Bryinah Mannah
380-***-**** **************@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mannah-bryinah-624146146
Summary
Seasoned scrum master with 4+ years of experience and excellent problem solving, organizational and decision-making abilities. Servant-leader well versed in coordinating fast paced, versatile, and evolving project with co-located and distributed teams. Desires to apply expertise to new role with progressive organizations. Adept in leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable and sustainable results. Demonstrated ability to motivate, lead, and coach leadership and scrum teams across multiple locations with proven track record of managing complex projects.
Skills/abilities
Inter-personal skills
Servant leadership
Strong communication skills
Team building
Facilitation
Capacity planning
Forecasting
Computer science
Software development
Continuous integration
Sprint Planning
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
Scrum Metrics
Backlog Refinement
User Story
Agile framework: Scrum
Risk mitigation
Conflict resolution
Team empowerment
Coaching and mentoring
Time management
Process improvement
Tools: JIRA, MS office, zoom, confluence, ms team, skype
Experience
B Braun Medical Inc
Scrum Master, January 2018 – January 2020
Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there’s full team engagement.
Establish a cross functional collaborative, supporting environment that led to an increase in high quality value delivered to our customer from 50% to 80%.
Coaching product owner: helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding.
Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering teams to self organize
Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress.
Promoting an empowering a self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.
Guiding scrum teams in establishing normalized estimation.
Monitoring the pulse and morale of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable
In order to track and effectively communicate with the team, velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release helps to monitor the progress of the team.
Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.
IntelyCare, Inc
Scrum master, February 2020 – February 2022
Facilitated daily scrum meeting, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective
Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum master on agile good practices
Coach the team for continuous improvement at a sustainable pace for the organization.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to communicate transparently
Work closely with the product owner to define, plan, and maintain, the product backlog
Uses agile project management tools to track team adoption and adherence to procedures and best practices.
Delight internal and external customers through frequent delivery of high-quality software
Facilitate timely delivery through effective team collaboration, decision making and conflict resolution.
Embraced a servant leader role across scrum teams and supported them by proactively identifying and making sure impediments and dependencies are eliminated.
Actively seeks and participates in a variety of learning opportunities such as the agile communities of practice, conferences, classroom training and independent study to further develop self and community.
Sustained an environment of collaboration and safety that creates value for the members.
Education
Bachelor of Science-Journalism and Media
National Polytechnic University Institute, Bamenda, Cameroon
Certification
Professional Scrum Master (PSM)