SEVERINE ATOH

Phone: 281-***-**** Email: adknw0@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced Scrum Master with 6 years hands-on experience as well as extensive knowledge in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) within multiple domains such as Health care and Finances with also 3 years as a Business/Data Analyst. Passionate about Agile methodologies; Scrum, SAFe, Kanban and XP with expertise in using several Agile project management tools like JIRA/Confluence, Rally, and Visual Studio. A history of working with co-located, distributed, and offshore teams while using several virtual platforms like Google hangouts, WebEx, Zoom and Skype for business. Extensive knowledge of SAFe, Kanban, Scrumban, and Xtreme Programming.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Coach Organization into Scrum Adoption Agile Program Management Project Management

Business Analysis Backlog refinement DevOps

Product Management Software Development Change Management

Continuous integration/automation Kanban Scrum

Project Planning and Management ATDD/BDD Agile Methodologies

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TECHNICAL TOOLS

SLDC Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Pivotal Tracker, Rational, Microsoft Office

Frameworks/Systems: Windows, IOS, Android, MS Office Suite, Windows, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

Virtual Communication: Zoom, Skype, Slack, Google Hangouts, WebEx

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master Sep. 2017 – Present

Irotech Consulting Houston, TX

●Act as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.

●Resolving impediments, conducted standups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and created tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.

●Utilized metrics such as burndown charts, velocity chart and capacity planning to track team progress and maximize effort

●Participating proactively in developing and maintaining teams engineering best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, test automation, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment.

●Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.

●Preventing distractions by identifying and removing impediments.

●Instructing and modeling core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.

●Taking responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master network especially in regard to items necessary for product release

●Facilitating bi-weekly scrum of scrums (SOS) and driving conversations on cross team risks and dependencies.

●Working with the system infrastructure team to coordinate quarterly releases, working to ensure all systems are safe and uninterrupted.

●Assisted team in preparation for Agile Release Train activities by ensuring the SAFe framework was understood.

●Facilitated breakout sessions for teams involved in SAFe framework projects during PI sessions.

●Represented my team during SAFe scrum of scrums and passed information from the events back to my team.

●Work with users and the development team to propose and develop technical solutions to business challenges.

Scrum Master April 2016 – Sep. 2017

Capital One Tysons, VA

●Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team.

●Successfully guided three 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 by 63% within the first year of Agile adoption

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

●Removed team impediments on a daily basis 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 Feb. 2014 – Mar. 2016

Geico Insurance Tysons VA

●Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.

●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

●Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

●Facilitated the team in transition to scrum methodology through ETC (enterprise transition committee) engaging stakeholders during the process of waterfall to spring.

●Actively participated in establishing and providing a vision of the term and gain consensus base on acceptance criteria

● Served as Scrum Master for the project and ensured teams maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery.

●Actively participated in scrum of scrum meetings.

● Encouraged self-organization, meaning that the team itself should remove issues wherever possible.

Business Analyst Mar. 2011 – Jan. 2014

Datalogic Solutions Richmond, VA

●Conducted stakeholder sessions to complete and document detailed business requirement documentation.

●Recommend business solutions that satisfy sponsor/stakeholder needs continually exploring and assessing options.

●Contributed to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies.

●Resolved very complex conflicts/issues and escalate to management as appropriate

●Served as a main contact between business line(s), interfacing applications, and Project Managers.

●Created detailed use cases and acceptance tests that directly align with the business requirements and technical specifications

●Investigated and analyze problems, including the use of change impact analysis on all systems and business areas, in order to recommend appropriate solutions.

●Maintain on-going communication with all stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. Works with project managers, establishes and manages the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for IT

●May develop work plan timelines and manage workflows to meet project timeframes

●Develop or assist project managers in developing implementation plans, including the scheduling of project milestones

●Makes recommendations for Service Improvement Plans and ensures actions are executed to standard and in accordance with established completion timelines.

●Develop project plans that conform to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards, and provide comprehensive status reporting for ongoing programs of work

●Collaborated with stakeholders and subject matter experts to elicit, analyze and validate requirements

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION

●Bachelor of Science in Communication and Information Management - University of Yaounde, Cameroon

●Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance

●SAFe for Scrum Master – Scaled Agile

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