WHO AM I?

SUMMARY

Accomplished IT Project Leader, Agile Coach & SCRUM Master – armed with an analytical acumen in designing, implementing, and optimizing end-to-end technical solutions for transforming organization at an enterprise level. Chief Technological Advocate - delivers enterprise mobile and web development projects, map business requirements, sprint planning, and builds functionalities & features, in interaction with the client after assessing IT applications. Strong record of leading all phases of large-scale SDLC programs - implement high-quality code in an Agile Framework, test-driven development environment, with a strong sense of ownership and persistent approach, resolving systems issues, and system pre-testing. Drives improvement in team delivery commitments & capacity planning for sprints through mapping & tracking hidden tasks that augments customer satisfaction.

CAREER PATH

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS SKILLS UNDER MY HAT

Best Practices (Scrum Master):

Hosts daily team meetings, sprint planning to get updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks; brainstorm with product owners to refine the backlog and plan sprints

Attend scrum ceremonies - daily standup, sprint planning, review, and retrospective & establishing schedule and process for a product demo

Onboard project teams, integrate them into the organization and mentor them about a clear vision of the product

IT Project Management

Develop project baselines; monitor & control projects cost, resource deployment, time over-runs and compliance within SLAs

Ensures the team lives agile values, principles and follows the best scrum practices/ Agile methodologies’ efficiency

Organize/participate in project review meetings, assess progress & de-bottlenecking of the critical; ensure that the project is on track, including the use of continuous integration (CI) and automation

Software Development Lifecycle

Directs all phases of Software Development Lifecycle; designing & executing test plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, tracking testing by test plans, scenarios, manual test cases, including manual/ performance/ compatibility/ regression tests at various stages of SDLC/STLC

Focus on requirement analysis, documentation (functional specifications, technical design), coding and testing (preparation of test cases along with implementation) to maintain the proposed applications, coordinate integration and extend post go-live support

Team Management

Hire, mentor & monitor the performance of team members to augment productivity, performance improvement, and technical efficiency

Create & sustain a dynamic environment that fosters development opportunities and motivates high performance amongst team members

PROFESSIONAL NARRATIVE

Next Era Energy, FL ( Infosys ) July 2022-Present

Scrum Master.

Updating team boards ( Kanban, Scrum) in collaboration with other scrum masters as needed.

Identify dependencies, negotiate them, establishing a “Predecessor- successor” relationship and tracking them accordingly.

Plan and facilitate Ceremonies ( Sprint planning, DSU, backlog grooming, review and retrospective, estimation sessions), and also Scrum of Scrum (SOS).

Work in close collaboration with product owner and team lead to better identify, asses and manage risks and other bottlenecks.

Working with offshore and co-located team across different time zones, mentoring and assisting them.

Prepare team for pre-PI and PI planning in collaboration RTEs and according to calendar and schedule(Roadmaps and Milestones).

Revisit team metrics and reports ( burn up/burn down charts, velocity, capacity etc) to establish a proactive and clear flow of the sprint.

Good communication and conflict resolution skills, assure transparency and alignment within the team and with stakeholders.

Use tools like Jira and confluence for more clarity.

Understanding and writing users stories with the product owner base on the requirement and their complexities.

Use ERP-SAP, Maximo and maximo-core as operating technologies.

Chevron,Tx June 2021 – July2022

Senior Scrum Master.

•Help Grow companies Business by keeping up to date with consumer's demands and implementing the Agile practices to yield positive and profitable results.

•Resolve Team conflict, motivate cross-functional teams, and understand project objectives to produce high-quality deliverable.

•An experienced leader in managing IT teams and developing staff to exceed expectations.

•Proficient in driving organization-wide agile adoption, TDD, BDD, Pair programming, removing impediments, fostering self-management and facilitating time boxed

•Scrum ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review, Retrospective, Backlog grooming.

•Conducted Stakeholder analysis for a thorough understanding of the process and various roles and responsibilities of the team members.

•Provided support to Product owner during Product Backlog management techniques also during finalizing/manage the Product backlog.

•Provide support and helps the Scrum team and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development.

•Gather Data from customer’s feedback and implement changes to suit client needs and improve resources to gain potential clients.

•Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burn down Charts'. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.

•Mentored and motivated team to adopt CI/CD process and as a result, the team starts releasing small increments to the staging environment that helps to get quick feedback from pilot clients before the product gets released to the market.

