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EDNA NKOMBU FONSA

SAN ANTONIO TX *****

EMAIL: ad29nw@r.postjobfree.com Tel: 210-***-****

CAREER PROFILE

Experienced IT Sr Project Manager / SAFe Scrum Master working to deliver high quality products and services to internal and external clients with a client-focus, results-oriented and servant leadership skills with over seven years of experience coaching at the team level, using scrum principles and values to deploy and implement scrum projects.

EXPERIENCE

·Leadership & Mentoring teams

·Process Improvements

·Program Increment (PI)

·Team Agile Coaching (Onshore, offshore and near-shore)

·Change Managent

· Project scheduling

·Issue Management

·Risk Management

·Training at team level

·SAFe Scrum Master

·Project Profolio Management

·Scrum

·Kanban

·DevOps

·SAP/Hana Expirece

·Oil/Gas experience

· Access Management

·Agile Tooling ( JIRA, Confluence)

·Project Management

·Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

·Communication

·Requirement Gathering

·Team Bulding

·Relationship Building

·Use Agile and Engineering processes

·Managing IT Efforts

·Problem Solving

·Agile team transformation

·Automated testing

·Avaya Aura

·Infrastructure PM

·Agile Project Management

·Scale Agile Framework

·Technical written and documentation

·Salesforce

·Vendor/ Stakeholders Management

·Java technologies

·Project Planning

·Data Analytics

·Migration of Cloud / payroll System.

·Team Center systems

·ERP Financial experence

· Project Financial Management

·Preparingg and Supervising financial plans

·Clinical/ Hospital Management.

·Visualisation / Boarding..

CAREER HIGHLIGHT

·Certified Scum Master with over 10 years of experience.

·Well versed in coaching and mentoring teams on Agile practices and transitions to Agile.

·Critical thinker and problem solver, able to find solutions to complex problems through analysis and innovative ideas.

·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)

·Ability to communicate with top management, provide reports that demonstrate project progress per sprint through the use of burn-down charts and average story point velocity.

·I have coached many struggling and both collocated and offshore new teams, and helped them achieve high performance measured by faster development, better quality and fewer release roll-backs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

APPLE, Texas Agile Scrum Master /Program Manager May 2018 –December 2023

·Self-starter, self-motivated who have done complex projects,Organise and coordinate programs, ensuring the the company is working towrds its large goals.

·Integration experience with large size projects such as Migrating of Data and Payroll.

·Working with various functional teams to creat and lead the deliveryof the Payroll system.

·Working with the HR to manage the payroll system and transition period in the payroll data migration.

·Ability to effectively summarize and present relevant information to leadership teams

·Successfully coordinate the planning and execution of complex IT and business-related projects across multiple business units ensuring they meet business goals.

·Organising various programs and activities to improve companies efficiency.

·Developing program, project plans and budget, also report on organisation financial reslts.

·oversees and review work of team members, determines prioritiesand allocation of resources

·Plan, Coordinate and manage oil and gas projects ensuring clear agreement of objectives, working out the scope and budget providing leadership skills.

·Manages stakeholder priorities and coordinates resources to ensure requirements and project scope adherence, creates and maintains necessary project documentation, and uses a professional communication style to keep stakeholders informed of project progress.

·· Manages multiple complex IT and business projects; oversees and coordinates the planning and execution of projects by creating and maintaining appropriate documentation including project charters, schedules, work breakdown structures, risk/issue log, communication plan, change requests, lessons learned and other documents as needed; communicates project progress through electronic and in-person discussions; manages the portfolio of initiatives that span across business units or lines of business; prepares estimates and develops detailed project plans for all phases of the project or initiative including identifying resource and budgetary requirements and managing project scope.

