Joy B. Atchu Yudom

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Joy B. Atchu Yudom

Plano, Texas 469-***-**** ad3v3f@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-bih-69016b189 Certified Scrum Master (CSM, SSM, PSM)

Experienced agile practitioner with experience in project delivery, business transformation and process improvement in Banking, Finance, Retail, Education and Telecommunications industry. Scrum Master with skills in facilitation, problem solving, team building, coaching, mentoring teams from new-to agile-teams to fully matured agile-teams. Successfully transformed teams from waterfall to agile. Led teams through the different phases of maturity, from adoption to self-management. Skills

Agile Project Management (Scrum Kanban SAFe TDD) SDLC Devops Product management (vision writing roadmap development) team leadership facilitation training mentoring coaching capacity planning release implementation project coordination product life cycle UAT UI/UX Rapid Process Map SQL Jira confluence Salesforce Rally Aha

MS Visual Studio Google Suite Vessel Slack Mural Teams MS Office suites MS Project Oracle SQL Developer AWS Oracle MS SQL Server Windows Linux IOS Azure Cloud Google Could Certifications

SAFe Devops Practitioner PSM1 SSM (SAFe 6.0) ICAgile DAS ICP-PDM (ICAgile Product Management) CSM Lean Six sigma

OCA1-SQL Fundamentals

Experience

ELI IQ Inc, Dallas, Texas October 2023– Date

Sr Scrum Master/ Agile Coach Consultant

Lead Agile transformation Consultant for our client Tourch Ride. Supporting different teams working on a ride share platform.

• Support with Project Management and Roadmap development

• Contributed on strategy and deployment techniques with the Product Teams

• Coordinate the delivery of all agile product development

• Lead all business transformation strategies using Agile

• Supports the personal development of team members.

• Help Create project plans with timelines and identify risks & blockers to execution

• Facilitate team agile ceremonies, coach and mentor on best practices and help remove impediments

• Provide guidance to other scrum masters to ensure better implementation of agile and team success

• Develop and run Agile methodologies training as part of Torch Ride strategy to implement an agile approach to react to customers and competitors.

• Ensuring project requirements and objectives are captured in the right tools

• Support both onshore and offshore teams

• Support UI/UX design activities

Daugherty Business Solutions, St. Louis, MO February 2022 – September 2023 Agile Consultant (Sr Scrum Master)

Introduce Agile to line of business and successfully led the transformation of teams from waterfall to agile within 6months at client Edward Jones. Also supported existing product teams with strategies to quickly migrate applications from on prem to AWS cloud while leveraging automation, CI/CD pipelines and technologies as Docker, React, github,springbot, APIs.

• Coached teams to higher, efficient, and performing teams as part of an enterprise-wide transformation initiative

• Coordinated agile product development delivery

• Supported teams with workshops, through the choice of the most suitable/efficient agile framework (scrum/Kanban).

• Coached the teams towards self-management by using different matrices and agile best practices

• Supported department leaders to implement agile methodologies. improved agile adoption by 70% within 6months

• Facilitated team building exercises to foster communication and effective collaboration

• Removed blockers and stopped external noise from hindering team’s delivery of valuable outcomes

• Helped product owner with roadmap and effective backlog management techniques

• Supported Product management with product vision, roadmap and delivery strategy Joy B. Atchu Yudom

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• Supported with developing Agile Community of Practice to include Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and other Agile Team Members and bringing external viewpoints regarding ever-changing Agile approaches, tools, skills to the organization, including updating process and role definitions as needed Capital One, Plano, TX September 2020 – January 2022 Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead

Agile lead to teams involved in projects such as upgrading B2B payment systems, cloud migration and building online car buying platform.

• Coached, mentored teams on agile best practices

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives

• Facilitated team building and problem-solving sessions.

• Worked with product owners to ensure a well prioritized backlog that aligned with product goals

• Decreased sprint churn by 75% on average between 2 teams by enforcing o lean principles

o high-quality user story &

o sprint planning requirements

• Supported Release Train Engineer team to facilitate communication of SAFe objectives within teams

• Participated in Scrum of Scrum meetings to address risks, dependencies, escalate concerns, and facilitate decision-making among teams on the train

• Prepped teams for PI planning and facilitate effective breakout sessions

• Involved in release planning, facilitated release candidate selection sessions, release parties and communication

• Leveraged metrics with other improvement actions to drive better sprint outcomes

• Supported cyber team with managing access and delivery on cyber and vulnerability workflow

• Supported UI/UX related projects

Sam’s Club, Dallas, TX March 2018 - August 2020

Scrum Master

Facilitated two scrums and a Kanban team on projects under the speedy checkout initiative

• Ensured agile events were scheduled and held

• Acted as a shield between the development teams and any distracting influences

• Mentored team members on agile methodologies and best practices

• Supported teams towards self-organization and optimum performance

• Assisted teams with capacity planning

• Supported teams with tools to facilitate story understanding, task breakdown, and work quantification

• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track ELI IQ Inc, Dallas, Texas January 2017 - February 2018 Scrum Master

Consultant that leveraged my skills within to develop and implement tools to improve market presence as well as serve as scrum master for client ROSS, on implementing sales applications upgrade

• Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies (Daily Stand-Ups, sprint planning, Backlog refinement, spring Demo, Retrospective)

• Worked with the Product Owner to ensure that user stories were properly groomed and prioritized on the backlog

• Assisted the Product Owner and Development Team to write better user stories using Story

• Assisted the Development Team with estimation Techniques

• Identified, removed and escalated impediments

GVM LLC, Greenbelt MD February 2014 - December 2016 UAT/Scrum Master

Transitioned into Scrum master role and successfully helped new team migrate from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months

• Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organized and coached the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

• Removed impediments or guided teams to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment Joy B. Atchu Yudom

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• Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving

• Performed manual testing as needed to validate user stories met requirement for user Interface. Nexor Finance LLC, Douala, Cameroon January 2011 - September 2013 Business Analyst/Project Coordinator

Collaborated with Management to set up country office and was responsible for business analysis, market analytics, people management, and leveraged my BA and testing skills

• Managed effective client interactions, team coordination for productive quality deliverables to meet milestones and deadlines

• Involved in the entire Software Development Life Cycle and Test Development Life Cycle. Reviewed test plans, designs, test strategy and processes for standalone modules for integration of respective modules

• Verified and validated different work products of the test development life cycle

• Collaborated with clients in proactively reviewing applications and recommending products and/or training guides in accordance with business needs

• Created and reviewed various documentation like business requirements (BRD), Use Case Specifications and requirement traceability matrix (RTM) document, stakeholder analysis, project charter and roadmap Other Relevant Experience

Financial Analysis and reporting Marketing Manager College Lecturer Microfinance Operations Manager Education

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing, University of Texas, Austin

(https://eportfolio.mygreatlearning.com/joy-b-atchu-yudom) Master’s Degree, Marketing Management, University of Douala, Cameroon

(https://www.credly.com/badges/7b3837c4-3e38-4d0f-afe1-200f990320eb?source=linked_in_profile) Bachelor of Science, B.SC Management, University of Buea, Cameroon

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