Scrum Master Resources Manager
Resume:
Nene Priscilla Atamewan,CSM
Hayward CA ****.********@*****.***
Leadership Profile
An accomplished, highly motivated Agile scrum master with vast knowledge of Agile best principles and values. Skilled in implementation of Scrum frameworks and tools like Jira, Confluence and Azure DevOps. Experienced in transitioning teams new to Agile and working with offshore and onsite team members.
Domain Expertise
Certified Scrum Master with multiple years of diversified experience in Agile Software Development with dynamic, hands-on management of software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations in a DevOps environment.
Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog refinement to keep product backlog relevant & prioritized, removing impediments, and ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were in state prior to the sprints.
Strong collaboration skills with stakeholders at different level.
Helped teams to remove impediments that were beyond their self-organizing capabilities and shielded them from external distractions.
Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their average velocity over; Performed Scrum Master activities and agile coaching for the team.
Assessed scrum maturity of teams and organization and coached teams to higher levels of maturity, at the pace that is sustainable and comfortable.
Facilitated various meetings for scrum teams.
Leadership Strengths
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Teaming / Efficiency Improvements / Establish & Build High-Performing Teams
Executive Communication & Presentation Skills / Performance Improvement / Process Design & Optimization
Quality & Continuous Improvement / Solutions Oriented & Problem Resolution
Teaming & Collaborative Leadership / Visionary, Strategy Execution & Leadership
Professional EXPERIENCE
DOVINA TECHNOLOGIES WASHIGTON DC 2018– TILL DATE
AGILE SCRUM MASTER
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Identified and removed organization and team blockers to enhance productivity and efficiency.
Facilitated scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, demos, grooming, retrospectives, and planning)
Shielded teams from external interferences and helped ensuring that had capacity to deliver their committed goals.
Enabled the scrum team to meet sprint goals by understanding and removing any blockers.
Monitored and managed dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues were resolved.
Tracked and communicated team velocity, sprint/release progress, resource availability.
Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
Utilized Jira and Confluence for uploading and managing backlog items, requirements, defects, reporting and for future needs tickets.
Used JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints. Also created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts.
Partnered with other scrum masters on our programs team, to ensure our ways of working were consistent across teams.
MAXUT, INC. OAKLAND, CA 2017 - 2018
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER
Directly manage and mentor a team of 2 administrative professionals and team of offshore IT professionals while ensuring integrity of the $3M annual operating budget and maintaining leadership and business continuity initiatives further impacting 75 employees across the company.
Own primary responsibility for collaborating with senior executives in reviewing and establishing organizational standards and practices.
Manage all contract negotiations with third-party vendors further driving significant cost savings in equipment buyouts, maintenance contracts, merchant processor rates, and insurance negotiations.
FORTIS MICROFINANCE BANK LUGBE, ABUJA 2013- 2017
BRANCH MANAGER
Led and mentored a team of 36 while maintaining the annual operating budget of over 250M naira and driving strategic initiatives including the development of new financial services products designed to support organic growth strategies, while serving as a primary liaison representing all banking products and services.
Analyze and report deposit product performance trends and develop recommendations to address opportunities for strategic or tactical changes.
Directly collaborate with key organizations within the bank to include Operations, Banking, Compliance, Risk, Legal, Marketing and IT, in ensuring seamless and effective branch management and sustainability.
Formal Education & Professional Development
Lincoln University, Oakland California
MBA, Human Resources
Ambrose Alli University
Bachelors
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