Ali Aulakh, CSM, ICP, SSM

301-***-**** • adbb1b@r.postjobfree.com

Agile Consultant Vienna, VA 22182

Professional Experience

Accenture Federal Services, Arlington, VA

Agile Coach/Scrum Master, February 2019 – Current

Key Achievements:

Coaching teams and leaders through the transformation and provided the necessary training and references to enable the ideal management and team structures

Creating and conducting training courses for teams related to agile best practices, understanding and improving team dynamics and team performance

Defining release cadence, establishing the Agile Release Train (ART), and managing product Increments across a multi-tiered organization

Supervision of major Agile ceremonies (Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings, Backlog Refinement Meetings, and Sprint Retrospectives)

Providing management with visibility into sprint and/or release progress towards defined goals (using burn-down charts, dashboards, velocity reporting)

Focusing primarily on training the teams to write good user stories, prioritize the work based on business value and handling of the tasks by the team. Placed substantial efforts on team member role training, time-boxing and providing strong metrics for all players

Novetta, Reston, VA

Scrum Master, August 2018 – January 2019

Key Achievements:

Established scalable Agile framework (SAFe v.4.0) within federal client space on multi-program contract supporting the intelligence community

Determined Agile best practices and procedures which are applied to all development initiatives, supporting commercial or federal clients

Managed major Agile ceremonies for multiple teams

Administration of Jira projects and Confluence Wiki pages

ROA Tech, Silver Spring, MD

Scrum Master/Agile Mentor, September 2017 – August 2018

Key Achievements:

Conducted the Agile Release Train’s first story mapping session

Worked with multiple teams to meet established increment and release goals

Mentored teams on writing effective user stories

Coached fellow Scrum Masters and team members on Agile best practices

Identified and implemented improvements to the team’s Agile processes

Contributed to the organization’s Agile project life cycle cross-functional teamwork

Auto Express, College Park, MD

Scrum Master/Business Analyst, June 2015 – May 2017

Key Achievements:

Implemented Scrum principles and practices for the development team

Facilitated Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings, Backlog Refinement Meetings, and Sprint Retrospectives

Facilitated Agile planning, demo/sprint review, and collaborative/design sessions

Worked with team to meet established increment/sprint and release goals

Gathered, documented, and analyzed user stories

Education History

University of Maryland Global Campus, Adelphi MD BS: Cybersecurity & Computer Networks

Technical Proficiencies

Certifications:

Certified Scrum Master, ICAgile Certified Professional, SAFe Scrum Master

Software:

Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, Version One, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Photoshop, Lightroom AWS

Volunteer Experience

MIST, College Park, MD

Head Coach, January 2013 - Current

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