Scrum Master Product Owner
Resume:
DERICK FURWOOD MBANWEI
*************@*****.***
Lanham, Maryland
Professional Summary
Certified professional Scrum Master with over 7 years + of IT and Scrum Master experience working across broad Information technology, Health care, financial and banking domains. Experience working with diverse group of project resources (on-shore and off-shore) in delivering high quality end to end SDLC projects on time.
Over 3 years’ experience on AWS cloud platform. Great experience implementing agile on non-software teams.
Highly organized and skilled in resolving project impediments, resolving team conflicts and building consensus with self-organizing teams. Goal oriented individual with excellent servant leadership, work ethic and communication skills.
Skills
Agile Scrum, Waterfall, SAFe, Lean
Servant leadership
Coaching/Mentoring
User Story estimation
Time management
English and French Language
Excellent Communication
Projects Scheduling
Problem solver
Change agent
System testing
Decision making
PM Tools: Jira & Confluence, Rally, TFS, MS Project, SharePoint, Slack, HP ALM(QC), Cisco WebEx, Skype for Business, Blue jeans, Azure DevOPS
Microsoft Office Suite: Project, Word, Excel, Power Point and Visio
Environment/programing language: Java, .NET, Python, Swift, React, SQL, Python, Node.js, Python, AWS RHEL, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Oracle 11g, Oracle RAC (11g), Oracle Grid Control, RMAN, ASM, STATSPACK, MS SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, Data pump, Continuous deployment, DevOps, Kanban, Scrum, XP, Agile (BDD, Continuous Integration, AWS Cloud, Data, Compute & Storage, Security, Mainframe, and Containers.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Delmonte Fresh Produce 02/2019 – Present
Scrum Master
Supported scrum team as a servant leader by removing impediments that inhibit productivity and enabling continuous improvement.
Assisted RTE to coordinate Program Increment (PI) planning and inspect and adapt sessions every 12 weeks
Identified dependencies and Risk/unknowns and map them to the various teams and sprints
Monitored and track work progress with Jira, using confluence for documentation of requirements, meeting notes and retrospectives as an excellent facilitator and consistent innovator.
Facilitated Refinement sessions, iteration planning, Daily Scrum, Demo’s and Retrospective
Provided timely, accurate, and actionable information to program stakeholders in a structured and transparent way
Coached teams in adopting and implementing Agile best practices (TDD, XP,), providing necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies and internalizing scrum values.
Supported Team lead to consistently groom, order and maintain product backlogs
Empowered and motivated project teams to be highly productive, promote collaboration and continuous improvement to our work process.
Identified and removed impediments, prevented distractions that interfered with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
Ensured team understood the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieved this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria.
Analyzed and utilized reporting systems and metrics such as burn-down and velocity charts, Backlog health, commitment reliability, churn to keep project members and management in loop with latest information and project progress.
Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
Recommended improvements and assisted in changes to best practice.
Actively and purposefully engaged the customer throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Knowledge and Experience with leading and implementing CI/CD concepts.
Gathered meaningful and effective feedback during Demo’s
Supported the Product Owner/Team lead in the effort to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
Organized and facilitated sprint demonstrations to end users, managers, and executives.
Reviewed training materials and operating procedures; participated in training sessions.
TD Bank 08/2017 – 01/2019 Scrum Master
Supported the transformation of TD Bank IT services from waterfall to agile, helping in the formation of new Agile teams through training, establishment of norms and coaching throughout project lifecycle
Served as Scrum master leading application development and maintenance team developing and implementing multiple projects for TD bank UPI
Facilitated Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives
Coached development teams to become self-organized, cross-functional and highly efficient while delivering high quality software.
Coached teams in adopting and implementing Agile best practices, providing necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies and internalizing scrum values.
Participated in the implementation of TD Bank Agile strategy and setting in place Key Performance Indicators to monitor project goals and deliverables.
Collaborated with project leaders to identify and resolve organizational impediments impacting implementation of project strategy
Coordinated and participated in refinement sessions to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for product backlog items
Constantly Communicated projects transformation progress to management highlighting successes, risks, areas of improvement, and suggested resolutions.
Facilitated documenting, publishing and executing the team's continuous improvement plan for high process improvement items (based on retrospectives)
Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum matrices to improve team’s velocity
Assists in the planning, execution, and analysis of user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure test cases and completed user stories meet Acceptance criteria and Definition of Done.
Ensured all participants understood the ceremony's purpose and time-box
Planned, monitored and track work progress in Jira
Chimes Corporate Office Baltimore MD 04/2016 – 07/2017
Scrum Master
Supported two engineering teams as a servant leader.
Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
Removed roadblocks/impediments to teams' progress.
Communicated with developers, management, and Stakeholders on development issues and provided guidance for resolution.
Assisted the team in making appropriate commitments through story selection and tasking
Effectively used metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level.
Supported each team through the complete software development lifecycle using the Agile Scrum Methodology.
Helped team write effective User Stories, acceptance criteria, and estimation techniques.
Supported Product Owner to groom and prioritize Backlog in alignment with business needs.
Scheduled/facilitated Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
Provided teams with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software.
Track and monitored teams work with Rally/Jira
Easton Insurance Agency Lanham MD 07/2015 – 02/2016
SQL Server DBA
Installed the Oracle RDBM software, created and configured the databases (PROD, DEV, and TEST).
Used BMC Remedy, Citrix ticketing system, for resolving user request associated with database issues.
Installed Oracle 12c database in the test environment and tested the upgrade from Oracle 11g to 12c.
Worked on all database activities such as User management, space management and database security management on 10g, 11g and 12c databases on SOLARIS, LINUX and WINDOWS servers.
Administered 10 Production databases and more than 40 non-production databases of size ranging from 100GB to 5 TB on Solaris/AIX/LINUX servers.
Performed high level Troubleshooting and Tuning, Written Shell Scripts for monitoring performance and health checks using scripts, AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL tuning advisors and OEM.
Involved in writing UNIX shell scripts for backup and recovery, Import and export procedure, PL/SQL functions, procedures, packages and triggers.
Created new redo log groups on ASM and NON-ASM environment to resolve performance issues by extending the existing redo logs.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science, University of Yaoundé 1
Project Management Professional (PMP)
SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Oracle 11g DBA Workshop: Database administration I& II
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Authorized to work in USA without Visa Sponsorship
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