Jane Simbo

470-***-**** ad1st2@r.postjobfree.com Atlanta, GA

Senior Scrum Master Certified in SPC, SA, SP, PO/PM, SSM, PSM, CSM,

Bachelor’s in law & Business Mgmt

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENNCE

Proficient, Innovative, Certified Professional Scale Agile Coach,Scrum Master, with 11+ years of Agile Scrum Mastery implementations with Distributed and Co-located Agile teams in Healthcare, Finance, Insurance, Public domains with Excellent communication, critical thinking, Value Orientation, Collaborative, and in-depth satisfactions

Transition Teams from Waterfall to Agile Frameworks, Coached Suited Frameworks base on projects scope

Mentor, Coach teams to be self-organized, self-managing and value delivering to organizations and stakeholders

Extensive experience in SDLC, Software delivery Best Practices, Agile Methodologies, project tools, mural

SKILLS METRICS

Scale Agile Team coach, Servant Leader Trainer,

Agile Transformation and Stakeholder interaction,

Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe Agile 5.0, 5.1, XP, Lean, SPC

Conflict Resolution, Mitigator,

ADO, Boards, Jira, Confluence, Rally, TFS, SNOW, Jira Align

Pair Programing, Team’s Mom

Coach, Mentor, Servant Leader

Risk Management, Agile Mindset

Supporting RTE, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, PI Planning,SAFe implementation, Retrospective, Inspect and Adapt Program Board, Mural

Accountability, Transparency, Cross-functional and Offshore Team player, Multitasker, Strong Oral and Written Communication, Result Oriented, Self-Moltivated, Microsoft Suite,

ServiceNow, CAB Reviews Board

Banking, Finance, Healthcare,, Automation, Excellent Communication

WORK HISTORY

Cotiviti

Team Agile Coach/Senior Scale Agile Scrum Master

Remote

March 2022 – Present

Transitioning teams from waterfall to Agile Mindset by coaching and mentoring teams and management when necessary

Track & Resolve dependencies, remove impediments and work with teams to deliver value to customers every increment and every iteration

Facilitate all Agile ceremonies; Daily Standup, Iteration Planning, Backlog refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Breakout Sessions and other sessions like Community of Practice and different duties when assign

Generates necessary reports from Jira indicating velocity, burn-down, committed Vs Completed work and lot more to track team work progress

Inspire and guide teams and TPOs on new processes and mindsets in regards to agile implementation and adapting to new agile processes

Schedule Teams breakout sessions facilitate teams PI breakouts, work with team to identify and ROAM team risks, identify and mitigate team dependencies across Eliza ART.

Work with TPO, QA, Architect and Dev Team to create teams objectives, Milestones and build a cross functional team to ensure that development, testing and feedback is completed in a timely manner and meeting the Sprint timelines and goals

Protect teams from outside interruptions, distractions, and managed teams’ dependencies

Incorporate Capacity Planning during sprint planning to helped teams improve velocity and Estimation

Train, formalize, normalize, and empowered team to self-managed in Agile mindset

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

Resolve Team conflict, motivate cross-functional teams, champion high-quality deliverables

Scrum Master for two high performing, cross functional, Offshore and co-located, self-organizing teams working on a Cotiviti Connect Web functional teams Cash project

Enable development stories, acceptance criteria, Description and all related documentation are timely completed, supporting development, testing, and user acceptance activities and value driven

I am self motivated, growth mindset, passionate, team player and hands-on experience on different projects in more than 4 different companies

I take on new responsibilities as they are being assigned

USAA

SAFe Scrum Master Senior

Sans Antonio, TX

Dec 2020 – February 2022

Improvement teams’ collaboration and productivities by facilitating all Agile ceremonies: Sprint, Iterations Plannings, Backlog Refinement, Retrospectives, and other team meetings when needed

Growth Mindset and always strive to challenge myself as I volunteered to act as a supporting RTE

Worked with Product Owner to create product roadmap, Teams Objectives and Milestones

Coached teams on Agile mindset, “Agile in All” and effective use of Agile frameworks and project choices

Coached development process transformation Techniques to enable teams to deliver quicker values

Coached Credit Card Technology Project team on Agile best practices to improved and adaptive delivery

Scheduled and facilitates grooming, Sprint planning, PBI prioritization, ensuring complete visibility

Supported product owners, communicated project milestone deliverables and timeline

empowered team to be self-confident, Open, to use Inspect and Adapt feedback to improve approaches

Fostered a safe and ensure hustle free environment helping team members deliver across sprints

Maintained the product backlog, Epics, user stories, tasks, spikes, story points, velocity, project chartings to increase teams’ transparency and provide visibilities to stakeholders.

