MINETTE EGBE

Burtonsville, MD 240-***-**** ad1r2c@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: minette-egbe-575287206

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dedicated Certified Scrum Master with a proven track record of driving agile excellence. Proficient in enforcing scrum principles, facilitating self-organisation, and spearheading process improvements. A mentor in agile software development principles, emphasising the implementation of best practices gleaned from retrospectives. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: JAVA, JavaScript, Python

Testing Tools: A/B Testing, SoapUI, HPE ALM

Database Languages: SQL, Oracle Database Tool

Applications: Corp Online (DC Gov.) software, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Salesforce, CRM

Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Rally, Confluence Operating Systems: Windows, Linux/Unix, Apple, Google Skills: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, GitHub, SDLC, Bid Proposal, Technical Writing CERTIFICATIONS Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) SAFe Certified (SASM 6.0) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

(Travel Net Solutions – Cottage Grove, MN)

Scrum Master – January 2023 to Present Key

Skills Utilized:

- Product Owner Coaching

- Agile Transformation

- Leadership & Team Coaching

- Agile Software Project Management

- Scrum Ceremonies Facilitation

- Excellent writing and communication skills

- Product Backlog Refinement & Prioritization

- Hands on Workshops and Presentations

- Team Empowerment, Collaboration, and Cross-functionality Responsibilities: Lead and coach product owners to enhance story writing and requirements gathering processes, resulting in improved team performance and sprint goal achievement. Assist and collaborate with Product Owner towards planning, forecasting, and road map discussions.

Work with offshore and onshore team

Collaborate with product owners to develop, update, prioritize, and refine the Product Backlog, ensuring definition of ready, alignment with customer needs, and satisfaction. Serve as a scrum master for multiple agile software projects, fostering team collaboration and self-organization.

Lead team towards agile maturity, create a fun sharing, and learning environment. Facilitate essential scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and daily stand-ups.

Coach and guide teams through Agile transformation, promoting cross-functionality, and selforganization.

Use techniques such as agile poker and Fibonacci sequence to coach and facilitate team for estimation.

Use metrics to track team progress such as burn up, burn down, and velocity. Create hands on workshops and presentations for Agile practices. Encourage cross functionality by making sure to know each engineer personally, knowing the skill sets, languages used, and encouraging peer pairing.

(Liberty IT Solutions, Contractor: Veterans Affair – Herndon, VA) Senior Scrum Master - Nov 2020 to Dec 2022

Key Skills Utilized:

- PI Planning Coordination

- Implementing continuous planning and innovation

- Scrum Ceremonies Leadership

- Product Backlog Management/refinement

- Impediment Removal

- Agile Software Project Oversight

- Collaboration with RTE and Product Owners Responsibilities: Provided leadership across multiple safe teams for diverse agile software projects, ensuring alignment with PI objectives.

Led and facilitate scrum ceremonies, fostering transparency in goals, scope, and Product Backlog refinement.

Collaborate with RTE, Product Owners, Business Partners, developers, and Architects to build and define the Product Backlogs and complete release planning. Coordinate confidence of completion of all projects within allocated time by development team Protect team from scope creep during execution of the PI. Coordinate with team when it comes to Ad hoc request/scope creep. Collaborate closely with product owners to clarify business needs and requirements, ensuring optimal project scope.

Coach team on Agile and Safe principles with the goal of continuous improvement Shield the team from internal and external interferences. Analyse and interpret iteration metrics such as burn-up, burn-down, and historical data. Conduct presentations and communicate product features for cross functional teams. Remove impediments for the team and coordinate with the Release Train Engineers in implementing solutions.

Use ROAM technique to classify risks and dependencies across workgroups. Participate in hourly Scrum of Scrums meeting to helps keep teams on track and support early identification of risk, dependencies, and other team issues. Proactively removed team impediments to maintain focus on iteration goals and deliverables. Observe and implement a healthy work environment with transparency and great communications within the team to encourage team members' feedback on issues that may impede their well-being and ability to deliver value.

(CVP, contractor: Medicaid & Medicare – Columbia, MD) Senior Scrum Master - Mar 2019 to Nov 2020 Key

Skills Utilized:

- Scrum Principles Enforcement

- Agile Mentoring/coaching

- Agile Software Development Guidance

- JIRA Backlog Development

- Agile Metrics Tracking - Agile Championing Responsibilities: Supported multiple Solutions teams in enforcing scrum principles, facilitating continuous improvement, removing impediments and blockers.

Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Partners, developers, and Architects to build and define the Product Backlogs and complete release planning. Mentored team members on agile software development principles, implementing process improvements based on retrospective insights.

Conducted daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews, refinement, and sprint retrospective meetings.

Implement team bonding exercises such as ice breakers, HH, and coach team about scrum values to encourage collaboration.

Collaborate with engineering leadership for incremental improvement and conflict resolution. Collaborated with product owners to develop and refine the team's backlog in JIRA while maintaining a focus on agile principles and values. Ensure that the team has a clear understanding and understands the Definition of ready and meets Definition of Done

Work with PO and coach team about a good user story and using INVEST criteria.

(American Nurses Association, Inc – Silver Spring, MD) Health Care Manager/Junior Scrum Master- Jun 2017 to Mar 2019 Key Skills Utilized:

- Scrum Event Facilitation

- Estimation and User Story Coaching

- Product Owner Support

- JIRA Backlog Development

- Implementing collaboration and Cross functionality Responsibilities: Facilitated all Scrum events, ensuring effective preparation, moderation, and post-processing. Mentored and coached scrum teams in relative estimation and user story writing. Supported the Product Owner in their role by assisting with backlog development and refinement sessions. Attended discovery meetings, requirement gatherings and analysis, document- reviews, plan setup, and plan configuration with stakeholders. Coach scrum teams towards using agile principles and values of transparency, efficient communication, and collaboration to ensure clear understanding of the scope and goal resulting in continuous delivery of value by the team.

EDUCATION

Trinity Washington University, Washington, DC: Human Relations (Jan 2022)

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