Facilitated the implementation of the Agile methodology to the teams, stakeholders and
enterprise that led to the increase of ROI saving 20% of the project cost (triple constraint)
 Experience working with a SAFe Scrum environment, facilitating Program Increment
(PI) sessions with eight Scrum teams and over 120 participants.
 Work with the Agile Release Train (ART) and other Scrum Masters (Scrum of Scrums)
to coordinate PI Planning Releases / manage dependencies.
 Meticulously work with architect, product owner, business analyst and developers to
write User Stories that meet the INVEST and MoSCoW models
 I am highly experienced in the use of Agile tools: Jira, Rally, Confluence, TFS, DevOps,
and Microsoft Suite (MS Project, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, MS Word) to track
software development, communicate with team, and generate data related to team
performance (velocity and burndown chart).
 Able to do planning as it relates to helping the team ensure dependencies are known,
expectations with downstream teams or owners of those dependencies are aware of needs
and solutions/timelines are interlocked to promote velocity and meeting milestones.
 Cultivate a continuous learning environment delivering education and training for the
enablement of effective Scrum Masters, product ownership, and Agile delivery teams
with the ability to scale,
 Influence IT and business leadership and management teams on Agile principles,
practices, and tools
 Coached teams to adopt continues integration and pair programing for knowledge sharing
and building quality codes.

Agile Coach

MedStar Health

Work closely with Product Owner and developers to create, prioritize, and refine the product backlog.
 Helping the organization to successfully adopt scrum practices while aligning with regulatory expectations.
 Ensure that highest priority items identified during Sprint Retrospective are appropriately addressed.
 Proficiently organize and facilitate Daily standup, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and
Sprint Retrospective while ensuring full team engagement.
 Proactively collaborate with other Scrum masters and Agile Coaches across the organization to resolve
impediments and escalate those that cannot be resolved in our individual teams.
Maintain an open dialogue with Product owner and development team members through recurring one-on-
one meetings to coach on Agile best practices and principles.

 Create an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on ownership,
accountability, and collaboration.
 Encourage pair programming and code refactoring to minimize technical debt.
 Facilitate discussions with scrum team and establish ground rules for scrum ceremonies.
 Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve
efficiency and reduce waste.
 Assist with internal and external communication to improve transparency and radiate information.
 Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity.
 Created a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery.
 Practice and encourage Agile mindset and behavior.
 Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on
critical paths and business needs.

Sr. Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Capital One

•Facilitated Agile heath check meetings on a quarterly basis to understand the areas that need improvement
and help team come up with potential solutions.
 Facilitated scrum events including Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
 Work with team and stakeholders to remove impediments and blockers.
 Coach team to improve collaboration and self-organization.
 Successfully guided development team through smooth transition from waterfall to Agile.
 Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress.
 Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation, and implement risk reduction action
plans.
 Contribute to the advancement and improvement of Agile best practices within the organization.
 Protect teams from distractions and keep them focus on sprint goal.
 Fostered an environment for high-performing team dynamics and relentless improvement.
 Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit
scrum team.
Worked effectively with on-shore and off-shore teams.
 Observed team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team members and coach team
members individually and team to improve productivity.
 Facilitated and coordinated user story interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the
purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

Sr. Scrum Master

River Tech plc

• Designed project plan, project charter, Communication plan, Project Baseline, and Reporting.
•	Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying 
        solutions to address them in advance.
•	Facilitated scrum ceremonies, identified, and removed impediments to ensure continuous 
        development of software.
•	Functioned as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards delivering high value products.
•	Provide and coordinate appropriate team training around Agile/Scrum theories, principles, and best practices as needed.
•	Drive both in-person and remote scrum teams to ensure the sprint commitment is as accurate as possible while maximizing the likelihood of timely deliveries, which has increased customer satisfaction by 30%.
•	Partner with PO, delivery lead and tech leads to prioritize backlog which increased backlog health by 40%. 
•	Ensure the teams are reflecting on their performance after each sprint to identify successes, as well as failures, and continuously improving their way or working to increase the value delivered to the customer.
•	Managed all projects tasks to ensure that project gets delivered on time and on budget.
•	Facilitated scrum ceremonies, and identified, and removed impediments to ensure continuous development of software.
•	Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Seasoned Agile Coach/Scrum Master with over 9 years of experience and excellent problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making abilities. Servant leader well-versed in coordinating fast-paced, versatile, and evolving projects with co-located and distributed teams. Desire to apply expertise to a new role with a progressive organization. Adept in leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable and sustainable results. Demonstrated ability to motivate, lead, and coach leadership and scrum teams across multiple locations, with proven track record of managing complex projects.

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