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Sabastine Ade

Scrum Master

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Pragmatic leader that is skilled at driving software development projects to successful completion while leading effective process improvement initiatives. Certified professional Scrum Master with over 5+ years of proven experience that utilizes Agile development methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, to create highly performing and self-managing teams that can address the development needs of the organization. Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies : Agile, Waterfall, Scrum

Defect/Project Management Tools: JIRA

Databases : Oracle 11g, 10g, SQL Server

Utilities : MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook

Programming Tools : Oracle SQL

Operating systems : Windows, UNIX

EDUCATION

B.Sc. Accounting/Computer Science

CERTIFICATION

PSM Certifications (Professional Scrum Master)

CSM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Metropark Communications, Inc. Earth City, MO 05/2016-09/2017

Scrum Master

Responsibilities.

Removed impediments by having an understanding in the control and release processes

Assisted team with making appropriate commitment through story selection, sizing and task definition, and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%.

Successfully migrated more than 5 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months

Managed the internal and external communications to improve transparency, and radiated information

Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them

Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology and also Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog

Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization

Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work

Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos

Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions

Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met

Organized and facilitated project/Sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings

Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example

Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment

Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management

Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs

Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery

Assisted teams with making the appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices, thus reducing development time by 15%

PNC Bank, Pittsburgh, PA 02/2014-04/2016

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Took a team that has no exposure to Agile and the Scrum framework and had them meet their commitment within 6 months

Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%.

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of more than 15 major initiatives

Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives, demos.

Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers and QA occurred early and often, and removed barriers and blockers for the team

Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on the benefits of Agile and Scrum.

Responsible for coordinating bi-monthly release of software, including planning and quality assurance.

Provided recommendations to Agile Center of Excellence on improving agile processes and practices.

Facilitated sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives

Identify and removed organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency

Train new team members and transition teams to agile framework with Scrum to enhance team skill levels

Collaborate with product owner on product backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.

Collaborated with QA peers on test case reviews and continuously improved test approach and design.

Utilize abilities and skills of individuals and foster a feedback culture to support team building and development

Allianz, Minneapolis, MN 08/2011-11/2013

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Involved in gathering the requirements from the business and doing the impact analysis for various systems

Planning sprint release and making sure team has a crystal clear understanding of sprint goals

Working with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release plan

Facilitating daily scrum meetings, enforcing time boxes and responding to the impediments, tracking baseline, sprint planning and sprint retrospective

Making sure complacency doesn't set in team, at same time avoiding overcommitting to stakeholders

Ensuring Product backlog is of manageable size, preparing Product Release Burn down charts

Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and help eliminate them

Helping team in self-management by creating artifacts like team task board, sprint Burn down chart, impediments list etc.

Facilitating Mid Sprint checkup to re review the acceptance criteria of committed Product backlog items

Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.

Tracking milestones and Publishing team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.

Resolving internal team conflicts and Keeping the team motivated to ensure successful sprints.

Training new team members in Agile principles, scrum processes and helping them transition from waterfall methodology to agile practice

Dillard’s Inc., Arkansas

Informatica Developer 01/2010-06/2011

Responsibilities:

Effectively handled the Production Support by performing normal loads, initial loads, daily loads and monthly loads.

Worked with Session logs and Workflow logs for Error handling and troubleshooting during the job failures.

Extensively worked on Performance Tuning at the mapping level, session level, source level, and the target level for the mappings which were taking long time to complete.

Analyze source data for potential data quality issues and created the exception mappings/clean up scripts to clean up the bad data in data warehouse.

Built many reusable components in informatica, like mapplets, worklets, reusable transformations and User Defined Functions.

Built deployment group for informatica components for migrating the code from lower region to higher region.

Orion Engineered Carbons, Orange, Texas 09/2008 -10/2009

Informatica Developer

Responsibilities:

Involved in analyzing the requirements, designing and development of data warehouse environment.

Conducting walk through on TSD with client tech leads, team leads and Data Architects and DBAs.

Conducting weekly status meetings to discuss about the progress in that week.

Worked on Informatica tools like Power Center Designer, Workflow Manager, and Workflow Monitor.

Developed Informatica SCD Type-2 Mappings based on the requirements.

Designed and developed Informatica Mappings to load data from Source Systems to EDH (Enterprise Data Hub) and then to Data Marts.

Involved in Mapping, Session and database level optimization techniques to improve the performance

Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.6.1, Oracle 11g/10g, T-SQL, Windows XP

Education:

Bachelors in Accounting and Computer Science, 2004.

University of Buea, Cameroon.

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