Scrum Engineer

Mustapha Selly Yamie

**** **** & Country Boulevard Frisco TX 75034

Email: ************@*****.***

Cell: 845-***-****

Summary

Self-motivated and value driven Scrum Master with over 5 years of experience leading Agile teams in incremental delivery of value and successful completion of project deliverables on time. A servant leader who is responsible for maintaining and evolving Agile Best practices, supporting a variety and collaboratively to support his teams. Excellent coach, facilitator, team player, problem solver and the ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives under a minimal amount of supervision. International experience and heightened communication skills support my ability to effectively translate User Stories and requirements to development teams and cross-functional stakeholders; assisting Product owners with backlog prioritization using MOSCOW framework. Working with product owners on backlog grooming during sprints to achieve enough READY items for the next sprint, successfully sprint planning time. Deploying JIRA, SharePoint, Excel, and PowerPoint to manage Agile projects from planning to release. Steering the Scrum team to develop User Stories and Story Points using Planning Poker Technical Skills

Application lifecycle

Management tools

Rational CLM applications: JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence, Java, Java Script, Python, and SQL

Other

Language:

MS Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint), MS Project, Outlook, Mural)

Fluent in English and French

Experience

Scrum Master October 2018 – June 2020

Soft Vision, New Jersey City, NJ

● Driven strategic and tactical meetings, Steering committee meetings, meetings for User Workshops, User reviews etc.

● Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software.

● Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective- Ensure all participants understand the ceremony’s purpose and keep to the time-box.

● Track and communicate team velocity and sprint / release progress.

● Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration - both inside and outside of team - allowing them to self-organize.

● Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.

● Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and mentor the team to higher levels of maturity.

● Work to remove impediments to decision-making and be able to allocate personnel to problems while providing guidance.

● Understand and be able to articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team’s environment and progress toward them.

● Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.

● Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.

● Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through technique such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria.

● Proactively manage dependencies.

● Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice.

● Participate in the agile community both internal to Assurant and external with other practitioners.

● Enforces the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops. Scrum Master May 2017 – December 2018

Bank of America, NY

● Establish strong rapport with clients, keeping both internal and external stakeholders informed of progress on a consistent basis.

● Liaised between IT and business to gather & validate requirements on different levels of projects.

● Worked with the business Stakeholders and SME' Confidential to define business requirements and analyze the functional requirement.

● Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint train and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting.

● Foster a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without judgment, fear of blame, or retribution, with an emphasis on solutions.

● Negotiate, and foster communication across cross-functional teams while protecting the team from any unproductive disruptions.

● Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.

● Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

● Assist with internal and external communication, improve transparency, catalyze and radiate information.

● Support and educate the Product Teams, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

● Report across various dimensions from daily reports, velocity, burndown etc.

● Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

● Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.

● Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.

Jr. Scrum Master June 2013 – July 2015

Standard Chartered Bank, Douala, Cameroon

• A fulltime role where I was facilitating daily Scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective sessions. Integration of Agile methodologies was performed by:

• Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on developing and deploying Agile best practices.

• Actively coordinated engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders.

• Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs while assisting with PI planning activities.

• Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams’ work to meet delivery schedules.

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving

• Tracking performance metrics to provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.

• Spearheading Agile/Scrum transformation with mobile app development team.

• Guided and coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing themselves CERTIFICATION

Scrum Master (CSM)

EDUCATION

SUNY University, Albany, NY 2017

Bachelor Degree in Economics

Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda 2015

Bachelor Degree in Management Services (Accounting)

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