Rekha Parashar
Pineville,NC, *****
Phone:510-***-****
Email: ****************@*****.***
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekhaparashar/ Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Scrum Master with a 9+ years of proven track record of facilitating agile transformations and driving teams toward high-performance. With a deep understanding of Scrum principles and a passion for fostering collaboration, I bring a wealth of experience in guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, customer-centric solutions. Known for my ability to cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and to navigate complex challenges, I am dedicated to promoting agility and maximizing project success. Seeking an opportunity to leverage my skills in a forward-thinking organization committed to innovation and excellence.
Core Competencies
• Core Skills: Agile Team Facilitation, Business Analysis, Scrum, Kanban
• Competencies: Scrum Master, Facilitation, Agile coaching and transformation, User stories, Wireframes, Mockupscreen.
• Software/Tools: Jira, MS Office/SharePoint, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack, Miro, Trello, Azure DevOps Education Background
• Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science- Sachdeva Institute of Technology, Mathura, India.
• Agile Certification from The Agile Coach, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
• Scrum Certified (Six Sigma Global Institute)
• Team Facilitator (ATF), ICAgile
• ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP), ICAgile
• Immersive Agile Cohort - The Agile Coach LLC
• Product Owner Certified( Six Sigma Global Institute)
• Pursuing PMP certification
Professional Experience
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Product Owner / Sr. Scrum Master July 2023 - Present
• Leads cross functional teams to design and develop responsive e-commerce solutions for rapidly evolving South Asian consumer markets, resulting in efficient supply chain systems and increased customer satisfaction scores.
• Acted as a liaison between development teams, product owners, and stakeholders, facilitating clear communication of requirements and priorities, ensuring alignment and faster decision-making.
• Strategically develops and manages product backlogs and user stories, ensuring alignment with product vision and strategy, reducing development time by 25%.
• Develops and maintains detailed product roadmaps, leading to an increase in customer satisfaction and a 12% growth in product adoption across global markets.
• Leads cross-functional teams in the development of user stories, wireframes, and prototypes, resulting in higher shared understanding and collaboration.
• Streamlined the QA process, reducing the need for a 60-minute sync each week saving the company while simultaneously reducing the average number of defects per sprint.
• Designs data visualization dashboards in Jira to track team capacity and project data, reducing manual reporting by 3 hours weekly, enhancing productivity and accuracy. BSI Solution Inc. Hybrid February 2021- July 2023
Sr. Scrum Master/Program Manager
Scrum master of 3 Extended Reality (XR) projects within the Innovation department, utilizing a wide range of technology stack including Unity, C#, Blockchain, AI, Python, React JS, Django, Azure, and AWS. As a Project Manager, I also serve as a liaison between different teams and departments, ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goal and communicating effectively. I monitor project progress and identify any issues or roadblocks that may arise, proactively addressing them to keep the project on track. . NEVR: - E-learning AR/VR app that promotes the kinesthetic learning and produce a comprehensive immersive learningexperience. It is basically adding a virtual reality to digital transform the learning experience. experience.
Technologies/Tools: Unity, Maya, C#, Google firebase, Azure and Blockchain TRUST: - An application platform that provides powerful, self-service, data de-identification, research, collaboration, and innovation across a wide variety of fields. With TRUST, researchers will have access to insights in real-time with a dynamic, secure, and independent data platform that breaks down real barriers in innovative data exploration. Technologies/Tools: React JS, Python, Django, Oracle, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Restful APIs, AWS Blockchain and AI LOVE FIELD: - XR museum experience that provides visitors with an immersive and interactive journey through historical exhibits and artifacts. The XR museum will use a combination of VR and AR technologies to create a fully immersive environment for visitor. .
Technologies/Tools: - Blender, Sketchup, C#, Azure, Unity, and Google Firebase AWS, Remote February 2020 - February 2021
Technical Project Manager/Scrum MasterManaging project for Digital Native Business Group(Amplify).
• Facilitate Standup meetings with the team to track challenges and assist with reaching the sprint goal
• Coordinate Sprint Retrospective meetings to identify areas of improvement and maintain transparency amongst the team
• Communicate with the Product Owner to keep Release on track and prevent disturbances to the development team
• Collaborate with team members to develop strategies for increased efficiencies and mediates any conflicts throughout theteam
• Maintain servant leader role, removes impediments and conflicts for the team
• Communicate and educate the team on Agile practices and Scrum/Kanban processes and values
• Coordinate with the Product Owner to assist Business Analysts with user stories and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with team members to develop a better working environment through a working agreement
• Communicate with the Product Owner to understand product timelines
• Coach team on writing user stories and improving them by educating the team on the INVEST method and FibonacciSequence
• Help teams to run experiments to uncover better ways of building software
• Technically proficient with Jira, Confluence, MS office, Slack, Miro Maya Partners, St Louis, MO August 2018 – Feb
2020 Scrum Master
• Facilitate Standup meetings with the team to track challenges and assist with reaching the sprint goal
• Coordinate Sprint Retrospective meetings to identify areas of improvement and maintain transparency amongst the team
• Communicate with the Product Owner to keep Release on track and prevent disturbances to the development team
• Collaborate with team members to develop strategies for increased efficiencies and mediates any conflicts throughout theteam
• Maintain servant leader role, removes impediments and conflicts for the team
• Communicate and educate the team on Agile practices and Scrum/Kanban processes and values
• Coordinate with the Product Owner to assist Business Analysts with user stories and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with team members to develop a better working environment through a working agreement
• Communicate with the Product Owner to understand product timelines
• Coach team on writing user stories and improving them by educating the team on the INVEST method and FibonacciSequence
• Help teams to run experiments to uncover better ways of building software
• Technically proficient with Jira, Confluence, MS office, Slack, Miro Young Champions. Newark,California January 2015 -
August 2018Associate Director
• Experience as faculty recruiter and classroom teacher with a demonstrated history of working in the primary/ secondaryeducation industry, school management, classroom management, Early Childhood Education and lesson planning.
• Acted as proxy director.
• Staff requirement and admin support.
• Participated in weekly staff meetings and parent-teacher conferences
• Implemented a variety of management styles to effectively instruct class.
• Utilized curriculum-based assessment to monitor progress of individual students
• Planned daily lessons in all subject areas
• Wrote bi-weekly newsletter to communicate with parents.
• Contributed staff development meetings.
Adaequare Info Pvt Ltd. November 2009– November
2010Technical Trainer
• Provided training and mentorship to engineers to build teams focused on database concepts.
• Assist with schema design, code review, SQL query tuning
• Provide guidance and support to Application Developers
• Install, tune, implement and upgrade DBMS installations
• Write and deploy SQL patches
• Upgrade and improve application schema and data upgrades
• Collate, prepare and present statistical information for internal and external use HCL Perot System. September 2006 - October
2009Software Developer
• Public Health Surveillance System
• Developed a proof of concept named “Public Health Surveillance” to show case various features of Oracle EBS/ Mule ESB. For the same department of Health needs to analyze the entire laboratory test result from various laboratories and hospitals across the State on a daily basis. The analysis is done to find out if there is any occurrence of a disease beyond acertain threshold limit in a particular jurisdiction say in a county or in zip code. After the analysis, if any disease incidences goes beyond a certain threshold limit, the Department of Health will send automated notification to the respective authority in that particular jurisdiction.
• Involved in doing research work/implementation in Oracle ESB.
• Involved in doing research work/implementation in Mules ESB. Technologies/Tools: Java, CXF, AXIS, WSIF, Oracle ESB (SOA suite), XSL, JAX-WS, Notification Channel, File, JMS, Windows XP/Vista