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Resume:
Paul E. Likambi
Houston, TX
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SUMMARY
A highly motivated and result driven Scrum Master and SAFe Agilist with over 7 years of proven experience, seeking new opportunities in facilitating development teams in an agile environment with focus on helping teams become independent and Self-organizing. Coaching personnel within the scrum teams to adhere to agile principles, strategically eradicating impediments and providing necessary assistance as a servant leader. A certified Scrum Master and business analyst with a growth and agile mindset, managing development teams, leading and facilitating work activities of both collocated and distributed teams as well as involved in executive coaching and stakeholder engagement.
CERTIFICATIONS:
SGP-SAF@ Government
SDP-SAFe @ Devops
SSM- SAFe Scrum Master
SAFe SA- SAFe Agilist
PSM- Professional Scrum Master
SMAC- Scrum Master Accredited Certification
STRENGTHS:
Knowledge of agile methodology and agile frame works, Safe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean XP, TDD
Experience working with agile project tools, such as Jira, TFS, Rally and MS Project
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Web Development Tools: TFS, Jira, Confluence, Visual Studio, Rally, Gliffy
Operating Systems: Windows XP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Anthem, Mason, Ohio.
Scrum Master
November 2019- Current 2020.
Provided all support to the scrum teams using a servant leadership approach.
Work with the RTE to close the Iteration sprints and start new ones
Worked closely with the PO on the spider reporting products my team hand to handle.
Work closely with the RTE to set-up and prepare for PI planning
Worked on the IT part of the organization, focused on clients’ contract codes
Facilitate Pre-PI planning sessions for my teams and worked on the time allocation for the teams
Help and worked with the RTE to facilitate the SoS meetings
Worked closely with the PO and team on ACIP compare report updates and cost share plans.
Encourage and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.
Leveraging information radiators, tracking progress and providing transparency to all stakeholders.
Worked with PM to understand and set road maps to eliminate teams dependences.
Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of Agile practices.
Facilitated Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective Meetings using Agile Methodology.
Worked in close corporation with offshore teams to facilitate and improve performance
Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
Organized and facilitate refinement workshops and User story writing sessions
USAA, San Antonio, TX.
Scrum Master
March 2019- September 2019
Organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies and backlog refinement under minimum supervision.
Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of Agile practices.
Worked in close collaboration with the PO improve on the hard stop codes implementation for the organization.
Worked with stakeholders to prioritize the user stories.
Engaged with the executives to get a better understanding of the software.
Work closely with the RTE to develop on the PI planning meeting and set the PI objectives
Work with the RTE to close the Iteration sprints and start new ones.
Worked with teams and PO improve on procedures to implement the FDIC maximum withdrawals for clients.
Jira for reporting and Requirement Management
Also utilize Jira for daily scrum, Sprint Planning, product backlog refinement, sprint review and retrospective meetings.
Worked with teams on knowledge transfer sessions (KT)
Provided all support to the scrum teams using a servant leadership approach.
Worked with external vendors and teams to help eliminate my teams dependences
Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.
Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.
Tracked data from the sprint process and report regularly, to facilitate understanding of where we were and what could be improved.
Leveraging information radiators, tracking progress and providing transparency to all stakeholders.
Guiding teams to adopt and buy into the organization’s shared vision.
Facilitated Lean coffee calls and set up happy hours for team building
Irotech Consulting LLC ( Walmart)
Scrum Master
August 2016 – January - 2019
Organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies with and backlog refinement under minimum supervision.
Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of Agile practices.
Engaged with the executives to get a better understanding of the software.
TFS was for reporting and Requirement Management
Also utilized TFS for daily scrum, Sprint Planning, product backlog refinement, sprint review and retrospective meetings.
Provided all support to the scrum teams using a servant leadership style.
Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.
Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.
Tracked data from the sprint process and report regularly, to facilitate understanding of where we were and what could be improved.
Leveraging information radiators, tracking progress and providing transparency to all stakeholders.
Worked with teams on knowledge transfer sessions (KT)
Guiding teams to adopt and buy into the organization’s shared vision.
Identifying and creating framework for surfacing and resolving conflicts.
Nationwide, Columbus Ohio
Scrum Master
August 2014 – July 2016
Facilitated Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective Meetings using Agile Methodology.
Facilitated self-organizing environment for scrum teams to promote creativity, flexibility and productivity
Facilitated release planning, sprint planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings
Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
Facilitated the team and cross-team retrospectives to build good working relationships among the agile teams across 2 states.
Collaborated with members of the product, business and engineering teams to develop and maintain product backlogs.
Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings.
Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement (CI).
Facilitated the SOS ceremonies.
Worked with PO on refinement workshops
Worked with teams on knowledge transfer sessions (KT)
EDUCATION:
Bachelors Business Administration, University of Buea - 2013
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