Name: Dialikatou Diallo

Location: Mount Vernon, NY

Availability for Interview: 1-day Notice

Availability to Start: Immediate

Education:

Bachelors in computer science (May 2018)

Certification:

CSM- Scrum Alliance (CSM)

Experience in Jira:

Over 2+ years of experience in Requirement Management and Test Management tool: JIRA

Experience in Agile:

Over 5+ years of experience in leading agile development teams as Scrum Master

Experience on Product Owners:

Over 4+ years of experience on support and educate Product Owner by grooming, maintaining a healthy product backlog and planning releases.

Skills

Development team training

Customer interaction

Operational improvement

Documentation Management

Risk identification

Team management

Relationship development

Quality assurance

Risk mitigation planning

Process improvement

Problem resolution

Scrum Events

Professional Experience:

Taconic Innovations, Mount Vernon-NY Jun 2015 – Present

Scum Master

Serve as servant leader with a focus on helping team improve by encouraging and guiding the team in adopting agile practices and principles to further help increase customer satisfaction, foster collaboration, and create value.

Develop and deliver performance reports and other types of communication to customers and management. Support and educate Product Owner by grooming, maintaining a healthy product backlog and planning releases.

Facilitate all scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily standup, Backlog Refinement, Sprint review and Retrospective.

Remove any internal or external blockers and impediments that may arise on team to keep team focused and involved.

Help facilitate scrum integration and identify dependencies. Creatively inventing innovative ways to build a self-organizing and cross-functional team to accomplish project goals and improve processes.

Champion the transition of team from waterfall to agile, particularly focused on Scrum.

Transfast, New York, NY Jun 2014 – May 2015

Scrum Master

Tracked and radiated team level metrics such as burn-down charts, sprint health and velocity to both teams and Senior Management to continuous drive empirical process improvement.

Fostered cross-team coordination as part of my responsibilities to align and gather feedback for process improvement and organizational change management.

Acted as servant leader to scrum teams, facilitated scrum events while providing coaching to the organization as we continued our journey to deliver best customer experiences by focusing on being agile.

Assist multiple scrum teams to adhere to Agile practices and principles through facilitation, coaching and modelling agile values and behaviors.

Ensure impediments are quickly identified and removed by ensuring teams create the relevant scrum artifacts, demonstrate transparency, drive continuous inspection and adaptation in everything they do.

Global Action Project, New York, NY Aug 2013 – May 2014

Jnr Scrum Master

Support teams to delivery business value by understanding the intent of features and stories, use data to assess performance and lead improvement activities through these.

Coached the development team and PO to improve practices, productivity and self-organization by fostering a culture of accountability within the teams to hold to standards and delivery commitments.

Helped teams defined and documented their ways of working and hence enabling solid understanding of scrum roles and the need for role distinction.

Run workshops to help my teams assess their current capabilities and develop plans to improve team dynamics, practices and performance.

Mentored and coached scrum teams on backlog refinement including the best practices for defining the MVP, different estimation techniques including sizing and Definition of Ready.

Mentored and coached teams on creation and maintenance of scrum team artifacts including product backlog, sprint backlog and Definition of Done.

Global Action Project, New York, NY May 2012 – Jun 2013

Administrative Assistant

Provided exceptional customer service by meeting and greeting guest with a smile.

Directed guest to destinations and ensured the safety of all guest entering and exiting.

Monitored CCTV and patrolled floors and secured all entry and exits of building.

Ensured all guest signed in and out at front desk and checked identifications for entry.

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