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Phone: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE Email: EMAIL AVAILABLEProfessional SummaryCertified Scrum master offering 10years experience of proven track record delivering high quality software on time. Improving processes and complexproduct deliveries by implementing agile environments. Hands on training teamsand supporting product owners to remove impediments. Multiple results achievedthrough excellent communication and facilitation skills, strong coaching,mentoring and motivation skills, conflict resolution skills, and excellentunderstanding of Software development Lifecycle, (SDLC). Passionate about agilemethodologies; Scrum, Kanban and XP with experience using several Agileproject management tools like JIRA/Confluence and Rally. Poses a history ofworking with co-located, distributed and offshore teams using different virtualplatform such as Google hangouts, WebEx, Zoom, Go Meeting and Skype forBusiness. Servant-leader with excellent and soft skills, results and result oriented.,flexible, responsive to change and life-long learner.SkillsProject management (Waterfall & Agile)Strong communication skillsScrumKanBanSAFeServant LeaderQuality AssuranceAgile CoachingDeVopsLinuxProject documentationJIRAAutomationTFSWork HistoryAgile Scrum Master, 07/2019 to CurrentPrudential Financial Newark, NJLeveraging some of the virtual tools to collaborate and facilitate remote meetings and general scrum events.Researched emerging technologies and current agile trends to always stay knowledgeable in methods that could increase performance of my teamsWork hand-in-hand with Release Train Engineer (RTE) to coordinate PI Planning and help my teams to identify and map dependencies and risks to the various teams, stories and sprintsWorked closely with stakeholders, business analysts, product owners and software developers to turn user data into actionable user stories that influence product and service direction.Acted as a Change Agent for the teams, assessing their maturity as I help them learn and adopt new trends of agile/scrum.Captured and authored user stories that accurately reflect business requirements.Led scrum ceremonies such as sprint reviews, daily scrums, sprint Retrospectives and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.Worked closely with stakeholders, business analysts, product owners and software developers to turn user data into actionable user stories that influence productand service direction.Facilitated the process for just-in-time story creations and acceptance criteria by working closely with the PO and team to break down backlog items into user stories for implementations.Collaborated at a strategic level with the Product Owners to order and create requirements and feature backlog that aligns to the future vision of the product.Researched emerging technologies and current agile trends to always stay knowledgeable in methods that could increase performance in my teams.Gathered and interpreted data from multiple channels including document analysis, use cases, business analyst, workflow analyst, social and vendor reports to provide insight and assessment.Followed Internal compliancerisk management, policy and procedure for effective implementation of projectsCoordinated and synchronized project plan, activities and dependencies with parallel projects.Scrum Master, 05/2016 to 07/2019Signify Health Dallas, TXFacilitating the Scrum framework sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.Removing any impediments that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint goals (internal to the team as well as external, dealing with all cross functional teams as appropriate).Supporting the Product Owner with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog thus maximizing the value of the team's workAssessing the Scrum maturity of my teams and coaching team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organizationAlways making sure my teams start sprints withthe right objectives, committing to achievable goals with necessary acceptance criteria and proper understanding of the Definition of DoneCoaching 2 scrum teams during daily standup meetings to understand the scope of the work, assess optimism on meeting sprint goals and to understand their shared accountabilities towards delivering committed workGuiding the teams on how to get the most out of self-organizationEnsuring all team members are adhering to scrum values and agile best practices.Introducing agile games such as poker planning and affinity grouping to help them become better at estimating effort for completing workScrum Master, 02/2014 to 04/2016GEICO Chevy Chase, MDEstablished and organized high-performing development teams with onshore and offshore resources.Conducted grooming meetings, Daily standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.Used Burn-down and velocity charts to monitor project progress and radiate information to stakeholders and program managersIdentified risks and impediments such as blockers, issues, critical defects, resolve/mitigated them dailyShielded my teams from external interference and distractions for optimal productivity and success in meeting sprint goals and deliverablesWorked with other scrum masters to Coordinate and synchronize project plans, activities, and dependencies of parallel projects, making sure work was continuously in sync.Used consensus building approach to create strong team commitment to the project and each other.Helped set-up and managed Kanban board configuration for one of the teams, enforcing WIP limits and making sure team members understood workflow.IT PROJECT Manager/Scrum Master, 11/2012 to 01/2014Choice Hotels Rockville, MDResponsible for the integration of a custom-made solution (BOLT) to integrate with billing and web systems (ICOMS, Hyperion and Kibana) from a newly acquired companyResponsible for facilitating Scrum ceremonies and ensuring teams are adhering to agile principles and doing scrum rightCoached development teams in self-organization and self-management, helping them remove blockers to work progress when required.Engaged with Choice Hotels IT SMEs to make sure LOEs are prepared and communicated as defined in WOTL (Work Order Tracking Log)Managed project plans, budgets, schedules, requirements, and technical documentsWorked with product owners to manage requirement gatherings and prioritizationTracked project metrics to judge project progress while managing risk, stakeholder communication plan, vendors, in-house and outsourced resources.Provided status reports to stakeholders as well as buy in on new enhancements to the work productEducationBachelor of Science: Computer Science, 2010University of Buea - CameroonAssociate of Science: Computer Support Tech, 2012TESST College of Technology - Beltsville, MDCertificationsProfessionalScrum Master 1 (PSM 1)Certified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) SAFe 5Certified Scrum Master (CSM) |
