Elvis Kengni

512-***-****, adbdr6@r.postjobfree.com

US Citizen with Active Secret Clearance

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering (Major) 2012 - 2014 Bachelor of Science, Mathematics (Minor)

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

• SAFe® Scrum Master (SSM)

• SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

• Scrum Master Accredited Certification

• SAFe® Practitioner (SP)

Skills

Agile, TFS, AWS, DevOps, Scrum, Azure, XP, SAP, Confluence, VersionOne, PLM, TDD, ATDD, Testing, Kanban, Rally, JIRA, Microsoft office, SDLC, PMBOK, TFS, Basecamp, SharePoint, Quality Assurance MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint), SDLC, Requirements gathering, Matlab, data Analysis, Poker, Estimation, Retrospective, Project Coordination, Testing, Workflow Visualization, INVEST Model, Operations, Epic, SDLC, Spike, Defects, Acceptance Criteria, Metrics, Project Management, Product Management.

EXPERIENCE

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Fort Worth, Texas

Senior Scrum Master Jan 2018 – Till Date

• Serving as Scrum Master of two Teams for Digital Transformation and AWS migration projects

• Driving continuous improvement to create high-performing teams as we migrate our services to AWS cloud platform.

• Coach teams to map AWS EC2 instances to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) could computing model

• Created a scalable program that identified major milestones and coordinated integration points across value streams of DevOps

• Coach teams to apply CALMR approach to DevOps to avoid automating broken processes

• Coach Teams from reverting to waterfall practices by ensuring that the agreed processes are followed

• Assist Team to create virtual machines in AWS using Amazon Machine Images (AMI)

• Help teams in data migration and storage to AWS through Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3)

• Assist team with Amazon CloudFront to delivery network (CDN) service used to delivery content to end users

• Coordinates system delivery with other scrum masters

• Support estimating by teaching teams’ various estimation techniques, such as Planning Poker based on Fibonacci scale Dot Voting, and T-Shirt Sizing technique.

• Work collaboratively with Product Owners, cross-functional development teams, and Project Managers to support development and software delivery

• Assist the Product Owner in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirement elicitation while supporting overall organizational goals

• Ensure teams understand how successful DevOps requires continuous exploration, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and the ability to release to end users on demand

• Coach team to move multiple systems to AWS, building EC2 instances and standing up servers

• Protect the Teams from outside disruptions, monitor progress, and provide reporting for Teams

• Ensure relevant impediments and issues are addressed, resolved, communicated, or escalated

• Facilitate iteration planning, daily scrum, demo, iteration review, and retrospective meetings

• Promote SAFe quality practices by assisting teams in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done (DoD).

• Help Teams meet daily and Program Increment (PI) objectives

• Lead team efforts in relentless improvement – Help the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; teach problem-solving techniques and help teams become better problem-solvers for themselves

• Facilitate preparation and readiness for the Agile Release Train (ART) events

• Provide experience and insights for the Product Owner and team in the creation and ongoing management of the backlog

• Coach teams to interact in ways that ensure clear communication of product requirements and team commitments

L3 Technologies Greenville, Texas

Senior Scrum Master Jan 2014 - Jan 2018

• Helped teams in data migration and storage to AWS through Simple Storage Services (S3)

• Coached Teams from reverting to waterfall practices by ensuring that the agreed processes are being followed

• Coach teams to map AWS EC2 instances to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) could computing model

• Coach teams to apply CALMR approach to DevOps to avoid automating broken processes

• Protected the Teams from outside disruptions, monitor progress, and provide reporting for Teams

• Ensured relevant impediments and issues are addressed, resolved, communicated, or escalated

• Helped teams to build, troubleshoot and maintain QA, Dev, PROD and Production environments.

• Facilitated iteration planning, daily scrum, demo, iteration review, and retrospective meetings

• Promoted SAFe quality practices by assisting the team in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done (DoD).

• Coached team to move multiple systems to AWS, building EC2 instances and standing up servers

• Helped Teams meet daily and Program Increment (PI) objectives.

• Supported the adoption of the Agile Scrum framework and optimize the flow of value through the Agile Release Train (ART).

• Facilitated preparation and readiness for the Agile Release Train (ART) events including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt

• Working experience in Project Management tools like Confluence and JIRA, which aided in facilitating Agile ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Sprint Execution and Daily Stand up Meeting, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective with PO and the team.

• Provided a bridge between various business stakeholders including product, pricing, and product development.

• Support estimating by teaching teams’ various estimation techniques: Planning Poker based on Fibonacci scale, T-Shirt size.

• Utilized JIRA for collaboration, planning, issue creation and tracking Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas

Project Coordinator July 2012 – Jan 2014

• Developed and maintained project schedules and calendars with the input from client and project team.

• Tracked and managed tasks assigned to the internal teams to meet client deliverables while distributing regular status reports to stakeholders.

• Acted as primary customer interface by facilitating team meetings to include providing meeting minutes, and action items.

• Helped organize and participated in project stakeholder and project team meetings to help document and follow up on important actions and decisions.

• Ensured that goals, and objectives are accomplished in accordance with outlined priorities, time limitations, and funding conditions.

• Developed and maintained technical and project documentation.

• Developed and maintained databases, spreadsheets and SharePoint sites and content. Manpower Group Austin, Texas

Scrum Master March 2009 – June 2012

• Served as Scrum Master for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery with some support from coach

• Facilitated team meetings and teamwork to continuous improvement of team’s agile practices

• Support estimating by teaching teams’ various estimation techniques, such as T-Shirt Sizing technique, Planning Poker based on Fibonacci scale, Dot Voting, and more.

• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process which includes Waterfall, Rational Unified Process methodology (RUP) and Agile-Scrum.

• Works in testing and documenting results in Jira.

• Assisted in creating test plans, prepared and executed test cases and wrote test summary reports, issue tracking and work allocation using tools like HP ALM/QC, Rally and JIRA.

• Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.

• Proactively identify and highlight all project risks to the appropriate internal and external stakeholders.

• Involved in Client interaction and support to the marketing team. User meetings resolve implementation and performance issue.

• Ensured coordination between product owners, analysts, developers and QA. Created and routinely updated Sprint Burn-down Chart, Sprint Burn-up Chart, and Task Board in JIRA to track team’s progress toward goals.

• Motivated team players with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and management, technical and written skills.

• Used JIRA for allotting tasks, user story management, issue tracking, and requirement traceability.

• Coordinated with the team to document plans and product knowledge in Confluence.

• Excellent communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all level across the company to manage, inform and influence outcome.

• Accountability for the end-to-end planning and execution of one or more projects with cross functional and self-organized Agile teams.

• Translate complex business and technical requirements into project requirements.

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