HERMANN BIAYA BIAYA

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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, Salesian Pontifical University, Rome-Italy 07/2003-07/2006.

Bachelor’s Degree in Theology, Pontifical University, Rome-Italy 10/2008-10/2012

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance

SAFe Scrum Master, Scaled Agile Framework

SUMMARY

Experienced Scrum Master with proven ability to effectively lead high-performing teams in delivering small to large scale software development projects using Agile methodology.

Excellent time management and problem -solving skills.

Highly motivated Servant Leader with strong communication skills and experienced in successfully leading and managing development teams in various agile environments including SAFe, Kanban and XP programming.

Self-starter with strong abilities to coach the management, teams, and stakeholders in adopting agile practices.

Proficient in task prioritization, risk management and workflow optimization.

Collaborative Agilist, promoting Agility adaptation and implementation.

Great personality able to reach and relate with people from all backgrounds and cultures.

SKILLS

7+ years of IT Project Management.

6+years of experience in leading and managing small/large Agile programs and projects, including extensive experience in managing software – Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe.

SDLC; Communication Skills; Facilitation techniques; Coaching; Mentoring

Microsoft Suite: MS Project; Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

World Bank Group - July 2018 – Present

Scrum Master

Responsible for coaching scrum teams and leadership in Agile practices while delivering various applications broadening the organization's delivery practices. This resulted in getting awards for outstanding work in building and leading high performing cross teams.

• Educating managers and stakeholders, throughout the organization in adopting agile practices.

• Creating self-organized and self-managed teams while coaching and training them on scrum values and principles.

• Foster strong cross functional collaboration while serving as a scrum master for 3 agile scrum teams.

• Leading Scrum & Kanban teams: Co-located, distributed, and offshore teams with different time zones.

• Training and coaching product owners in creating healthy product backlog, writing user stories with clear and concise acceptance criteria.

• Facilitating agile teams' ceremonies: Iteration Planning, DSU-daily stand-ups, backlog grooming session, Iteration review, retrospective meetings.

• Ensuring my teams maintain focused on quality and continuous delivery.

• Improving communication between development teams and collaborating with stakeholders to increase the team's velocity by adopting the lessons learned from each sprint retrospective.

• Improving transparency with scrum team and stakeholders by reporting burndown chart, velocity, work committed vs completed.

• Serving scrum and Kanban teams in a fast-paced SAFE environment while supporting RTE in facilitating SAFE ceremonies including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums; Inspect and Adapt.

• Fostering strong collaboration with other scrum masters while participating in scrum of scrums meetings and Agile Community of Practices

• Identifying and removing impediments and obstacles. Escalating them when necessary as well as driving continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution, and building skills and capabilities.

• Creating and maintaining a viable and fun work environment to boost team's motivation and morale while organizing agile games, team's celebrations, and happy hours.

Teamwork & Accomplishments:

My teams work on optimizing the project implementation application to ensure high quality data entry for interviews conducted with world bank staff.

Lyft, Rockville, MD March 2016 - June 2018

Scrum Master

● Created a viable working atmosphere with developers, as well as multiple product owners for two co-located sprint teams and one offshore team.

● Identified and removed impediments, conducted daily standups, retrospectives,

planning sessions and created tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.

● Participated in developing high performing development teams and best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, continuous integration/continuous deployment.

● Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style.

● Avoided distractions by identifying and removing impediments.

● Motivated the team to work towards continuous improvement by

addressing things that didn’t work during the next sprint.

● Collaborated with the project team to identify potential project

risks and assisted with the development of preventive plans.

● Led Scrum and Kanban teams simultaneously with distributed and

offshore team members.

● Taught team members how to remove impediments, providing escalation to

management as needed, anticipating and making tradeoffs, and balancing

business needs against technical constraints.

● Creating a positive environment and a fun and fluent workflow with

product owners to assess sprint progress.

● Assisted Product owners with prioritization and grooming of backlog items.

● Oversaw project & resource planning and the implementation of

Agile/Kanban based execution within two teams.

● Designed and defined requirements and specifications, project control

with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects. Ensured that

scrum teams practiced core agile principles of collaboration,

prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

● Participated in PI planning, INA, System Demo, Scrum of Scrum, ART

Sync and Agile Community of practice.

Teamwork & Accomplishments:

My teams worked on optimizing the rideshare feature of their mobile

application using react, react native, redox, (FE), and Java and (AWAS),

API gateway.

Lenzner Group Gas, New York, NY August 2015-January 2016

Scrum Master

TRANSITIONED TEAMS FROM WATERFALL METHODOLOGY TO SCRUM FRAMEWORK AND COACHED THEM IN DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS THAT ENABLED USERS TO ACCESS ALL NECESSARY DAY TO DAY BANKING NEEDS. ALSO, ON THE BACKEND, ENABLED OIL BUSINESSES TO BE ABLE TO KEEP TRACK OF END USER RECORDS AND ACCOUNT STATUS.

• Reduced the development time while educating and coaching teams in the adoption of scrum framework: sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives.

• Increased the productivity of scrum teams while training the PO and the team on how to create a healthy backlog with clear and concise stories, promoting effective communication, and tracking burndown efforts during the sprint.

• Built high performing teams from ground up.

• Led scrum teams: Co-located, distributed, and offshore teams with different time zones.

• Boosted quality of deliverables by implementing code peer review, TDD as well as “Demo as we go”.

• Collaborated with engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and their impact on the products delivery. Proactively took actions to remove all issues by addressing to the right personnel.

• Protected team from impediments, kept them motivated and focused on product delivery.

• Protected team from over commitment, assisting them through story selection, sizing and in breaking down tasks.

• Participated in developing high performing development teams and best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, continuous integration/continuous deployment.

Teamwork & Accomplishments.

My team worked on integrating the Lenzner Group website into the GE website.

Database migration from waterfall to Agile. Back End, Front End, and API Development.

My Developers used Java Script and Angular (FE), Java, C#. with Net Core MVC and GraphQL (BE)

LAFARGE HOLCIM GROUP: May 2014– February 2015

Project Manager

Lafarge Holcim is a world largest manufacturer of building materials with a presence in 70 countries and employs 72 000 employees. I led IT projects from initiating to closing, working with IT teams to develop recruitment and talent management systems.

• Created and managed a cross team of 50+ people (Teams and stakeholders).

• Worked closely with Solution Architect, developers, and testers teams to deliver quality products on time and within the budget.

• Planned project resources and defined scope, time, and project budget.

• kicked off the project and maintained strong communication with various stakeholders.

• Gathered and analyzed business requirements, built mockups and prototypes and convey to the designer and developers.

• Reviewed and scheduled project deliverables, budgets, and timelines.

• Created project dashboards for outlining current and backlog projects.

• My actions resulted in delivering HR portals as per the initial scope with a direct improvement on HR customer satisfaction survey. The HR portal also increased the adoption of HR-IS and reduced paperwork processing by more than 20%.

for personnel learning and development.

OTHERS

• Certified Medication Technician (CMT)

• Languages: English and French.

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