Project manager/Scrum master

Vera Ebai

Cell Phone: 301-***-****) adck8l@r.postjobfree.com

Dallas,Texas

Sr Project Manager/Scrum Master

Professional Summary

Sr Project Manager/Sctum master with 7 years hands-on experience of successfully managing and delivering large software projects in a waterfall and agile environment, process consulting, project management and software development, experience and expertise in using several project management tools like Gantt-Chart,Power Point,JIRA, confluence, TFs, Visual studio, and rally. Two years as a Business Analyst where my focus was to analyze user stories more in-depth to create more clarity and precision for the scrum team. Encourage communication and knowledge sharing related to data analysis. As a Project manager, I am a servant leader that strive for my projects to stay on schedule and on budget, self-empowering, and cross-functional high performing teams. I have helped transitioned teams from Waterfall to agile using a different agile framework like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)and Xtreme Programming. My success so far as a Project manager and scrum master has been the ability to facilitate, communicate, solve problems, coach, mentor, removing the impediment, and shielding the team from outside distractions,change management,strategic IT planning and business relation functions.Be able to handle projects worth 10m USD and delivered it on time with utmost quality.

Skills

•Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel PowerPoint)

•Planning and Execution

•Good leadership and Motivational skills

•Attention to detail and risk management

•Strong knowledge of Kanban and SAFe

•Excellent communication/Customer Service

•Risk management

•Financial Analyst

•Strong analytical skills

•Excellent team player and team builder with strong interpersonal skills

Jcpenney

Dallas,Texas

Senior Scrum Master

Nov 2019-Present

•Manage all scrum boards(physical/virtual)

•Facilitated all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint retrospecti ve, sprint demos, story grooming

•Helped team to solve problem rather than provide them solutions

•Interfaced with program management office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met.

•Worked with the scrum team and the product owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.

•Updated agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlog

•Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and led by example.

•Took responsibility of delivery and management of tasks

•Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint release progress to all affected teams and management

BB&T

Washington,Dc

Senior Project Manager

April 2017 - present

responsibility:

•Worked successfully as a senior project manager for article VII of the OCC compliance project

•Developed comprehensive and repeatable project plans for execution and bridged gaps between project stakeholders,business sponsors and technical resources.

•Accurately forecasts project costs and tracks Actual expenses and Accruals

•Interfaced with the program management office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met.

•Proficiently developed the project plans specifying goals,strategy,staffing,scheduling, identification of risks,contingency plans,and allocation of available resources

•Maintain relationships with key business and IT stakeholders

•Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and led by example.

•Took responsibility for delivery and management of tasks

•Collected,analyzed and summarized information on project phases tasks, duration, resources and costs Six Sigma methodology

PNC Bank

Houston, Tx

SAFe Scrum Master

Dec 2014- Jan 2017

Responsibility:

•Defined and developed risk mitigation strategies for all projects

•I was efficient and effective with Scrum ceremonies. Ensures initial planning and continuous planning is completed with transparency and uses agile team metrics (velocity, burn-down, etc.) to influence Product Owners and Team Members

•Serve as primary liaison among multiple team members, including project controller, solution engineer, application teams, infrastructure, planning, business partners, vendors and other key functional delivery roles.

• Building and Integrating custom applications within CA Agile Central (Rally).

•Coached team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology

•Assisted with internal communication, improved transparency and radiated information

•Assisted with prioritizing and resolution of software defects

•Built relationships with product owners in the creation and maintenance of product backlogs

•Engage with other scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of scrum in the organization

•Continuously learned agile/scrum techniques and shared findings with the team

Citi bank

Cincinnati,OH

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Nov 2013- Oct 2014

Responsibility:

•Supported and educated the solution delivery managers especially with respect to grooming

•Track actual charges – labor & non-labor

•Partner with project controller to monitor

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•Articulate variances & outline cause of change

•Facilitated meetings and coordinated build systems integration testing and UAT

•Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiation

•Collaborates with team to proactively identify risks & drives identification and execution of mitigation plans before they become issues

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Laurel, MD

Business Analyst

Jan 2011 - Sept 2013

Responsibility:

•Manage the planning and development of design and procedures for metrics reports.

•Successfully interpreted data in order to draw conclusions for managerial action and strategy

Education

University of Yaoundé

Bachelor’s in computer science

Certifications

CSM – scrum alliance

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