Scrum Master Project Manager

KHADIJAH TAIWO

Focused Project Manager and Scrum Master adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance, and accomplish short- and long- term project goals.

Proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project,

MS PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA, or TFS.

Customer-driven and a team player, with strong

interpersonal and customer interface skills.

Excellent organizational and analytical skills,

process and detail-oriented, a self-starter who is highly motivated to obtain goals/results.

Excellent communication/presentation skills, both

oral and written, and tailor communication to

various levels of the organization.

Ability to interact professionally with diverse

groups of executives, managers, and subject

matter experts

Ability to work in a fast-paced changing

environment while coordinating multiple

complex projects simultaneously.

Expert in producing clear and concise project

documentation

Effectively manages client expectations and

escalations

Ability to work either independently or as part of a large team.

Ability to work under minimal direction.

Ability to think logically in solving assigned

problems and to present recommendations with

clarity in written and graphic form.

Experience in leading, and managing technical

professionals

I have strong interpersonal skills including team

building, coaching, and mentoring

Project Manager, 11/2020 to Current

Cornerstone Lending Group – Houston, TX

Develop strategies to reduce project costs (same costs but allowing for more projects) and increase project success rate from 50% to 75% by initiating a two-phase project selection process. Manage project(s) and project resources throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle and manage Scrum teams as needed.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMAR Y

SKILLS

WORK HISTORY

Plan project road map and set requirement criteria. Craft a vision and strategy based on input from customers, stakeholders, and internal staff team that can be clearly communicated to all levels of the organization. Troubleshoot company pain points and issues to determine resolutions that lead to new fixes or projects Determine and define project scope and objectives. Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner. Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about adjustments, and progress. Engage business stakeholders to identify and incorporate business owned project tasks and dependencies Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously Provides regular and timely Project status updates to the project team and leadership as needed to ensure Projects are meeting the agreed-upon timeline

Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning. Ensures projects are on schedule and deadlines are met. Manages project budget and forecast

Directs and oversees project team and manages conflicts within the group. Negotiate requirements and deliverables with clients. Managed entire project life cycle from initial concept through final delivery. Set project schedules and oversaw milestones for the duration of projects. Perform user acceptance and application testing.

Participate in project scoping and estimation.

Anticipate client concerns and questions.

Provide timely and professional client-focused communications. Prepare or review test plans and perform quality reviews of test results. Project Manager/Scrum Master,09/2017 to 11/2020

Applied Optoelectronic Inc. – Houston, TX

Scrum master for two unique scrum teams responsible for two varying technology products. Responsible for all aspects of scrum process training, including but not limited to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, user story refinement, and sprint retrospectives. Coaching of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).

Ensured effectiveness of all ceremonies: prepare and engage cross-functional teams, prepare, and engage Product Leadership Team.

Served as SCRUM Master in managing Daily standup, sprints, and addressing blockers. Ability to drive strategic projects to completion on time and in scope. Facilitate open communications between technical teams and the senior board. Arbitrate issues arising from project work

Create useful working relationships with all members of the projects. Gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information to the team in order to maintain project progress. Reduce complex problems too easily understood narratives and informational materials (drawings, infographics, presentations, etc.)

Strong interest and knowledge of Business analysis and ability to resolve complex IT-related problems Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with the ability to prioritize competing deliverables due to changing timelines.

Working with the IT team members to coordinate daily tasks and lead daily scrum. Point of contact and subject matter expert on our EMT team applications. Use of azure DevOps in project planning and tracking of our dev tasks. Lead and facilitate Daily scrum ceremonies as well as grooming Features, stories, and tasks in Azure DevOps.

Maintained an awesome Scrum Room environment through digital tools like Jira and Confluence, identified team improvement opportunities, and looks for and applies best practices Ensured team retrospectives brought about Agile working improvements. Ensured the team is focused on sprint commitments and shields the team from distractions and hidden work.

Groomed backlogs and created dashboards for management view. Assures there are no commitment changes during the Sprint., Collaborates with Leadership Teams to ensure team success.

Associate of Science: Computer Science

Houston Community College - Houston, TX

Certified (AGILE) Scrum Master

Certified Scrum Product Owner- (CSPO)

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Service now SAP

Certified ITIL foundation: Version 4

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