Wally ACHOUO

Toledo, Ohio ***** 512-***-****

ado6cq@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL

SUMMARY

Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. . Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills, with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams as well as leadership and stakeholders. Bilingual professional in English and French, with more than 6 years of experience delegating tasks and managing projects for teams that are collocated, distributed and offshore using frameworks such as Scrum, Safe and Kanban via virtual platforms such as Webex and Skype for Business Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows. Strong working knowledge of different tools including Jira, Confluence, and Azure. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.

SKILLS

• Risk identification

• Web development technologies

• Public speaking

• Development team trainings

• Customer interaction

• Project Management

• Reporting template development

• Risk mitigation planning

• Conflict resolution

• Flexible & Adaptable

• Teambuilding

• Adaptability

• Self-motivated professional

• Organization and Time

management

WORK HISTORY

SR SCRUM MASTER 05/2021 to CURRENT

USAA San Antonio, TX

• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.

• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.

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

• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.

• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.

• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.

• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

• Gathered and disseminated project materials at key points to stakeholders.

• Enforced alignment of project strategy with business objectives and made modifications to promote efficient project completion. SCRUM MASTER 04/2020 to 05/2021

Carenet Health San Antonio, Texas

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles by resolving daily impediments identified by helping team identify internal and external resources who can be helpful in addressing unresolved impediments.

• Coached teams on Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

• Facilitated the backlog grooming ceremony while the product owner prioritizes the backlog and promotes continuous delivery of features to meet business needs.

• Tracks the sprint backlog using metrics to monitor user points which are to be completed within the sprint.

• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.

• Mentored scrum team in understanding and enforcing their different roles within the team.

• Facilitated Risk Management process through early detection.

• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.

• Shielded team from off distractions, both internal and external, which can serve as an impediment during a given sprint.

SCRUM MASTER 01/2019 to 03/2020

Bank Of West, Arizona Phoenix

• Led all scrum ceremonies including sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement by promoting inspection and adaptation of work committed to by the team during the sprints.

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

• Worked with team on identifying impediments and resolving them in order to avoid delay on issues that would impact work committed to in the sprint.

• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle, realizing 3% reduction in defect over a PI.

• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.

• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.

• Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.

• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress by continuously maintaining a healthy backlog of prioritized and estimated work.

• Worked with team to improve their implementation of agile by conducting workshops on topics such as estimation, capacity calculation, work slicing and incremental delivery.

• Worked with product owner, business analyst and team members to prepare my team for PI planning by grooming features which are intended to be implemented by my team.

• Promoted transparency of my team's work by working with my team to create a detail PI Planning board for my team while identifying PI objectives, risks, dependencies, capacity velocity and load. BA/ SCRUM MASTER 12/2014 to 11/2018

JP Morgan Chase Bank Dallas, Texas

• Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.

• Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.

• Built and utilized reporting systems to keep customers and management in loop with latest information.

• Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.

• Managed minimum of 3 projects each year while maintaining adherence to budget, schedule and scope requirements.

• Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.

• Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.

• Analyzed projects to determine resource requirements and procured necessary equipment and software.

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.

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

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Banking And Finance 11/2015

University of Dschang

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master (PSMI, PSMII) Safe Scrum Master-SSM

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