Scrum Master Senior

Frederick C.

Walton

Washington, D.C.202-***-****

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SENIOR SCRUM MASTER

Professional Summary

Highly motivated and experienced Scrum Master with eight years of successful track record in leading Agile teams and delivering high-quality software products. Proven ability to facilitate effective Scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, and promote continuous improvement. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives. Strong communication and coaching skills to drive Agile adoption and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.

Scrum Skill

Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban

Agile Tools: Jira, Confluence, Miro

Team Facilitation and Coaching

Sprint Planning and Backlog Refinement

User Story Mapping and Estimation

Continuous Delivery and Integration

Conflict Resolution and Problem-Solving

Stakeholder Management

Servant Leadership

Professional Experience

11/2021-Present Senior Scrum Master

Equity Now Inc.- Lanham, MD

Implemented a monthly release schedule that increased the number of work items released by 20%.

Coached Product Owner to improve story writing, feature discovery, and requirements gathering for increased customer satisfaction.

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Collaborated with Product Owners to prioritize and refine the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.

Provided extensive guidance on Agile Scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams, improving quality and productivity.

Recognize and oversee potential risk factors within documentation, specifications, proposals, and contract materials.

Guarantee adherence to protocols and processes for the successful implementation of an efficient change management approach.

Removed impediments to deliver success through proactive management of external dependencies and complex problem-solving.

Facilitated Scrum events, including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, ensuring efficient team collaboration and progress tracking.

Engage with relevant parties to record the project's extent, objectives, financial plan, potential challenges, obstacles, benchmarks for success, and projected resource requirements.

Supervise timelines and motivate the team to ensure punctual adherence. 11/2019-10/2021 Senior Scrum Master

BB&T Auto Sales-Upper Marlboro, MD

Demonstrated servant leadership through design thinking to enable the team's performance and increase morale.

Coached 10+ teams on higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring adherence to the Scrum framework.

Ensured user stories were 100% well-defined and ready to be worked on by the team.

Coached Product Owner on estimation of user stories, prioritization, risk management, and scope.

Removed impediments and resolved conflicts to maintain team focus and progress.

Engage with relevant parties to record the project's extent, objectives, financial plan, potential challenges, obstacles, benchmarks for success, and projected resource requirements.

Set sales goals and coach representatives to meet goals at a 96% success rate

Oversee projects, create and share high-quality project-related documents with all involved individuals, encompassing viability and initial concept outline, financial projections, project initiation, scheduling, communication strategy, issue tracking, risk assessment, risk management strategies, procurement approach, implementation strategy, project conclusion, and transition plan for ongoing maintenance.

Coordinate with vendors and suppliers as needed. 09/2015-11/2019 Senior Scrum Master

Kaiser Permanente- Fulton, MD

Facilitated backlog refinement sessions where the product owner and development team discussed priority items in upcoming sprints.

Supervise timelines and motivate the team to ensure punctual adherence.

Implemented and coached Scrum Framework best practices to drive progress and improvement.

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Coached Kaiser Permanente's call center management team on holding daily Stand-Up meetings for improved overall metrics in the Mid-Atlantic, Northwest, and California regions.

Offer guidance and inspiration to foster a team environment that champions and stimulates innovation in order to attain project aims and objectives.

Removed impediments and resolved conflicts to maintain team focus and progress.

Guide and enable the accomplishment of all remaining project phase outputs, including tasks like personnel allocation, design work, stipulations identification, quality oversight, testing strategy, protocols for alterations, and supervision of procurement activities. 02/2014 - 09/2015 Project Manager

AT&T-Washington, D.C.

Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources, and established schedules, meeting or exceeding project demands.

Translated business cases from the Product team into digestible information.

Take charge of and orchestrate project meetings both within the team and with external stakeholders.

Applied principles of SDLC-Software Development Lifecycle and Agile methodologies

(Lean/Agile/XP)

Assess and communicate project advancement, key milestones, and relevant project details to stakeholders and senior leadership on a consistent basis. This includes raising any issues that necessitate managerial decisions.

Guarantee effective communication, comprising initial project launch meetings for role clarification, regular project team meetings to monitor advancement, stakeholder sessions for updates, post-implementation reviews to ensure scope completion, and knowledge-sharing sessions to collect insights for upcoming endeavors. Certifications

Professional Scrum Master (PSM1) Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Agile Methodologies

Microsoft Project

Education

Bowie State University: Major Economics/Minor Information Technology Volunteerism

Legend's Charter School (Leadership training)

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