Scrum Manager

YANZE EBONKIE MAGRATE

Houston, Texas

EMAIL: ************@*****.*** Tel: 312-***-**** Open to relocation

SAFe Scrum Master

CAREER PROFILE

A SAFe Scrum Master with 7+ years of coaching and facilitating agile teams using scrum, Kanban, XP and Lean Principles (SAFeExpert in removing impediments, facilitating scrum ceremonies/events and building a cross functional and self-organized development teams from waterfall, hybrid to adopting agile. Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations. Skilled in providing servant leadership in a fast- paced, deadline driven, and complex environment while adhering to the customers need. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects while keeping teams focused and delivering successfully in rapidly evolving Environments.

EXPERIENCE

Leadership & Mentoring teams

Process Improvements

Kanban

Agile Tooling ( JIRA, Confluence)

Project Management

Relationship Building

Use Agile and Engineering processes

Managing IT Efforts

Agile team transformation

Automated testing

Program Increment (PI)

Team Agile Coaching (Onshore, offshore and near-shore)

Training at team level

SAFe Scrum Master

Scrum

CAREER HIGHLIGHT

An experienced and certified Scrum Master with over nine years of supporting and guiding Scrum teams in multiple locations to organize goals, implement and monitor software development processes and reporting to senior managers on project progress.

Assess Scrum Maturity of teams and the organization and coach teams to higher levels of maturity, at a

pace that is sustainable and comfortable

Well versed in coaching and mentoring teams on Agile practices and transitions to Agile.

A proven track record of delivering on time and within budget.

Ability to work independently, resolve issues proactively and meet timelines.

Ability to work with cross-functional team, responsible for improving business process and providing value to the functions they support.

Excellent conceptual and working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Knowledge/experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, continuous testing, Agile Games.

The ability to guide teams transitioning from the traditional methodology of project management to Agile.

A well experienced facilitator of all Scrum events, with a good track record of conflict management/resolution.

Strong communication, analytic, interpersonal and conflict management skills

I have coached many struggling and both collocated and offshore new teams, and helped them achieve high performance measured by faster development, better quality and fewer release roll-backs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jelani Consulting, Beltsville, MD 02/2016-Present

IT Scrum Master

Team up with Product Owner/Project Manager to maintain and coordinate communication of project progress to clients throughout each project by visualizing work on Scrum boards.

Act as the bridge between the Product Manager and the scrum delivery team and helping both parties to align to a common goal while managing stakeholder expectations.

Teaching, coaching and mentoring agile team members on Scrum processes and provide constructive feedback. Train and transform teams to implement agile and coach and mentor teams on SAFe core values, SAFe principles and agile manifesto.

Facilitated team-building exercises to promoted communication, openness, respect and trust within the

environment.

Worked with scrum team in identifying internal and external resources used in the resolving

impediments.

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.

Conducted Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review & Iteration Retrospective meetings.

Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).

Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiative.

Work with PO to review PBIs to ensure requirements are accurately captured, stories are well written and teams have a shared understanding of stories in the backlog.

Facilitate scrum ceremonies including the Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning and Retrospective Discussions and sprint review as needed.

Capture and help teams continuously identify and learnings from retrospectives by tracking and implementing retrospective action items in subsequent sprints.

Tracked and radiated information on team level metrics to enable discussions on continuous improvement and set team expectations for high performance.

Help teams execute effective sprints by organizing and facilitating regular backlog refinement sessions with a focus on clarifying an adding details to PBIs and ensuring that stories ready to be actioned on by the development team.

Verizon Services, New York, NY 01/2013–04/2016

Scrum Master

Empower 2 teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality while continuously improving.

Monitor and track the teams progress using tools such as version one, confluence, Jira, burn up charts,

burn down charts, velocity and cumulative workflows which provides internal and external transparency

of scope completion.

Supported teams to identify and gather requirements for building a CI/CD pipeline to enable frequent deployment to production.

Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions and remove bottlenecks.

Identified, tracked and resolved team level impediments with the development by empowering them to own their development process.

Building a trusting and safe team environment to foster collaboration and continuous learning.

Assisted team to becoming mature and self-organized by encouraging them to facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning and sprint reviews.

Assist product owners in maintaining the Product Backlog and schedule

Coach several Developer teams in self-organization and cross-team integration.

Team up with development team when needed in creating test automation scripts in selenium, regression testing and UAT support, track bugs and retest applications.

Trained and coached teams on conducting backlog Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings and assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information and help define team health metrics for sustainable team monitoring.

Usedburn-down and burn-up chart to monitor team progress in order to help coach teams to maintain stable and sustainable space in the course of development.

Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

Worked with Product owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down.

Assisted Product Owner by providing creative ideas for manage backlog management and continuous delivery of feature.

Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner /stakeholders.

Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.

Conducted presentations to detail user perspective to the team and vice-versa.

Ecobank, Doula, Cameroon 04/2006 – 02/2008 Project Manager

Engaged client to gather requirements/business rules, and ensured alignment with development teams

Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.

Evaluated risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company lots of money

Identified and reconciled errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

Drafted and maintained business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.

Facilitated monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.

Provided executives with analytics and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies.

Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.

EDUCATION

Bsc. Information Technology University of Buea Buea, Cameroon

CERTIFICATION

Certified SAFe Scrum Master (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

SKILLS

Operating Systems

Windows operating systems

Reporting tools

Version One, Jira & Confluence

Business Modeling Tools

MS Excel, Outlook, MS Power point, MS Access

RDBMS/Database & Other Skils

MS SQL Server management studio, MS Access, MS Excel. Scrum Master and Product Owner

Automated Testing, Manual Testing and Mobile Apps Testing (5+ years), SDLC, Project management.

Available upon request

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