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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Participated in Enterprise Agile coordinated Agile adoption for teams - Scheduled daily stand-ups, facilitated sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning. - Conducted Scrum of scrum meetings and participate in Release planning meetings. - Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders related to agile best practices, understanding and improving team dynamics and team performance. - Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline. - Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down. - Maintained capacity planning with alignment with program resource plan in order to achieve release goals. - Facilitate implementation of new functionality through training sessions, demos, and the development of appropriate end user and support team documentation- Established Agile Scrum Framework, coached the team on Agile Scrum best practices, reporting on several metrics - burn-down chart, Velocity, performance mgmt., Risk mgmt. and timely / accurate communication to leadership - Experience in interaction and influence for Agile and SAFe adoption- Facilitated team level SAFe events including with the Innovation Planning Sprints, Inspect & Adapt, and Quantitative analysis of Metrics.- Facilitated agile release trains, big room planning sessions, worked with release train engineers RTE, scrum teams and program management to prioritize and estimate features, fully executed agile release trains from inception to delivery, followed Scaled Agile Framework SAFe principals

Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, Us

- Utilized agile methodology (Scrum) to effectively plan, monitor, control and report on project of high visibility. - Administered all Agile/Scrum process and assisted junior staff on same. - Involved in the organizational transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology. Involved in the necessary steps from inception through production deployment. - Utilized agile methodology (Scrum) to effectively plan, monitor, control and report on project of high visibility. - Defined workflow and processes for Product Management features intake like patch processes and overall development (Waterfall and Agile) processes. - Implemented Agile process and trained staff to maximize benefits- Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.) - Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality - Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs - Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress - Reported project status to key stakeholders and executives.- Ensure Development Teams are practicing core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility. - Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices. - Design and present technical reports, requirements documentation, status reports, project schedules, communication plans and presentations accurately and on-schedule. - Accountable to senior leadership to lead diverse teams while achieving business directives calling out project risks, issues and dependencies. - Coached teams on SAFe™ model's three levels for scaling on both Portfolio, Program and Team- Led teams through preparation for first SAFe program iteration planning event- Facilitated ART’s, big room planning session, working with RTE scrum teams and program management to prioritize and estimate features

New York, Ny, Us

- Led multiple scrum teams in a distributed agile scenario - Help implement the SCRUM framework for Teams which will bring the Program goals to team to deliver the program objective. - Monitor the team performance by using Burn down, velocity and other agile metrics - Worked on project from initial stage of sprint 0 to setup the team norms, objectives, Epic, Release planning and story tagging to different sprint - Responsible for ensuring the team follow the agile processes and coach the team for best practices around Scrum and Kanban - Helped Organization to transform from Water fall to agile by incorporating right coaching for teams and bringing the mindset for Scrum - Coaching and mentoring the new scrum master - Work closely with PO to ensure that team has healthy backlog and there is clear roadmap in terms of upcoming release - Conduct Release planning at start of the project and then on quarterly basis to ensure that clear roadmap for upcoming releases - Responsible to facilitate all the key ceremonies for Scrum/Kanban team such as standup Grooming, Planning, Demo and Retrospective - Conduct Retrospective in an Innovative way to get best out of team members in terms of improvement - Conduct team building activities and acknowledge the star performer on timely basis - Ensure that key actions item from Retrospective reach to closure - Responsible for providing project status, accomplishments, forecast and impediment in S2 meetings - Ensure that all the impediment get traction and help team to reach to closure for impediment. Work with right stakeholder and if needed escalate to right team for resolving the blockers - Ensure that program goal, scrum goal and project goals are clear to the team - Responsible for delivering maximum value to the customer by closely tracking the project deliveries and suggest innovation way to do things better

- Facilitate all scrum ceremonies (i.e., daily stand ups, bi-weekly backlog refinement, sprint planning, defect reviews, sprint review, demos and retrospectives). - Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline. - Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices - Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization - Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments- Build healthy partnerships with two Product Owners, calendaring grooming sessions consistently to ensure backlog is healthy (stories meet the team's definition of ready and acceptance criteria meets definition of done) - Increased team velocity while decreasing production bugs on both teams - Created and maintained two backlogs with 3 Sprints worth of stories - Held the highest Client rated project for multiple Sprints - Helped company obtain a new Client by participating in an Inception process

Addison, Illinois, Us

• Conducted Scrum Ceremonies - Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, story reviews. Attended Scrum of Scrum meetings and highlighted stories impacting other teams.• Assisted product owner in maintaining and grooming the product backlog resulting in engagement with business in order to understand and clarify the requirements.• Shield the team from external/internal distractions also provided extended support in resolving technical blockers.• Responsible for creating, maintaining and publishing project plans/schedules, milestones, timelines, statuses to executive leadership and senior management. • Acted as a Liaison with clients, stakeholders and management along with building strong relationships with the customers, stakeholders and the management to understand, set and manage expectations. • Responsible for creating, maintaining and publishing project plans/schedules, milestones, timelines, statuses to executive leadership and senior management. • Used JIRA for Requirements management, Project management, Test case management and Reporting. • Managed Dependencies, identified Risks and resolved Issues in a timely manner. Managed resource allocations, Project gating process, and generated reports using Clarity tool. • Monitored burn down charts daily and generated weekly reports using JIRA.

Us

• Analyzed the AS IS study of the process and prognosticate the TO BE of the business processes and performed GAP Analysis. • Worked with the Stakeholders to refine and grow the payroll implementation service model. • Designed, developed processes that geared at improving productivity, quality levels of performance and client satisfaction. • Expertise in eliciting and analyzing business requirements through JAD sessions to support new and improved processes that can be integrated into routine operations within the system. • Assisted the project manager in completing required Business cases and identified opportunities to streamline to inject process improvement and in implementing Change management control to successfully integrate future state processes into a sustainable action. • Formulated and defined system's scope and objectives based on the business needs through understanding of business systems, and industry standards. • Ensured proper documentation of risks, assumptions, issues and decisions related to the process integration event and escalates key issues regarding projects.

Education record

Master'S Degree, Business/Commerce, General