SCRUM MASTER
CLEMENT
KIBUH
CONTACT INFORMATION
*******@*****.***
YPSILANTI, MI
SKILLS
LANGUAGES
OBJECTIVE
Over 7 years of Scrum Master experience supporting multiple teams in achieving successful process improvements and product deliveries. Demonstrated outstanding servant-leadership abilities and extensive hands-on coaching in helping Scrum teams adopt Agile methodologies. Skilled in facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing impediments, and collaborating with Product Owners on Product Backlog management.
EXPERIENCE
SCRUM MASTER
U.S. Bank. Minneapolis, MN Jun 2023 - Present
Supported a new team of 9 developers on the company's Fraud Integration and monitoring.
- Coach the PO on prioritization and writing effective user stories that helped the team carry our discussion in refinement to get stories ready for the sprint.
- Coordinate and collaborate with 3 other product teams related to project dependencies and relationships.
- Ensure the team understand the scope and project goal while ensuring they understand the scrum values.
- Lead a cross-functional team in delivering successful sprints, resulting in corss API integration.
- Continuously provide hands-on coaching to team members, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.
- Conduct training sessions on Agile methodologies, enhancing team knowledge and application of Scrum practices.
- Work closely with stakeholders to align on project goals and deliverables. SCRUM MASTER
U.S. Bank. Minneapolis, MN Aug 2022 - Jun 2023
Worked with 2 distributed scrum teams in 2 weeks sprints, using Jira as issue tracking and management tool.Scrum teams comprised of 9 and 10 developers. Developing and improving a fully integrated payroll solution with no set up cost for organizations and ensuring appropriate security alerts are sent out to customers when data is updated on their accounts. At the beginning of this year 2023, I was assigned to two new projects with 2 new teams of about 17 developers on each. One was a card inventory Management and the other remediating NPTs (Not permitted technologies) across the bank.- Support 2 offshore cross-functional teams in aligning product goals with team delivery.
- Arrange and facilitate decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use, which includes sprint team backlog refinement, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives thus helping teams meet their sprint goal each sprint.
- Drive quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity and growth for the teams and management.
- Help team identify and manage action items, identifying any risks, adjusting scope, and supporting tasks necessary to complete planned work.
- Assist and coach teams in transitioning from V1 to Jira leading to effective team delivery.
- Help build a Confluence page for the teams on the best practices on Jira during the Jira transitioning process which is being used as a reference by all teams within the project.
- Review and participate in Go, No Go releases for teams.
- Coach new team members in self-management by encouraging ownership and management of sprint
backlog.
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies as required by teams to ensure timely delivery of committed work.
- Participate in Scrum of Scrums (SoS) for alignment, resolve impediments and dependencies between teams. SCRUM MASTER
TEKsystems, Inc.. Rancho Cordova,CA Oct 2021 - Feb 2022 Work with 2 distributed scrum team's in 2 weeks sprints, using Jira as issue tracking and management tool. Scrum teams comprised of 8 and 7 developers. Developing and maintaining broker portal and client contract websites.
- Supported and collaborated with POs to ensure team's have a ready backlog for at least 2 sprints ahead.
- Generated end of sprint reports to make sure team's are on track with delivery deadlines.
- Coordinated monthly releases for smooth deployment in production environments.
- Coached new team members in self-management by encouraging ownership and management of sprint backlog.
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies as required by team's to ensure timely delivery of committed work.
- Coordinated the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) for alignment, resolve impediments and dependencies between teams.
- Participated in Scrum Masters Community of Practice CoP for knowledge sharing, transfer, and best practices within the Agile industry. SCRUM MASTER
University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI May 2018 - Oct 2021 Scrum Master supporting 2 distributed teams in 2-week sprints, delivering value to customers using best practices. Teams work on a project that supports University of Michigan by developing an application that helps keep faculty, staff, and students healthy and reduce the spread of COVID-19. Jira/Confluence is our Application Lifecycle Management tool.
- Increased process delivery and team efficiency by identifying and removing impediments and preventing distractions that interfere with team's ability to deliver sprint goals.
- Ensured goals, scope, Product Backlog Items (PBIs), Acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD) are understood by the Scrum team during each iteration.
- Enhanced effectiveness of backlog refinement by collaborating with Product Owners, SMEs and stakeholders.
- Enabled the team to be self-managing and take control of the agile delivery processes.
- Decreased Cycle and Lead times by introducing the use of Kanban boards to set WIP limits.
- Identified and created opportunities for team's improvement by maintaining and sharing up to date awareness of industry trends, best practices and explore new tools that would benefit the organizations Agile practices.
- Enhanced team commitment to projects by tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress along with other metrics.
- Improved team productivity and delivery of right functionality by responding to changes.
SCRUM MASTER
Suburban Hospital. Bethesda, MD Dec 2016 - Apr 2018
- Facilitated weekly, and bi-weekly scrum ceremonies with team's of 6 in size.
- Assisted RTE to coordinate PI planning.IP ieteration, and Inspect and Adapt sessions every 12 weeks.
- Assisted team's in identifying appropriate commitments with task definition, user story selection and feature selection.
- Promoted team empowerment and encouraged a sustainable pace for the team by coaching them on agile ceremonies.
ORACLE DBA
Metropol-Tech Inc. Laurel, MD Mar 2012 - Nov 2016
- Performed schema and full database refreshes using Export/Import data pump utilities and RMAN Duplicate command.
- Performed installation and configuration of Oracle 12.1.0.2 database on HP- UX platform.
- Oracle CPU quarterly patch application to databases.
- Create oracle databases on preconfigured servers with established standards to maintain uniformity in the environments.
- Create database users and assigning roles and privileges and profiles. EDUCATION
MBA PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Colorado Technical University. Colorado Springs, CO Nov 2012 - May 2014 BACHELORS IN LAW
University of Yaounde, II Soa. Yaounde, Cameroon Sep 1998 - Sep 2001 CERTIFICATIONS & COURSES
PSM I
PSM II
SAFe Advance Scrum Master(SASM)
ICGAgile Agile Team Facilitation Cerified Professional (ICP-ATF) ICGAgile Certified Profession in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) Foundational Cerification inn Agile Srum (FCAS)
Oracle Certified Associate 11g (OCA)
Excellent skills in building relationships
and navigating
organizations.
Excellent Communication (English &
French) .
- Mentoring.
- Servant Leadership.
- Active listener.
- Backlog Management.
- Sprint Planning.
- Sprint Retrospectives.
Agile Metrics / KPIs : Cumulative Flow
Diagram, Lead and
Cycle time, Velocity,
Burndown / Burnup Charts, Team
Backlog health,
Scaled Agile Framework
Project, PowerPoint, and Trello Board,
Zoom, Slack, Skype,
Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres
Jira, Jira Portfolio, Azure DevOps, SAFe,
Kanban, Ms Excel,
Project, PowerPoint, and Trello Board,
Zoom, Slack, Skype,
GoToMeeting, Teams, Microsoft Office
suite 365 (PowerPoint,
Word, Outlook, Excel, Access, MS
Project), Mural, Miro.
French Advanced. Diploma in
Advanced French