Summary Statement:

Resourceful & dynamic Agile Certified Scrum Master with over 3 (three) years 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 and innovation Scrum Master, and Business Manager with experience in

Information Technology, business analysis, project management and business development.

Committed 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.

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.

Some experience in different phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); and a good knowledge of Agile frameworks like SCRUM, KAN-BAN, SCRUM-BAN, XP.

That ability/knowledge that drive one to be able to work with both experienced and new agile teams, and to facilitate multiple teams simultaneously.

Powerful problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills and a superb ability to multi- task.

Analytical, enthusiastic and innovative Scrum master, and Business Manager with over six (6) years of Information Technology experience in business analysis, project management and business development and management.

Committed servant leader and 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 for multiple scrum teams, facilitating the transition from Waterfall methodology into Agile methodologies and fostering continues team growth and improvements.

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 Agile frameworks like SCRUM, KANBAN, SCRUMBAN, XP and some knowledge on the different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

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, Scrum Ban, XP.

Agile Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Remedy, Track IT

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

Collaboration tools: Skype, WebEx, MS Teams

IT Tools: VMware vSphere infrastructure and virtual environment, ESXi host, Active Directory, Nagios, LDAP, Kerberos

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 of America; Columbia MD

Role: Scrum Master May 2019 – Present

Coordinated 2 Scrum teams, working with cross-functional teams to optimize revenue generation and reduce delivery time.

Incorporated scrum into the Agile (Scaled Agile) environment.

Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs

Facilitated Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospective and Release Planning, meetings

Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 63% within the first year of Agile adoption

SoftTek Solutions. Maclean, Virginia

Role: Scrum Master Mar 2018 – April 2019

Coached 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, stakeholders and management

Graffi.BDA Engineering; Cameroon, Nigeria, & South Africa

Role: Project Analyst, Jan 2015 – Dec 2017

Developed and built new projects from tender to execution phase; providing varied support services and planning enhancements.

Project Management – Experience in managing small and medium sized projects within the software development environment. Extensive knowledge in project personnel and budget management.

Created and Managed a cross-functional project team –Emergency response team (ERT).

Designing and implementing companywide reporting templates for more efficient reports creation and distribution.

Project Manager responsible for integrating companywide Google implementation project (Google Maps, Google analytics, Google Search Appliance and Snap survey)

Education & Certifications:

Certifications & Training

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

Interaction Management & Fundamental Principles of Supervision

MS Project Management & Risk Management Training

Risk Management for Managers

Entrepreneurial Strategic Management

Business Innovation & Best Practices;

Change Management Training

EDUCATION.

2013-2015; Diploma in software Development and client/server programing. Catholic University of Bamenda, (CATUC).

2015-2016; B.Sc, Business Management. Catholic University Institute of Buea, (CATUC).

CONFERENCES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.

Business Agility 2018 conference.

Agile Engagement 2017conference.

Board Member; Non-profit for Clean Water and Medical Supply in Africa (Ok Water project).

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