Scrum Manager

Summary Statement:

Resourceful & dynamic Agile Certified Scrum Master with over 3 (three) year’s experience working with Co-located, Distributed and Offshore software development teams, maximizing innovational business strategies, with a commitment to superior client service and overall company growth.

Summary of Professional Skills and Background

Analytical, enthusiastic and innovative Scrum master, and Business Manager with over thirteen (13) years of Information Technology experience in business analysis, project management and business development and management.

Committed Lean Agile thinker, with a proven ability at driving and motivating the adoption of scrum rules, removing impediments, fostering self-management and empowering teams.

Served as a Scrum Master within multiple scrum teams, facilitating the transition from Waterfall methodology into Agile methodologies.

Result driven Servant Leader with a focus on facilitating and coaching self-organized teams, in effective and efficient deliverables

A committed team player with excellent facilitation and conflict resolution skills; with a proven ability to motivate, guide, train, and improve cohesion of project team members to ensure high quality deliverables.

Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); and an excellent knowledge of several Agile frameworks like SCRUM, KANBAN, SCRUMBAN, XP and SAFe.

Strong ability/knowledge to work with both experienced and new agile teams, and to Facilitate multiple teams simultaneously.

Strong Problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills and a superb ability to multi-task .

Fluent in English and French

Technical Skills

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Processes: Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe

Agile Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Visual Studio & Rally

Office Tools: Ms Office suite (All); HTML, Adobe, SharePoint, PowerPoint, SDLC

Key Skills: Experience working with Co-located, Distributed and Offshore teams using different visual platforms;

Other Skills: Agile/Scrum Coaching & Servant Leadership, Capacity Planning & Risk Mitigation, Change Management, Conflict resolution and Relationship building

Scrum Skills: Meeting Facilitation; Servant Leadership; Agile planning & forecasting, Agile estimation and coaching; communication, collaboration & conflict resolution;

Bank OZK; Hot Springs, AR

Role: Agile/ Scrum Practitioner (June 2016 – Present)

Collaborate with the Modern Delivery team on business development activities, including identification, proposal development, go-to-market content and other pursuit activities. Participates in Design thinking, product modularization and discovery sessions for a proposed project to launch multiple trains. Support activities during comprehensive assessments of the current state of the client delivery model, across areas ranging from tools and processes to culture and operating model and serve as Agile/SAFe/DevOps Subject Matter Professional for roadmap and delivery of the transformation.

Lead Scrum teams to deliver the highest business value by identifying and managing dependencies to minimize impediments, monitoring impact of unplanned work and establishing scrum of scrum sessions for cross-domain dependencies.

Leverages Agile coaching techniques for continual improvement.

Facilitates Sprint planning, daily Scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings and software demonstrations for both co-located and offshore team members.

Works closely with product owner in backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features.

Tracks and manages burndown metrics, velocity and task breakdown.

Runs a weekly Scrum Master Community of Practice touchpoint to discuss best practices for teams.

Supports Client Workshops focused on Agile and DevOps Journeys with a goal for Client to adopt capabilities related to build, deploy, package and release automation within CI/CD, including environment and cloud-based forms of automation.

Rubble Master,ADG, South Africa,

Role: Agile Scrum Master (Nov 2014 – Feb 2016)

Educated and reinforced the Agile Methodology and scrum framework to Team and Stakeholders.

Participated in Business and Release Management planning for the product visions and release planning.

Facilitated Risk Management processes through early detection.

Increased team collaboration, transparency and productivity to promote effective and early product release date.

Created a positive and transparent communication channel between team members

Rubble Master, ADG, Cameroon,

Role: Project Management Officer (Mar 2012 – September 2014)

Develop and build new projects from tender to execution phase; providing varied offshore support services to oil and gas companies

Project Management – Managing multiple off shore projects, responsible for organizing, coordinating and supervising off shore support staff, crew and equipment.

Extensive work in budget planning and management, personnel recruitment, schedule planning and team building as well as overall project planning, management and reporting.

Restructuring and employee management, defining and implementing new company policies and regulations especially with regards to HSE

Designing and implementing companywide reporting templates for more efficient parts and vessel acquisition, repairs vessel and asset management.

SCB Cameroun - Groupe Attijariwafa Bank

Role: Branch Manager/Regional Manager/Risk Management (Dec 2006 – Jan 2011)

Education & Certifications:

Certifications & Training

Interaction Management & Fundamental Principles of Supervision

Risk Management for Managers and Entrepreneurial Strategic Management

Business Innovation & Best Practices;

Certified Scrum Master.

SAFe Scrum Master. (On the Job Training)

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting – University of Buea – 2003 - 2006

ACCA – Diploma in Accounting - Glasgow (United Kingdom) - February 2006

High School certificate – GCE A Levels — 2001 - 2003

Conferences and Other activities:

Rubble Master Business Agility Conference, Austria, June 2015

Board Member: Nonprofit for IDPS (SAWA America Foundation)

Board Member: Youth and Entrepreneurship in Africa.

Volunteer for local Soup Kitchen, Hot Springs, AR.

References

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