Scrum Master Project Manager
Resume:
Emilia Flora Forsack
https://www.linkedin.com/in/forsack-emilia-1929301ab
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY.
Accomplished and a true servant leader, certified scrum master for over 7 years of experience. A true servant leader, with strong competencies in implementing scrum processes, implementing agile methodologies, and coordinating with various project teams. Skilled at tracking sprint progress and burn-down by creating dashboards and reports.
SOFT-SKILLS
Scrum / Agile Framework - Servant-leader
Great Listener - Facilitator
Conflict Resolution - Coordinator,
Process Improvement skills - Attention to Detail
Security and Safety Oriented - Strong Project management skills
Team Management skills - Strong Interpersonal Skills
Good Communicator - Strategic and Operations Planning
Problem solving skills
Critical Thinking, Analytical skills.
Health Partners, North Carolina November/2018 --- Present
Scrum Master – Contract
Conduct and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos.
Empower the team to self-organize and Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution.
Identify and removed impediments and protect team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
Observe and address team dynamics to create high performing teams.
Ability to quickly develop strong relationships and to influence change both inside and outside of the team.
Tracked and reported team progress and velocity utilizing Burn down charts, Burn up charts and sprint/release progress.
Work with team(s) within the organization to implement and improve the Agile mindset, along with teaching, coaching, and implementing best practices and behaviours.
Empowering the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.
Co-ordinate with Stakeholders and product owner for meeting sprint objectives.
Manage timely communication between various internal and external stakeholders.
Help team to be transparent, inspect and adapt process.
Prepare development status reports and timely communication to various account stakeholders.
First Bank – North Carolina 06/2016 -- 09/2018 Scrum Master – Contract
Worked with product owner to prioritize and groom user Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation of the sprint planning.
Facilitated sprint planning, daily Stand Ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.
Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
Worked with development team to decompose the User Stories into tasks and assign hours to the tasks.
Ensures the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of working product.
Ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owners’ priorities.
Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
Leveraged Burndown and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improvement estimations.
Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.
Coleman Research - North Carolina 06/2015 --- 03/2016
Project Manager - Contract
Develops and refines project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources.
Created full scale project plans and reports, updated resource management and facilitated various meetings.
Responsible for understanding all user expectations, processes, and inputs/outputs necessary to develop a specific functionality/outcome.
Leads the execution of the tasks as defined in the project plan to achieve the project goals.
Helping the management and other teams draw business goals and needs.
Manages changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized project changes.
Ensures a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the project plan, to align the stakeholders and team members.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Anthropology
Certified Professional SCRUM Master (PSM1)
Certified professional Scrum Master (PSM1).
Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (Safe)
Skills: Zoom Virtual Platform JIRA Confluence RALLY MS Office
REFERENCES
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