Scrum Master

EDITH A NDEFEU-WAMBO

Tel: 214-***-****

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

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SUMMARY

• Professional and detailed oriented Scrum Master with over 5 years in the IT field, leading multiple teams on various projects through SDLC using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and SAFe 5.0, with a proven track record of delivering software with high performing teams.

• A skilled servant leader with experience working closely with Product Owners in product backlog grooming, prioritization, story estimation, management and continues delivery of features.

•Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective.

• Coaching, facilitating, teaching, serving as a servant leader and guiding team members on Agile best practices.

• Experience in the utilization of Agile project management tools like JIRA and Confluence.

• Working knowledge on other agile methodologies such as Kanban and Lean.

• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions that minimized productivity.

• Encouraged and implemented process improvements.

•Excellent communication and conflict resolution skills.

•2+ years as a project management managing leading project in a Media organization

ACCOMPLISHMENTS & SKILLS

•Knowledge of Agile Principles & Values, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Change Management, SAFe 5.0

•Knowledge of SDLC tools, Jira, Confluence, Rally, MS Project, SharePoint, DevOps, CI/CD, ATDD,TDD, Jerkins, Chef

•Knowledge of office tools, Power point, Word, outlook, Excel, Access

•Knowledge of Virtual communication tools, Skype, Zoom, Webex, Google, Ms Teams,slacks

CERTIFICATIONS

•Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1)

•SAFe Scrum Master 5.0, SSM certification

•Scrum Accredited Certification

•Platinum Gold Certificate in Media Planning

EDUCATION

•Bsc–Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations Chartered Institute of Marketing, Moorhall, United Kingdom 2009

•POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS LAWS, University of Yaoundé II 2006

•BSC in Law / Management information systems, University of Buea (2004)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCRUM MASTER – USAA JUNE 2021 - PRESENT

•Facilitate and promote the effective use of the scrum methodology. And making use of agile and scrum techniques to transform the development process, allowing teams to quickly deliver value.

•Acting as a servant leader who guides, coach and educate product owner and development team through story development, iterations, retrospective

•Administer and monitor scrum board, ensure scrum board reflects up to date status of scrum commitments, create burn down and velocity charts

•Guide the team from over-committing and scope creep, aid in estimation and sub task creation, as needed

•Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, Daily Standup, Iteration planning, Iteration Demos, Iteration Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement and other team meetings as needed

•Act as a shield to team to protect them from external interference

•Work with RTEs to plan and run PI Planning’s and other SAFe events, IP planning, System demos, Breakout sessions

•I use Jira for tracking & confluence for documentation, Slack, Skype, Zoom, Outlook for other communications

•Facilitates seamless collaboration and maximizes team performance within assigned technical and/or non-technical teams to ensure rapid delivery of products and timeline achievement of goals.

•Removes impediments to team progress whether internal to the team or organizational in nature. When necessary, escalates impediments to facilitate rapid resolution.

•Supports product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making.

•Ensures effective communication with Scrum teams and other cross-functional teams.

•Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing team.

•Ensures appropriate reports are produced in order to effectively provide transparency on team’s progress/productivity.

•For technology related efforts, facilitate release-when ready, test-driven development, continuous integration, product demonstration and other technical engineering practices and encourages teams to leverage them.

SCRUM MASTER – CORDIAL HEALTHCARE SERVICES FEB 2019- MAY 2021

•Supporting the Product Owners in backlog grooming to make sure it was always up to date and prioritized.

• Track and communicate team’s health and progress using metrics such as velocity charts, burn down charts, burn ups and capacity.

•Make sure the task boards are being updated to ensure transparency and effective communication.

•Assisted my team with making appropriate commitments through story point estimation, selection and task definition.

•Helping the self-organizing team achieve its goals in maintaining a new build and improving the new system

•Contributing to the continuous flow of work to the team by holding weekly work sessions

•Work in collaboration with product management, product owners, and business owners to help ensure execution aligns for scrum teams.

•Facilitates agile scrum team execution and feature completion tracking

•Arrange and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, story grooming, and demo/retro. Ensure quick inspection and proper use of agile process.

•Work with in-house Scrum team to remove impediments and manage dependencies.

•Helps manage risk and dependencies, help facilitated Scrum of Scrum

•Create, modify, publish and leverage standardized Agile Metrics to facilitate continuous improvement on the Scrum Team.

TD BANK – SCRUM MASTER JAN 2018 – JAN 2019

•Work with Architects & Business Partners to understand top priority initiatives, timelines, and requirements

•Coordinate scrum and Kanban boards for the Scrum teams

•Remove impediments and roadblocks as they arise for your team

•Manage daily, monthly, and quarterly Agile ceremonies

•Ensure data quality through process hygiene

•Maintain and update relevant team performance metrics to provide an effective feedback loop to the team and visibility to other partners

•Implement retrospective feedback and optimize delivery processes

•Encourage behaviors and practices that increase team performance and effectiveness

•Coach individuals as well as teams on specific topic as and when required

•Drive a supportive team culture through team building and engagement practices

•Stay connected with Enterprise Agility office and implement best practices

PROJECT MANAGER MARKETING, COMM & INFO SYS JAN 2015 – JAN 2017

ACMAR MEDIA GROUP – CENTRE & WEST AFRICA, CAMEROON DOUALA

•Managed digital communication projects for FMCG & banking sectors

•Developed media communication strategies and plans form end to end, execution and reporting documents.

•Created and deliver/post press releases to promote events.

•Preparing project documentation, status reporting, policies, procedures and reports assigned by management.

•Developed and managed and internal communications protocol which enabled direct collaboration and achieved a better focus.

•Managed communication crisis and removed impediments across all portfolios.

•Facilitated daily status meetings with the Outdoor, Digital, Press, TV & Radio teams to properly execute marketing campaigns and build memorable brands.

•Supervised the creation & adaptation of TV & Radio commercials and implementation (TV, Radio, Outdoor and Press).

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