Scrum Master Product Owner
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English
French
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Scrum Master - Scrum
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CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Scrum Master with over four years of hands-on experience, with an impressive record of delivering and implementing software projects as per schedule datelines.
Highly skilled and successful in coaching, mentoring and upholding the values of scrum while performing tasks such as organizing and facilitating scrum events. Good interpersonal, communication and leadership skills, along with a sound technical aptitude and proven ability to grasp general knowledge of multiple disciplines and technologies, complemented with a strong work ethic. Good leadership skills and active participation in the transformation of non-agile teams to the agile methodology. Bachelor’s and master’s degree holder with a certification in Scrum.
SUMMARY
Fresenius Medical Care Mar 2020 - Present
Certified Scrum Master
Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including the Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning meetings, Sprint Review meetings, and Sprint Retrospective meetings. The ceremonies provided an avenue for the team to inspect and adapt it's practices and process. Ensured the maintaenance of the three scrum artifacts: the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Product Increment.
Worked closely with the Product Owner in weekly Backlog Refinement sessions, ensuring clarity and prioritization of story cards for easier play by the Development Teams.
Observed the presence of excess technical debt in the Product Backlog. Worked with the team's tech lead and Product Owner to resolve and closed these PBIs; team saw a 90% resolution of tech debt. Maintained frequent and continuous delivery of features. Took customer and shareholders feedback into account to help drive the continuous Improvement process and minimize waste. Encouraged the frequent attendance/participation of cross impacted teams and PMs at Daily Stand ups; providing greater visibility into project dependencies and minimizing risks while keeping the meeting within the time box.
Organized and facilitated the execution of the Sprint Review, ensuring business is presented with work from the iteration. Escalated impediments to leadership that went beyond resolution in the team.
Fostered team dynamics that improved morale, and motivated teams to self-organize increasing the level of Agile maturity. Educated and reinforced Scrum Methodology and Agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
Directed and lead the development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.
Maintained the burnup and burndown charts for tracking teams progress both iteratively and throughout the project life cycle. Paychex, Allentown PA Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Scrum Master
Conducted and facilitated Daily Standups, Requirements Reviews, EXPERIENCE
Linda Eteki
SCRUM MASTER
Maintained the burnup and burndown charts for tracking teams progress both iteratively and throughout the project life cycle. Paychex, Allentown PA Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Scrum Master
Conducted and facilitated Daily Standups, Requirements Reviews, Planning Poker, Sprint and Program Increment Retrospectives, stakeholder demos, and Backlog Grooming with the PO. Tracked and managed Product Backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
Strongly served and supported the Product Owner and Development Team in their quest to deliver high quality shippable products. Organized and facilitated the first Scrum Guide Championship designed to get associates more engaged in the empirical process of scrum and promote cross team social interaction.
Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on Product Backlog and project timeline.
Communicated with senior stakeholders within the enterprise on matters that require explanation, interpretation, or advising; typically had responsibility communicating to parties outside of the organization. Setup Scrum of Scrums in the organization and coordinated with other Scrum Masters for Knowledge sharing and team growth. Had difficult conversation which under performing team and boast team moral to enable them have the self managerial skills to improve performance.
Coached Product Owners, and multiple Scrum teams in Agile best practices to deliver business value iteratively while ensuring the teams met the quality standards needed for success
Bellese Technologies - Owings Mills, MD Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 Scrum Master
Servant Leader responsibled for facilitating Scrum Ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Grooming, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Sprint Planning).
Provided coaching on Agile Methodology and assisted in transitioning teams from Waterfall to the Agile Methodology: Scrum Framework. Responsibled for providing metrics, project estimations and timelines to client with the help of the Development Teams.
Reported Sprints Progress, Release notes, metrics like Burndown, Burnup, and velocity to the upper management and the team and maintained dashboards.
Coordinated team work with dependency teams to minimize blockers. Identified key cross-functional issues and project synergies; provide guidance with complex project issues (encouraged pair programming among team members)
Kutztown University of PA Aug 2012 - Jun 2014
Masters- Social Work
University of Buea Sep 2005 - Dec 2009
Women and Gender Studies/ Journalism and Mass
Communication
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