Alina Maharjan

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SAFe/Agile Leader

Scrum and Agile practice Business Analysis Problem Solving Global Experience Inventory and Order Management Supply Chain Leadership Business Process Improvement Project & Organizational Management Client Relations Business Intelligence Internal Partnerships Relationship Building Conflict Management Facilitation Agile/Kanban /Scrum/SAFe Webservices and API

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) extensive experience in improving processes and complex product deliveries. Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and a Sr. Business System Analyst with excellent analytical, and interpersonal skills. Certified SAFe Practitioner with experience in moving teams from tradidional waterfall methodology into successful Agile methodologies/practices. 8+ years of experience in Agile practices by effectively organizing Program Planning, Iteration Reviews and tracking efforts. Identified and demonstrated as a strong Servant-Leader and effective communicator. Experienced with Agile processes working with epics, user stories, use cases, and functional requirements. Highly experienced with Web services, APIs, User Interface (UI), and User Experience (UX). Able to pay great attention to details while not losing the big picture. Always carrying a positive learning attitude with an innate ability to quickly learn and adapt to new systems.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Nike. Jun 2017 – Till date

Scrum Master

Facilitated and Coached development teams as a servant-leader in implementing Scrum and Agile concepts and Principles.

Worked with multiple scrum teams and proven history of successful work with cross-functional teams.

Continually refined and evolved agile process for predictable and rapid software delivery.

Communicated, influenced, and partnered effectively using Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Slack and Outlook

Partnered with Product Owners to define project benefits, business requirements, project scope, aligning change control with scope, and impact to time, cost, and quality.

Assisted the Product Owners in product backlog refinements.

Facilitated team meetings, road mapping sessions and gathering feedback.

Organized and facilitated Sprint planning, Daily standups, Sprint reviews and retrospectives, Backlog refinements, stakeholder meetings and demos to business team.

Adopting the improvements learned from the Sprint Retrospective to next Sprint Planning.

Managed dashboards in JIRA including impediment backlog to track and resolve in a timely manner.

Managed Program Increment planning for Fulfillment teams in Marketplace area – leading from Pre-PI planning tasks, ensuring upcoming PI readiness in terms of requirements and design and commitment to external stake holders

Facilitated discussion and conflict resolution

Provided direction to project activities to ensure successful implementation and support

Promoted continuous improvement and help teams to increase productivity

Promoted a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation

Captured and reviewing team metrics, fostering team collaboration and communication.

Managed multiple projects of medium to large scale through all sprints/iterations and phases of the project and worked with Product Owners on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown.

Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, refinement, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings

Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management

Ensured the development teams are practicing core agile principles

Updated agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs

Updated company project portfolio system for status, resource allocation and capacity planning, and budget preparation

Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition

Determined and remove all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals

Nike. Jun 2016 – May 2017

Product Owner

Worked as Product Owner (PO) with a sound understanding of market for the product being built, users, and business; communicating the epics, themes, and features clearly to the Scrum Team to help them clearly understand and write user stories while maintaining and tracking the backlog.

Worked with User Interface (UI) requirements from User Experience (UX) perspectives.

Worked with wireframes to understand the front-end functionalities.

Played the role of a Scrum Master in the absence of Scrum Master.

Involved in the E2E Solution for the NikeID project.

Worked with web services with sound understanding of the interoperability over a network using different protocols such as HTTP, SOAP, REST, and XML – RPC as well as JSON and XML schemas.

Worked with APIs and their usefulness for the products being built with harnessing remote processing power of business intelligence and remote storage for business.

Worked on Pareto analysis for Line plans of various colorways.

Familiarity with Content Management Systems (CMS), Web based applications, business strategy and web site content.

Conducted Cross-functional meetings to discuss the impacts from cross functional systems.

Comerica Bank, Auburn Hills, MI. March 2013 – May 2016

Business Systems Analyst

Analyzed the business requirements documents to develop functional and detail design specification of the application.

Communicated extensively with clients and different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.

Conducted Gap Analysis and developed Systems Specification (SS) document to define the impact of the new requirements on the existing system.

Collaborated with the design and development teams to create effective design strategies, monitored the development of the system, and ensured compliance with quality standards and client specifications.

Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE: IRC (International Rescue Committee) Business Analyst Sep 2011 – March 2013

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (Organizational Leadership)- Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK. May 2015

Bachelor of Science (International Studies) - City College of New York (CUNY), New York, NY. Aug 2011

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner

Certified SAFe PO/PM

Certified Agility Health Radar facilitator

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