·Manages and coordinates the planning and execution of projects by establishing project objectives, milestones, schedule and overall plan; plans and implements communication activities and timelines for assigned projects; provides technical assistance and resolves issues related to project tasks; works closely and collaboratively with key stakeholders to define project scope, strategy, budget, and outcomes; identifies critical resource expertise and targets appropriate internal and/or external sources to ensure optimal outcome(s); resolves vendor resource issues; provides big-picture assistance to the organization and management of all aspects of related projects to ensure alignment of the overall program with strategic business objectives

·Facilitates project team meetings which includes scheduling, creating meeting agendas and notes, and ensures meetings run efficiently; uses judgment, tact, discretion, and initiative to bring resolution to roadblocks; understands when and the appropriate resource to escalate matters to; develops and executes a communication strategy for all different project stakeholders; reports on project status, progress, metrics, risks, test results, and deployment activities; provides feedback, advice, and encouragement to other project managers and project team members

·Responsible for documenting project management portfolio processes and standards

· Responsible for portfolio management program coordination and deliverables.

·Charters, plans, deliverables, and other project artifacts.

· Works closely with the project sponsor and IT senior management to understand and prioritize portfolio

· Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions,

·Performs feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives in support of enterprise-wide portfolio Management.

· Collaborates with Enterprise Lead and peer Project Managers on standards and process development.

· Gather and review internal requirements and compare portfolio management industry standards.

·Excellent oral and written communication, including presentation skills

·Analytical and interpretive skills/Ecommerce experience.

·Quality Management,change management, vendor management, contract management, shedule management, scope management.

·Manages the full life-cycle of the project following SDLC

·Applies project management expertise and best practices/tools to define and execute:

AMAZON WEB SERVICES, ST Luke, MN March 2013 – May 2018 Project/ Program Manager/Scrum Master (Contractor)

·Working with multiple teams, providedguidance in adopting scrum practices and agile principles.

·Ensured team members understood and effectively applied agile engineering best practices such as TDD.

·Supported teams to identify and gather requirements for building a CI/CD pipeline to enable frequent deployment to production.

·Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions and remove bottlenecks.

·Identified, tracked and resolved team level impediments with the development by empowering them to own their development process.

·Building a trusting and safe team environment to foster collaboration and continuous learning.

·Practice Ecommerce experience with customers through buisness, leadership and communication.

·Assitted team to become matured and sef - organised by encouraging them to facilitate

daily standups, sprint planning and reviews

·Trained and coached teams on conducting backlog Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings and assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information and help define team health metrics for sustainable team monitoring.

· Experience with Vendor coordination,ie working with vendors who can provide the product and services needed for the project.

·Usedburn-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.

·Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

·Worked with Product owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down.

·Assisted Product Owner by providing creative ideas for manage backlog management and continuous delivery of feature.

·Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner /stakeholders.

·Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.

·CManages the full life-cycle of the project following SDLC

·Applies project management expertise and best practices/tools to define and execute conducted presentations to detail user perspective to the team and vice-versa.

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FOTABONG and Bros ENTERPRISE, Buea, Cameroon June 2008 – Jan 2013 Project Manager

·Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams.

·Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.

·Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company lots of money

·Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

·Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.

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

·Provided executives with analytics and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies.

·Partnered with developers to automate manual processes, saving time and money while decreasing errors.

·Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF BUEA, Buea, Cameroon BSC ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT, December, 2008.

CERTIFICATION

·Certified SAFe Scrum Master (Scaled Agile, Inc.

·PMP Certified

·Professional Scrum Master 1 with Scrum.org

·Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

·Scaled Advanced Scrum Master

SKILLS

Operating Systems

Windows operating systems//.

Scrum, Agile Project Management,Communication, AWS

Consultative /Relationship builder, Avaya Aura.

Reporting tools

Version One, Jira & Confluence, System Analysis/Analytical,

Dataintergration and Management, Service Now

Business Modeling Tools

MS Excel, Outlook, MS Power point, MS Access

RDBMS/Database & Other Skils

MS Access, MS Excel. Scrum Master and Product Owner

Automated Testing, Manual Testing and Mobile Apps Testing (5+ years)

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