Terence Kongnyuy Bongmoyong
Tel.: 678-***-****
Email: ad4kev@r.postjobfree.com
Mansfield Village, NJ
www.linkedin.com/in/terence-bongmoyong-360607191
Professional Summary: Dedicated and results-driven Sr. Scrum Master with almost a decade of hands-on experience orchestrating high-performing Agile teams. A dynamic leader in the realm of project management, I've honed my skills in transforming complex challenges into streamlined, efficient, and successful software development cycles and project deliveries. Skills: Agile, Continuous learning/Relentless improvement, Culture change, Effective communication, Meeting facilitation/planning, Motivating/Inspiring Team members, Team player, Coaching/empowering team members, Program Increment Planning, Problem solving techniques/Conflict resolution, Workflow management, Emotional intelligence, Jira/Confluence. Work Experience
Sr. Scrum Master-BNY Mellon-NJ NJ August 2022-Present
• Leads two Agile Teams including an offshore team.
• Facilitates Scrum Events and making sure to build self-organizing teams thereby improving teams’ agile maturity.
• Leads and motivates team members to commit to work chosen by them without coercion, thus reinforcing self-organization and accountability.
• Consistently provides support and removes impediments from the teams using servant leadership style which helps teams to deliver at a more stable/improved velocity.
• Tracks and effectively communicates team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management so that there is transparency/improvement in deliverables.
• Collaborates with P.O to refine backlog items thus improving backlog readiness index for at least 2 sprints worth of work.
• Works with P.O to ensure stories are compliant to Automated SDLC in Jira and ready for release thereby improving consistency, compliance, and constant deployment.
• Follows up with Dev team to raise change requests, game plans and all processes prior to production to better prepare for smooth installations.
• Gathers details and develops report at end of each sprint and after monthly installs for documentation and tracking purposes.
• Documents reports in confluence and works on items to improve team agile maturity during retrospective calls.
• Encourages, empowers, and coaches team members to always seek self-development so as to keep abreast of changes in technology and become more cross functional. Sr. Scum Master-Wells Fargo- NC May 2021 – July 2022
• Led a Scrum Team of five.
• Protected the team from outside interference and negative influence to keep teams focused on project tasks and delivering shippable products every sprint.
• As a Scrum process expert, coached various team members on the Scrum Process and served as the main go-to person for process questions.
• Enthusiastically facilitated scrum events/ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings) while consistently educating the team and senior leadership on the scrum framework.
• Dutifully removed impediments which helped in boosting the morale of the development team and established a desirable work environment.
• Provided early feedback by assessing work in progress using burndown/burnup charts and cumulative flow diagrams comparatively.
• Worked with team to estimate user stories using the Fibonacci estimation.
• Worked with Product Owner to determine acceptance criteria for user stories. Scrum Master- Lowe’s- Charlotte, NC June 2018 -May 2021
• Proactively committed in educating and instilling an agile mindset within the scrum team and other stakeholders which helped them keep abreast with the scrum framework.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies and engaged the development team in an interactive manner, hence improving communication, adjustment, and enhancement of products.
• Collaborated with onshore and offshore teams on all stages of the systems development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production releases.
• Researched and resolved issues regarding the integrity of data flow into databases thereby enhancing smooth workflow- Impediment remover.
• Suggested extensive guidance and coaching to highly effective teams on how to use Scrum processes.
• Assessed each development team member's responsibilities for balance workload thus avoiding overcommitment.
Scrum Master- Venmo- New York, NY. August 2015 – May 2018
• Worked in collaboration with Product Owner for backlog grooming and product releases.
• Removed impediments to deliver success through the proactive management of external dependencies, complex problem solving and the development of new solutions.
• Regularly checked Kanban Boards while maintaining WIP limit.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies for onshore and offshore teams while educating and reiterating the scrum framework.
• Used JIRA to maintain product backlog, sprint backlog, create and track user stories, sprint planning while managing Kanban boards, status reports and burndown charts.
• Led teams in relentless improvement of efforts, skills and problem-solving techniques; thus exhibiting growth, competence and high performance. Education: B.S Psychology- University of Buea, Cameroon- June 2012 Certifications: -Project Management Professional (PMI)
-SAFe Advanced Scrum Master 6.0 (Scaled Agile)
-Safe Scrum Master 6.0 (Scaled Agile)
-Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
-ChatGPT Agile Mastery – Agile Fundamentals (Boostaro)