Scrum Master Project

PAWANDEEP HUNDAL

**********@*****.*** 951-***-****

Summary

Results-focused, scrum master with years of proven success in developing and leading cross-functional technical teams to execute and deliver major technology initiatives. Highly effective communication facilitator and contributor to key partnerships, projects and collective team objectives across, telecom, network, hosting, security, governance and vendor management to achieve positive impact on all business outcomes. Offering excellent project management, multi-tasking and communication skills to coordinate multiple, concurrent projects with competing demands. Makes sound decisions in high-pressure settings and utilize analytical problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Project Team Coordination

Project Management

Presentation Skills

Software Process Management

Agile Best Practices

Scrum Processes

Software Development

Team Leadership

Project Planning

Relationship Building

Coaching and Mentoring

Customer Requirements Analysis

Effective Customer Communication

Verbal and Written Communication

Documentation and Reporting

Technology Implementation

Performance Monitoring

Experience

Wells Fargo San Francisco, CA

Lead Scrum Master

07/2021 - Current

Managing and evolving Scaled Agile portfolios of the highest complexity.

Facilitates the scrum process on scrum teams with significant cross-functional impacts involving project, non-project, or maintenance work.

Guides the scrum team(s) and organization to follow accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.

Mentored cross functional time of 15 resources to deliver quality products which led to over $3M in revenue.

Uses empirical data to help the team(s) assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.

Proactively addresses systemic impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.

Coached scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.

Acting as a Project Leader and Agile Mentor for 3 teams by coaching cross-functional team members (Dev, QA, BA, XD).

Increased teams’ efficiency and predictability from 65% to 98%.

Ensured 100% effective software delivery based upon defined Agile value and principles.

Federal Home Loan Bank San Francisco, CA

Sr Scrum Master

11/2019 - 06/2021

Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

Successfully Implemented Kanban, Scrum ban & Scrum frameworks according to changing project requirements by coaching the team towards agile transformation

Kanban /Scrum Ban – started introducing backlog refinements, Release retrospectives, Release reviews, Bi- weekly release review checkpoints, planning poker.

Support and works with team product owners to facilitate a healthy intra-team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.

Introduced JIRA dashboards& other useful filters for JIRA

Clayton Homes Knoxville, TN

Scrum Master

11/2017 - 10/2019

Track project/program progress, identifying and escalating issues and identifying resources to provide solutions to ensure that program tasks are completed according to established timelines.

Managed and coordinated communications across all stakeholders, acting as the primary POC, brainstorming sessions, scope negotiations, Release planning meeting, stakeholder meeting, project status review, and customer feedback meetings.

Agile Coaching- IT Teams to support change and empower team members; Product Owners in a supporting role for backlog and story prioritization; Team Members through Sprint Planning, Standup Meetings, Retrospective, Backlog Grooming, Point Allocation, Team Building

Making working partnerships with business/cross functional stakeholders to create enterprise culture of trust and transparency that are essential for agile development/project management

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Columbus, Ohio

Scrum Master

08/2015 - 10/2017

Served as a Scrum Master for 2 development teams developing and modifying applications to serve industry with Safe implementation.

Coached Scrum and Kanban teams to understand Agile values and Principles.

Scrum Master for On-site / Off-shore teams and worked very closely with the business teams.

Mentored scrum masters, POs and stakeholders on agile values and principles

Facilitated Agile Scrum ceremonies, Iteration Planning, Retrospectives, Reviews and Ensured a collaborative Daily stand-up call

AT&T Richardson, TX

Scrum Master

01/2014 - 07/2015

Developed reports or created dashboards, providing financial-related information to make informed business decisions.

Facilitate standard scrum meetings and act as servant leader to the team.

Identified and documented Issues, risks and gaps and their descriptions and impact, and provided recommendations and alternatives.

Assisted various members of the project team including development, technical and business team members to resolve issues, validating results and communicating status and issues and risks.

Wal-Mart E-Commerce Corporate San Bruno, CA

Scrum Master

11/2011 - 12/2013

Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders, and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum.

Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.

Identified potential project risks and helped developed mitigation plans to resolve potential issues.

Enhanced efficiency of content flow between developers and transparency of content status through integration of automated workflow pipelines.

Evaluated projects for issues, alleviating problems and distractions to meeting team goals.

Education and Training

Westcliff University Irvine, CA

MBA in IT and Project Management

01/2020

University of California Riverside

PG Diploma in Business Management

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (International Scrum Institute)

Additional Information

TOOLS

TFS, MTM, JIRA, Jira Align, Confluence, Azure Dev Ops

BI/Reporting Tools, Crystal Reports, Net link, JIRA, Bugzilla

IBM ReqPro, UML, RUP, ETL, IBM Blue Works Live, Sapiens decisions.

MS Office Suite

RUP, UML, Rational Rose, Rational requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest

Oracle SCM, SAP CRM.

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