Scrum Master Product Owner

Brinda

Dallas, TX 248-***-**** ************@*****.***

SCRUM MASTER AGILE LEADER

A dedicated and results-focused Scrum Master professional with 5 years of experience coaching, mentoring, and guiding teams, Product Owners and Stakeholders to increase agility and collaboration. Strategic in planning sprints and 1nding unique ways to resolve impediments. Experience managing projects utilizing various Agile Methodologies including SDLC processes, process documentation & reporting. Well versed in facilitation, presenting information and developing high performing teams. Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills with emphasis on de1ning business processes, managing risks, baselining acceptance criteria and deliverables. Flexible, adaptable, and able to autonomously manage multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

T-Mobile Remote Feb 2023 – Present

Scrum Master - Contract

Project management focused on delivering client projects to speci1cation using Agile methodologies. Coached the Scrum team to self-organize and self-manage.

●Worked with the development team to deliver potentially shippable increments of capabilities in short, regular intervals.

●Conducted daily standups with the team to ensure the team stays on track and address any impediments in their way.

●Responsible for project reporting - Dashboards, Status reports, Roadmaps, Burn-down chart, velocity.

●Facilitated Sprint Review/Demo with the team and Product Owner, Product Management and key stakeholders.

●Facilitated Sprint Retrospective with the core team to conduct lessons learned on what went well, what could be improved upon and what did not go well. Inspect and Adapt on the team level for process improvement.

●Drove a process of constant and never-ending improvement, through regular feedback to the team from the business customers.

●Worked with the teams to ensure project success within budget, timeline and scope.

●Coached teams on agile practices and Scrum execution.

●Worked with Development Team to ensure that agile engineering software practices for code quality were maintained

●Ensured the development teams understood the work to be done.

●Ensured that development teams were practicing scrum and agile principles.

●Responsible for internal and external communication, transparency, and distributing information.

Uber Technologies Houston, TX Oct 2020 – Feb 2023

Scrum Master

●Directed development teams from project initiation through delivery of 1nal product utilizing Scrum Methodologies.

●Worked with Product owner to create the product Roadmap and schedule releases per business value.

●Worked with Product Owner and development team to decompose Epics to Features and User Stories.

●Worked with Product Owner to prioritize and groom User Stories in the Product Backlog, according to De1nition of Ready (stories were well formatted with detailed description, acceptance criteria, risks, dependencies and assumptions), in preparation of the Sprint Planning.

●Facilitated Sprint planning with the Product Owner and the team to pull in “ready” user stories into the sprint backlog based on team’s velocity.

●Organized and facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, product demos and retrospectives meetings.

●Tasked out the user stories and assigned hours based on the team's capacity.

●Determined risks, dependencies and assumptions associated with user stories.

●Provided leadership with Metrics for KPIs and team progress to project completion and visibility on key Milestones.

●Conducted maturity assessments for teams in order to continuously improve agile practices in teams.

Equifax Remote Sept 2019 - Sept 2020

Scrum Master - Contract

●Providing leadership to cross-functional, global project teams.

●Served the engineering team in its eIorts to deliver value by organizing and facilitating daily stand-ups, release planning, sprint planning, sprint reviews, product demos and retrospectives.

●Responsible for project reporting - Dashboards, Status reports, Roadmaps, Burn-down chart, velocity.

●Coaching teams on agile practices and Scrum execution to be self-organized and self-managed.

●Working with the development team to deliver potentially shippable increments of capabilities in short, regular intervals.

●Drove a process of constant and never-ending improvement, through regular feedback to the team from the business customers.

●Assisting with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches and participating in PI Planning by leading breakout sessions and ensuring that the dependencies with other teams are identi1ed.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts - Texas Southern University

SKILLS

Agile Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Jira, ConRuence, Azure DevOps, SDLC, One Note, Miro, Scrum Ceremonies, Microsoft, Reporting Metrics, Backlog Management, Impediment Removal, Resolution, Servant Leadership

Contact this candidate