Anjali Goomer

Certified Scrum Master / Business Analyst

CAREER SYNOPSIS:

Expertise in Project Management and Cross-Team Coordination as Scrum Master and Business Analyst for various different banking, telecommunications, and media projects. Professional Certified Scrum Master.

Proficient in different methodologies that is Waterfall, Agile, Safe, Scrum, Kanban, XP, and Lean so that I can motivate my team.

Ability to build partnerships and effectively establish and maintain relationships with all stakeholders.

Strong knowledge of SDLC (Waterfall), Agile Methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and familiar with Scaled (SAFe) and Lean Agile Frameworks, Dev Ops, Six Sigma.

Experienced in conducting scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning meeting, Sprint review meeting, Sprint retrospective meeting, and Daily Standup Meeting.

Experienced in conducting scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning meeting, Sprint review meeting, Sprint retrospective meeting, and Daily Standup Meeting.

Expertise in all stages of Project Lifecycle - Requirement Analysis (FRS/User stories), Design, UAT, Support, Training Documentation, Process Improvement.

Continuously learnt Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team. Conducted Sprint Review Meetings to validate the Potentially Shippable Product Increment (PSPI)meets the Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done(DoD) as predetermined by users in the about respective requirements (User stories).

Excellent knowledge and experience of SharePoint 2010, MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Lync). Rally, GitHub, Sonar cube other technical and Project Management tools.

Delivered medium to complex Projects on time. Managed Risk, Dependencies and expectations of all stake holders.

Excellent communication, leadership, presentation, team building, prioritization and coordination skills.

Multi tasker and detail oriented professional who is adept at working in a fast paced, changing environment while serving the needs of multiple stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Project Management Tools

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MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office

Processes/Technologies

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Rational Unified Process (RUP), SDLC, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Use Cases, Storyboards, Scenarios, UML, Kanban, XP Joint Application Development (JAD)

Use Cases and User Stories

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Agile (Scrum) & Waterfall

Agile Tools

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Rally, JIRA, TFS

Programming

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Java, C#, VB.net, VB, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, UML, OOPs

Web Development Tools

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Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 / 2010, Dreamweaver 8.0

Operating Systems

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Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX

Other Skills

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Photoshop, Corel Draw, MS Office

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Precision Partners, Redondo Beach, CA Sep 2018 – Till Date

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.

Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks

Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.

Based on performance permanently posted on several projects as a Scrum Master.

Coached several Scrum teams in Agile principles and the Scrum framework.

Designed and implemented the configuration of Atlassian's JIRA Software (JIRA Agile) & Mingle to support an optimal and pure Scrum process.

Trained many engineers, Scrum Masters and Scrum product owners on how to use JIRA most effectively.

Successfully created, built and coached Scrum Teams in 3 client locations.

Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories.

Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.

Abbott Labs, Gurnee, IL Dec 2016 - Aug 2018

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Worked with e-business, Digital development, Mobile and other applications teams within Business Technology department for Discover credit cards.

Facilitate scrum meetings (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)

Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and quality of deliverables.

Managed Scrum artifacts from product backlog, user stories, tasks, velocity tracking, and retrospective action items.

Coached new Scrum Masters and trained global teams, to improve process and project delivery.

Defined scrum team objectives and published project status for business and all team members.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Ensured Transparency in team’s work by creating and tracking Sprint Capacity, Burn down charts, defect status in ALM and Rally.

Lead team with new Scaled Agile process (DMS) initiated by Discover Management and used Real Time Board for daily standup.

Max Health, Delhi, INDIA Jun 2013 – Apr 2016

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Held Pre-planning activities for meetings · Managed a team of 10 to ensure we delivered on committed goals.

Acted as liaison across business units primarily between the Project Manager, developers, Administrators and testers and the stakeholders.

Met face to face with client to understand scope, business process flows, business and system requirements, see live demo of current state processes, ask additional business questions and set expectations with client.

Created many user stories and features for the backlog and future sprints.

Discussed and reviewed process flows, mock-ups, wire frames and future state business process with UI/UX team.

Backlog grooming and Sprint Planning JAD sessions with team members in multiple cities and time zones.

Worked together with project team to strategize project goals and deliverable from both a technical and business process standpoint.

Worked closely with UI/UX designer to actualize standard business processes.

Conducted Interviews, Brainstorming sessions and Document analysis.

Prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD)

Developed Activity Diagrams, USE Case Diagrams.

Created Mock-up screen to make system better understood by Business and Technology Teams.

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