SCRUM Master/ Project manager

Technologies: ETL, Mainframe, Mingle, IBM RTC, JAVA, Perl, DB2, SQL, MS Office, HP QC, QTP, Azure DevOps, Waterfall methodology

Led the first Agile pilot team, and expanded to 5 teams in one year

Obtained management buy-in to adopt the SCRUM/Agile software development methodologies through formulating visuals that communicated iteration, including Sprint planning, design, build, test, and implement.Showed the advantages of integrating all onshore and offshore dashboards, and implementing roaming WLAN functionality.

Facilitating backlog grooming, story estimating, and story design sessions.

Creating and maintaining sprint backlogs, task boards, storyboards, burndown/burnup charts, and communicating status to upper management and stakeholders.

Providing direction and coaching to the Product Owner and BA's in user story creation, sizing, and prioritization, and high-level estimating and release planning.

Investigating Kanban fit for ATI

Collaborated with the usability team to perform usability tests, including alpha and beta testing.

Hosted Sprint reviews, retrospectives, and unit release planning; started “SCRUMLovers” matrices for the empirical measurement of team performance, happiness, motivation, progress, and quality dynamic.

Aligned Rally Portfolio view to project delivery time lines for executive management.

Helped to remove impediments, and to foster self-confidence within the team.

Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Oklahoma City, OK Jul 2008 – Dec 2009

Role: Business Analyst

Technologies: ETL, Mainframe, JAVA, Perl, DB2, SQL, MS Office, HP QC, QTP, JIRA, Mingle, Waterfall methodology

Analyzed invoices for accuracy and approval based on Finance Policies and Procedures

Provided customer service support to operations, field branches and vendors regarding past due invoices, researching and correcting discrepancies in order to expedite payments.

Accounts Receivable. Responsible for accurately maintaining some of the company’s complex customer accounts receivable including:

Performed collection activities for accounts due and payable.

Monitored bank balances and cash flow.

Reconciling accounts receivables and other related accounts.

Accounts Payable. Responsible for accurately processing company’s accounts payables including:

Verified the appropriate account numbers on purchase orders.

Verified all computations on vendor invoices and matching vendor invoices to purchase orders and receiving documents from departments.

Entered vendor invoices in the accounting system and processing payables checks.

Reconciling accounts payables balances in the system.

Created company’s expenses reports. Created return on investment (ROI) reports.

Supported month and year end closing

Managed and implemented SAP Solution Manager and Quality Center Integration

Provided Site Administration support and user training for HP Quality Center 10.0

Data Migration using SAP Test Data Migration Server

Genzyme Corporation, Boston, MA Jan 2007- May 2008

Role: Project Manager/Scrum Master

Technologies: ETL, SSRS, SSIS, JD Edwards, SAP FI, SAP-SD, SAP-MMJAVA

As an AGILE Scrum master created and managed Product and Sprint backlog.

Provide AGILE project management controls, project plans, timeline schedules, facilitate RAD sessions, and review software defects.

Responsible for providing business requirements within an AGILE software development SCRUM environment.

Involved in implementation of Business Intelligence Applications using Cognos and Business Objects, building Data Marts and enterprise wide Data Warehousing.

Coached teams in their efforts to adopt advanced methods for the effective application of the Scrum framework.

Contributing to software process-reengineering efforts aimed at evolving current software development practices to adopt Lean/Agile and Scrum practices.

As Agile Scrum master coordinated Sprints, from Iteration Planning thru daily scrum, and Iteration Reviews and Retrospectives.

Ability to work in Scaled Scrum environment (Scrum of Scrum) and with multi-project teams.

Made rapid deployment and continuous process improvement using Open Text Business Process Management

Assist to define different report (SSRS) after analyzing different source of data (data warehousing).

Setting direction for the project team on Technology Improvement, case study preparation.

Collaborated with technical experts and business units to determine best possible reporting mechanisms for competitive analysis of the current system to the proposed New Claim Processing System.

Transfer projects from Waterfall to Scrum are major responsibility.

Genzyme Corporation, UAE, DUBAI Jan 2004- Dec 2006

Role: SAP Business Analyst/PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Technologies: ETL, ETL, SSRS, SSIS, JD Edwards,SAP FI, SAP-SD, SAP-MMJAVA

Collaborated with cross functional teams to understand business requirements and documented data definitions, business rules, and data management processes and roles.

Involved in analyzing business requirements from the business users and prepared the blueprints and schemas for further customization.

Identified and addressed the Gaps with SAP application through Gap Analysis Implementation as per ASAP methodology - Scoping, Project preparation, Business Blue Printing, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go-live.

Created high quality presentation materials and ensured that the necessary communication takes place between stakeholders.

Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE work flow scenario, designed new process flow and documented the business process and various business scenario and activities of business from the conceptual to procedural level.

Controlled project resources, planning and implementation using MS Project, SharePoint and AGILE methodologies

Developed functional specifications and worked with technical resources to complete object development.

Planned & defined system requirements into Narrative Use Cases & Use Case Scenarios.

Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvements.

Participated in Bug-Review meetings with software developers, QA engineers, managers and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives, provided solutions to existing bugs.

Worked on SAP SD Order to Cash Cycle.

Maintained Mapping Formats for ELM scenario as per business needs.

Involved in planning and testing the system enhancements and conversions.

Collaborated with the QA team to develop the test plans, test scenarios, test cases and test data to be used in testing.

Coordinated the Functional and Performance Testing of the SAP CRM system with the QA team.

Involved with conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Developed user manuals and other relevant documentation to make the application user friendly.

Education &Professional Development

Master of Business Administration, Coleman University, San Diego, CA

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

SAFe Agilist (SA 4.6)

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

ERP SAP (FICO)

Project Management Professional (PMP) – PMBOK

Technical Skills

Agile

MS Visio

SCRUM

VERSIONONE

HTML

ERP: SAP R/3, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

JIRA

PHP

Atlassian- Confluence

Java

Microsoft Office Suite

Linux

Flash Lite-Player

ActionScript

C#

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