I am a scrum master with 9 years experience. I am adaptable. I can carry duties outside of my job description, and work extra hours if needed to help out the business. I am resilient I never stressed in difficult situations and can easily prioritize multiple tasks. I am knowledgeable. I have applicable academic qualifications and experience in the similar role.
Experience
United Bank
Nov 2016 – Oct 2022
MD, USA
Scrum master
Worked closely with the Product Owner in defining the product goal & roadmap
Worked effectively within the Scrum Team to remove impediments and track them in Jira
Guided the team through continual improvement process and best practices.
Facilitated scrum master community of practices.
Ensured conducive environment which fostered self-organizing and self-managing team.
Empowered the Scrum team with regular inspect and adapt opportunities
Encouraged the Dev team to keep sprint backlog up to date
Facilitated all Scrum Events including the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Product Backlog Refinement. Workshops with stakeholders.
I also make sure that with the different time zones, the stand ups are rotated every now and then so that one particular team doesn’t always feel left out.
Assisted in defining and deploying the forward order processes and facilitated the continuous improvement of the existing process.
Created Epics, Features & Stories for the team in Jira and assisted Product Owner
JIRA admin activities for teams (created boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, reports using JQL..)
Planned and tracked sprints closely and helped the team to focus on commitments & delivery
Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to the teams and management
Organized & facilitate Team and organization Agile maturity
Facilitated retrospectives using innovation games techniques and closure of action items on improvements
Reflecting and radiating the metrics like burn down chart progress, quality, and velocity continuously to the team and various stakeholders
Prepared various dashboards in Jira which reflects risks, dependencies, impediments
Helped Product owner with effective management of Features, Epics, Stories and prioritization
Ensured INVEST criteria is met for all the user stories in backlog
