Scrum Master
Current•Facilitates daily scrum standups and all other agile ceremonies.•Ability to collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams•Responsible for multiple Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team.•Successfully guided three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.•Removed obstacles for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in speedy delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.•Collaborated with product managers and a development team to identify and resolve issues, coordinate system requirements, and create project timelines.•Consistently uses data analytics to transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information and suggestions.•Collaborate with technical development teams for new implementations, functionality enhancements, application updates and performance issues and bugs. •Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.•Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.•Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.•Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.•Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories.•Enforced Kanban principles as a Scrum Master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks.•Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.•Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.