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London, Ontario, Canada

Acted as a facilitator between the scrum team and the product owner/User Experience team.Fostered better communication between the disciplines Acted as a liaison to assigned project manager Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information.Mentored the groups towards development at a economical and agreeable pace for the team and the company.Worked with the distributed team- UK, Arizona, India, and New York.Championed and implemented DevOps Days internally to foster team collaborationImplemented cross. Functional team structure and limited it to 10 people with varied skills for easy communication and interaction.Created close feedback loops for the team to get immediate feedback.Implemented engineering standards and practices to have effective Continuous Delivery.Implemented Continuous Improvement Practices-Lunch-n-Learn, Hackathons, Reading clubs, cross-trainingAssisted the Product Owner in the creation and grooming the old product backlogFacilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on products and sprint backlog.Uprooted hindrances or aided the groups to evacuate obstructions by finding the right team to address blocking issues.

London, Ontario, Canada

Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 70% within the first year of Agile adoptionFacilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetingsRemoved team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 7 agile teams across 3 states.Encouraged Kanban principles as a scrum master reduced cycle time by 20%, thus increasing the 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 the outcome resulting in enhanced performance. Worked with the engineering team and executives to implement product feature improvements that increased conversion rate by 20 basis points Negotiated Enterprise SaaS contract and professional service agreement, which was valued at over $1.2 million Introduced tools and processes to successfully use Agile software development practices with a combination of