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Email: EMAIL AVAILABLENewark, New Jersey, Street Address Tel: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEEDUCATIONAssociate in General Science, Essex County College, NJ Street Address /2018 -12/2020CERTIFICATIONSCertified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Scaled Agile FrameworkSAFe Scrum Master, Scaled Agile FrameworkCertified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum AllianceSUMMARYServant leader and an exemplary team player with definitive leadership and communication skills.Expertise in overseeing complex, high-value projects with requirement gathering, analysis, planning, project development and risk management skills.Collaborative Agilist, promoting Agility adaptation and implementation.Servant Leader with background in building a positive working environment for the teams, customer and stakeholder.Proficient in task prioritization, risk management and workflow optimization.Highly Knowledgeable in using required web technologies to help facilitate and increase productivity.Ability to set clear performance standards, and hold team members accountable, while keeping team engaged and on task.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEVerizon,Basking ridge, New Jersey 07/21Scrum MasterSuccessfully facilitated two scrum teams which consisted of co-located and offshore teams simultaneouslyTracking the day to day execution of the activities involved in designing,developing and maintaining proposed solutionsRemoving team impediments daily to allow the team deliver the sprint goals and deliverablesSuccessfully transitioned a waterfall team to Agile MethodologyCoached and facilitated teams developing applications that enabled users to access all necessary day to day needsConducted and facilitated scrum events- daily standups, retrospective, backlog refinement sprint review and sprint planning sessionsCreated a viable working atmosphere with developers as well as multiple product owners for bot co-located and offshore teamsTracking reports such as burndown charts and burn up chartsWorked closely with RTE and with other scrum master to solve problems and achieve desired goalsTeam work and AccomplishmentSuccessfully implemented unified account dashboard for the customerTeam worked on customers account activity page on mobile application and online pageShell, Newark, New Jersey TX 12/2019 - 06/21Scrum MasterHelped the RTE with the organization of Shells PI planning and assisting with problem solving workshops, mapping dependencies as needed.Helped build new high performing teams from the ground up. Identifying different skill sets, training on SAFe and best Agile practices.Facilitating Release Planning, DSU, Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement/Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.Removing team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.Helped the Product Owner with writing User Stories, backlog prioritization, Iteration planning and Iteration Review.Working with Technical teams to identify options to meet business requirements.Tracking the day-to-day execution of the activities involved in designing, developing and maintaining proposed solutions. Identifying blocking, critical and non-critical issues and escalating to the customer, as and when they occur.Coordinated and integrated activities across multiple teams including Test Cases development, Test execution and System Integration Testing.Excellent communication skills, facilitation skills, able to collaborate, plan, execute and follow-up on meetings at the team levelAble to actively participate in the creation and maintenance of a unified Product/Tech initiative roadmap that aligns with business goalsParticipate with Product, Ops, Design and Tech stakeholders to identify dependencies, craft delivery strategies, and involve customers in early, incremental delivery of consumable solutionsApply facilitation and dependency management techniques to drive delivery through planning, collaboration, and coordinationFacilitate story / epic level backlog refinement and prioritization and provide monitoring and status tracking support for cross-team initiativesMy team worked optimizing Shells websiteDatabase migration. Back End, Front End, and API DevelopmentMy Developers used, JavaScript and Angular (FE), and Java, C# with .Net Core MVC, and GraphQL ( BEBank of America, Houston, 05/2017 - 12/2019Scrum Master Coached and facilitated teams developing applications that enabled users to access all necessary day to day banking needs. Also, the backend enabled businesses to be able to keep track of end user records and account status. Worked with the scrum teams to facilitate, educate and coach them on the Agile Scrum frameworkInspired management to adopt new processes and improvements based on program retrospectives.Provided support in delivering effective programs through collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance productivity and improve agile/Kanban methodologies.Successfully facilitated two Scrum teams and a Kanban team simultaneously.Motivated and led workforce with emphasis on quality and on-time delivery of projects to accomplish business aims and enhance operational excellence.Successfully transitioned a Waterfall team to Agile methodology.Created team-building opportunities, developed learning solutions aligned with business outcomes for all levels of employees and ensured employee performance improvements.Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.Encouraged and implemented process improvements.Facilitated and headed project teams to deliver learning solutions for increasing staff working efficiency.Organized meetings with related project workforce to discuss key points for maintaining project timelines.Ensured implementation and adaptation of learning solutions by management as well as departments to meet set goals.Coached and built robust relationships by implementing efficient problem-solving skills and transparency.Created a healthy positive environment for cross-cultural teams.Proven experience with managing budget setup forecast, capture actuals and calculate variance on a monthly basisExpertise in excel formulas, vlookup, pivots etc.. for budget management and reportingManagement reporting for budget and project statusTeam work & Accomplishments:Teams worked on automating credit card application and approval systems for corporate client employees. Developers used Javascript (FE), Scala, on the Backend.Uber, Newark, New Jersey 02/2015-05/2017Scrum MasterCreated a viable working atmosphere with developers, as well as multiple product owners for two co-located sprint teams and one offshore team.Identified and removed impediments, conducted daily standups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and created tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.Participated in developing high performing development teams and best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, continuous integration/continuous deployment.Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style.Avoided distractions by identifying and removing impediments.Motivated the team to work towards continuous improvement by addressing things that didnt work during the next sprint.Collaborated with the project team to identify potential project risks and assisted with the development of preventive plans.Led Scrum and Kanban teams simultaneously with distributed and offshore team members.Taught team members how to remove impediments, providing escalation to management as needed, anticipating and making tradeoffs, and balancing business needs against technical constraints.Creating a positive environment and a fun and fluent workflow with product owners to assess sprint progress.Assisted Product owners with prioritization and grooming of backlog items.Oversaw project & resource planning and the implementation of Agile/Kanban based execution within two teams.Designed and defined requirements and specifications, project control with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects.Ensured that scrum teams practiced core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.Participated in PI planning, INA, System Demo, Scrum of Scrum, ART Sync and Agile Community of practiceEnsure impediments are visible and tracked through to resolution, escalating when necessary.Leverage Productivity Tools to influence better ways to radiate team information and identify improvement opportunitiesSupports teams automation (testing, pipelines, deployments)/DevOps journeyUnderstand and coach their teams to adopt development methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, XP)Team work & Accomplishments:My teams worked on optimizing the rideshare feature of their mobile application using react, react native, redox, (FE), and Java and (AWAS), API gatewayDELL, Houston, TX, 01/2013 02/2015Junior Scrum MasterCoach and train Agile teams on Agile Best practices and values.Communicated the progress to senior management through 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored the team through the project management processes.Conducting Iteration Planning Meetings (IPMs), Daily Stand-Ups, Review/Demo (Technical and Business), Retrospective meetings (Iteration/Sprint, Release). Removing impediments and obstacles as well as driving continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution and building skills and capabilities. Facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers. Involved in reviewing Test Plans, Test Cases with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.Expertise in running all agile/sprint ceremonies for cross-functional teamsLead planning and prioritization sessions for BA, QA and developersExpertise with JIRA reporting, JIRA export/import, bulk upload, scrum boardsBackground in setting up agile process and best practices to suit team development needsTeam work & Accomplishments:Teams worked on Integrating 48 Applications to one. (Mainframe database migration to Java.T-Mobile, Newark, New Jersey, 09/2011 -02/2013Business AnalystDeveloped knowledge of business strategy, business model, and processes to identify improvement opportunities and value-added capabilities.Helped maintain customer satisfaction and productivity metrics above target. Conducted root cause analysis to formulate counter resources to business missteps and improve operations I worked to gather customer requirements and clarify specifications. |
