Scrum Project

Vanessa Njinjoh

Cell: 202-***-**** / 240-***-****

Email: adljyi@r.postjobfree.com

Laurel, Maryland

Summary:

Experienced Agile Software Development professional with outstanding qualifications and track record in delivering and managing Agile software projects. Vanessa is responsible for leading project teams and facilitating the Agile approach within these teams. With over seven years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master, Vanessa possesses strong communication skills, ability to effectively manage a technical team, quickly comprehend complex subjects and guide products through the full requirement, release, and support lifecycle. Additionally, she arranges meetings, sprints, and demos. Her day-to-day responsibilities of a certified Scrum Master include developing and maintaining Agile training, gathering requirements, providing guidance to the team as well as the customers, ensuring that processes are aligned with the goals of the business, and measuring processes against the corporate quality goals.

Education:

B.S. in Information Technology (Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2022) --

University of Maryland Baltimore Campus

Certifications:

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) -- Scrum Alliance

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) – Scrum Org

Professional Scrum Master (PSM II) – Scrum Org

Leading SAFe 5.0 – Scaled Agile

SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 (SSM) – Scaled Agile (May 2021)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) —Scrum Alliance

Dare to Lead- Dare to Lead

Database Administrator 11g (DBA) – Oracle

Skills:

•Microsoft Office

•Confluence

•Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Consultant Scrum Master (Contract)

Attain, LLC (USCIS Project)

Apr 2020 - Present (1 year +)

McLean, Virginia, United States

•Servant Leader operating in scaled agile frameworks

•Worked as part of a team throughout the software development life cycle

•Assist the team members to create effective User Stories, write acceptance criteria to know when a story is Done, and break down stories into sub-tasks.

•Help the team use Epics, time-boxed (spike) stories, and sprint goals effectively.

•Plan and prepare team for PI planning.

•Refine current best practices and adopt cutting edge best practices for IT delivery

•Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Designers, Engineers and

•Analysts to implement enhancements for new applications

•Support clients in managing system roadmaps, project plans, and product and release backlogs

•Facilitate/coordinate business architecture working group sessions, daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings

•Identify the workload and deliverables for each release

•Estimate and plan each release

•Managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology

•Participate on a team of full stack engineers and automation testers

•Estimate level of effort to meet acceptance criteria

•Share best practices and improve processes within and across sprint teams, and mentor more junior developers.

•Detail oriented and have strong organizational skills

Junior Scrum Master/ Agile Lead (Contract)

Pliant Solutions (FEMA project)

Apr 2020 - Nov 2020 (8 months)

Herndon, Virginia, United States

•Served as a senior team member, responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles, and practices

•Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace

•Assist team members in identifying, prioritizing and either clearing or escalating impediments

•Provide training to Product Owners and teams (i.e., individual and workshops)

•Serve as an advisor to teams; leading by example and challenging the status quo

•Perform ongoing assessments of the teams’ Scrum maturity to inform ongoing support decisions

•Cultivate Communities of Practice

•Partner with Scrum Masters to identify and support opportunities to increase team maturity

•Partner with Product Owners to ensure vision, roadmap and personas are well-defined and understood

•Guide scrum masters on becoming better at facilitation and focusing teams on completing tasks

•Help teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles and increasing their predictability, collaboration, and quality practices

•Promote environment and culture of experimentation and innovation

•Foster a trusting environment focused on servant leadership and continuous improvement

•Draft and maintain training materials, collect, and collate feedback from training sessions

•Ensure Agile adherence and consistency while maintaining teams’ abilities to be self- directed Working knowledge of Agile tools (e.g., Atlassian tools —JIRA, Confluence)

•Sprint events: planning, stand-ups, refinement, reviews/demos, retrospectives

•Impediment identification and removal.

•Story mapping; road mapping and planning, backlog management: definition, grooming, and prioritization, story sizing and task estimation, team building and communication, tracking and using velocity, burndown, and burnup

Scrum Master II (Contract)

Venesco, LLC (NASA Project)

Feb 2019 - Mar 2020 (1 year 2 months)

Washington D.C. Metro Area

•Coordinate and communicate with other members of the team to ensure overall project goals are being met in relation to business analysis.

•Work closely with the technical team in the definition, testing, training, implementation, and support of

•functional requirements.

•Solicit requirements and user stories through interviews, workshops, and/or existing systems documentation or procedures.

•Develop project and communications documents, conduct analysis of alternatives, and develop white

•papers, roadmaps, and case studies.

•Ensure Scrum is understood, and work with the team to solve problems and to drive continuous improvement and business owner satisfaction.

•Organize and facilitate all Scrum related meetings (stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews, demos, etc.).

•Work with the team to develop project plans, roadmaps and manage backlog.

