Scrum Master Agile Coach

Offon Kube Peter

Sr. Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

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

Tel. 619-***-****

Dynamic Scrum Master and Project Manager with over seven years implementing Agile methodologies and managing multiple projects simultaneously. Accomplished, seasoned IT Professional with strong Information Technology experience in Infrastructure, App Development, App upgrade projects. ten years’ experience in implementing Waterfall (SDLC) and over seven years with Agile frameworks Certified (PSM1), Advanced SCRUM Master. A focused individual with a constant, willingness to learning and continuously improve my agile skills and knowledge.

Areas of Expertise

●Agile Mentoring

●Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

●Agile Project Management

●Agile IT Profiles

●Business Intelligence

●Conflict Management

●Cloud Systems

●Quality Management

●Scheduling

●Agile Scope

●Communication Management

●Agile techniques

●C#

●E-Commerce

●Onshore/Offshore Teams

●Systems Upgrades

●Information Technology

●Software/Hardware

●Java

Professional Experience

Farmers Insurance Group, Woodland Hills, CA Apr 2020 – Until Date

Role: SCRUM Master/Agile Coach

Improving communication between development teams and collaborate with stakeholders to increase the team's velocity by adopting the lessons learned from each retrospective

Serve as Scrum Master for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban mobile team.

Educating and coaching executives, managers, stakeholders, and others throughout the organization regarding Agile practices and how their roles and interactions may change.

Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.

Communicated the progress to senior management through 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.

Conducting Iteration Planning Meetings (IPMs), Daily Stand-Ups, Review/Demo (Technical and Business), Retrospective meetings (Iteration/Sprint, Release).

Removing impediments and obstacles as well as driving continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution and building skills and capabilities. Facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers.

Involved in reviewing Test Plans, Test Cases with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.

Developed System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plan for testing the upgrade and new modules

Royal Caribbean - Miami, FL Dec 2019 – Apr 2020

Role: SCRUM Master/Agile Coach

Facilitated daily stand-ups, review, retrospectives, user story workshops and removed impediments to development team progress.

Helping scrum teams transition into SAFe Agile environment, by positively introducing it to the team to help ensure the program delivering more Value as one team/ Train.

Created and developed Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), change controls, tracked progress of error resolution.

Assisted in research, performed system analysis, created data mappings, and presented results to all levels of leadership within the organization.

Participated and supported capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for systems and software development in conjunction with end-users and department managers.

Led daily aspects of all assigned projects including process definition, goal documentation, issue management, user acceptance testing, vendor management and project deliverables.

Processed mapped operations that identified redundancies, manual processes and backlogs that improved efficiency of departments and service levels.

Developed ad-hoc reports using tools like MS-SQL and Excel.

Anthem, Inc - Norfolk, VA Jul 2018 – Dec 2019

Role: SCRUM Master/Agile Coach

Facilitated internal and external communications (e.g., task coordination, progress tracking/reporting, dependency Management).

Since we were working in a SAFe environment, I had to Facilitating SOS for the entire program, also helping the POs to facilitate biweekly successful demo showcasing what was done in last sprint.

Helping the RTE identify dependences across teams, and prepare for PI planning, also helping the PMO to identify budgets and allocations.

Ensured team is well-informed on internal and external initiatives and activities

Keeping external stakeholders, collaboration, and other interested parties are well-informed on team progress and activities.

Managing and facilitating delivery within an iteration, also worked with the product managers on overall timeline.

Ensuring projects team capacity and track product manager story readiness (e.g., stories ready to play).

Facilitate intra-team communication and owning project burn up/metrics (velocity tracking/forecasting).

Team support (focused on removing internal blockers), while managing storyboard and story management tool.

Facilitating all iteration planning sessions, Story time, Iteration Open/Close, and daily standup meetings.

Facilitate retrospectives (team alternates each retro) to promote team building/team accountability.

Worked with teams to ensure process quality & continual improvement.

1st and 2nd round interview to new hires as scrum master to expand teams, on boarded 4 new scrum masters.

Apple inc, Cupertino, CA Jul 2015 – Jul 2018

Role: SCRUM Master/Agile Coach

Technologies: Java, Java Script, IBM RTC, SQL, RQM, SAP FI, SAP-SD, ETL, SaaS, JIRA, Agile/Scrum Framework

Shielded the team from interruptions and removes obstacles that may impact the delivery of the product. Guides the team’s operations by facilitating ceremonies (e.g., daily standup, sprint planning) and instilling Agile principles into daily activities to ensure smooth functioning of the delivery team.

Responsible for managing the scrum project and enforces the rules to meet the sprint commitment.

Scrum/Kanban/Agile Coach for Scrum and Kanban teams co-located and distributed.

Mentor and direct the team tasked with creating functionality-based epics/stories, spiking the stories with unclear functional releases. Ensure that the team remains focused and committed to story points, tasks, and subtasks. Train the team on cross-functional efficiencies to meet or exceed software production release standards.

Helping the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Story board, Action board, charts, and backlogs).

Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.

Provided continual hands-on supervision and mentorship to new Agile SCRUM members, working with the team to achieve continuous improvements.

Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, CA Jul 2014 – Feb 2015

Role: SCRUM Master/Agile Coach

Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution

Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

Developed plans and managed dependencies between Scrum teams and lines of business.

Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Championed cultural change and collaborated with stakeholders’ advance organization’s agile transformation.

Developed meaningful relationships, and facilitated collaboration among disparate teams - to deliver strategic results

Ensured team and stakeholders' understanding of agile and Scrum constantly improved from sprint to sprint. Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story grooming, and Release Planning.

Assisted in identifying and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.

Scheduled and allocated work, coaching, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives.

Liaised between developers and project stakeholders, fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.

Coached and worked with the scrum team to ensure sustainability and consistency.

Ketch Cameroon Yaoundé

Role: Project manager. Jan2001-Dec 2005

Municipality Infrastructural financial investment Belgrade Serbia

Role: Program Manager Jan 2006-Dec 2009.

Razel Cameroon Yaoundé

Role: Supply chain Manager Jan 2010-JuL 2014

Education

University of Yaoundé 2. BA/English Law.

Certifications

●Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

● SAFe Agilist (SA)

●Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

●ERP SAP (FICO)

●Project Management Professional (PMP) – PMBOK

Technical Skills

●Agile

●MS Visio

●SCRUM

●VERSIONONE

●HTML

●ERP: SAP R/3, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

●JIRA

●PHP

●Atlassian- Confluence

●Java

●Microsoft Office Suite

●Linux

●Share Point

●Agile Craft

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