Scrum Engineer
Resume:
E.M BETRAND
***********@*****.***
An innovative, resourceful Scrum Master with 8 years of professional experience in leading multiple teams, tailoring and adopting agile principles and frameworks. Ability to manage large software development projects at enterprise level that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations using SAFe Agile Framework and lean Agile mindset. Demonstrate ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations, with verifiable track record of managing complex projects while delivering on time, under budget and above expectations. Developer in a wide variety of business and IT applications, particularly in delivering the highest quality software products on time using Agile Software techniques such as Scrum. Experienced practitioner of Scrum, Kanban, Lean Product. Green Card Holder, Good knowledge of leading SAFe and SAFe RTE.
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, OneNote, Outlook), HIPPA Training Course, Technical Troubleshooting, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe Agile, Cloud Computing(AWS, Azure), Test Driven Development (TDD), HTML, Adobe, SharePoint, PowerPoint, SDLC, FileMaker, Linux and Mac OS X, JIRA/Confluence, Rally, Agile/Scrum Coaching and Servant leadership, Strategic Planning and Risk Mitigation Development, Conflict Resolution and Relationship Building.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TECHNICAL SCRUM MASTER SAM’S CLUB HOME OFFICE BENTONVILLE, AR.
SEP 2019-PRESENT
Facilitated iteration Planning meetings, Daily scrum, iteration review, product backlog refinement meetings and retrospective meetings with 6 scrum teams.
Attended PI planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect, and adapt workshops for future PIs and Release Management meetings.
Worked closely with the Release Train Engineer for the ART in coordinating dependencies between various scrum teams.
Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams, Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train, worked with Release Train Engineer, System Architects and system Team for Infrastructure requirements and to support integration testing,
Helped the Product Owner/product Management in maintaining, refining and prioritizing the product backlog.
Helping teams in deciding the sprint backlog for every iteration.
Mitigated impediments during the sprint in terms of issues and risks
Helping teams to write and split User stories, breakdown Epics.
Used JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints, created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts.
Confluence was used to maintain project documents such as project plans, project scope, and status reports and to assign tasks
SCRUM MASTER/KANBAN FLOW MANAGER MORGAN STANLEY BALTIMORE, MD
MAY 2018-SEP 2019
Help teams regularly check Kanban boards and making sure that no work item has been blocked for too long.
Coach the team members on Lean & Kanban.
Ensure that all the team's work items are organized visually by type, state, parallel work stream and class of service.
Help teams maintain WIP limit.
Implementing Agile and Scrum practices for onshore and offshore teams.
Facilitate discussion leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team
Remove impediments to delivery success through the proactive management of external dependencies, complex problem-solving and the development of new solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges; has the authority to execute against new approaches and escalate issues through business and/or IT channels where necessary
Facilitate discussion leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team
Remove impediments to delivery success through the proactive management of external dependencies, complex problem-solving and the development of new solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges; has the authority to execute against new approaches and escalate issues through business and/or IT channels where necessary
100% Cross-functional Communication. Good experience working as proxy-Product owner.
SCRUM MASTER BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD INSURANCE OWINGS MILL, MD.
OCT 2015- APR 2018
Using Lean software development processes to address issues that affect the production value and helps the organization save money.
Work as an Agile Transformation Coach where scrum and Kanban Techniques are applied.
Worked with Product Owner to groom backlog and plan releases.
Participated in Scrum Master Community and encourage cross-team sharing of agile and scrum practices.
Help and assist my team members do less work while providing early and consistent valuable end products using Kanban methods.
Strong knowledge of some Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Confluence.
Place substantial efforts on Team Member Role Training, Time-Boxing and providing strong Metrics for all Players.
Remove impediments as all the Projects relied on data from multiple Departments, hence requiring constant and effective communication to unblock the Team and making sure that the Team remains focused on the Tasks at hand.
Communicate Team Status/Progress via Release/Sprint Burndown Charts, Story Acceptance Rate and made sure that the Stakeholders are aware of what is going on.
Work with the Product Owner during the Sprint Review sessions to make sure that all Stories met the Definition of Done, and got the Stories accepted during the Sprint.
Create sample Layouts for Audit Reports and facilitated Review meetings for Audit Report Layouts apart from Data Mapping for Compliance Actions.
Implemented complex projects utilizing agile/lean frameworks such as Scrum & Kanban and less-complex projects using traditional waterfall approach
Built the teams’ Agile knowledge and empowered them to make Process improvements captured in Sprint Retrospective meetings.
Handling 2 teams with 6 and 7 members
AGILE BUSINESS ANAYST SANARA LIMBE, CAMEROON
FEB 2012 – JUL 2015. (INTERN, EMPLOYEE)
Gathered requirements for business definition and facilitate JAD/JAR sessions with stakeholders to refine functional requirement
Identified and removed obstacles that will keep the team from achieving their goals
Supported the product owner in maintaining the product backlog and scheduling next release
Ensured effective implementation of agile process
Communicate with clients and inform the organization about the customer business needs
Facilitated iteration planning meetings, lead work within individual sprints and coordinate retrospectives and demos.
Lead daily stand ups, evaluate progress and provide support as needed on remediation of impediments to support commitments to product.
Provided training to scrum team to ensure Agile scrum is understood and practiced from Planning to Implementation.
Actively worked with the Product Owner and Stakeholders to monitor and prioritize product backlog on an ongoing basis to meet release timelines and value to the business.
Worked with outside organizations and business partners to coordinate cross-team dependencies in order to meet product objectives.
EDUCATION:
University of Buea
Bachelor of Computer Science
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)-Active
Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)-Active
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)-Active
Certified SAFe® Agilist (SA)-Active
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)-Active
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional)-Active
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