Nkosonge B Cyrille

PSM

Oklahoma City, OK

addhyl@r.postjobfree.com

+1-405-***-****

• Over 9 years as an IT professional and 7 years of professional experience specifically as a Scrum Master leading multiple teams on various projects through Agile frameworks such as Scrum,xp,kanban and crystal

Willing to relocate: Anywhere

Work Experience

Scrum Master

Civitas Senior Living - Oklahoma City, OK

April 2018 to Present

Scrum Master

Civitas Senior Living Oklahoma City,OK

April 2018 to Present

• Manage sprint backlog items and tasks as well as all scrum boards physical or virtual

• Actively participated in Scrum of Scrum meeting

• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning,daily stand ups,release planning,sprint demos,sprint retrospectives and story grooming

• Worked with product owner to define scope and objectives

• Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings

• Use poker planning when need arises to properly estimate user stories

• Explore a variety of team building effort to promote professional facilitation,conflict management,coaching,mediation with the goal of attaining a high performance team Remove impediments for the development team using internal and external resources Scrum Master

JMA Energy Co LLC - Oklahoma City, OK

August 2015 to August 2018

• Ability to provide overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices

• Schedule and facilitate Scrum meetings, demos and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper adaptation process is in use. This includes assisting with backlog refinement, release and sprint planning, retrospective and daily stand-ups.

• Help the team in self-organization; encouraging and motivating team to focus on iteration goals

• Help the team improve on their journey towards continuous delivery, which includes technical practices that promote continuous integration, continuous deployment and designing the solution for release.

• Provide regular and open communication across the program to all stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments through healthy communications and data integrity

• Eliminates impediments by actively addressing issues so the team can remain focused on achieving the goals of the sprint. Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying and mitigating issues and risks.

• Researching Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.

• Facilitates all team meetings, such as Daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, backlog grooming

• Properly manage the backlog and aid team in determining suitable commitments for product backlog items and sprints

• Create a positive and easy communication channel (team, product owner, stakeholders)Protect the team from outside interruptions and distractions and remove impediment Scrum Master

Toyota - Los Angeles, CA

May 2012 to June 2015

• Demonstrate servant leadership style and lead by example

• Challenge the status quo and enable new ways of working

• Ability in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes

• Worked with scrum team in preparation of PI Planning by facilitating backlog grooming and assisting in prioritizing all new and existing features, calculated forecasted Capacity and Velocity of the team over the upcoming PI.

• Worked with team to identify goals of every new sprint.

• Eliminated team distractions which helped improve the efficacy of the team as well as time management.

• Monitored team progress using metrics such as burn-down chart and work breakdown schedule.

• Engaged team in retrospective to promote the continuous growth and improvement of Scrum framework within the environment.

• Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines

• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.

• Worked with product owners to prioritize and groom the product backlog.

• Promoted the continuous execution of projects using software development life cycle.

• Served as the teams’ advocate when facing challenging situations. Education

Bachelor's in computer science

catholic university cameroon - Buea

September 2009 to August 2011

Skills

• Microsoft Powerpoint

• Business Strategy

• Leadership Experience

• Communications

• Strategic Planning

• Agile

• Jira

• Trello

• ec2

• S3

• Amazon Web Services

• Scrum

• Kanban

• xp

• crystal

Certifications and Licenses

PSM1

May 2020 to Present

https://www.scrum.org/certificates/529223

aws solution architect associate

January 2020 to January 2023

https://www.certmetrics.com/amazon/public/badge.aspx?i=1&t=c&d=2020-01-28&ci=AWS01266535

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