Social Media Scrum

OBJECTIVE

I am a Certified Scrum Master with over 3 years’ hand-on experience leading teams to deliver through the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Throughout my career as a Scrum Master, I have become a well-informed Servant Leader who engages in continuous learning in Agile Methodology; exchanging knowledge with project managers and other Scrum Masters. Along with vast knowledge in Agile/Scrum processes/procedures, I am also verse with JIRA, KANBAN and some knowledge of SAFe. I am currently seeking new opportunities as a Scrum Master and available to relocate.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master Feb 2018 – Feb 2020

Washington Tech Solutions

Washington DC

Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and Daily Scrum.

Ensure all team members participate in the team breakout sessions.

I facilitated the event, resolving impediment across functional team so that they can deliver values in cadences.

Ensure that user stories are well refined and team members fully understand the requirement during grooming.

I also make sure the team has put features on the program board and in which iteration they will be completing the Features.

Facilitated Planning Poker during estimation session.

Assisted Product Owner in maintaining a healthy product backlog during refinement session.

Worked in collaboration with team members in selecting items from the product backlog which we used to create the sprint backlog and ensuring we achieve our sprint goals.

Used JIRA’s features in keeping track of user stories and progress of the work through tracking the velocity and capacity of the team. Also constantly monitored Burn down chart.

Constantly monitored development work and worked on removing impediments to improve the team’s performance.

Updated retrospective point, suggestion, prepared a retrospective summary and circulated it to team and interesting party.

Ensured Agile/Scrum processes are implemented effectively and provided coaching and training at the level of the team, department and company to maximize its benefits.

Protected the team and preventing them from outside distractions that can interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver the Sprint goal.

Facilitated discussion and conflict resolution between team members and product owners.

Ensured the development team practice the core Agile values and principles so that the team can move towards becoming self-organized and self-managed team.

Worked in closed collaboration with collocated and distributed team members using Microsoft team in facilitating our meeting.

Scrum Master April 2017 – Jan 2018

(Contractor): United Health Group

Washington DC

Facilitated all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint retrospectives, sprint demos, Backlog groom.

Ensured the development team practice the core Agile values and principles so that the team can move towards becoming self-organized and self-managed team.

Assisted the development team in selecting items from the product backlog, which we used to create the sprint backlog.

Helped the team to best used scrum to build the product.

Enabling transparency, inspection and adaptation in the working environment to help the team achieved their goal.

Train new team members to understand scrum framework and its process and its values.

Scheduled daily scrum meeting and ensure the team updated their remaining hours or point in the scrum board.

Requested team members to keep or to update their available capacity for the upcoming spring.

Ensured that the stories committed to work on have an owner assigned to work on.

Facilitated Sprint review; closed the sprint; prepared and circulated sprint closure report.

Created a friendly environment during spring retrospective were team members can discuss and give suggestion.

Updated retrospective point, suggestion, prepared a retrospective summary and circulated it to team and interesting party.

Worked in closely with onshore and offshore member using sky for business for our meeting.

Jr Business Analyst/Scrum Master Jan 2016 – Feb 2017

T- Mobile

Washington DC

Manage IT projects of all sizes to deploy or upgrade business software, including scope, schedule, and budget.

Collaborate with internal business units and stakeholders to help design, document, maintain and improve related business processes.

Develops necessary documentation, support, and training for formal hand off to service desk staff.

Provides day-to-day support for assigned systems.

Performs or assists with vendor management.

Performs administrative functions related to assigned construction technology tools

Leads internal teams/task forces.

Facilitates effective team interaction.

Collaborates with the project team to communicate and validate all necessary requirements have been fulfilled.

Monitor project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports; recommending actions.

Assist with project management for selected projects.

Marketing Coordinator Jan 2014 –Oct 2015

YooMee Mobile

Douala - Cameroon

Proactively manages the day-to-day operational aspects of all projects related to advertising campaign communications.

Support the marketing department's initiatives with the planning, executing, and tracking of marketing programs such as email, event, social media, or content marketing.

Coordinate product, event, or content email marketing campaigns, including copy, scheduling, testing, and database management.

Assist with developing and managing content and social media marketing programs, including blogs and public relations efforts.

Evaluate and monitor campaign performance on an ongoing basis by analyzing key metrics and creating comprehensive reports.

Manage relationships with external vendors to ensure high-quality and timely execution of marketing programs, and to ensure competitiveness.

Builds positive working relationships with internal team members and management.

Holds regular status meetings with project team.

Effectively communicates relevant project information to team members and management.

Determines appropriate revenue recognition, ensures timely and accurate invoicing for project.

Analyzes project profitability, revenue and margins.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows.

Software: MS Office 360: (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access and PowerPoint), Amazon Workspace, Share Point. Skype for Business, Dropbox, etc.

Tools: JIRA & Microsoft team and visual Studio.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree (BA) in Marketing, 2012 - University of Bamenda – Cameroon.

National Higher Diploma (NHD) in Marketing. 2011 - Institute of Management Studies. (HIMS) University of Bamenda – Cameroon.

LANGUAGE

English & French

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum Alliance.

Scrum Master Accredited Certification.

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) in progress.

Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster (CSP-SM) in progress.

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