Scrum Master Security Analyst

Name: Emmanuel Nanje

Location: Charlotte NC Mobile: 404-***-**** Email: *********.*@*****.*** Resident Status: US Citizen

Key Qualifications:

Project Management & Software Development Expertise in an Agile Environment: 10+ years of experience in facilitating stakeholders’ engagement and teams in the development and deployment of software and business technology.

Certified SAFe 5.1 Scrum Master seeking to leverage Scrum and Agile skills, and business analysis skills to ensure organizational success through improving team performance and raise efficiency in product delivery; Coaching Agile teams to self-manage and become high performing

Expertise in designing and developing team alignment strategies, team management, strategic planning, and leadership skills

Certificates:

Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

Cyber security Certified (Security+)

Skills:

Knowledge of various Agile frameworks: Scrum, Kanban Principles, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework),

Tools and Technical Skills: Jira, JQL, Confluence, SDLC, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project

Experienced in Agile techniques: Customer Centricity, Continuous Learning, Agility, Community of Practice (CoP)

Business Skills: Business Analysis, Project coordination, Risk Analyst, Meeting Facilitation, Servant Leadership

Leadership skills: Excellent oral and written communication skills, strategic planning, team mentoring, effective decision-making, excellent time management

Professional Experience:

Conduent Technologies, Charlotte NC February 2020 - Present

SAFe Scrum Master

•Coordinated all Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement for 2 Agile teams of 12 and 5.

•Influenced continuous improvement values for existing processes while promoting innovation of new product development. Processes, leading to the integration of solution architectures such as SAS.

•Provided actionable insight to the Agile team during Retrospective events to ensure open discussions.

•Used Jira and Kanban Board to track key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity, capacity) to help deliver committed work.

•Assisted PO with effective Backlog Refinement, prioritization, estimation and establishing Acceptance Criteria.

•Used the Scrum of Scrums event to coordinate cross-team dependencies and collaboration.

•Introduced working agreements to promote transparency and clarity within the Agile team.

•Coached Agile team to self-manage, resulting in a high-performance team, which met federal-client goals, and multi-million-dollar contract extension.

•Coached Agile team on the value of test automation practices to ensure continuous delivery.

Navy Federal Credit Union, VA, United States August 2016 – January 2020

Scrum Master

Facilitates Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos & Backlog Refinement.

Facilitates communication within the agile team, product owner and stakeholders by focusing on the scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.

Uses Jira to monitor and track product development progress through different Sprint.

Together with the scrum team, defines, builds, tests, and deploys products while facilitating the continuous improvement, cadence, and synchronization in the entire processes.

Coaches the scrum team to adopt effective communication strategies and interpersonal skills, contributing to improve team performance.

Organized and facilitated scrum team events and related meetings.

Assisted Product owners with backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, release planning.

Facilitated backlog grooming to achieve enough ready stories for the next sprint and reduce time of sprint planning.

Utilized JIRA, JQL, Confluence, SharePoint, excel, and PowerPoint to manage and share relevant communication with team members and stakeholders.

Monitored progress using the sprint report, velocity, burn up and burn down charts.

Managed the Scrum Event calendar to ensure all event meetings are held and stay within the time box.

Capital Care Inc, MD June 2010 - July 2016

Cyber Security Analyst

Develop, implemented, communicate, monitored, and maintained cybersecurity program including identifying critical systems and critical assets addressing cyber security controls for each critical digital assets and maintaining cyber security attack mitigation and incident capacity.

Represented company’s technical security interest to partners to provide bi-directional flow of technical information and best practices in information and best practices information security.

Provided technical expertise for the design and development integration, testing information system and solutions.

Responsible for program execution throughout product development

Performed cyber security task in each phase of the risk management framework (RMF).

Support information System security managers during continuous phase of the RMF as technical Subject Matter Expert.

Analyze IT specifications to assess security risks.

Education:

High School Diploma (GCE Certificate) September 1999

Presbyterian High School, Bamenda, Cameroon

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