Noor Hammad CSM, PM
Baltimore, MD ***** 443-***-**** Noorhammad7gmail.com
WORK EXPERIENCE
Edstrom By Avidity Science - Project Manager /Scrum Master
Baltimore, Maryland May 2019 - Present
Collaborate with the Product Owner and stakeholders to understand the product vision and translate into product backlog item.
Improve team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
Facilitate scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, Daily stand-up, sprint review and sprint
retrospective.
Promoted Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development, and testing departments.
Maintained team metrics and report project status including velocity, burn down charts, issues/risks on a regular basis to Product Owner, Leadership, and to stakeholders.
Improve team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization.
Scrum Master to 3 Scrum teams in a Scaled Agile Environment.
Create Jira dashboard as a one stop shop for tracking all Jira items.
Successfully delivered high profile digital projects (such as digital Claims Adjuster Mobile App).
Used Rational Team Concert (RTC), physical Task Boards, Business Objects reporting, and
dashboards for planning and tracking as well as for information radiation.
AMG Resources Corp – Analyst /Scrum Master
Dundulk, Maryland October 2017- May 2019
Fully engaged with software engineering team; attended daily standup and other scrum events, removed impediments, bridged development operations between software and hardware teams.
Coached 2 team members on Agile methodologies, guided team away from Waterfall methodologies, led integration team’s Daily Scrums
Collaborated with software team on Sprint Planning and ensured all teams were aligned with Sprint Goal
Create issue Filters on Jira Boards to make sure all non-compliant tickets are duly managed and
remediated.
Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies and support/protect collocated, distributed and offshore teams from internal and external distractions.
Work closely with Product Owners to refine and prioritize Product Backlogs.
Coach team members on Agile Empirical process of Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation.
Support 2 Scrum teams and participate in Scrum of Scrums.
Use Jira, Confluence, Trello, Fun-Retro, Excel and Project Management tools to run applications and enhance communication with teams and stakeholders.
Clannys Construction - Construction Site Manager
Sept 2014-August 2017
Scheduling employees for work based on scheduled availability and committed projects.
Training, onboarding, and development of staff.
Providing account services to customers by processing payments, pricing and scheduling services, printing invoices.
Accounting for change balances drawer and processing all cash drawer transactions.
Repair of cleaning machinery. Purchasing parts as necessary for maintenance.
SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS
Interpersonal
Technical
Languages
Excellent communication
Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Github
English
Stakeholder management
MS Office, Oracle SQL
Arabic
Servant leadership, Impediment removal
Agile, Kanban, CSM Certified, Azure DevOps,
Spanish