Scrum Master

SAMEE RAHMAN

Phone – 812-***-**** Email -************@*******.***

PROFILE

Certified Scrum professional with Leading Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) 5.0 certification and 10+ years of experience in guiding and coaching multiple cross-functional teams. Served primarily with an Information Technology (IT) service provider, and more recently for a Contract Research Organization

(CRO) supporting clinical research.

As a Scrum Master I focus on:

• Coaching the team to stay focused on outcomes and be consistent in value delivery.

• Helping stakeholders, Product Owner and Delivery Team visualize progress by maintaining a 2-3 month Roadmap

• Being a servant leader who focusses on developing high performing teams with an Agile/Lean mindset.

• Creating an environment for continuous improvement guided by program/team level metrics.

• Improving collaboration within the team through facilitation of Scrum/Kanban ceremonies.

• Working with Product Owners to facilitate Quarterly Planning and maintaining a healthy Product Backlog.

• Facilitating Big room planning involving multiple delivery teams and stakeholders

• Helping Teams manage dependencies across teams through agile scaling structures (Scrum of Scrums).

• Removing impediments and helping Teams achieve their goals. CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• SAFe (5.0) Certified

• Psychological First Aid

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EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master at TRI, Bethesda, MD Apr 2021—Present

§ Planned and managed delivery for Agile Team working on multiple products supporting multiple healthcare projects

§ Promoted an Agile Mindset at organizational level by presenting relevant topics before senior management during organizational retrospectives.

§ Facilitated Big room planning involving multiple delivery teams and stakeholders

§ Facilitated and coached teams on Agile ceremonies and guides the team members to use Agile values and principles to stay organized and deliver value consistently.

§ Worked with Product Owners helping them understand team’s historic delivery metrics and plan releases accordingly.

§ Maintained 2–3-month roadmap and collaborated with product owners and stakeholders to resolve prioritization conflicts.

§ Worked with product owners and delivery manager to review future work and ensure a healthy backlog

§ Proactively worked with senior management on risks and dependencies that impeded team’s progress.

§ Monitored burndown progress, delivery schedules and made progress, risks and issues transparent through team level reporting.

Scrum Master at Innolance Inc, Sterling, VA Mar 2015—April 2021

§ Supported 2-3 Agile Teams concurrently in a distributed environment.

§ Worked with stakeholders and teams to establish Agile Metrics for tracking program health.

§ Focused on continuous improvement through data driven retrospectives at the program and team level.

§ Worked with Stakeholders, Product Owners and Delivery Team on Business Value Prioritization and Delivery.

§ Facilitated Release Planning across multiple Teams.

§ Coordinated resolution of inter team dependencies in Scrum of Scrums.

§ Helped create Value Streams and WIP limits for Kanban Teams and stay focused on value delivery.

§ Helped Agile teams to implement Automated Testing and Continuous Integration.

§ Helped the team improve User Acceptance Testing process Business Analyst at Innolance Inc., Sterling, VA Feb 2014— Mar 2015

§ Collaborated with stakeholders and development team to understand capabilities and provide guidance on MVP.

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§ Helped the Product Owner in maintaining a healthy, prioritized Product backlog.

§ Worked with proxy Product Owner to write meaningful User Stories conforming to the INVEST criteria.

§ Worked collaboratively with Product Owner and Team members to achieve sprint goals and staying focused on delivering value.

Quality Analyst at Innolance Inc., Sterling, VA Jul 2011—Feb 2014

§ Performed functional, usability and system testing on multiple projects in Agile Teams.

§ Participated in Agile Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Retrospective and Release Planning).

§ Assisted Business Analysts and Product Owner in backlog maintenance.

§ Facilitated Sprint demonstrations for the stakeholders with the team.

§ Used effective communication skills to reduce delays, reworks and unnecessary bugs. EDUCATION

§ Calicut University, India – BS in Chemical Engineering SKILLS

• Scrum, Kanban

• Leading Remote Teams

• Lean Development, SDLC

• Agile Software Engineering Practices, DevOps

• Team Building, Team Facilitation

• Scaled Agile, SAFe 5.0, Big room planning, Scrum of Scrums

• Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally, Trello, Miro, Confluence, Jenkins

• MS Office, SharePoint

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