Minhaj Ullah

Experience

1. Scrum Master

   The Hartford

   Jul 2020 — Present · Omaha, NE, US

   Facilitating the Scrum Ceremonies – Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.Responsible for running the daily standup meeting, ensure team members have stories assigned, ensure story status is properly updated, ensure stories are elaborated Identify and remove impediments for the Scrum teams directly or via escalationLead a Scrum team to perform planning, development and testing on a large software development, implementation and integration project.Work with Technology and Product Leadership on release planning.Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progressInterface with product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities.Understand and be able to articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team & environment and progress toward themSupports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.Prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plansEnsure all scrum activities are tracked and kept up-to-date and reported on a daily basis.Facilitated acceptance test driven development(ATDD)Got hands on exp with machine learning where we are able to sell more loans using artificial intelligenceAssist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition Help manage dependencies among teams and third partiesImproved the customer experience by providing the details through various reports and dashboards.

Education

• Lehman College

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General

  2013