Arnold Kamau U.S Citizen

Senior Scrum Master

ad3p5s@r.postjobfree.com 774-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnold-kamau- Professional Summary

Result focused certified scrum master with 6 years of proven success coaching both the team and the organization as a whole in developing an agile mindset by helping them understand and apply scrum values and principles to create, deliver and sustain complex products and services. Professional Scrum Master Certifications

SAFe® 6 scrum master Certified ScrumMaster® SAFe® 6 Agility Education

Quinsigamond community college,persuaded associates degree in general studies National Academy of Sports and Medicine

Certified; Coach, Personal Trainer, Safe Serve Nutritionist, and food handler. Boston, MA- 09/2018

Awards: Top 3% coaching sales and Marketing team Performer Professional Skills

● Agile Development and best practices leadership

● Agile Framework leadership-Scrum,Kanban, Xp

● Agile Project Management Tools leadership- jira,ADO,Rally

● Knowledgeable of SDLC

● Experienced facilitator and organizer of all scrum events for over 6 years

● Impediment remover

● Team player

● Big Picture thinker, able to see the whole ( Team, PO, Customer)

● Transparency with big visible information radiators using jira and sprint reviews

● Continuous learner

● Conflict resolution management

● Active listener of diverse team opinions

● Customer centric

● Collaborator:Partnered with team and product owner to successfully deliver work as planned in sprint

Professional Experience

Senior Scrum Master Herbalife International December 2014-Present

● Coached 10+ teams to higher levels of agile maturity (approx 98%) by improving their processes and ensuring they adhered to the scrum framework and became high performing.

● Successfully transformed the team’s waterfall mindset to agile mindset by developing 20+ effective training materials for teams to understand agile delivery

● Guided Agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure 10+ teams were working in an agile mindset and utilizing scrum practices

● Coached 6 product owners using agile methods and processes through complex problem-solving and solution strategies

● Coached 5+ front door teams that uses tickets to adapt kanban

● Facilitated discussion, decision making and conflict resolution across 6 cross-functional teams.

● Facilitated 100+agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standups, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog

Refinement,Sprint Review /demo

● Assisted product owner twice weekly over six years to ensure 100% of the user stories are ordered,

defined, estimated and ensured healthy backlog was maintained

● Facilitated 100+ Weekly Poker Play (a.k.a. Planning) Sessions to discuss Acceptance Testing, Tech

Requirement and to estimate the size of the story by assigning poker points (1, 2, 3, 5 & 8) 8 = two-week

sprint.

● Identified 20+ complex impediments and assisted 10+ teams in identifying a path to deliver on their scrum

commitments

● Assisted product owner to manage 50+ risks and dependencies to enable team efficiency and

effectiveness

● Tracked and communicated 100+ team velocity, sprint progress, project progress and release progress to

12+ stakeholders and management staff

● Participated in the creation and maintenance of a unified product initiative roadmap that aligns with

business goals.