Scrum Master Product Owner

LESLY A. BOATENG

Phone: 614-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.***

Summary of Qualifications: Highly skilled professional with 4 years of experience managing large-scale scrum projects. Well-versed in leveraging cross-functional IT, Agile, and QA teams to complete project deliverables on time and within budget. Demonstrated success applying project management best practices, technical expertise, and business acumen to consistently achieve targeted results.

Work Experience:

Cigna Scrum Master November 2020 - Present

● Track and communicate 20+ projects’ progress to 10 stakeholders and management staff & contributed to the continual improvement of the software development cycle.

● Manage the full life cycle of applications/systems projects for Event Management (EM) Division from intake to customer delivery.

● Evaluated, determined, and documented specific requirements related projects and translated those requirements into a roadmap with target release dates for accomplishment.

● Lead team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.

● Organized and facilitated ceremonies, identified improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while mitigating risk.

● Oversee Agile transitioning in a SAFe and Scaled Agile framework. Made use of agile techniques such as Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development

(ATDD), User Stories, Continuous testing and pairing. Capital University Scrum Master August 2019 – December 2020

● Successfully led and collaborated with team members, third parties, IT and QA to consistently complete complex, concurrent projects on time and under budget.

● Partook in a project with a cross-functional team of IT, QA, and business customers to allow team enter alternate process automation markets; put reporting and control systems in place to ensure the company remained competitive in the industry. Facilitated use of sub-product codes, which allowed the flexibility to add new product IDs without development.

● Removed impediments and coached scrum teams on removing impediments.

● Worked with the Product Owner to create and prioritize the product backlog. Groomed the product backlog based on the prioritization provided by the product owner. Agileseventeen LLC Scrum Master June 2018 – August 2019

● Worked with internal and external customers to interpret business requirements and produce functional specifications.

● Consulted with subject matter experts and technical resources to understand the feasibility of requests and solutions.

● Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined and ready to be worked on by the team.

● Identified 10+ complex impediments and assisted 3+ teams in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitments.

● Managed core Agile ceremonies in team environments: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives.

Skills:

Process Improvement, Scrum Frameworks, Agile Methodologies, JIRA, JQL, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Project Management, Iterative Development, Conflict Resolution, SAFe Agile, Business Analyzation Education & Certifications:

Tiffin University Master in Education, Higher Education Administration December 2020 The Ohio State University Bachelors of Arts, Political Science. May 2017 Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

Scrum Fundamental Certified (SFC)

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