Pawan Sharma

Scrum Master @Toyota North America

Plano, TX, US

Facilitated Sprint Planning meetings, Daily scrum, sprint review, product backlog refinement meetings and sprint retrospective meetings - Attended planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect and adapt workshops for future and Release Management meetings- Helped the Product Owner/product Management in maintaining, refining and prioritizing the product backlog- Worked closely with the Release Train Engineer for the ART in coordinating dependencies between various scrum teams - Helped the team in deciding the sprint backlog for every sprint, to write and split User stories, breakdown Epics- Used JIRA to maintain product and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories- Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints, created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts- Confluence was used to maintain project documents such as project plans, project scope, and status reports and to assign tasks- Tracked team progress by creating sprint burndown charts and Release burndown charts - Performed Retrospectives to capture lessons learned- Mitigated impediments during the sprint in terms of issues and risks - Coordinated across various teams IS (Infrastructure) so that IS team’s dependencies are met-Track, monitor, report and communicate, design, development and testing activities on behalf of entire team -Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress and another metrics - Created and published weekly status reports and weekly dashboards - Ensured timely review, approval and sign-off the deliverables - Coordinated between various business and IT stakeholders and ES PM- Had regular meetings with offshore team to understand progress, challenges and remove blockers for the team- Training and mentoring the team on enforcing agile operations and scrum principles - Created and consolidated Prod deployment and Rollback strategy, Plan and cutover tasks, DR test strategy and DR execution

West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Engineering

Texas State University

Master of Science - MS, Information Technology Project Management