NEH NTSE

Scrum Master

Summary

Dedicated and certified Scrum Master with over 8+ years of experience in agile project management, adept at facilitating collaboration, removing impediments, and ensuring successful project delivery. Seeking a challenging Scrum Master role to leverage my expertise in Agile methodologies, team coaching, and continuous improvement.

Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, and retrospective meetings, ensuring adherence to Agile principles.

Coach and mentor team members on Agile best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and self-organization.

Collaborate with Product Owners to prioritize and groom the product backlog, ensuring user stories are well-defined and actionable.

Manage project risks by identifying, assessing, and implementing mitigation strategies.

Drive data migration projects, ensuring data accuracy and minimal disruption to business operations.

Utilize Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Git to streamline project tracking and documentation.

Foster a collaborative and transparent work environment, promoting effective communication and alignment.

Skills

Methodologies:

Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, SDLC, Lean, SAFe

Tools:

Jira, Confluence, Slack, Azure DevOps, TFS, Teams, Trello, Rally, Asana, MS Office Suite, Git, GitHub, Mural, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Wiki

Others:

TFS, CRM, TDD, ATDD, ServiceNow, ERP System and UAT

Scrum Master Skills and concepts:

Backlog Refinement, User Story Estimation, Stand-Up Facilitation, Servant Leadership, Risk Management, Data Migration, Team Coaching, Conflict Resolution, sprint review meetings, retrospective meetings, and burn-down charts

Operating System:

Windows and macOS

Education

Bachelor of Science in Technology

UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA, CAMEROON Oct 2013 – Sep 2015

Experience

CIGNA, NC,

Sr Scrum Master Jun 2021 - Current

The Development Team's Velocity was boosted in less than four sprints thanks to the use of Kanban principles, which cut cycle time by 20%.

Successfully collaborated with the programme manager and product owner to continuously refine the backlog.

Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Sprint Ceremonies.

Educated scrum teams, stakeholders, managers, and executives on agile ideals and principles to support the continuous improvement of scrum methodologies and artefacts.

Developed the DevOps Engineering team's collaborative, productive, and engaging team environment with excellent coaching and mentoring skills.

Successfully established project requirements and planned the delivery of significant product upgrades and upcoming product versions in collaboration with product management, the business sponsor, and the technical team.

Promotes continuous development by facilitating and leading agile rituals (daily stand-up, demonstration, story point estimation, retrospective, iteration planning, and backlog grooming).

Created a working agreement and defined "done" and "ready" terms.

Uses software like Jira, Rally, and Mural to monitor team work and foster cooperation.

Disclosed to relevant people Jira metrics (Burn-down Chart, Velocity, and Version Report).

Prioritized fixing of bugs, incidents, and defects to ensure the timely completion of 36 significant initiatives.

GEICO ST LOUIS MI

Scrum Master Feb 2018 - Jan 2021

Engineered necessary changes that raised productivity across Scrum Teams by 19% and the standard of deliverables by 25%.

Oversaw many development teams using agile practises in the banking and customer service divisions.

Created Sprint reports for each Development Team in order to support programme management and the process of continuous learning.

To aid in monitoring and enhancing team progress, the team established and maintained work visibility (scrum boards, Agile tools), and gathered team metrics (burn downs, velocity, sprint targets).

Oversaw customer evaluations, retrospective meetings, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews.

Managed Delivery Risk Management and dependable Supply Chain

Taught the Scrum Team how to utilise JIRA and planned several training sessions

Oversaw the Scrum Team's Agility, Health, and Product Delivery Success.

Maintained Transparency and Accountability with constant Communication with Stakeholders

Using Kanban Rules keeping Project Status, Issues, Risks, Roadblocks visible to The Development Team

APPLE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, FAIRFAX, VA

Jr. Scrum Master Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

•Facilitated Scrum framework, including daily scrums, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

•By working together with all stakeholders to manage performance, project deadlines were met.

•Promptly communicated with numerous account stakeholders and prepared development status reports.

•More precise estimates were obtained by leveraging burndown and team velocity charts to enhance backlog estimates and product planning.

•Retrospectively used the lessons learned from each sprint to enhance procedures, interactions between people, and tools in next sprints.

•Worked with product owners to optimise business value and execute on high-value projects by cleaning up and grooming the product backlog.

•Maintained and prioritised the sprint backlog while guarding the team against overcommitting, which ensured great time management.

•Conducted release demonstrations to get the stakeholders' approval on the product's readiness.

Certifications

Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) 6.0

Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Fundamental Certified (SFC)

Location: Charlotte NC

Email: ad4ahk@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: +1-240-***-****

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