TIGU SAMUEL TATASON

**** ******* *****, *** *******, Texas

EMAIL: adq2cc@r.postjobfree.com Tel: 210-***-**** Open to relocation

SAFe Scrum Master

CAREER PROFILE

SAFe Scrum Master certified with Scaled Agile and 7+ years of experience working as a Scrum master in the software industry to help build a high performing and mature teams. Expert in removing impediments, facilitating scrum ceremonies/events and building a cross functional and self-organized development teams from waterfall, hybrid to adopting agile. Experience in mentoring/assisting development teams on Testing techniques Automation and Manual while encouraging continuous improvement and learning.

EXPERIENCE

Leadership & Mentoring teams

Process Improvements

Kanban

Agile Tooling ( JIRA,RALLY, Confluence)

Relationship Building

Use Agile and Engineering processes

Managing IT Efforts

Agile team transformation

Program Increment (PI)

Team Agile Coaching (Onshore, offshore and near-shore)

Training at team level

SAFe Scrum Master

Scrum

CAREER HIGHLIGHT

An experienced and certified Scrum Master with over 7 years of supporting and guiding Scrum teams in multiple locations to organize goals, implement and monitor software development processes and reporting to senior managers on project progress.

Well versed in coaching and mentoring teams on Agile practices and transitions to Agile.

Critical thinker and problem solver, able to find solutions to complex problems through analysis and innovative ideas.

Ability to work independently, resolve issues proactively and meet timelines.

Ability to work with cross-functional team, responsible for improving business process and providing value to the functions they support.

Excellent conceptual and working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Ability to communicate with top management, provide reports that demonstrate project progress per sprint through the use of burn-down charts and average story point velocity.

I have coached many struggling and both collocated and offshore new teams, and helped them achieve high performance measured by faster development, better quality and fewer release roll-backs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Toyota Cooporation, TX 07/2020 – Present.

Scrum Master

Team up with Product Owner/Project Manager to maintain and coordinate communication of project progress to clients throughout each project by visualizing work on Scrum boards.

Act as the bridge between the Product Manager and the scrum delivery team and helping both parties to align to a common goal while managing stakeholder expectations.

Teaching, coaching and mentoring agile team members on Scrum processes and provide constructive feedback. Train and transform teams to implement agile and coach and mentor teams on SAFe core values, SAFe principles and agile manifesto.

Help to build a safe environment and strong relationship within teams so problems can be raised and dealt with professionally.

Developed and exhibit lean agile project management plan (Scaled Agile), facilitate scrum event, build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.

Conducted Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review & Iteration Retrospective meetings.

Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).

Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiative.

Work with PO to review PBIs to ensure requirements are accurately captured, stories are well written and teams have a shared understanding of stories in the backlog.

Facilitate scrum ceremonies including the Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning and Retrospective Discussions and sprint review as needed.

Capture and help teams continuously identify and learnings from retrospectives by tracking and implementing retrospective action items in subsequent sprints.

Tracked and radiated information on team level metrics to enable discussions on continuous improvement and set team expectations for high performance.

Help teams execute effective sprints by organizing and facilitating regular backlog refinement sessions with a focus on clarifying an adding details to PBIs and ensuring that stories ready to be actioned on by the development team.

IBC BANK, San Antonio, TX 04/2017 – 06/2020

Scrum Master (Contractor)

Supported teams to identify and gather requirements for building a CI/CD pipeline to enable frequent deployment to production.

Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions and remove bottlenecks.

Identified, tracked and resolved team level impediments with the development by empowering them to own their development process.

Working with multiple teams, provided guidance in adopting scrum practices and agile principles.

Ensured team members understood and effectively applied agile engineering best practices such as TDD.

Building a trusting and safe team environment to foster collaboration and continuous learning.

Assisted team to becoming mature and self-organized by encouraging them to facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning and sprint reviews.

Trained and coached teams on conducting backlog Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings and assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information and help define team health metrics for sustainable team monitoring.

Usedburn-down and burn-up chart to monitor team progress in order to help coach teams to maintain stable and sustainable space in the course of development.

Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.

Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.

Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions.

Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met.

Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.

Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example.

Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks.

Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.

Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.

Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.

Union Bank, Douala, Cameroon 03/2010 – 02/2016

Project Coordinator

Engaged client to gather requirements/business rules, and ensured alignment with development teams

Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.

Evaluated risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company lots of money

Identified and reconciled errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

Drafted and maintained business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.

Facilitated monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.

Provided executives with analytics and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies.

Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.

EDUCATION

University of Dschang, LLB in Law (2008) Dschang, Cameroon

CERTIFICATION

Certified Scrum Master ( CSM, PSM and Scaled Agile Framework SAFe)

SKILLS

Operating Systems

Windows operating systems.

Reporting tools

Version One, Jira & Confluence, Rally.

Business Modeling Tools

MS Excel, Outlook, MS Power point, MS Access

RDBMS/Database & Other Skils

MS Access, MS Excel. Scrum Master and Product Owner

Automated Testing, Manual Testing and Mobile Apps Testing (5+ years), SDLC, Project management.

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