Scrum Master Project Management

SIRI ETANY – New York 646-***-**** – ****.*****@*****.***

I am an experienced Scrum Master that has helped teams adopt and improve on the Scrum methodology. Coached teams to higher levels of maturity by continually improving their process and ensured that they adhere to the Scrum framework. Have excellent communication and facilitation skills, well organized, and possess excellent follow-up and follow-through skills. Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives. SUMMARY:

● 8+ years of experience in agile development including coaching on agile methodologies.

● Strong facilitation skills in leading the daily scrum, planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.

● Proven ability to build constructive relationships and drive towards alignment and clarity with a variety of stakeholders, such as executives, managers, and subject matter experts

● Excellent organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills

● Ability to manage and execute on multiple projects simultaneously

● Experience with Agile project management tools (Jira, Confluence) and remote tools (Zoom, Teams)

● Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work under pressure to balance competing priorities in meeting business deadlines.

● Deep familiarity and understanding of Agile practices EXPERIENCE:

Copart Inc. – Scrum Master Aug 2017 - April 2023

• Organize and facilitate agile ceremonies such as sprint/iteration planning, reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, backlog refinements, and other ceremonies as they apply to the team.

• Promotes team ownership, collective and shared accountability, empowers the team and encourages transparency

• Promotes collaboration, self-organization, and helps the team and its individuals develop, perform and achieve synergy.

• Help the team continuously improve their interactions, practices, and process through valuable inspect and adapt practices

• Proactively and continuously seeks ways to improve the value obtained from the Scrum Events

• Proactively and continuously focuses on ways to help the Scrum Team maximize the value of the product they are delivering

• Facilitate story / epic level backlog refinement and prioritization and provide monitoring and status tracking support for cross-team initiatives

• Ensure impediments are visible and tracked through to resolution, escalating when necessary.

• Defines, manages and controls scope, resources and cost through the use of traditional project management practices and documents such as project plans, change requests, risk registers and communication plans.

Scarsdale Medical – Scrum Master Dec. 2015 – July. 2017.

● Organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, daily triage, and other Agile activities

● Fostered a healthy team dynamic using metrics to identify opportunities and drive action

● Helped Identify and remove roadblocks from the team’s path to ensure productivity

● Protected the team from external interruptions by filtering all requests and pushing back on non-priority items

● Coached and supported Product Owner and Business Analyst in maintaining a refined product backlog for the team.

● Regularly reported project status and resource utilization in clear, concise terms that are easily consumed by both team members and stakeholders.

● Maintained priorities and delivery detail including feature status, timing, dependencies, and risks.

● Helped the team improve with facilitated conversations, metrics, feedback loops, and information radiators

● Integrated Agile and Lean principles into team practices and work products

● Utilized team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Prof Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

• Mandl College, 2016 - BA degree in science

• Crisis Intervention Training (CPI)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Scrum, Agile, Coaching, Facilitation, Quality Assurance, SDLC, Software Requirements,, Jira, User Stories, Unit Test, Kanban, Testing, Stakeholder Management, Leadership, MS Office, Communication, Defect Management, Continuous Improvement, Retrospectives, Scrum Values, Technical Support & Troubleshooting, Microsoft 365, User Training & Support, Preventative Maintenance, Windows 10, Documentation & Reporting, Excel

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