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Fani GUENTOUM

ad06g9@r.postjobfree.com 857-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/fani-tadie-guentoum/ Chelsea, Massachusetts

SUMMARY

Seasoned Servant Leader and Certified SAFe Scrum Master with over six years of experience and keen ability to understand and build complex systems with co-located and distributed teams. Servant- leader, capable of transforming from Waterfall to Agile, applying expert judgement to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments. Strong organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills. KEY ACCOMPLISHEMENTS

● Helped increase the release frequency of my organization through coaching and mentoring.

● Established the team’s metrics to help assure predictability, consistency and track the progress of work.

● Set a cross-functional and collaborative environment that led to an increase of high-quality value delivered to our customers from 40% to 70%.

SKILLS

TOOLS

● JIRA

● Confluence

● Azure DevOps

● Mural

● WebEx

● Miro

● Microsoft Office

● Microsoft Teams

● Outlook

● Rally

● SharePoint

● Trello

CERTIFICATES

● SAFe Advanced Scrum Master: Scaled Agile, Inc

● Professional Scrum Master (PSM I): Scrum.org

● Agile Values & Principles

● Coaching, Facilitating and Mentoring

● Data Management

● Conflicts Resolution

● Agile Frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban,

XP, Lean UX)

● Cloud Migration, AWS

● Scrum Ceremonies (Daily Stand Up, Sprint

Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint

Retrospectives, Refinement Backlog)

● Technical Debts

● Team Building Activities

● Remote Management

● Scrum Metrics (Velocity, Burndown Charts,

Sprint Health report, Sprint Burnups, Release

Burndown, Lead Time/Cycle Time, Capacity,

Estimation, Defect Summary Report)

● SDLC, CI/CD, ATDD, TDD, BDD

● Definition of Done (DoD), Definition of Ready

(DoR)

● Risk Mitigation

● Process Improvement and Change

Management

● Team Engagement

● DevOps

● Continuous Improvement Mindset and

Critical Thinking

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MEDSTAR Health Columbia, MD April 2020 – October 2023 Scrum Master

● Facilitated daily scrum ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

● Mentored and supported the Product owner and the team in effective product backlog management techniques and concepts like the INVEST, DEEP criteria, leading to healthier and better-written stories aligning with agile best practices and directly contributing to better product backlog prioritization and continuous refinement with the team hitting 95% of its sprint goals.

● Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches while preparing the team and facilitated breakouts during PI Planning.

● Facilitated and coordinated user story interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the

● purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

● Used selected engineering practices and tools such as pair programming and refactoring, to help ensure that a potentially shippable increment is produced at the end of each iteration and technical debts are minimized.

● Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving.

● Tracked the team’s progress using key metrics such as Burn-Down, Velocity, Capacity and Sprint Report to help the predictability and the maturity of the team.

● Maintained an open dialogue with Product Owner and developers through recurring one-on-one meetings to coach on Agile best practices and principles.

● Identified risks, removed team level impediments / escalating as necessary to management and resolved conflicts which anticipate challenges and recommend mitigations and solutions.

● Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization by coaching and supporting the team to higher levels of maturity to work towards successful outcomes.

● Helped the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done.

● Drive over-communication as necessary to ensure a shared understanding of dependencies.

● Guided and contributed to the improvement of Agile practices within the organization, including through communities of practice.

● Identified opportunities to improve team-level Agile performance and focus team on customer value, quality, and continuous improvement activities.

● Collaborated with the Release Train Engineer to help plan the Product Increment, based on the objectives, strategy, and timeline defined by the release train. TD Bank Boston, MA October 2018 – March-2020

Scrum Master

● Worked with the Business product Owners to develop the Product Vision and the product road map and to define business values.

● Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement.

● Ensured that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented.

● Hosted coaching/training session every month to close identified agile scrum gaps to promote continuous improvement and enhance scrum maturity.

● Facilitated discussions and conflicts resolution while empowering teams to self-organize.

● Implemented key metrics like velocity and burndown chart to help convey the team's process and progress over time which increased visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress.

● Guided the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.

● Coached team members in agile best practices, self-organization, and cross-functionality. Page 3 of 3

● Identified and removed roadblocks / impediments to teams working progress.

● Facilitated Agile health check meetings on a quarterly basis to understand the areas that need improvement and help the team come up with potential solutions.

● Owned full alignment across dependent teams within a Release Train; manage risks and dependencies such that all parties are aligned with delivery strategy and sequence.

● Effectively supported the development team in the data migration project. HealthCare International Inc Albany, NY June 2017 – August 2018 Scrum Master

● Successfully guided development team through smooth transition from waterfall to Agile.

● Maintained metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress.

● Contributed to the advancement and improvement of Agile best practices within the organization.

● Observed team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team members and coach team members individually and team to improve productivity.

● Coached stakeholders and the team on various Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban.

● Acted as Servant-Leader and Coach capacity to the Scrum team and ensured that the Scrum team adheres to the organization’s defined processes and practices; helps guide Product Owner and Development team to adopt mature Agile/Scrum standard methodologies.

● Facilitated Agile processes including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint demo and retrospectives and release planning.

● Ensured successful completion of assigned projects and programs through effective facilitation, leadership, and removal of team level impediments. MAG Construction Libreville, Gabon August 2014 – January 2017 Project Manager

● Supervised multiple projects from project start through delivery by prioritizing needs and delegating assignments.

● Gathered, analyzed, translated, and delivered information in clear, concise, and meaningful formats based on specific project/program requirements and according to established project management standards.

● Created and maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.

● Oversaw on-boarding and mentorship, planned, and executed meetings and developed project documentation.

● Utilized talents in project management, organization, and time management to successfully juggle simultaneous tasks and clients.

● Offered data-driven recommendations aligned with overall company strategies and prioritized process improvement initiatives.

● Promoted project success and team member safety by coordinating proactive and thorough training programs.

EDUCATION

● Bachelor’s degree and Advanced Diploma in Civil Engineering: Institute of advanced Technologies LANGUAGES

Fluent in French and English

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