Servant led, guided, educated teams on story breakdown, iterations, retrospective, demos executions

Mentored team on Openness, Courage, Adaption, collaboration to increase continuous improvements

Followed up, tracked, and facilitated removal of teams impediments ensuring milestone and goals are met

Worked with PO, RTE, Stakeholders, Product managers to identify and manage Risks accordingly

Coordinated with dependent teams Scrum Masters individually and in Scrum of Scrum meetings to channel teams activities, progress, milestones and expected deliverables across-team and scope changes

Incorporated capacity planning during sprint planning to improve team velocity

Coached teams to be self-organized and managing with little supervision increasing teams’ ownerships

Acts as POC to Delivery Manager, vet and approves team members timesheets as needed

Created dashboards and use chartings and metrics to track, report, visualize sprints and work status

Periodically Backup RTE and facilitate Scrum of Scrum, Community of Practice and ART sync meetings

Shielded and protected teams from external interference to maintain uniform work across sprints

Worked with RTEs to plan PI, other SAFe events, System demos, Breakout sessions

Tracked teams task progress, bugs, defects, Change Requests, generate and communicate release schedules

Humana Inc

Agile Scrum Master Sr

Louisville, KY

April 2020 – Dec 2020

Improvement teams’ collaboration and productivities by facilitating all Agile ceremonies, Release planning

Mentored and transitioned teams from Scrum to Scrumban after identifying as best Agile framework for teams

Lead Scrum Masters in creating Dashboard for senior executives KPIs visualization and project progress.

Coached and transitioned team from conventional Waterfall Model to Agile frameworks base on project flow

Tracked, escalated, and remove impediments to allow teams to deliver committed sprint goals.

Work with PO to gather product requirements, capture in the product backlog and amend project scope

Assessed Agile team Maturity, coached and mentored team into high maturity level

Support Product Owner with techniques on healthy backlog, feature refinement, prioritization to deliver value

Participated and facilitated PI Planning, Scrum of Scrum and Scrum Community training to increase team’s performance and adherence to company standards and policies

Protect teams from outside interruptions, distractions, and managed teams’ dependencies

Incorporate Capacity Planning during sprint planning to helped teams improve velocity and Estimation

Train, formalize, normalize, and empowered team to self-managed in Agile mindset

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

Resolve Team conflict, motivate cross-functional teams, champion high-quality deliverables

TD Ameritrade

Scrum Master

Alpharetta, GA

April 2018 – March 2020

Facilitated All Scrum ceremonies, events, Retrospective, bug triage, Inspect and Adapt meetings

Facilitated PI planning readiness to ensure Feature readiness, timely handoffs, and acceptance by Teams

Led multiple cross-functional teams in all aspects of the Agile SDLC.

Ensured smooth transition from Conventional Waterfall Model into Agile. Coached and Mentored teams on Agile Best techniques and Scrum Framework implementation from Sprint planning to Retrospectives.

Supported team in TD Connect Cash project used for collection management processes for invoice payments

strong critical thinking and organizational skills, demonstrating experience supporting highly technical digital programs leading the development of web and mobile applications

Consulted with Management and Stakeholders, worked to develop and implement Agile Best practices under the scrum framework in building transaction integration for financial stakeholders.

Participated in Program Increment (PI) Planning, Scrum of Scrum meetings and Scrum Communities training to find new ways to increase team’s performance and be updated on industry trends.

Coach and promote continuous product improvement and help teams increase productivity and foster innovation.

Worked with PO backlog Grooming Backlog, to create and split user stories

SunTrust

Scrum Master

Atlanta, GA

July 2014 – March 2018

Drove program-level continuous improvement via retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt workshops, and follow ups

Facilitate monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.

Tracked team’s progress, escalated, remove impediments to help teams focus on project and deliverables

Improved transparency by making sprint task board accessible to other scrum teams and managers in the organization while always seeking for new ways to innovate.

Helped established priorities, structured process improvement strategies, scheduled project, managed cross-functional teams, directed, monitored work efforts, managed resources, developed metrics, performed reviews

Developed more trust, collaboration, and transparency among team environment to facilitate openness about problems without fear of repercussion with complete focus on problem resolution.

Tracked, escalated and removed teams impediments to allow the team to deliver on committed sprint goals.

Facilitated effective communication across teams, product owners and external vendors/stakeholders.

Performed measurement and risk analysis to minimize risks and optimize returns.

Coached and mentored teams to be self-organizing to deliver product increments with little supervision

Cloud Card Tech

Project Coordinator/SM

Atlanta, GA

Nov 2012 – June 20214

Provided coaching and guidance to team to support Agile adoption, values, Principles, and Best Practices

Work with PO to ensure healthy backlog and PBI refinements

Communicated with cross teams and stakeholders to ensure all roadblocks and identified risks are handled

Support PO to prioritize, create roadmap and following up teams and organization milestones

Coordinated teams’ engagement to establish and implement new projects to support Project Manager

Created and tracked project progress, shared status updates with team and Project Manager

Mitigated project issues and team disputes to keep all parties on project goal

Maintained Record keeping software license purchases, renewals, and re-certification

Identified and worked to remove roadblocks to ensure Project completion with subcontractors

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