•Communicate team plans, report impediments for escalation, identify risks/concerns to relevant stakeholders to help resolve.

•Update Agile tracking system daily to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.

•Track and communicate team velocity and sprint progress to all affected teams and management.

Scrum Master/ Business Analyst (Contract)

Apex Systems (NASA Project)

Jan 2019 - Feb 2019 (2 months)

McLean, Virginia, United States

•Served as a Scrum Master, to help build high performing teams, build shippable product and be responsible for leading agile best practices, specifically Scrum, and project coordination.

•Ensure Scrum is understood, and work with the team to solve problems and to drive continuous improvement and business owner satisfaction.

•Organize and facilitate all Scrum related meetings (stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews, demos, etc.).

•Work with the team to develop project plans, roadmaps and manage backlog.

•Communicate team plans, report impediments for escalation, identify risks/concerns to relevant stakeholders to help resolve.

•Work with product owners and stakeholders to refine vision and establish goals and metrics.

•Track and communicate team velocity and sprint progress to all affected teams and management.

Scrum Master (Contract)

Clarus Group (TSA Project)

February 2018 - February 2019 (1 year 1 month)

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

•Manage client relationship and set appropriate expectations

•Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating communication.

•Supported and educated the solution delivery managers, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining product backlog

•Facilitate Scrum ceremonies/events including sprint planning, daily stand up, product backlog grooming, and retrospective

•Teach and drive the use of Lean Agile/Scrum practices on all teams including user story writing, definition of done, team estimation, timely JIRA updating, etc.

•Tracked data from the sprint process and report regularly (burn up and burn down charts, defect metrics etc.) to facilitate understanding of where we are and provide basis for future process improvements.

•Provided agile expertise and guidance for the project management cycle and other IT-related processes.

•Cross-team coordination and collaboration.

•Removed impediments

•Worked cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution.

•Maintained metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.

•Actively contributed to the company’s agile community through participation in agile community of practice and Scrum master forums.

•Provided real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences

•with software delivery teams.

Scrum Master/PM (Full-time)

EduConnection

Sep 2015 - May 2018 (2 years 9 months)

Columbia, Maryland, United States

•Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies and backlog refinement under minimal supervision

•Champion Agile software development best practices, acting as a coach to the Scrum teams

•Support the Product Owner in grooming and maintaining the product backlog

•Track and communicate team status and progress via burn up and burn down charts, as well as other information radiators, to the team, management, and stakeholders ensuring it accurately reflects current state

•Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum team and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master network especially regarding items necessary for product release

•Demonstrate sense of urgency and responsiveness to complete work and solve problems, with a strong drive to persevere when faced with ambiguity

•Proactively remove or escalate roadblocks to allow team progress

Scrum Master (Contract)

UnitedHealth Group

June 2014 - August 2015 (1 year 3 months)

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

•Facilitating release/sprint planning, grooming, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.

•Tracking and communicating team capacity/velocity

•Ensure the development teams are practicing within the agile framework

•Provide internal and external communications to improve transparency and accountability

•Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices

•Identify and remove impediments and prevent distractions to the teams

•Empower the team to self-organize and self-manage

•Participate in weekly meetings to report project status/risks

•Utilizing Rally for metrics/reports, user stories and defect tracking

Scrum Master (Full-time)

Xerox

2 years 9 months

July 2013 - May 2014 (11 months)

Elkridge, Maryland, United States

•Spearheaded Agile/ Scrum implementation plan to move Xerox from Waterfall to Scrum to further the organization's streamlined approach to software development

•Trained certain departments in scrum to better understand agile practices and principles

•Coordinated Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review (Demo), Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement to ensure continuous inspection and adaption

•Identified impediments and dysfunctions to the teams and the Agile/ Scrum process within organization to limit transitional setbacks and maximize team output

•Negotiated feature and deliverable scope and schedule through excellent client (Product Owner) management to ensure a quality finished product

•Engaged clients, stakeholders, and end users to incorporate usability and interface needs in the design to make certain delivered product reflects exact specifications (UI/UX Team)

•Organized and scheduled training of internal and remote users in Agile/ Scrum methodology.

Oracle Database Administrator (Internship)

September 2011 - June 2013 (1 year 10 months)

Elkridge, Maryland, United States

•Taking Backups on scheduled time and Monitoring Scheduled Backups

•Creating and dropping of users, granting, and revoking rights as and when required.

•Checking of Oracle files for abnormal behaviors.

•Day to day Performance Monitoring and tuning of database.

•Diagnose and Troubleshoot Database Problems and failures

•Involved in the Design (Logical & Physical) of Databases

•Preparing Backup and Recovery Plan.

•Create oracle databases (single instance) on configured servers using both the DBCA & Database creation scripts.

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