Manager Scrum

AFOMIA KASSAYE

*** ****** ***** *******, ******, MA 02151 · 202-***-****

************@*****.*** · risedevpro.com

I am a Program Manager with Software background/PM/CSM with excellent problem-solving, analytical, collaborative decision making, negotiating, customer handling, leadership, interpersonal, presentation and communication skills with emphasis on building strong collaborative/trusting relationships with diverse/complex customers/stakeholders/top management org groups/project teams.

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, George washington university Graduated: DEC 2018

GPA: 3.7. Graduated with honors in Computer Science (magna cum laude).

SKILLS

Software development life cycle

Scrum, Agile Project Management

Cross-functional Team leadership

Project road map planning based on business needs

Project Planning (Sprint Planning)

Software Quality Assurance

Budget planning

Languages: fluent in English and Amharic.

RELEVANT TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

BigR (Scrum of Scrum,contract role) Boston, MA May 2020- Current

I Create development, delivery, and compliance schedules based on system requirements, technical challenges, lead-times and business needs. We are working on tele health Project, requirements and acceptance criteria changes, but I make sure that the team adjust in successful ways.

Facilitate scrum ceremonies for teams and ensure that teams are adopting and implementing agile practices that enable high speed, quality delivery with clear communication of deliverables

Embrace a servant-leader role across scrum teams and support them by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies, internal to the team as well as external, dealing with cross-functional teams as appropriate

Designed and implement Definition of Ready work ticket training for scrum teams and cross-functional teams through gamification of concepts, leading to more efficient ticket execution and increased team satisfaction

Drive release process improvement through the implementation of Scaled Agile Framework techniques and release data information for release planning and retrospectives, resulting in a more effective release scope commitment and transparency for stakeholders into release progress

Insuring adherence to Agile Framework /Ceremonies and improve teamwork

Removing Impediments

Working with Remote Teams – located within the US.

Release Cycle Management

Continuous iterative deliveries, development, integration and deployment

Solecor (Project Manager) Alexandria, Virginia DEC 2017 – Jan2019

Solecor is an AWS based e-commerce platform for selling shoes. I Managed Solecor in a team using development lifecycle stages throughout all phases of the projects from req

uirement analysis, design, development, testing and deployment. I partnered with C-level executives and collaborated with broad cross functional teams (engineering, design, marketing, infrastructure, analytics, legal, security & operations). Experience in managing, leading, mentoring and effectively communicating with multi-cultural, cross competent global face-to-face & remote teams that comprised of business analysts, enterprise architects, change management leads, quality analysts, technical leads, developers, internal/external business partners.

Organize and coach a newly formed and rapidly growing team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the organization

Manage scrum meetings (grooming, sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospective) and work directly with the product owner and engineering team lead to assemble and coordinate project team members and assign individual responsibilities

Collaborate with product owners and engineers to create user stories, acceptance criteria, and priorities on a regular basis; and to groom and maintain product backlogs

Excellent problem-solving, analytical, collaborative decision making, negotiating, customer handling, leadership, interpersonal, presentation and communication skills with emphasis on building strong collaborative/trusting relationships with diverse/complex customers/stakeholders/top management org groups/project teams.

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