Scrum Master

Walters F. Kingoum

**** ******** **** *** **, Lanham, MD 20706 • Home: 334-***-**** • *****.****@*****.*** Professional Summary

A dynamic certified scrum master with over 7 years experience in coaching scrum teams on the scrum framework and other Agile practices in a software development project. I am interested in a position where I can serve as a scrum master in one or multiple teams using a servant leadership style to guide and coach software development teams to build software products in incremental value while helping the organization to achieve business agility. Domain knowledge

● Finance, Investment banking and loans.

● Healthcare

● Passport and Visa

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lief IT Consultants LLC, Silver Spring MD ( May 2015 to present) Certified Scrum Master

Duties:

● Facilitate scrum prescribed events: Daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review/demo and retrospective.

● Drive continuous improvement through the facilitation of quarterly inspect and adapt meetings.

● Coaching the team in self-organization and cross-functionality

● Guiding the team to create clear and concise Backlog items

● Facilitated the removal of impediments from the team’s progress to its sprint commitments

● Facilitating Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review and retrospectives.

● Enacting change & continuous improvement to increase the productivity of the team and quality of work

● Ensure team execution and delivery to committed sprint work

● Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management

● Creates forum for communicating vision, goals, and Product Backlog items to the team

● Participate in our scrum community of practice to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams

● Understanding long-term product planning

● Identify, manage, help mitigate project issues and risks BICEC BANK, Limbe, Cameroon (July 2009 to March 2015)

Scrum Master (August 2011- March 2015)

Duties:

● Served as scrum master for 2 scrum teams .

● Worked with technical Leads on resource management.

● Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies: daily stand ups, Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, demos and retrospectives.

● Worked with Product owner to update backlogs.

● Keeping the team focused, shielding the team from outside distractions and interferences.

● Facilitating meetings between teams, creating action items and following up on the action items.

● Forecast sprint iterations with the Product Owner and concerned stakeholders.

● Escalated impediments to upper management for assistance in resolving impediments when the team was unable to solve them on a timely manner.

● Communicated Jira reports (Burndown charts, Sprint reports, and version reports) to upper management and stakeholders.

Associate System Planner (January 2011- August 2011): Duties:

● Follows up all IT related projects.

● Conducts organizational related research/studies on all procedures, circuits and and means put in place in the entities.

● Proposes, concieves and /or develops organizational tools and methods

Credit Analyst (June 2010- January 2011):

Duties:

● Studied loan applications from customers to prepare the decision of hierarchy

● Assisted the different agencies throughout the network with complex loan files (financing plan, search for suitable solutions, or ordinary files constituted by Customer Relationship Officers with little or no experience.

● Responded to requests from collaborators throughout the network with regards to loan interest rates, prices and the Bank's Credit Policy.

● Supervised loan applications.

● Prepared risk control files and monitor action plans resulting from risk control missions.

● Customer Relationship Officer for Professional and corporate Customers (July 2009 to May 2010): Certifications and Education

Certified Scrum Master certification

BSc.- Bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance – University of Buea, Cameroon(2005-2009)

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