Uzma Mahveen

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Phone: +1-416-***-****

Summary

Certified Project Management Professional and Scrum Master with 5+ years of experience, a Servant Leader with hands-on-experience as a IT Project coordinator, Scrum Master, Agile Project Manager, and Business/Systems Analyst with progressive experience in IT Project Delivery.

A Lean-Agile Coach and Trainer, responsible for influencing Agile Values and practices at the Agile Team level. Transformation of Waterfall to Agile using Scrum methodology is my specialty.

I am working to get SAFe 5.1 Certification and Enterprise Agility.

I bring to my work a commitment to success through strong leadership and a focus on continuous improvement.

Knowledge Areas:

Project Coordination, Agile Portfolio Management, Agile Project Management, Agile Project Delivery and transformation from Waterfall to Agile Projects

Lean-Agile Mindset, Customer-Focused, Business Analysis, Business Agility

Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP) and Waterfall, SAFe5.1

Roadmaps, Release Planning, Product Backlog Management/Refinement, Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies (Scrum Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective), and Epics/Features/User stories

Agile Metrics and Charts (e.g. Burndown, Velocity, Burnup, Release Forecasting, and CFD)

Agile Project Management Tools - Jira/JQL, Confluence Boards.

SaaS Tools – MS Office, DevOps, MS Visio, MS Project, and Power BI

Soft Skills

Excellent written and oral communication skills including presentation skills.

Strong time management skills, including ability to prioritize multiple tasks to align with deadlines

Excellent organizing, planning and risk management skills

Fluent in English, Hindi, Urdu and Telugu languages

Work Experience

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce – CIBC May 2022 – Jan 2023

Scrum Master

Maintained artefacts like Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Product increment.

Definition of Ready, Done, User Stories

Managed Project’s scope, Roadmap and QBRs

Managed Sprint Ceremonies-Sprint Refinement Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Stand Ups and Retrospective meetings.

Enabled collaborative processes and resolve conflicts, removing impediments for the Team

Ensured deliverables meet the quality standards

Excellent communication and servant leadership skills, facilitated internal and external communications with the stakeholders

Worked with Product Owner to refine backlogs and new project requirements.

Ensured every person works on the right tasks to ensure timely delivery.

Training, Mentoring /Coaching the scrum team to apply appropriate processes to create successful products/iterations, Agile, SAFe, Business Agility

Collaboration with the agile COE and practitioners to build strong, self-reinforcing communities of practice.

Applies experience and seasoned knowledge, skills, and practices to perform a variety of assignments in planning, tracking and orchestration.

Working knowledge of Lean Software Development, Kanban, ScrumBan.

Excellent working skills with Project Management Software - JIRA, Confluence and Miro

Good command over project management practices, tools, methodology and applied in Planview, Project Management software

Worked on Scrum metrics and created reports like burndown charts, Velocity charts.

Strong analytical skills – to ensure accuracy of reporting/invoicing, perform cost variance analysis and data traces

Led project intake activities, planning, scheduling, tracking, management and closure activities. Passionate about budgets, reporting and schedules

Minimized and mitigated exposure and risk on projects

Ensured that project work results met the client’s requirements and priorities

Good Knowledge about DevOps, TDD( test driven development),mob programming, Continuous Integration process

Projects handled

Built PSM VM (Privileged Session Manager, Virtual machine) is a CyberArk component that enables you to initiate, monitor and record privileged sessions and usage of administrative and privileged accounts. Team created 1200 SSIDs Ids on different platforms, using different connectors. Team consists of 13members of cross functional team including PO and SM

In IO Deployment automation team, Products developed for automation using DevOps Teams consists of 6members of cross functional team.

Project Manager

Client : Canadian National Rail, Montreal Jan 2020 – Apl 2022

Project: Pheonix Project – PTC (Positive Train Control)

Positive Train Control (PTC) networks enable Real time information sharing between trains, wayside devices and “Back Office” applications to control train movements, speed restrictions, train position and speed and the state of signal and switch devices.

Developed and managed project schedules for multiple projects

Assigned tasks to team members and ensured that the project is completed as per schedule

Documented and managed Project risks in collaboration with the Project team and sponsors

Maintained standard project artifacts such as project schedule, RAID logs etc

Managed PCO (Project change order) processes with the project sponsors, project steering committees and the PMO office

Worked with project sponsors and project Portfolio Management Office to identify and clear any road blocks to project success

Provided regular reporting on progress to project sponsors, project steering committee and IT Project Portfolio Management office

Education

Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance, CSM Certificate ID: 001356682

Project Management Professional from PMI; PMP® Number: 3150989

Q&A Analyst Certificate

Bachelor of Engineering, Osmania University, India

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, India

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