James Mariadason

Email : adu3ud@r.postjobfree.com Phone: +1-470-***-****

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-mariadason-bb2b76144/

Summary

An astute professional with more than 5 years of Total experience in Scrum Master

Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines.

Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and to define resolution paths where required.

6+ years’ experience in Airline domain.

Experience in working with Scrum and Kanban frameworks.

Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution.

Find methods to effectively manage the product backlog.

Closely work with the Product Owner (PO) to ensure product backlogs are maintained and visible in preparation for the next sprint.

Organize and facilitate SCRUM ceremonies: daily stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives

Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.

Assess the Scrum knowledge maturity of the development team and coach the team to increase knowledge and adoption of the scrum methodology.

Guide and coach, the development team on self-organization to allow the team to fill in the intentional gaps in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.

Remove roadblocks and to help empower the team to deliver their commitments in each sprint cycle.

Help the team define agreements, like a Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and enforce the agreements.

Ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog in collaboration with the PO.

Facilitate dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the team.

Establish and utilize a comprehensive project plan to monitor and report project deliverables.

Coordinate in resolving issues, addressing risks, escalate concerns, and facilitate decision-making.

Develop and implement key metrics to measure/report the progress and value of the project.

Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the Agile team to support value delivery and Sprint commitments.

Provide visibility into the Agile team’s delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders.

Enable the team to become high performing through collaboration and a relentless focus on continuous improvement including cross-skilling across the team.

Measure team delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the team to identify improvement opportunities.

Mentor more junior Scrum Masters

Closely work with Release Train Engineer (RTE) to support integrating plans at the Agile Release Train (ART) level.

Lead two scrum teams with DevOps model.

Ability to work both independently and cross-function with minimal supervision.

Ability to multi-task priorities and initiatives

Have strong negotiation skills as well as ability to facilitate informed and timely decisions and mediating trade-offs with various groups to deliver a product on time and ready for market.

Strong experience with EKS, Kubernetes.

Strong knowledge of application development life cycle.

Very good experience in JIRA and maintain the Stories, Defects, and action items in the JIRA.

Certified PSM I and SAFe 5 Agilest

Collaborate with other scrum masters to improve the methodologies’ efficiency.

Coordinate with the configuration management analyst on environment setups & maintenance, code deployments, and production releases.

Define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value.

Correct deviations from plans and perform delivery planning for assigned projects.

Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges for the customers and validate new integration launches.

Lead the team to develop mobile (both iOS and Android) application for the candidates those who selected for job.

Strong in analytical, problem-solving skills and ability to learn fast and work well under pressure.

Good team player ad always respects team’s ideas and suggestions.

Having experience in Telecom, Travel, Airline and Retail domains.

Certification

1.AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

2.Professional Scrum Master I

3.SAFe 5 Agilist.

4.Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) V3 Foundation Examination.

5.SCJP 1.4

Educational Qualifications

Master of Computer applications, Computer Science. 1998- 2001

Master of Science, Mathematics – 1995- 97

Bachelor of Education, Mathematics. 1997-98

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics - 1992 -95

Technology Skills

AWS cloud, Kubernetes, JAVA, Spring boot, Microservices, DevOps, GIT, JIRA, Confluence, Scrum, Kanban, Tomcat, Apache, Jboss, WebSphere Application Server, Web Logic, Linux, Windows, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, HTML, WLST, JQuery, AngularJS, JavaScript, Eclipse, Postman, Visual Studio Code, Agile, Scrum, IBM MQ, JMS, Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint

Agile Project Management tool: JIRA, Version one, ADO (Azure Devops), Confluence.

Professional Experience

The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here, in chronological order.

Customer: T-Mobile Inc. Atlanta GA Jul 2022 to Nov 2022

Company: UST Global

Role: Sr. Scrum Master

Software used: JAVA, Spring boot, Microservices, DevOps, Kubernetes, IBM Sterling, Splunk, Apigee, Oracle DB

Responsibilities

Closely work with the Product Owner (PO) to ensure product backlogs are maintained and visible in preparation for the next sprint.

Organize and facilitate SCRUM ceremonies: daily stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives

Facilitate and Support demo of the increment with all the stakeholders.

Removes project impediments that boost team productivity and performance.

Closely work with Release Train Engineer (RTE) to support integrating plans at the Agile Release Train (ART) level.

Mentor and coach team members on core Agile and Scrum values, principles, practices, and processes

Ability to work both independently and cross-function with minimal supervision.

Ability to multi-task priorities and initiatives

Have strong negotiation skills as well as ability to facilitate informed and timely decisions and mediating trade-offs with various groups to deliver a product on time and ready for market.

Enable team to become self-organizing and self-managing to achieve its goals.

Lead two scrum teams with DevOps model.

Motivate teams to perform and ensure team members are collectively responsible for all aspects of the committed work (analysis, development, testing, documentation, etc.)

Capture and analyse accurate sprint metrics such as team capacity and velocity to ensure that team is aware of their progress and ability to take on work in future sprints.

