JODY-STELLA AMBA ILOUNGA

adk6lt@r.postjobfree.com 703-***-****

CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER/AGILE COACH

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Hard-working, trustworthy, and results oriented Professional with over 5 years of Agile experience. Strong ability to lead teams, coach/mentor, develop user stories, establish lightweight software configuration management, and release processes to enable organizations to build high-value products quickly and effectively.

SKILLS

●Agile Scrum

●Agile Coaching

●Business & IT planning

●Strategic planning

●Requirements gatherings/Analysis

●Strong Communication

●Servant Leadership

●PM Tools: Jira, Confluence, Rally, TFS, MS Project

●Conflict resolution

●Project risk management

●Documentation management

●Stakeholder management

●Quality Assurance

●Software testing

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science: Business Administration (with Healthcare Management) Enrolled

Western Governors University (Online)

Bachelor of Science: Business Communication January 2014

University of Buea-- Cameroon

Higher National Diploma: IT Management June 2010

Trustech Institute of Technology, Bamenda, Cameroon

WORK HISTORY

Scrum Master, DataAxxis, McLean, VA 03/2018 – 01/2021

Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams and one Scrumban team

Successfully guided development teams through transition from Waterfall to Agile development.

Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.

Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation

Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity within the first year of Agile adoption

Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings

Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.

Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the agile teams across 3 states.

Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs

Working with testing team to ensure understanding of Agile and Scrum

Scrum Master (contract), Leidos, Arlington, VA 09/2017 – 04/2018

●Worked with technical teams providing support and maintenance for several web applications used within Leidos and its subsidiaries.

●Facilitated various scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.

●Worked with teams to identify MVPs in a SAFe environment.

●Utilized the ROAMing methodology of risks in SAFe environment.

●Aggressively worked with development teams, quality assurance teams, designers, and management to ensure & deliver the most valuable products

●Helped teams identify and remove impediments detrimental to team's success and sprint goals.

●Worked with product owners to prioritize, refine, and validate user stories.

●Assisted teams in capacity planning, story sizing and work effort estimation

●Tracked and communicated team's velocity and sprint progress to delivery leads and functional managers as needed.

●Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create a positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

●Motivating and inspiring team members to be self-managing and resolving dysfunctional behaviors themselves.

●Managed and participated in weekly cross-functional IT status report meetings. Scheduled and facilitated planning and analysis sessions with vendors and internal teams.

Scrum Master, Mosaic Learning Inc., Columbia, MD 07/2014 - 08/2017

●Provided day to day operational support for the Mosaic Learning Contingent program utilizing VMS tool.

●Coordinated presentations for customers and project members detailing project scope, progress, and results, keeping all entities well-informed of milestones and goals.

●Transitioned projects from estimation and pre-construction phase to well-defined project execution plan.

●Formulated complete project plans and coordinated engineering, design, and shopped drawing efforts.

●Interacted daily with project managers, development teams, hiring managers and suppliers, assisting in the resolution of open tickets and requests.

●Kept projects on schedule by managing deadlines and adjusting workflows as needed.

●Worked as a scrum master for Mosaic Learning Inc with teams developing various learning technologies and tele-learning applications for students.

●Facilitated all sprint ceremonies and rituals such as backlog refinement with POs and SMEs, sprint planning, daily standup calls, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives to continuously inspect and adapt our scrum processes.

●Guided teams in the adoption of Agile software development practices (writing user stories, release schedules and integration planning, story estimation, velocity, and capacity planning).

●Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

●Prepared and communicated sprint progress using burn-down charts and team's velocity.

●Maintained transparency throughout project delivery via daily scrums, weekly meetings, status reporting, action items and meeting minutes.

Project Coordinator, BICEC – Bamenda, Cameroon 01/2013 to 04/2014

●Served as Project coordinator on a project where we had to re-design and develop the new BICEC BANK website and integrate MTN and Orange mobile money transfers.

●Produced ad hoc reports and documents for senior bank managers.

●Partnered with cross-functional teams to conduct thorough discovery and due diligence on existing bank processes and applications.

●Shadowed senior project managers in product discovery sessions, understanding product roadmaps, and monitoring project for effective execution and deliverables

●Supervised the project from project start through delivery by prioritizing needs and delegating assignments.

●Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.

●Determined and recommended methods to address improvement opportunities.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master

SAFe Certified Scrum Master

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