Scrum Master II
Resume:
Dominic Atabongakeng
Certified Scrum Master
SAFe 4.6 Scrum Master
Certified Product Owner
SAFe Agilist 4
SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer
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Professional summary:
I am a unique, dynamic & experienced Certified Scrum Master & SAFe Agilist with 6+ years of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) within multiple domain such as Health care, Finance domain, Retail, Hotel etc.
A servant leader who champions and agile mindset to self-organizing and cross functional teams to deliver products while applying empiricism.
Experienced the transition of companies from Waterfall to Agile Methodologies.
Two Years of experience as an Agile Coach
SAFe 4 Agilest, Certified Scrum & Experience Product Owner.
A servant leader who coaches self-organizing and cross functional teams to deliver products on time while applying empiricism.
Used tools such as Jira, Rally, and Visual Studio, Service Now, Confluence,
Worked with distributed, collocated and offshore teams while using virtual platforms such as Zoom or Skype for business and WebEx
Extensive knowledge of multiple Agile framework; SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming
Strong technical command of project management tools; Visual Studio, Jira, Rally, TFS and MS Project
Well-versed in version control tools such as SharePoint,
Knowledge in agile transformation and Agile sustainment for both experienced and new agile teams
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio).
Experienced the transition of companies from Waterfall to Agile Methodologies. Leadership in facilitating the five Scrum Ceremonies Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Epic and Story Estimation, Sprint Review and Demo, Retrospective.
Able to work with multiple teams both co-located and distributed. Removing impediments, protecting team from distractions, keeping team meetings lean and efficient and negotiating scope creep
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Educational Qualification
Washington Adventist University. - Bachelor of Science
University of Maryland University College - Master of Science
Certification
•Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance
•Certified Scrum Product Owner – Scrum Alliance
•SAFe 4 Agilist
•SAFe Scrum Master
•Certified Product Owner
•SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer
Skills: Jira, Visual Studio, Kanban, XP, Service Now, Confluence, Scaled Agile framework, Microsoft office, Slack, Microsoft Team, ADL AZURE
Scrum Master II
Comcast – Philadelphia
Feb. 2020 – Current
•Coordinate with Product owner on writing tickets on JIRA and prioritizing Product backlog.
•Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
•Assist the company embrace agile as a culture shift
•Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
•Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents
•Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives
•Communicate with executive level client and vendor contacts to ensure customer satisfaction and long-term relationship building.
•Communicate project needs, status, and manage project related contract negotiations with executive level government contacts.
•Ensure compliance with organizational standards, leading practices, and methodologies.
•Lead and utilize best practices for documentation and knowledge sharing to team efforts.
•Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily QA activities to be productive and growing in ability
•Collaborate with Project Resource teams to ensure that appropriate resources are available to meet current and future schedules.
•Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings
Agile Coach Scrum Master Consultant
Chevron - Houston TX
October 2019 – February 2020
Leading 4 development team including Knowledge Architect, Solution Architect & System Master Experts (SME)
Working with Subject Matter Experts (SME) to create knowledge graph thru Maana
Lead the Agile Release Train (ART) to ensure successful delivery of Business Value
Drives teams to deliver against Program Increment (PI)Objectives
Facilitates the PI planning meeting and work with the teams to understand and map the Upstream/downstream dependencies.
Working with Maana a pioneer of digital knowledge technology
Accountable for ensuring all projects follow the software development life cycle (SDLC) identified for the type of project.
Responsible for all aspects of effective project delivery following the PHEAA Project & Portfolio Management Methodology SAFe framework, assigning responsibility and accountability for project team members required to ensure project commitments are met, managing the project scope, schedule, costs, and quality, and identifying and managing project risks
Enabling enterprise-wide digital transformation through unsurpassed interoperability of tools without creating new silos.
Developing of the use case using knowledge Graphs
Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
Training and educating all 4 teams on Agile methodology & process
Supports the team rules of an Agile Team are lightweight, but they are rules nonetheless, and the Scrum Master is responsible for reinforcing them.
Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
Scrum Master —Hilton
McLean, VA
February 2018 – October 2019
Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
Remove obstacles for developers and testers
Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed
ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
Assist the company embrace agile as a culture shift.
Coordinate with Product owner on writing tickets on JIRA and prioritizing Product backlog.
Rebuild and restructure Scrum team
Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to Managing Scrum process and passing it to the team as self-organization matures
Driving adoption of engineering practices and best coding practices
Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
Lead Dev. and Data Science team
Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset. Helps the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices
Supports the team rules of an Agile Team are lightweight, but they are rules nonetheless, and the Scrum Master is responsible for reinforcing them.
Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents
Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives
Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theater and so on to help the team become a high-performance team
Scrum Master - Inova Health System
Falls Church, VA
June. 2016- October 2018
Rebuild and restructure Scrum team
Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
Assist the company embrace agile as a culture shift.
Coordinate with Product owner on writing tickets on JIRA and prioritizing Product backlog.
Managing Scrum process and passing it to the team as self-organization matures
Driving adoption of engineering practices and best coding practices
Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
Lead Dev. and Data Science team
Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset. Helps the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices
Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
Communicated the progress to senior management thru Burn down Charts'. Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team thru the project management processes.
Scrum Master Product Owner
Lifeline Inc Pennsylvania
Feb. 2014- May 2016
Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily QA activities to be productive and growing in ability
Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings
Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution
Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.
Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
Facilitate the term in transition to scrum methodology through ETC (enterprise transition committee) engaging stakeholders during the process of waterfall to spring.
Active participating in establishing and provide Vision of the term and gain consensus base on acceptance criteria
Served as Scrum Master for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery with some support from coach
Actively participated scrum of scrum meetings with program manager
Encouraged self-organization, meaning that the team itself should remove issues wherever possible
Business Analyst / Scrum Master,
Lexington solutions, LLC Boston MA
Jan.2012 -Feb. 2014
Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams
Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.
Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company lots of money
Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.
Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.
Facilitate 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.
Partnered with developers to automate manual processes, saving time and money while decreasing errors.
Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.
Performed quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementations for multiple Users.
Linked in Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-atabong/
Skype ID :80bde29d2ab8ac2c (Dominic Atabongkeng)
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