Scrum Master Product Owner

Demetrius Balentine

Chicago. IL

email: ad24em@r.postjobfree.com tel: 773-***-****

Scrum Master/Lead Mobile Engineer

EXPERIENCE

CAREER HIGHLIGHT

• An experienced Scrum Master with over 5 years of supporting and guiding Scrum teams in multiple locations to organize goals, implement and monitor software development processes and reporting to senior managers on project progress.

• As a former lead developer, turned scrum master, I can relate to and understand the technical challenges of the development team - helping to proactively remove impediments and assist the Product Owner

• A servant leader with a great ability to help teams resolve their impediments.

• Assisted in Technical Product Owner roles during leave or extended absences.

• Ability to assess scrum maturity of teams and the organization and coach teams to higher levels of maturity.

• Well versed in coaching and mentoring teams on Agile best practices and transitioning teams from waterfall to agile.

• Ability to work independently, resolve issues proactively and meet timelines.

• Ability to work with cross-functional team, responsible for improving business process and providing value to the functions they support.

• Excellent conceptual and working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Knowledge/experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, continuous testing, Agile Games.

• The ability to guide teams transitioning from the traditional methodology of project management to Agile.

• A well experienced facilitator of all Scrum events, with a good track record of conflict management/ resolution.

• Strong communication, analytic, interpersonal and conflict management skills.

• Delivered in every role of scrum team (Mobile Developer, Scrum, Product Owner).

• Leadership & Mentoring teams

• Process Improvements

• Kanban

• ScrumBan

• JIRA, version, Confluence

• Project Management

• iOS and Android Development

• API Developing using Ruby on Rails

• Agile team transformation

• Automated testing

• Program Increment (PI) Planning

• Team Agile Coaching

• Training at team level

• DevOps

• Salesforce Developer/Administrator

• Keap Administrator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department of Education Aug 2022 – Present

Scrum Master/Agile Coach (Contract)

• Scrum Master for Department of Education via Red Cedar Consultancy

• Worked with and supported Release Train Engineer during release cycles to support release/updates in scrum of scrum

• Served as secondary/back up to RTE

• Provided PI progress and sprint reports

• Support and track project and team improvements in Jira identified in retrospective

• Process development and documentation

• Coached the adoption of Agile methodologies to leadership and developed working agreements between management and scrum teams that promoted self-organization

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies and removed impediments in ways that allowed scrum teams to successfully accomplish sprint goals

• Support PI planning processes

• Assist Product Owner manage and prioritize the backlog.

• Ensure work is “Ready” for development

• Took the role of Technical Product Owner until the position was filled - working with System Architect BenchPrep Jan 2019 – July 2022

IT Scrum Master/Mobile Tech Lead

• Assist Product Owner to communicate product roadmap to the development team which consistently drives process improvements through implementation of new strategies.

• Team up with Product Owner/Project Manager to maintain and coordinate communication of project progress to clients throughout each project by visualizing work on Scrum boards.

• Act as the bridge between the Product Manager and the scrum delivery team and helping both parties to align to a common goal while managing stakeholder expectations.

• Worked with scrum team in identifying internal and external resources used in the resolving

• impediments.

• Monitored team progress using metrics such as burn down chart and work breakdown schedule.

• Engaged team in retrospective to promote the continuous growth and improvement of Scrum framework within the environment.

• Conducted Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review & Iteration Retrospective meetings.

• Work with PO to review the backlog to ensure requirements are accurately captured, stories are well written, and teams have a shared understanding of stories in the backlog.

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies including the Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning and Retrospective Discussions and sprint review as needed.

• Capture and help teams continuously identify and learnings from retrospectives by tracking and implementing retrospective action items in subsequent sprints.

• Prior to moving to fill the scrum role, I began as the Lead Mobile Developer in native iOS and Android development

Brad’s Deals March 2015 – Oct 2018

IT Scrum Master/Lead Mobile Engineer

• Provided hands-on facilitation of major Agile ceremonies across multiple development teams; consults and coaches teams (including the Product Owner) to support a smooth transformation to Agile practices

• Enabled continuous improvement and facilitates communication across teams to proactively manage dependencies and remove impediments and establish standards for Agile processes and tools

• Supports efforts to resolve systemic impediments that continually block teams within their organization

• Supports and educates product owners and product managers, especially with respect to refined and managed the product backlog and decision making

• Ensured effective communication within and across teams and Programs; scheduled and facilitated cross-functional meetings, and ensured appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports.

• Performed risk, issue, and dependency management for the teams and/or program and ensures compliance with company and regulatory policies and procedures.

• Ensured release management practices align to enterprise standards and leverages existing change management routines as needed.

• Acted as Agile SME to teams, departmental teams, product owners, and management

• Participated in Scrum Master community of practice and mentors other Scrum Masters

• For technology related efforts: Understands release-when ready, test-driven development, continuous integration, product demonstration and other technical engineering practices and guides team on leveraging them

• After the apps were built, cross trained in both native iOS and Android. IBM+Apple March 2014 – Feb 2015

iOS Developer / Scrum Master (as team downsized)

• Facilitated team discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information about the team, their product, and the value delivered to the business at regular intervals and/or as requested

• Supported and educated the Product Owner, especially on refinement and maintained a healthy product backlog.

• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example. Built a trusting and safe team environment to foster collaboration and continuous learning.

• Assisted team to becoming mature and self-organized by encouraging them to facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning and sprint reviews.

• Assisted product owners in maintaining the Product Backlog and schedule

• Coached several Developer teams in self-organization and cross-team integration.

• Teamed up with development team when needed in creating test automation scripts in selenium, regression testing and UAT support, track bugs and retest applications.

• Used burn-down and burn-up chart to monitor team progress in order to help coach teams to maintain stable and sustainable space in the course of development.

• Facilitated all the scrum ceremonies such as Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

• Served as a servant leader and helped the team resolve their impediment. Maverick Developers Aug 2014 – Present

Principal Consultant (Contract roles)

• IT contract roles with various clients:

o Lead Mobile Developer for RhemaCast for offshore team (rhemacast.com) o Project Manager for NMMA for offshore team (nmma.org) o Web Developer for Discover Boating (discoverboating.com) o Web Developer for Chicago Boat Shows (chicagoboatshow.com) RealPage Jan 2013 – March 2014

Mobile Engineer

• Moved legacy iOS/Objective-C app to a universal app in Swift with new features

• Developed new Android application

• Developed reusable, cross project widgets and animations for iOS and Android applications

• Coordinate and work closely with product managers, design teams, and QA to assure app meets requirements

Projects

EDUCATION

DeVry University, Bachelor of Science in Computer Information System Fall 2012 CERTIFICATION

SKILLS

- Expert Seller (iOS) - Case Manager (iOS)

- My New Place (iOS) - Brad’s Deals (iOS and Android)

- Asset Inspect (iOS) - Brad's BuyPass (iOS)

- Quote and Bind (iOS) - Facilities Plus (iOS and Android)

- PMI (iOS and Android) - CFA (iOS and Android)

- ACCA (iOS and Android) - Dalton (iOS and Android) Certified SAFe Scrum Master (Scaled Agile, Inc.) Professional Scrum Master 1 (scrum.org) Agile Reporting tools Version One, Jira & Confluence Business Modeling Tools MS Excel, Outlook, MS Power point, MS Access Other Tools iOs, Java for Android, Ruby on Rails, DevOps, Swift

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