Sindho Kazi

Dallas, TX ad2sv3@r.postjobfree.com Cell#213-***-****

Career Focus

Dedicated and certified professional with a strong background in guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high quality products on time and within the budget. Experienced in implementing Agile methodologies, fostering collaboration, and optimizing team performance. Seeking a challenging position where I can leverage my expertise to facilitate successful project delivery and drive continuous improvement in an innovative environment.

Summary

• A highly organized individual that thrives upon the challenge of handling multiple assignments and consistently meeting quota objectives under extremely high pressure.

• Ability to anticipate challenges, resolve issues, lead the team through ambiguity and adapt in an ever-changing business environment by demonstrating flexibility.

• Utilized agile scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity.

• Keen ability to understand and build complex systems and focus relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer centric products and features. Skills

• Proven interpersonal skills, ability to work well with others, both supervisory and support staff.

• Outstanding skills dealing with clients, solid organization, and planning skills.

• Best Practices in Project Management Methodology and Project Budget Planning.

• Experienced to manage multiple teams and product roadmaps, recognize and remove impediments, identify, and mitigate risks, escalate issues as appropriate, and proven expertise coordinating cross-functional technical teams.

• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to compose, write and edit a variety of general business correspondence, management reports, technical presentations, training material, and position papers.

• Knowledge of business functions and business operations, strategies, and objectives

• Experience working in a consultant/client environment.

• Analytical Thinking, Problem Solving and Attention to Detail.

• Results-driven, with a focus on delivering measurable business value through product development efforts.

• Experience in crafting user stories that capture clients’ requirements.

• Lead the scrum team in moderate complexity work stream and coach the teams on how use scrum and Agile practices and methodology.

• Capable of creating a team environment that is open, non-judgmental, and trustworthy while emphasizing problem solving.

Professional Experience

Sr. Scrum Master, Sabre Corporation Inc. April 2023-Curent

• Facilitate release planning and tracking and Agile using test driven development, automated testing, and continuous integration environments.

• Lead daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint reviews, Agile release train to ensure full team engagement.

• Participate in project estimation session with technical and business stake holders.

• Acts as liaison between clients and delivery teams, making sure the projects are successful and that the teams are enabled to deliver excellence.

• Establish common goals across multiple teams and define useful matrices and reporting to teams performance.

• Keen knowledge of business functions and business operations, strategies, and objectives

• Experience working in a consultant/client environment.

• Proficient in story-mapping principles and their practical application.

• Analyze and document team features, user stories and tasks.

• Collaborate primarily with Delivery Managers, Product Managers and other TPMs.

• Work together with Architect and software engineers to understand the technical side.

• Plan, implement and maintain roadmap strategy and scheduling.

• Provide acceptance/sign off user stories.

• Organize and facilitate backlog refinement sessions.

• Establish and ensure the team follows proven Scrum practices and facilitate Scrum Ceremonies.

• Manage day-to-day detailed aspects of multiple projects.

• Establish and maintain migration timelines.

• Manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment.

• Working knowledge of Lean Agile SDLC process and deliverables.

• Set timelines and due dates.

• Collaborate with Product Owner on Roadmap Planning and priorities.

• Collaborate with Delivery Manager, Product Manager and Tech Anchor to refine backlog.

• Plan the team Capacity for each sprint and clear roadblocks and obstacles.

• Track the team progress each sprint through velocity, burn down charts and other metrics.

• Coordinate customer demos as well as internal demos to enable learning and cross-training.

• Enforce DoD and DoR of User Stories. Updated milestone in Rally.

• Facilitated and conducted Go/NO Go call for releases and corresponded to attendees with updated voting communication.

• Manage Milestone across multiple teams.

• Lead teams of engineers through the completion of all phases of the project.

• Provided status of Teams Features in Scrum of scrums after each sprint. Scrum Master/Project Manager Sunbonn July 2015-October 2022

• Manage and coach team using agile methodology of 2 weeks sprint cycles and deliver software.

• Assess the team to higher levels of maturity at a sustainable pace.

• Define and articulate user stories, acceptance criteria, and product features, providing the development team with the necessary context for efficient implementation.

• Engage with customers, gather feedback, and incorporate insights to enhance the product and user experience.

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as daily standup, backlog grooming, sprint planning and retroactive etc.

• Managed 100% of the scrum process from Initiation to Management to delivery.

• Supported and provided guidance to 2 product owners with respect to grooming and maintaining product backlogs.

• Managed and reported accurately of the tasks and activities assigned to the scrum teams.

• Assesses and progresses Agile maturity of the team. Acts as an advisor in growing scrum teaching skills.

• Develops & delivers training on a variety of Agile frameworks/scaling methods.

• Pinpoints opportunities when engineering practices can benefit a program`s ability to deliver high quality value.

• Facilitates difficult conversations with groups/teams.

• Perform as a go-to person for groups outside of their team to facilitate events. Surfaces & works with key stakeholders to address anti-patterns that impede organizational agility.

• Drive program level data-driven continuous improvement through retrospection. Scrum Master E Team Inc. August 2013-August 2015

• Help navigate Scrum events, including Sprint Review of an eleven-person team.

• Assisted management with backlog refinement session for six development teams.

• Collaborated with two Agile release Managers to provide a functional release per sprint cycle. Education & Certifications

Education: Bachelor of Science

Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) Technical Skills:

- Management Tools: MS Office, Azure, MS Suite, M365, Google Docs, Adobe.

- Tracking Tools: Windows, SaFe, Rally, Jira, Confluence, Kanban, Qlik Sense.

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