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Chicago – Canada - Islamabad - Riyadh

Facilitated worked with product owners and internal teams, external teams for multiple scrum teams on scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings and artifacts such as, product backlog , sprint backlog and product incrementExperience with user story grooming, release planning managed sprint burn down, artifacts, reviews, acceptance Criteria and feedback from demos and presentationsWas responsible schedule the daily stand -ups meetings with developers, business analyst, test leads and removing impediments and guiding the team to remove impediments and update the team progress to the product ownersWorked with product owners and communicate the release scope and requirements changes to the team, including a high level analysis of sprint impact and assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definitionCoordinated with the product owner and the internal teams for the sprint user stories and ensured that they are Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small and Testable for every sprint release

Chicago - Islamabad

In my role as a Sr. Project Manager i was responsible for interacting with managers of different areas of the organization, presenting findings to stakeholders and higher management, • Managed waterfall projects and scrum teams simultaneously and interact with multiple levels of management, both internal and external teams.

Naperville, Illinois, United States

Experienced in running Project Meetings (Kickoff, Status Meetings, training sessions, demos (Internal/Client)Led the agile development teams, driving the agile process and deliverables in several projectsLed the agile development teams, driving the agile process and deliverables in multiple projects.Developed the scope of a project and project schedule, secured resources and coordinated the activities of a project team to achieve important business objectives and maintained project and program documentation to organize and track project status with the cross functional teams and executive leadersWork with appropriate team members to plan details of the release tasks, sequences, dependenciesAs Scrum Master facilitated scrum ceremonies meetings like sprint planning, daily stand- ups, sprint review, sprint retrospective and release planning sessions and issue resolution meetings as requiredResponsible and scheduled daily stand -ups meetings with developers, business analyst, test leads and addressed the impediments with the internal teams and product ownersWorked with stakeholders on scrum ceremonies, artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burn down and Release Burn down and followed waterfall development Methodology process

Naperville, Illinois, United States

In my Role as a SM, I was responsible for making a switch from waterfall to agile. I trained multiple teams on agility and were leading multiple scrum teams working on an extensive web-based application. Managed Daily scrums / Retro / review meeting and constantly worked with PO to streamline the process.Participated in management of vendors in terms of implementation and support of products and servicesWorked in effective Story Gathering and creation, similarities/differences from Business and Technical Requirements SpecificationsSchedule and facilitate scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint review, sprint retrospective meetings prior to the beginning of each sprint. Work with product owners and delivery teams to groom stories in advance of each sprintCommunicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the backlog owner and stakeholders - Schedule and facilitate daily stand up meetingsFollowed waterfall development process for every sprint development user storiesInteract with the client, developers and users for the baseline the requirements•Participated in the entire development life cycle from the functionality requirements through deployment & maintenanceIdentify need for additional resource for the project, hiring, performance reviews and appraisalsCoordinated the assignments between the offshore team and the on shore teamResponsible for Weekly Status reports showing the progress of the offshore testing effortPrepare Daily, Weekly & Project Status Reports and Usage documents

Chicago – Canada - Islamabad

JIRA was used for the project dashboards, user stories, tasks, iterations, release versions and maintained KPI metrics.As Scrum Master facilitated scrum ceremonies meetings like sprint planning, daily stand- ups, sprint review, sprint retrospective and release planning sessions and issue resolution meetings as required and support the product owner respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.Coordinated the assignments between the offshore team and the on shore team Responsible for weekly status reports showing the progress of the offshore testing effort

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Avenir Technologies prides itself in providing business solutions to an ever expanding clientage. Our services are as diverse as our clients; no problem is too difficult and no project is too big or small. During my tenure with Avenir Technologies, I worked as a Training Executive and Quality Analyst focusing on to achieve the highest possible growth in an individual which proved to be a success for both parties.

Worked in Touchstone Communications for 3 years on multiple campaign, got promoted to TL for performing high quality sales, good communication skills and Excellent product knowledge. Worked on UK /US projects and generated quality leads and sales for the company.Responsibilities IncludedContact Center OperationsTeam ManagementCall Handling Telephone Ethics Strong Communication SkillsTraining New Hires Generating and Maintaining Monthly and daily sales Target