Summary of Noemi

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Experienced in coaching and training Scrum Teams.

Lead up to 3 Scrum teams simultaneously.

Transformation of from a waterfall methodology to agile methodology.

SAFe Environment

Name: Noemi Nkwenti

Email: ac587h@r.postjobfree.com

Tell: 469-***-****

SUMMARY

Scrum Master with 4 years of experience leading and facilitating up to 3 Scrum Teams simultaneously, extensive experience providing direction, coaching, leadership to the teams.

Transformation of client from Waterfall Methodology to Agile Scrum Framework

Servant Leader responsible for facilitating Scrum Ceremonies including daily Scrum, grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning.

Facilitated dependencies between other Scrum teams (Scrum of Scrums), third parties, and other non-Agile waterfall teams.

Worked closely with Product Owner in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Designs and develops project templates based on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC Methodology)

Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with project stakeholders to capture business rules

Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Microsoft Office Suite, Agile/Scrum, Kanban, TDD, XP, JIRA, Version One, Rally, ETL, SQL, HP Quality Center, JAVA, MS Visio, SQL, SharePoint, SDLC, Waterfall, SAFe, Confluence

EXPERIENCE

Humana Inc Louisville, KY April 2017 to Present

Scrum Master

Facilitated sprint planning, daily Scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.

Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.

Participate In PI planning protecting teams interest, relating dependencies and risks

Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts

Worked closely with Product Owner in product backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features.

Educated and reinforced SAFe Agile framework to team members when needed.

Directed and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.

Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.

Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good Agile practices.

Generated and posted end of Iteration review reports for project managers on confluence.

Tracked data from the spring process and report regularly to facilitate understanding of where we are and want can be improved on.

Provided direction, coaching, leadership to the team. Kept Scrum process running.

Aetna Inc, Hartford, CT December 2015- January 2017

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Manage weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated, ready-for-work and maintained

Empower teams to self-organize and facilitate decision making during sprint planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles;

Coach, mentor, and confirm team delivering stories such that they meet the definition of done;

Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint;

Build trust and empowerment and creativity using sound judgement and excellent communications;

Organize, lead extremely complex projects, define project scopes, schedules, deliverable and provide regular progress reports and metrics;

Foster an agile culture, building trust and collaboration across all team members;

Protect the team from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensuring that the work is delivered as a team;

Maintain an in-depth knowledge of product lifecycles, standards, and supporting processes and practices;

Monitors team project delivery on commitments through the use of burn down charts and other visual methods;

Collaborate with the Product Owner to understand the business priorities in upcoming sprints and able to impact beyond area of responsibility; and

Develop and communicate project plans, priorities, and tasks.

U.S Bank, New York, NY January 2014- August 2015. Junior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback

Working with stakeholders/ product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.

Organize and facilitate Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective.

Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution

Facilitate Scrum of Scrum for offshore Scrum teams in US states and India. .

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

Communicated and presented weekly updates to stakeholders and program managers

Protected team from internal and external distractions.

Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Engaging with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the of Scrum framework in the organization

Manage release management, facilitate release planning activities, and risk to resolve issues and impediments;

Education:

B.Sc. in Management from University of Buea

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) Scrum.Org

Professional Reference

Name: Tatiana Nchotu

Designation: IT Assistant Executive Manager and Agile Coach

Organization: Aetna Inc

Number: 240-***-****

Email: ac587h@r.postjobfree.com

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