OBJECTIVE

Scrum Master with extensive knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Highly experienced within multiple domains such as Financial and Healthcare. Passionate about Coaching different Agile Frameworks; Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP and driving teams towards the adoption of Agile principles and practices. Excellent at leading scrum ceremonies, monitoring teams performance, Gathering metrics and ensuring that teams goals are met within the given timeline. Great at fostering communication and collaboration within teams as well as with customers and stakeholders. Highly experienced with the SDLC tools such as Jira, VersionOne, Rally, Confluence, SharePoint, MS. Suite and more.

EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master,

Omaha Public Power District Omaha, NE 8/2020 - Present

●Currently a Scrum master for two collocated Scrum and project teams.

●Coaching teams to adopt to continuous integration and pair programing for knowledge sharing and building quality code.

●Facilitates all Scrum Ceremonies; Daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective for the purpose of Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation.

●Meets with Product Owner in Grooming sessions to discuss future workload coming in for the team; As well as helping the PO with cleaning and maintaining the backlog and roadmap.

●Meticulously work with product owner, business analyst and developers during sprint planning meetings to write user stories that meet the INVEST and MoSCo models; while also ensuring that all User stories Meet the teams standard definition of ready.

●Successfully resolved conflicts by focusing and emphasis the scrum values of Respect, Openness, commitment and focus.

●Identify, tracks, and removes any impediment that interrupts the workflow or prohibits the team from meeting its goal.

●Continuously protect and shield the team from outside distractions and interferences so teams can focus on accomplishing the sprint goal.

●Performs other related duties as assigned.

Scrum Master,

Catholic Health Initiative Fargo, ND 11/2017 – 7/2020

●Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team.

●Successfully guided three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.

●Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated all scrum ceremonies. Monitored task board and the burndown chart daily.

●Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

● Encouraged and implemented process improvements by creating team-building opportunities.

●Worked closely with Product Owners in creating, prioritizing and maintaining the product backlog.

●Instigated and promoted strict guidelines of QA practices and regression testing.

●Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.

●Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.

●Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team thru the project management processes.

●Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.

●Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily QA activities to be productive and growing in ability.

Scrum Master

7/Eleven, Irving Texas 09/2015 – 10/2017

●Conducted backlog reviews, planning poker sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for two teams during concurrent 3-week sprint cycles

●Led daily standup meetings and scrum of scrums to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or concerns within the teams.

●Managed global and collocated teams by utilizing telepresence meetings and standard calls

●Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution.

●Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

●Served as Scrum Master for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery.

●Encouraged team to be self-organization through several coaching sessions and team performance inspections.

Business Analyst

Developmental Homes Inc, Fargo ND 04/2012 – 08/2015

●Engaged in establishing and providing Vision of the term and gain consensus base on acceptance criteria

● Served as Scrum Master for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery with some support from coach

●Actively participated scrum of scrum meetings with program manager

● Encouraged self-organization, meaning that the team itself should remove issues wherever possible

●Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams

●Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.

●Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company lots of money

●Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

●Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.

●Facilitate monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.

●Provided executives with analytics and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies.

●Partnered with developers to automate manual processes, saving time and money while decreasing errors.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION

●BS-Electrical Technology

●SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) Scaled Agile Framework

●Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

SKILLS

●Coaching Scrum Adoption Continuous integration

●Agile program management Kanban

●Facilitator Scrum

●Product management SAFe

●SDLC XP

●Change management Agile Methodology

●Team Management

SOFTWARE

●Microsoft Suite- MS Project, Word, Power Point...

●Communication Tools Slack, Skype for business, Zoom...

●Organizational Tools Trello

●Agile Project Tracking Tools Visual Studio, Jira, TFS

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