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meghana - scrum

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Location: Irving, Texas, USA

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2022 to Present AGILE SCRUM MASTER Lead || Delta Airline, Atlanta, GA Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and ensured adherence to Agile Principles. Collaborated closely with Product Owners to define and prioritize product backlogs, improving backlog accuracy by 20%. Coordinated with development teams to remove impediments and ensure timely delivery, resulting in a 15% reduction in sprint delays. Conducted regular retrospectives to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of learning. Tracked team s velocity using Sprint Burn down Charts and assisted them to achieve optimum velocity by ensuring that the team is not under/over committed of sprint goal. Lead/Participate Scrum O Scrum meeting with multiple team projects and conduct updates of teams to Product Manager. Also leaded Kanban team who working on highly delivering/Sustain crisis management. Develop Infrastructure Kanban board that meets the foundational and business roadmap. Set up Kanban Boards that aligns to the infrastructure portfolio of work for diverse teams, including creating queries, setting up filters, creating new projects by using VersionOne Kanban board; and team dashboards to support the work of the Sustain/Kanban team. Facilitated and participated in enterprise PI planning quarterly. Estimate upcoming work for team in to next increment, making sure cross team dependency and team capacity toward providing delivery of product in that increment. Facilitated and handled the Change Management process by considering the scope of the new requirement, prioritizing based on the business value it generates. Also participated in AWS cloud migration of some of the features as Business included for that deployment. 2020 2022 AGILE SCRUM MASTER || Accord Management, Augusta, GA Lead 2 scrum teams consisting of 10 members to streamline a multifaceted compliance project. Facilitates teams sprint planning and tracking all scrum activities while coaching in Agile principles. Successfully transform the team s waterfall mindset to Agile by developing 30+ effective training materials for teams to understand Agile delivery. Facilitate daily Scrum activities such as: Stand-Ups, updates to burn-down spreadsheets and charts, backlog reviews, as well as impromptu meetings as needed. Devise 15 pages release plan and Agile charter and coordinate backlog refinements with Product Owner to resolve blocking challenges, keep definition. Facilitate a good and respectful Scrum environment, conditioning and empowering the team to be self-managed. Communicate and works with the Product Owner to define project scope and objective, depends on that consistently maintain the product backlog and handle changes both to the product backlog as well as changes to the executing sprint as require. Create and maintain risk and issue logs including working with appropriate parties to create mitigation and corrective action plans with communication to the team, product owner, and executive management. Maintain and publish Scrum metrics (e.g. velocity and burn-down) Build team cohesion and foster good communication between various development teams to measure and improve team productivity. 2017 to 2020 AGILE SCRUM MASTER || Oncorre Inc Bridgewater, NJ (Client Confidential) Collaborated with PO in writing User Stories, Use Cases, Workflows, Flow Charts, and managed product backlog in JIRA and adding approvals, moving stories, tracking defects, impediments, retrospectives, monitoring burn down chart. Optimized PI Planning readiness by fostering preparation of Vision, Backlogs, and Ideation processes. Facilitate/Implemented Agile mindset by introducing scrum ceremonies, ensuring burn down chart, team velocity analyses, and continuous improvement initiatives by retrospective action items. Constantly monitored development work, SPIKE Stories, TECHNICAL DEBTS and worked on removing the impediments to improve team's performance to meet sprint goals. Established strong partnership with the agile team, work stream leads and product owners and conducted coaching sessions regarding agile development methods. Fostered constructive and pro-active communication across organizational boundaries to ensure PI goals and priorities, key decisions, and status is clear to all. Facilitated synchronization meetings such as mid-PI assessments or Scrum of Scrum meetings. Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% increasing team's throughput. Drove effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups (programs) with competing priorities. Applied Kanban Framework as per client requirement into provided fast delivery and sanctioning complex project into junk size feasible delivery. Facilitate the flow of work in delivering selected items to customers and for facilitating the Kanban Meeting and Delivery Planning. Monitored and tracked the team Velocity and Sprint progress using Sprint Burn down Chart and Product Burn down Chart. Enforced time box for all the Scrum Ceremonies and assisted the team in resolving the impediments by keeping track on it and dependencies. 2014 to 2016 Jr. SCRUM MASTER || Jet Blue, LLC, NY Supported the Scrum Master in organizing and maintaining Scrum artifacts Conducted research on Agile best practices and contributed to process improvement initiatives, resulting in a 15% reduction in project cycle time with support of Scrum Master. Also facilitate and participate all scrum ceremonies, ensuring team velocity maintaining, Team Metrics of Burn up and Burn down chart, Sprint Demo and Sprint report. Adhere closely with PO to understand requirements, supporting PO to create stories/Spike, prioritize backlog. Also understand PI planning in house project applied. Agile /Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile, BI Analytics, CX Analytics, BI Reporting, Jira, Confluence, Product Management In VersionOne, RTC (Rational Team Concert), SQL MS Teams, MS Outlook, Microsoft office 365, AWS Cloud migration. Keywords: business intelligence information technology purchase order microsoft Georgia New Jersey New York