Customer: Walmart Inc. Bentonville AR Sep 2020 to Jul 2022

Company: Tata Consultancy Services

Role: Sr. Scrum Master

Software used: React Native, Node JS, Typescript, Devops, Jenkins, Kubernetes, AWS, Splunk, Apigee, Oracle DB, JIRA, Confluence

Responsibilities

Closely work with the Product Owner (PO) to ensure product backlogs are maintained and visible in preparation for the next sprint.

Organize and facilitate SCRUM ceremonies: daily stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives

Facilitate and Support demo of the increment with all the stakeholders.

Removes project impediments that boost team productivity and performance.

Closely work with Release Train Engineer (RTE) to support integrating plans at the Agile Release Train (ART) level.

Mentor and coach team members on core Agile and Scrum values, principles, practices, and processes

Ability to work both independently and cross-function with minimal supervision.

Ability to multi-task priorities and initiatives

Have strong negotiation skills as well as ability to facilitate informed and timely decisions and mediating trade-offs with various groups to deliver a product on time and ready for market.

Enable team to become self-organizing and self-managing to achieve its goals.

Motivate teams to perform and ensure team members are collectively responsible for all aspects of the committed work (analysis, development, testing, documentation, etc.)

Lead the team to develop mobile (both iOS and Android) application for the candidates those who selected for job.

Capture and analyse accurate sprint metrics such as team capacity and velocity to ensure that team is aware of their progress and ability to take on work in future sprints.

Customer: Delta Air Lines. Atlanta GA Mar 2017 to Jul 2020

Company: Tata Consultancy Services

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities

Closely work with the Product Owner (PO) to ensure product backlogs are maintained and visible in preparation for the next sprint.

Organize and facilitate SCRUM ceremonies: daily stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives

Facilitate and Support demo of the increment with all the stakeholders.

Removes project impediments that boost team productivity and performance.

Closely work with Release Train Engineer (RTE) to support integrating plans at the Agile Release Train (ART) level.

Mentor and coach team members on core Agile and Scrum values, principles, practices, and processes

Ability to work both independently and cross-function with minimal supervision.

Ability to multi-task priorities and initiatives

Have strong negotiation skills as well as ability to facilitate informed and timely decisions and mediating trade-offs with various groups to deliver a product on time and ready for market.

Enable team to become self-organizing and self-managing to achieve its goals.

Motivate teams to perform and ensure team members are collectively responsible for all aspects of the committed work (analysis, development, testing, documentation, etc.)

Capture and analyse accurate sprint metrics such as team capacity and velocity to ensure that team is aware of their progress and ability to take on work in future sprints.

Customer: Delta Air Lines. Atlanta GA May 2015 to March 2017

Company: Tata Consultancy Services

Role: Technical Lead

AIR4 (Access Information Real-time for Customers) Project:

The best-in-class suite of systems has been built on Delta’s proven PSS technology platform and has been selected by Virgin Atlantic following a thorough tender and evaluation process. AIR4’s implementation represents a step change in Virgin Atlantic’s technology portfolio and will cement the Virgin Atlantic/Delta joint venture as the most customer-focused transatlantic airline partnership, ensuring seamless experiences for both Delta and Virgin customers.

AIR4 will be fully distinct from Delta’s PSS but close alignment will allow Virgin Atlantic to benefit in full of Delta’s extensive development pipeline, creating huge opportunities for innovation and customer service improvement.

Software used: Java, J2EE, Spring, Jenkins, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, Apigee, Oracle DB.

Customer: Virgin Atlantic Airways - UK Feb 2014 to April 2015

Company: Tata Consultancy Services

Role: Application Architect

Virgin Atlantic Airways – Website Migration Project:

The VAA Website is a J2EE based application, formed by a backend module (ear) and a web module (war), deployed on J2EE compliance container, Weblogic version 11 (10.3.3). The website application communicates with several external systems, providing a variety of different services like flight data caching, flight reservation, address validation, insurance, hotel and car hire, frequent flyer data, tracking, boarding pass printing, online payment and many others.

Customer: Telefonica - Spain June 2013 to Jan 2014

Company: Tata Consultancy Services

Role: Project Manager

Middleware Infrastructure Support Project:

Telefonica's total number of customers amounted to 315.7 million as of March 2013.Consolidated revenues of 14,141 million euros and more than 315,7 million customer in March 2013.The different operations of the Telefónica Group in 24 countries are organized into two geographical regions, Europe and Latin America, and the global business unit, Telefónica Digital.

Customer: British Telecommunication Ltd -UK December 2005 to June 2013

Company: Tata Consultancy Services

Role: Project Manager and Lead Developer

Integration Infrastructure Platform Project: The 21st Century Network (21CN) programme is the network transformation project of BT.

As part of this BTs telephone network will move from the present Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to an Internet Protocol (IP) system. The key point is that this should not be seen as only a network transformation, this also needs a major change in BT systems and the way BT does business today. On a technical level, BT needs to change its internal systems to be able to handle 21CN.

The Integration Message Broker (IMB) provides a generic Integration Framework which can be reused across integration projects to assemble integration solution.

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