CLAUDIAN M. TANWIE
Email **************@*****.*** 612-****-***
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Five years’ experience as a Scrum Master with a proven record of facilitating high performance teams as well as resolving conflict and building consensus to increase productivity. I also excel in serving Agile teams, project planning, minimizing scope change, and controlling project performance. My commitment to work with combined with a servant leader approach enable me to build cohesive team that deliver value and principles.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
Certified Scrum Master with thorough understanding of Iterative Software development, Lean and Agile processes such as Scrum, Kanban
Experience in diversified fields of the Software Development Life Cycle with expertise in managing end to end lifecycle processes using Agile methodologies.
Experience of working effectively in a Dynamic, Fast-paced development environment coordinating between multiple teams.
Ability to estimate the resource load, prioritize and proactively manage the IT customer expectations.
Efficient Verbal and Written communication, including the ability to effectively interact with all levels of management in an organization.
TECHNICAL SKILLS / CERTIFICATIONS
Jira,
Kanban
PSM1
MS teams
SCRUM MASTER
ECOBANK CAMEROON JUN2018 -SEP 2020
Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective- Ensure all participants understand the ceremonies 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 acceptance criteria.
Enforces the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops.
Assisting in backlog prioritization
Agile coaching
Coaching the developers and the need why they have to work together as a team
SCRUM MASTER
LAND O LAKES, ARDEN HILLS, MN MAR 2017 – MAR 2018
Facilitate scrum events: Iteration planning, daily stand-ups, Retrospectives, Backlog refinement.
Remove impediments faced by team members.
Ensure open communication between team members, product owner and administration.
Work to remove impediments to decision-making and be able to allocate personnel to problems while providing guidance.
Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for Writing user stories and prioritizing product backlog
Define and document requirements; Analyze and prioritize backlogs
Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques such as user story and acceptance criteria.
Writing user stories.
Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.
Agile coaching.
JR SCRUM MASTER
HI WAY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, ST PAUL, MN JAN 2015– JAN 2017
Prepare, conduct, and manage meetings
Continuously improve education by proactively setting aside time each month for education
Facilitate scrum events: Iteration planning, daily stand-ups, Retrospectives, Backlog refinement.
Remove impediments faced by team members.
Ensure open communication between team members, product owner and administration.
Work to remove impediments to decision-making and be able to allocate personnel to problems while providing guidance.
Agile coaching
EDUCATION
University of Yaoundé 1 Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology