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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Professional Scrum Master with 6 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully creating, developing, and leading high performing cross-functional teams. Excellent problem-solving skills, skilled facilitator with great interpersonal and communication abilities. Desire to apply expertise to new role with progressive organization. CORE PROFICIENCIES

• Agile methodologies

• Scrum Process

• Coaching/Mentoring

• Strategic planning

• Problem resolutions

• Jira/Confluence/

• Committed Team Player

• Backlog Refinement

• User stories

• Continuous Improvement

EXPERIENCE

Sierra Reality Group

Apopka Florida May 2019 – Present

Scrum Master

• Manage core agile ceremonies within the team. This includes Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Reviews/Demo and Backlog Refinement.

• Act as a servant leader, implement the Scrum Framework effectively and provide coaching and training to maximize the benefits of scrum.

• Educate teams and POs on writing better user stories and proper estimation techniques and work collaboratively with PO and team members to maintain a refined prioritized Product Backlog that meet our Definition of Ready (DoR) guide by INVEST criteria with a clear and concise Acceptance Criteria

• Identify and remove organization and team impediments and help resolve issues and conflicts – Shield the team from external interference.

• Ensure complacency does not set in team while avoiding overcommitting to stakeholders. Champion the cause for continuous design and refactoring to minimize code duplicity, complex logic, poor named identifiers etc.

• Take charge of process flows, maintenance of scrum boards in Jira which increases transparency and visibility into workflow helping teams gauge progress, inspect and adapt accordingly to achieve sprint goal

• Help teams define appropriate metrics and KPIs such as velocity, capacity, cycle time, lead time and burndown chart.

EMMANUEL O. BART-WILLIAMS

Deltona, Florida 32725

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Liberty Mutual Group

Lake Mary, Florida May 2017 – 2019

Scrum Master I

• Led team effort in relentless improvement, defined and implemented improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program; implemented and supported principles, rules, and processes.

• Ensured effective communication strategies were in place among internal and external participants and stakeholders.

• Ensured the teams achieved their stated objectives by reinforcing SAFe framework and scrum principles, keeping the team focused on their goals and ceremonies.

• Identified and removed organization and team impediments and helped resolve issues and conflicts – shielded the team from external interference.

• Managed JIRA board for the teams and project by bringing visibility and transparency to the workflow.

Sprint/T-mobile

Maitland, Florida May 2013 – 2017

Project Manager

• Led and oversaw the coordination of project activities with client departments such as Facilities Management, IT, Public Safety, EHS, Regulatory Affairs, Development, Events, and Senior Administration to ensure all parties were well-informed and that work proceeded on schedule with minimal impact.

• Ensured effective communication strategies were in place among internal and external participants and stakeholders.

• Led and managed diverse group of constituents to initiate and deliver projects of high quality, balancing budget and schedule parameters.

• Conducted business performance reviews on a recurring timeframe with client and Aramark leadership.

AGS/Cellular Sales of Knoxville

Jacksonville, Florida May 2011– 2013

District Manager / Project Manager

• Identified, researched, and engaged new markets to add store locations and secure customer contracts. Trained store managers the scope of their responsibilities including merchandising, inventory loss prevention, A/P, A/R, Payroll, P&L and other reporting, and cash control.

• Created weekly seminars to educate customers on product technologies that guaranteed confidence in final purchases and reduced return rates to less than 2%.

• Ranked in the Top 5 for the region in number of device activations and for exceeding sales quotas by 120%.

• Created team development plans that increased sales force productivity by 20%. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

CSM (Certified Scrum Master) • Insurance Licensure, Series 20 & 44 • Real Estate Licensure, Residential

& Commercial • Fluent In Krio (African Dialect)

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