•Prepare production implementation plan and conduct "Go" - "No Go" meeting with all impacted teams with clients.

•Used ADO( Azure DevOps) to run and Manage project

•Deep understanding of Java Script

•Core Knowledge of SAP and ISP

Work in a capacity of Scrum Master for facilitating Agile transformation, which is about to be executed by distributed technology controls team to ensure the firm’s agile practices align to the new control’s agenda.

Assist in upgrading exploration, development and production throughout schlumberger oil life cycle.

Making service supply chain work exceeding customer expectation.

Used SAP on various development platform, including ADO(Azure devOps) in managing.

Assist in the overall preparation and planning of the project by providing various business ideas and suggesting innovative strategies

Function as Servant Leader and mentor the teams for eliminating the impediments, and building a safe environment for offering solutions on the problem

Accompany clients in attaining Agile Transformation as their new way of working, designing reference models on how agile teams should ideally be constructed; mentor the team to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum framework

Mastermind upstream infrastructural activities.

Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stakeholders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) daily.

Recommend program roadmap along with client stakeholders and map key milestone to measure the progress of the overall project

Understand the Agile techniques and automate reports on testing, user stories, TDD, continuous integration, testing, pairing, agile games, etc.

Created and organized Agile ceremonies for engineering teams for delivering high performance and collaboration

Acted as a bridge between both business and technical teams to driving effective, timely solutions that fulfill both strategic and operational client needs

Established development workflow on agile tools like Gitlab, Jira, and Confluence; led facilitation of Scrum Event, Microsoft Outlook Team & Confluence

Followed Waterfall & Agile Methodologies for supporting scrum teams to navigating through the required artifacts & processes

Offered technical leadership of requirements management, design, implementation, system integration, verification, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainment of the technical solution

Introduced Agile processes to Traditional Project Management (Waterfall) and utilized different style to improve retro as well as assessed estimate base for meeting high-level requirements

Extensive Use of Java script.

Functioned as Servant-Leader and delivered multiple modules and releases, as well as coordinated with the various vendor and cross-functional team, (on-site and off-shore resources)

Submitted reports on each ticket, and interacted with developers for coordinated with PO before start working on a new ticket

Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization for executing higher-level tasks for adhering to SLAs and augmenting customer satisfaction

Mentored scrum team for meeting pre-requisites– requirements, data model, implementation, QA, and validation of programming code and products

Hand-picked by management for database creation, revamping tables, stored procedures, views Indexes, users-define function, and trigger, etc as required on SQL environment; led snapshot isolation and DDL triggers with a core focus on database response times in 24/7 production environment

Configured contained database, authenticated azure active directory and led installation of MSQL, high availability solution, clustering, always-on, database mirroring and log shipping; followed best practices, led the migration, up-gradation, and implementation of Hot Fixes

Facilitated the end-to-end backup and restores, data recovery, maintenance, data integrity and space requirements

ACADEMICS

•University of Buea Computer Engineer

2008

•Bachelors in Computer Science

University of Yaounde 1

1998

CERTIFICATION

Certified SAFe5.0 Scrum Master

Certified Scrum Master

Certified Agile Coach

ICP-PPM

Microsoft SQL Database Administrator/Azure

ad3apm@r.postjobfree.com

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Chevron, Houston Tx

June 2021-july 2022

Scrum Master

Century Bank, Boston Massachusetts

Jan 2012 - Feb 2016

Scrum Master/Project Manager)

Schlumberger

Houston

2019- 2021

Senior Scrum Master

FEDEX Ship Center, Houston Texas

Feb 2016- Apr 2019

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Lyondell Basell Houston Refinery

Mar 2010-Jan 2012

Senior Database Administrator

Delivery Management

Stakeholder Management

Sprint Burn-Down/Burn-Up Chart

Program/ Project Management

Conflict Resolution

Tools Used: JIRA, CA Rally, and Agile Central, Version One, SAP, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), Azure DevOps, Release Management and Testing,VSTS, Version one, Confluence

Project Management Tools: Clarity, MS Project, Primavera, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint), MS Outlook

Schlumberger, Tx Apr 2019- June 2021

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Caoch

FEDEX Ship Center, Houston Texas Feb 2016- Apr 2019

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Century Bank, Boston Massachusetts Jan 2012 - Feb 2016

Scrum Master/Project Manager)

Lyondell Basell Houston TX Mar 2010-Jan 2012

Senior Database Administrator

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