Summary

Results-focused, **+ years in IT and *+ as a Scrum Master, I excel in leading cross-functional teams to drive major technology initiatives. Adept in Agile methodologies, SDLC, and passionate about scrum, Kanban, lean Thinking, and SAFe, I foster seamless collaboration across global teams. Known for forging vital partnerships and delivering on collective team objectives, I bring strong leadership, coaching, and user story skills. My focus is navigating complex projects, ensuring clear goals, driving success through adaptable approaches, leveraging comprehensive Agile expertise.

Core Competences

Agile frameworks: Scrum, Kanban Principles, SAFe, Lean waterfall, and Scrum ban

Project Management tools: Microsoft Project, Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Certificates

Certified SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master (SSM)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Management (POPM)

Certified Kanban Expert

Applied Scrum for Agile Management Project

MCP- Microsoft Certified Professional

Professional Experience:

Bank of America June 2022 – Current

SAFe Scrum Master (Contract Position)

Orchestrated SAFe ceremonies (PI Planning, Sprint planning, Sprint Review) to align team efforts, fostering synergy and goal clarity.

Supported two cross functional teams in adopting SAFe methodology, catalyzing an Agile transformation for optimal project delivery.

Swiftly resolved impediments, ensuring uninterrupted workflow and maintaining sprint cadence for timely deliverable.

Played a pivotal role in the Agile transformation, driving alignment, collaboration, and value delivery across the project spectrum.

Cultivated Team cohesion, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and shared responsibility, optimizing project outcome

Drove UI/UX enhancements and new functionalities aligned with user needs, enhancing product capabilities and attracting wider user engagement.

Walmart, Bentonville, AR February 2020 – June 2022

Senior Scrum Master (Contract Position)

Builds a trusting environment where issues are raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, and emphasis problem solving.

Facilitates communication within the scrum team, product owner and stakeholders by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.

Used JIRA and KANBAN to monitor and track project progress iteratively, assign stories to iteration, tag defects to stories, split stories to tasks, help team and stakeholders visualize workflow, limit work in progress and maximize efficiency.

Contributes to the effectiveness of agile delivery processes by ensuring process outputs act as a baseline for process improvement.

Together with the scrum team, define, built, test and deploy products while facilitating the continuous improvement, cadence and synchronization in the entire processes.

GM Financial Arlington, TX October 2018 – January 2020

Scrum Master (Contract Position).

Organized and facilitates the scrum events including sprint planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, Sprint Demo, Backlog Refinement, Retrospective, and Release Planning.

Supported Product owner with backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, release planning.

Coached the scrum team to adopt effective communication and interpersonal skills to improve team performance.

Championed building Partner relationships and created a unified environment where every team member feel valued.

Responsible for resolving impediments, resolving conflicts for the scrum team and act as a safeguard for the team.

United Health United Health Group Minnetonka, MN January 2016 – September 2018

Scrum Master (Contract)

Orchestrated all Scrum ceremonies, optimizing team efficiency in Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement.

Collaborated closely with product owner, Agile coaches, stakeholders, fostering transparent team dynamics and removing impediments for cohesive collaboration.

Influence continuous improvement values for existing processes while promoting innovation of new product development.

Championed and facilitated the adoption of Agile mindset, framework, and best practices.

Coordinated cross- team collaboration via Scrum of Scrums, minimizing inter-team hurdles.

Mentored teams on test automation, ensuring seamless continuous delivery, leveraging expertise as scrum master.

Eco Bank March 2013 – December 2015

Business Analyst.

Facilitated UAT sessions, validate features, and insured alignment with Ecobank’s Standards

Conducted thorough requirement gathering sessions, collaborated with stakeholders across different departments resulting in increase in operational efficiency.

Developed detailed functional specifications and user stories, aligning business needs with IT solutions.

MTN Group January 2010 – March 2013

Financial Analyst

Developed Sophisticated financial models, optimizing revenue projections to a 10% increase in revenue realization.

Generated financial reports, enhancing decision making accuracy, resulting in a 15% improvement in forecasting precision.

Achievements

Was able to get the team to maintain a predictable velocity.

Established weekly touch base team meetings for continuous improvement.

Improve agile practices in the organization by leveraging Retrospective.

Education

MBA. Finance, Wilmington University (WILMU), New Castle, DE.

BSc. Management, University of Buea (UB), Cameroon.

Joseph M.

Location: Pennsylvania Mobile: +1-302-***-**** Email: ad2s66@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn: URL Linked

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