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Tel.: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEEmail: EMAIL AVAILABLEMansfield Village, NJLINKEDIN LINK AVAILABLEProfessional Summary: Dedicated and results-driven Sr. Scrum Master with almost a decade of hands-on experience orchestrating high-performing Agile teams. A dynamic leader in the realm of project management, I've honed my skills in transforming complex challenges into streamlined, efficient, and successful software development cycles and project deliveries. Skills: Agile, Continuous learning/Relentless improvement, Culture change, Effective communication, Meeting facilitation/planning, Motivating/Inspiring Team members, Team player, Coaching/empowering team members, Program Increment Planning, Problem solving techniques/Conflict resolution, Workflow management, Emotional intelligence, Jira/Confluence. Work ExperienceSr. Scrum Master-BNY Mellon-NJ NJ August 2022-Present Leads two Agile Teams including an offshore team. Facilitates Scrum Events and making sure to build self-organizing teams thereby improving teams agile maturity. Leads and motivates team members to commit to work chosen by them without coercion, thus reinforcing self-organization and accountability. Consistently provides support and removes impediments from the teams using servant leadership style which helps teams to deliver at a more stable/improved velocity. Tracks and effectively communicates team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management so that there is transparency/improvement in deliverables. Collaborates with P.O to refine backlog items thus improving backlog readiness index for at least 2 sprints worth of work. Works with P.O to ensure stories are compliant to Automated SDLC in Jira and ready for release thereby improving consistency, compliance, and constant deployment. Follows up with Dev team to raise change requests, game plans and all processes prior to production to better prepare for smooth installations. Gathers details and develops report at end of each sprint and after monthly installs for documentation and tracking purposes. Documents reports in confluence and works on items to improve team agile maturity during retrospective calls. Encourages, empowers, and coaches team members to always seek self-development so as to keep abreast of changes in technology and become more cross functional. Sr. Scum Master-Wells Fargo- NC May 2021 July 2022 Led a Scrum Team of five. Protected the team from outside interference and negative influence to keep teams focused on project tasks and delivering shippable products every sprint. As a Scrum process expert, coached various team members on the Scrum Process and served as the main go-to person for process questions. Enthusiastically facilitated scrum events/ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings) while consistently educating the team and senior leadership on the scrum framework. Dutifully removed impediments which helped in boosting the morale of the development team and established a desirable work environment. Provided early feedback by assessing work in progress using burndown/burnup charts and cumulative flow diagrams comparatively. Worked with team to estimate user stories using the Fibonacci estimation. Worked with Product Owner to determine acceptance criteria for user stories. Scrum Master- Lowes- Charlotte, NC June 2018 -May 2021 Proactively committed in educating and instilling an agile mindset within the scrum team and other stakeholders which helped them keep abreast with the scrum framework. Facilitated scrum ceremonies and engaged the development team in an interactive manner, hence improving communication, adjustment, and enhancement of products. Collaborated with onshore and offshore teams on all stages of the systems development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production releases. Researched and resolved issues regarding the integrity of data flow into databases thereby enhancing smooth workflow- Impediment remover. Suggested extensive guidance and coaching to highly effective teams on how to use Scrum processes. Assessed each development team member's responsibilities for balance workload thus avoiding overcommitment.Scrum Master- Venmo- New York, NY. August 2015 May 2018 Worked in collaboration with Product Owner for backlog grooming and product releases. Removed impediments to deliver success through the proactive management of external dependencies, complex problem solving and the development of new solutions. Regularly checked Kanban Boards while maintaining WIP limit. Facilitated scrum ceremonies for onshore and offshore teams while educating and reiterating the scrum framework. Used JIRA to maintain product backlog, sprint backlog, create and track user stories, sprint planning while managing Kanban boards, status reports and burndown charts. Led teams in relentless improvement of efforts, skills and problem-solving techniques; thus exhibiting growth, competence and high performance. Education: B.S Psychology- University of Buea, Cameroon- June 2012 Certifications: -Project Management Professional (PMI)-SAFe Advanced Scrum Master 6.0 (Scaled Agile)-Safe Scrum Master 6.0 (Scaled Agile)-Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)-ChatGPT Agile Mastery Agile Fundamentals (Boostaro) |
