Scrum Master Behavior Technician

ABRAHAMS MICHAEL JNR

REISTERSTOWN, MD

CELL: +1-240-***-**** Email: *************@*****.***

Professional Summary

An experienced and certified agile professional with 6+ years of experience leading agile teams in the scrum process and agile adoption. I’m knowledgeable in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and have participated in and facilitated agile transitions from waterfall within teams. A committed analytical thinker, with excellent conflict resolution skills, Strong interpersonal and communication skills, I’m able to effortlessly articulate complex technical issues to non-technical users, as well as leverage tools such as Jira and confluence to drive accountability and promote transparency among teams. TECHNICAL SKILLS

● Agile Methodologies: Scrum, XP, SAFe, Kanban.

● Agile Tools: Proficient in using Atlassian products like Jira, Confluence, and Rally.

● Key Skills: Experience working with, Distributed and Offshore teams using various platforms, Software solutions, alongside DevOps, QA, Business Analysts, and Developers, for end-to-end project execution

● Scrum Skills: Coaching & Servant Leadership, Capacity Planning, Change Management, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Relationship building.

● Meeting Facilitation; Planning & forecasting, Estimation, and sizing.

● Office Tools: Microsoft Office suite, Google Office tools, Zoom Meeting tool, Webex, SharePoint, Slack, PowerPoint, Skype, cloud, and infrastructure technologies. WORK SUMMARY

CloudOptix,

Scrum Master Boca Raton, FL (Remote) 08/2020 – Current

● Collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching 2 Scrum teams while improving transparency by generating information radiators for the teams.

● Communicate with the Product Owner offering coaching and guidance during Backlog refinement meetings and Sprint planning to ensure continuous Improvement.

● Facilitating all Scrum ceremonies; Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog refinements, Sprint reviews, and Retrospectives.

● Participating in the scrum of scrum meetings with the program manager, Product Owner, and other scrum masters.

● Drive team performance, eliminate blockers, and drive development velocity.

● Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves/escalate if necessary to Program Management and network of peers and other formal channels.

● Protecting teams from over-commitment and blocking distractions and outside influences to enable the team to focus on committed objectives. Hip Muck,

Scrum Master San Francisco (Remote) 06/2018 – 07/2020

● Facilitated Scrum and Kanban daily standups as well as other agile ceremonies.

● Driving and motivating the adoption of scrum rules, removing impediments, fostering self-management, and empowering my teams.

● Acted as a servant leader for the team providing continuous coaching to team members as needed.

● Determined the team capacity (Velocity Metric) from historical data. Performed Work Breakdown structure analysis (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).

● Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

● Proven technical leadership in a role coordinating various software development projects and resources (front-end, back-end, full-stack, etc.)

● Monitored project progress, communicating impact and completion rates to predefined distributions.

● Providing visibility into delivery goals, transparency of the process, commitments, and progress.

Gomis International

Project Manager Kwara state, Nigeria 10/2015- 11/2017

● Coach project team members in agile values, principles, and practices.

● Manages and facilitates releases and production deployments using the Lean approach

● Facilities long-term planning for the team

● Assists team in managing dependencies on other teams (internal or external)

● Promote agile practices where agile has not yet been fully adopted and understood across the organization.

● Ensure accuracy of priority, content, and status of all story cards are managed and maintained.

● Stay in constant contact with other key personnel including but not limited to Project Management and Product Owners to ensure the highest priority items remain the primary focus

EDUCATION

● Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Biological sciences, Minor in Psychology: University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD

CERTIFICATIONS

● Professional Scrum Master (PSM- I) - scrum.org

● Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)- Central Reach

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