About

Urvi Patel is an experienced Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master with over 12 years of professional experience in managing software technology projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. She has a proven track record of delivering creative strategic solutions that are efficient and cost-effective. Urvi is a certified Professional Scrum Master from www.scrum.org. Urvi has a wide range of technical skills, including software languages such as C, C++, ASP.Net, SQL/PLSQL, C#, AJAX, MySQL, WordPress, and Shopify. She is proficient in using applications such as Visual Studio 2010, VS 2008, VS 2005, and Visual Source safe 6.0. She is also experienced in data warehousing using SQL Server Data Transformation Services, SQL Server Integration Services, and SSRS. Urvi has worked with databases such as Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Microsoft SQL Server 2010. She is proficient in scripting languages such as ASP, HTML, DHTML, VB Script, JavaScript, JSP, JQuery, XML, CSS, Angular JS, Nodejs, and HTML5. Currently, Urvi is working as a Scrum Master on a contract basis at Johnson & Johnson. Her responsibilities include coordinating all Scrum Ceremonies, working closely with product owners to ensure understanding of user stories, and facilitating the team to estimate story points and measure velocity to plan future sprints. She monitors the Sprint Burndown and conducts daily stand-up meetings, encouraging open communication in the team. Urvi utilizes JIRA to generate Agile SCRUM Metrics and tracks progress, prepares status reports, resolves issues, and coordinates tasks and activities directed toward completing the project goals. In the past, Urvi has worked as an Agile Project Manager at Urban Beverages and as a Team Lead at MyGlamm. At Urban Beverages, she developed project plans, coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies, managed sprint backlog items and tasks, worked closely with businesses to identify and analyze core business processes and workflows, and clarified deliverables and assignments to the scrum team. At MyGlamm, Urvi collaborated with the Product Manager to plan roadmap execution based on estimates, facilitated sprint demos, planning, and retrospectives, and designed and developed Web Services (REST and SOAP) consumed by different applications to aid in streamlining business processes. Urvi holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology-Old Westbury and a