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Scrum Master for 2 teams; worked with two teams of developers, architects, testers, BAs and quality engineers to create unique applications:Ensure the team embraces and practices core agile principles of collaboration, prioritizing tasks and promoting team accountability and visibility to meet sprint / release goals.Support agile teams and stakeholders to create a compelling quality product vision and strategy.Create a positive and transparent communication channel between team members.Coach and mentor different scrum teams in self-organization and cross-functionality, while also ensuring everyone understands agile values and principles, and its supporting practices to deliver business values and increase return on investment.Guide the team’s operations by facilitating ceremonies (daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint review, sprint retrospective) and instilling Agile principles into daily activities to ensure smooth functioning of the delivery teamUse metrics such as burndown chart, velocity chart and capacity, to track team's progress and health.Ensure that the product backlog remains groomed and ready for team consumption during sprint planning.Work with other scrum masters to share information and develop processes to achieve consistency among teams and document processes and procedures.Protect development teams from outside distraction, resolve conflicts within the team and maintain team focus on sprint goals.Successfully manage cross-functional teams across multiple functions to complete projects on-time and within budget. Navigate complex relationships with internal stakeholders, clients, and project teams to clarify expectations and mitigate risk across the entire project life cycle. Championed successful transitions from Waterfall to Scrum/Agile methods as a Subject Matter Expert.Act as a point of contact (POC) communicating project status to all participants while ensuring internal teams have resources to meet deadlines.

Trained and coached leaders, Product Owners, and Developers in Lean-Agile practices and mindsetManaged risk and dependencies communicated and escalated impediments to facilitate transparency and reduce bottlenecks.Facilitated communication and collaboration inside and outside the team.Implemented agile practices within the teams to improve business outcomes and provided more transparency and value while delivering potentially releasable product increments every two weeks.Coordinated Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demos, Sprint retrospectives, Grooming and Release Planning.Facilitated periodic synchronization meetings across several different onsite and distributed delivery teams.Established a reputation for removing challenges and roadblocks to streamline workflow and eliminated distractions.Managed dependencies between scrum teams, by collaborating with other scrum masters within the scrum master network especially regarding items necessary for product release.Orchestrated project team activities and outside communication to ensure seamless flow of work, compliance with governance standards and achievement of project deliverables. Facilitated bi-weekly scrum of scrums (SOS) and drove conversations on cross team risks and dependencies.Embraced a continuous improvement mindset and drove the use of agile engineering best practices and innovations.Managed and measured teams’ progress using Burndown charts, Burnup charts, capacity and velocity.Collaborated with other teams in the Agile Release Train to manage cross dependencies and risks.Ensured the principles of Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation are implemented throughout the process of production.Coached Product owners on how to write user stories and prepare for sprint planning.Navigated complex relationships with internal stakeholders, clients, and project teams to clarify expectations and mitigate risk during each Sprint.

Database Administrator Working with the Test Environment Management (TEM) Team to plan, coordinate and minimally execute Test Data and Test Environment Management activities such as: • Data Refresh Coordination and Replications on SQL Server and Oracle Databases. • Executing Restore of Databases using Commvault and other Backup Servers • Resolving and closing tickets on ServiceNow • Installing, Configuring, and Managing SQL Server Databases in Dev and Test environments. • Developing and deploying different types of Reports using different data sources like SQL Server, Oracle, Excel.• Planning and scheduling logical and physical Backup/Recovery Strategies and simulating different data loss scenarios to restore and recover with minimal downtime.• Implementing database security and user management• Encrypting sensitive databases.• Installing, Upgrading, Configuring and Patching Production and Non-Production Databases.