Scrum Master Project Manager

Marie Kouang-Idolle

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Highly accomplished scrum professional with experience successfully leading software development projects. Adept at managing cross-functional teams to develop innovative products, ensuring quality, and staying on budget. Proven record of coordinating timely project completion and meeting customer requirements. Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, and other agile tools.

CERTIFICATIONS/EDUCATION

SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) Bachelor of Science, Finance

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

COMPETENCIES

Scrum meetings facilitation

Agile coaching

GitHub

ADO

Rally

JIRA

Confluence

Office 365 tools

WebEx

Zoom

Microsoft Teams

Slack

Roadmap/Milestone Planning

Story-Mapping

Project management

Detail oriented.

Good time management

Interpersonal skills

Great communication

Collaboration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Method

Charlotte NC March 2022 - Present

Lead Project Manager

●Collaborate closely with Product managers as well as the chief of product on backlog refinement, sprint planning and building product road maps.

●Facilitate and organize daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning and other organizational meetings such as Quarterly planning, Engineering all hands on, Onboarding partners (external vendors)

●Work closely with the Agile coach to set up the Advanced Road Map on Jira.

●Assist teams with the transition from Waterfall to Agile (Scrum)

●Mentor and guide Agile teams on their journey from ground zero to becoming self-sustaining, high performing Agile teams.

●Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events.

●Provide periodic team performance reporting across scope, time, and cost towards product outcomes.

●Partner with business leadership (Product owners & Product managers) to manage Features, Epics, User stories, tasks, and other product-related commitments.

●Encourage adoption of DevOps practices and frameworks to improve automation and team autonomy.

●Coordinate and communicate upcoming releases.

●Ensured timely delivery

Medstar

Baltimore, MD Dec 2018 – Feb2022

Senior Scrum Master

●Participated in PI Planning both in person/virtual and managed dependencies with other teams.

●Facilitated and time-boxed daily stand up, backlog refinement, iteration review, iteration planning, and retrospective.

●Proactively identified and removed any roadblocks faced by the team in a timely manner. When needed, escalated impediments to facilitate rapid resolution.

●Implemented pair programming to foster collaboration and knowledge share among team members.

●Led the team to deliver quality by regularly performing code review, peer review and continuous testing to reduce the number of defects.

●Utilized several retrospectives techniques to identify action items to be implemented throughout future iterations which largely contributed to better collaboration.

●Prepared weekly reports by gathering valuable metrics to communicate the team’s progress and ensure milestones were delivered.

Virtusa,

Indianapolis, IN Jan 2015 – Nov 2018

Azure AD Engineer

●Designed and implemented SSO solutions for multiple clients using Azure Active Directory, Okta, and Google Cloud Identity

●Integrated SSO with various applications, including custom applications, using SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect

●Troubleshot and resolved complex SSO issues related to authentication and authorization.

● Collaborated with development teams to implement custom SSO solutions using APIs and SDKs

●Conducted security audits and assessments to ensure compliance with industry standards.

●Implemented Conditional Access and MFA policies to enhance security and meet compliance requirements.

●Developed and maintained Azure Policy definitions and initiatives to ensure governance and compliance.

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