MUSTAPHA BELLO

SCRUM MASTER-USCIS PUBLIC TRUST

ad1q67@r.postjobfree.com - Connecticut

SUMMARY

Experienced IT Project Manager, Agile Coach, and Scrum Master with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology, health, and service industry. Skilled in Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Project Management, Strong Agile practitioner with 10 years of experience. I have a Bachelors and an Associate Degree in Civil Engineering and Computer Science Technology. PMP, SAFe Certified SPC, RTE, POPM, ASM, SM, ICP Agile Certified Coach, and a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master; also hold a DHS Public Trust Clearance.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering -Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria

• Business Admin w/conc in Management Information Systems Southern New Hampshire University, NH (In Progress)

• Associates of Science in Computer Science-Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT

• Certificate - Cybersecurity (Managing Risk in the Information Age)-Harvard - Cambridge, MA

• Certificate - Data Analytics-Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT

• Project Management Professional - PMP

• Certified SAFe 6.0 Practice Consultant (SPC)

• Certified SAFe 6.0 Release Train Engineer (CSRTE)

• ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC)

• Certified SAFe 6.0 Product Owner Product Manager (CSPOPM) Certified

• SAFe 6.0 Advanced Scrum Master (CSASM)

• Certified SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master (CSSM)

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)-Scrum Alliance

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Jira

• Confluence

• Slack

• Teams

• TFS

• XP

• Trello

• Kanban

• Planning Poker

• SharePoint

• Microsoft Office

• Crystal

• FDD

• Mural

• EasyBI

• Rally

• Miro

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

ASG Inc supporting USCIS 11/2022 – Present

Senior Scrum Master

ASDOV Program

Managed two AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) teams under the VIPER Project for USCIS

(US Government). These projects involved the development of an Automated Realtime Global Organization Specialist (ARGOS – ASDOV Program) and the development of an updated Machine Learning Model Service (JARVIS - VIPER). ARGOS is used for risk-scoring companies that are under scrutiny by the management program analyst, under the Verification branch of USCIS. The AI/ML providing risk scores

(similarity scores) based off of user profiles.

• Led the program in organizing and planning for the PI Planning

• Scheduled and facilitated Refinement meetings Sprint planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and retrospectives.

• Helped organize Scrum Masters’ community of practice.

• Helped train and mentor junior Scrum Masters.

• Worked closely with the Business Analyst and Product Owner to make sure the backlog was organized, and the team goals were aligned with the business goals.

• Escalated blockers to stakeholders where necessary.

• Interviewed new Scrum masters and helped in the onboarding process.

• Worked with AWS EKS (Amazon Web Service Enterprise Kubernetes Service), Jenkins, Terraform, AWS S3 (Amazon Web Service managed object storage systems), MLflow, large transfer learning models such as BERT, KeyBERT, and RoBERTa.

• Scheduled releases and demos.

• Ensured Definition of Done (DOD) and Definition of Ready (DOR) are met.

• Supported the teams continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for integrating changes from the codebase and deploying to production or multiple environments. ASP Inc 04/2018 – 11/2022

Scrum Master

Worked on two projects that involved implementing a Customer Relationship Management System

(CRM), and a healthcare project called CTMS (Clinical Trial Management System) for the United States Veteran Affairs which is used to manage clinical studies.

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, grooming, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, releases, and other Scrum-related meetings.

• Acted as a custodian for the Agile process and ensured all Scrum processes were used as intended.

• Helped the team stay focused by adhering to Scrum events.

• Worked with the Product Owner to maximize productivity and maintain transparency by publishing reports to ensure the stakeholders are updated about the team’s progress.

• Ensured teams’ complete focus on quality and continuous delivery; identified and mitigated risks, resolved impediments, continually coached teams and the organization on the Scrum framework. Cisco 03/2016 – 04/2018

Scrum Master

The project involved implementing a Business Process Management Solution by Pega System v7.4 for client account opening processing and document digitization, using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and storage to FileNet

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, releases, adoptions, and other Scrum-related meetings.

• Ensured the developers practiced core agile principles and maintained Scrum values throughout the entire project.

• Coached the organization on the importance of upholding the Scrum pillars; Transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

• Determined and removed all obstacles that interfered with the ability of the team to deliver assigned goals.

• Implemented the Scrum framework within the organization system of doing things without disrupting their flow of work.

Wansoft Technologies 01/2013 – 03/2016

Scrum Master

The project involved updates to web systems that supported banking products and the development of a money transfer banking application; including GIC, mutual funds, and savings accounts (REXP, TSFA). – We used a standard AWS web deployment architecture with EC2 as the Servers, connected to S3 buckets

(Amazon Web Service managed object storage systems) as file storage and Database through AWS MySQL RDS hosted in the Virtual Private Cloud in the US east 1 (AWS VPC). We used NOD.JS for back end and HTML, CSS, Java Script.

• Facilitated the introduction, adoption, implementation, and sustainability of Agile methodology and processes, principles, and practices within the organization.

• Tracked and communicated team velocity and other development metrics to all involved and management.

• Supported product owners with grooming, refining, and maintaining product backlogs.

• Fostered and evangelized change in management strategies and mentality for effective adoption of Agile methodology within the teams and the organization at large.

• Utilized use case, workflow activities, and sequence diagrams to define functional requirements for the development team.

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