Scrum Master

Langston Dennis

Scrum Master

Experience

Scrum Master – Fleetcor

October 2020 – Current

• Scheduled and hosted meetings including the sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, and sprint retrospectives for 3 development teams consisting of several developers and QAs.

• Operated the teams in a 2-week sprint cadence and removed any impediments that arose in conjunction with handling project releases.

• Assisted in crafting release plans to maintain continuous integration in addition to collaborating with product owners to refine project scope.

• Ensured the capacity allocation of the development teams remained above 70% during the planning using best practices increasing overall team efficiency.

• Reported and communicated team velocity, sprint progress, and performance metrics to all 3 development teams along with administration.

• Facilitated discussions ensuring daily standup lasted a maximum of 15 minutes and utilized conflict resolution to improve team productivity while promoting continuous improvement.

• Guided a legacy UI team consisting of 4 team members in a BAU capacity handling any requests or bugs that arose.

• Supervised a development team during the process of migrating legacy servers from on premise to AWS.

Technical Business Analyst – Equifax

January 2020 – July 2020

• Coached a development team consisting of 12 members by tracking their progress, removing impediments, and reviewing QA test results.

• Organized and recorded tools and processes produced by the team and documented release notes, milestones, and team performance at the conclusion of each sprint.

• Designed and refined items within the backlog by gathering requirements from stakeholders and specialists as well as hosted the daily standup and sprint planning meetings.

• Improved the development teams story point completion rate by 10% through analyzing gaps, certifying all stories received proper estimations, and approving completed stories after review.

• Oversaw the completion and deployment of 4 data transfer pipelines from a legacy system to Google Cloud Services.

• Led a development team throughout the creation and deployment of data 2 comparison tools utilized for analyzing the data moved from the legacy system to Google Cloud.

• Supervised the development team through the creation and deployment of a UI Dashboard used for the displaying of metrics produced by the data comparison and transfer tools.

Operations & Technical Assistant – SportsID

May 2018 – August 2018

• Crafted requirements documentation for application development, scheduled meetings with partners, documented meeting minutes, supported the CEO for the company’s involvement with Super Bowl 53.

Contact

Phone: +1-703-***-****

Email: ********.*.******@*****.***

LinkedIn Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/langston-dennis/

Education

M.S. of Computer Science

Degree Awarded: December 2019

North Carolina A&T State University

Greensboro, NC

B.S. of Computer Science

Degree Awarded: May 2018

Morehouse College

Atlanta, GA

Certification

SAFE 5 Advanced Scrum Master

Issued: April 2021

Professional Scrum Master 1

Issued: May 2020

Skills

Servant Leadership

Agile Methodologies

Data Analysis

Conflict Resolution

Jira & Confluence

Communication

Organization

Microsoft Office

Software Development

Programming Languages

C++, Python, SQL, Java, HTML

Activities & Interests

2020 – Volunteered at The Empty Stocking

Fund

2019 – Volunteered Competition Judge at

First Tech Challenge (FTC)

2018 – Professional Membership; National

Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS)

2016 – Professional Memberships; Next Great

American Poet (NGAP) and National

Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)

2016 – Robotics Club, Morehouse College -

Designed robot for Vex competitions

2015 – Received certification for successful

completion of American Sailing Association

(ASA) 101 course

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