Motivated and experienced part-time Army Human resources specialist, scrum master/project manager with Active secret Clearance and over 12 years of experience with scrum and agile Teams. Proven leadership & coaching skills especially with ability to inspire and motivate colleagues to achieve professional goals and project objectives in a timely manner.
Experience
Web Express
Jan 2021 – Present
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, Product Backlog Refinement. Workshops with stakeholders.
• 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
• Effectively supporting the Delivery Squad through changes in objectives and re-prioritization of requirements.
• Applied human centered design (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, Implement)
