ILYASS CEDRIC G.
DE MEDEIROS
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OBJECTIVE
Value-driven Certified Scrum Master
through Scrum Alliance with over 5years
of experience in coaching and leading
Scrum teams in a timely and incremental
delivery of value. I have experience and
passion for excellence in Scrum Mastery
and removal of impediment
SKILLS
Zoom Virtual platform MS Project
JIRA Confluence SAFe MS Office
EXPERIENCE
SCRUM MASTER_INSTACART / CHICAGO IL
March 2018-Present
• Responsible for ensuring that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented
• Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement.
• Coaching product owner; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
• Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
• Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches.
• Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress.
• Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.
• Guiding scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating.
• Monitoring the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.
• Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.
• Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage 2
adoption of good agile practices
• Successfully helping Scrum team transition from waterfall into scrum framework.
SCRUM MASTER_ALLIANT CREDIT UNION
CHICAGO IL
February2016-march2018
• Facilitates Agile ceremonies to ensure team(s)
maintain focus on quality and continuous delivery.
• Provides visibility into delivery targets, commitments, progress and any relevant team data necessary to
provide maximum team transparency.
• Partner with and coach Product Owners to achieve maximum project return on investment and meet PI
Objectives and Milestones.
• Continuously identifies and manages cross-team
dependencies and reports progress and
impediments to the Release Train Engineer.
• Partnering with systems teams to ensure the
Agile team(s) tools are properly supporting the
ART and maximizing transparency/flow.
• Supporting PI Planning readiness by fostering a
Continuous Exploration process which drives the
synthesis of the Vision, the Roadmap, and the
Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning
meetings.
• facilitating issue resolution within the team.
• Partnering with the Project Management Office
(PMO) on program execution and operational
excellence.
• Driving continuous improvement via workshop
facilitation in the Inspect and Adapt ceremony;
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assess the agility level of the team(s) and help
them improve.
• Encourage collaboration between teams and
architects.
• Provide best practices using Scrum, Kanban and
other Agile methodologies.
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PROJECT COORDINATOR DEALUSHOP IL
January 2015-january 2016
• Tracking project progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads with the help of MS Project
• Planning, organizing and directing projects to
optimize processes, systems and to enable business objectives
• Developing methods and tools for requirement
definition, process and workflow design and data
modeling
• Developing best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management,
ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking,
communication, and key performance metrics
• Develop project plans and budgets, works with users to understand complex problems and focuses on
bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines.
• Create and deliver presentations to senior level management on project goals and plans, including
progress reports and score card
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EDUCATION
COMPUTER SYSTEM INSTITUTE – SKOKIE, IL 2015
Customer Service Specialist
GHANA TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (business administration and marketing) CERTIFICATION
Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM1)