Scrum Master Project Coordinator

Honorine Nkwawir

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AGILE SCRUM MASTER

OVERVIEW

Experience Scrum Master with over 5 years of extensive experience in Agile transformation Served and led multiple teams, both co-located and distributed across different geographical areas and helped to in improve their productivity in delivering quality working software. 5+ years of technology-based project delivery experience at fortune 200 and 500 companies as an agile scrum master working with an Agile team to deliver high value software solutions that contributed to the success of our technology initiatives in an agile environment. Provides overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices. Work closely with the product owner, helping with managing and maintaining the product backlog by making sure that user stories are regularly refined, prioritized and are sprint ready.

Professional Skills

Strong knowledge of agile principles, practices and capacity to understand specific needs.

Demonstrated project management skills, technical leadership and direction.

Lean-Agile software and systems development at scale (SAFe).

Existing skills in scrum metrics used in agile scrum and how to use them to monitor team performance.

Ability to work in ambiguity and iterate to a solution. Able to estimate and solve business problems without explicit directions.

Demonstrated experience in DevOps.

Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Scrumban.

Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change, evolve and improve software development processes.

Strong communication, collaborative leadership, conflict resolution budgeting and time management skills

People management skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AGILE SCRUM MASTER

Brainz Inc – Minneapolis MN

Jan 2020 to Present

Working with limited direction from the Program Leads, lead a matrixed team of system design engineers, system build engineers and infrastructure technologists to successfully deliver multiple concurrent infrastructure changes in a large-scale enterprise environment.

Meet customer and project objectives by Developing and leading project execution functions which includes planning, tracking, reporting, reviews, quality management and communications, risks and issues within the construct of the Agile delivery framework Predict.

Understands and document customer needs and develops solutions to manage project schedules(sprints) and resources.

Resolves conflicts and removes impediments to facilitate sprint progress.

Collaborate with product owner to prioritize the product backlog items and maintain a healthy product backlog.

Provides overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices.

Arranges, facilitates and schedules meetings, demos and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use. This includes sprint team backlog grooming, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning daily standups, and retrospectives.

Works with stakeholders and team members to continuously improve. Drives quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity.

Facilitates team transparency by escalating impediments and shares progress by the team to the appropriate channels.

Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.

Plans and coordinates testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing. Guides team in self-organization; encourages and motivates team to focus on iteration goals.

AGILE SCRUM MASTER

Nurzee – Minneapolis, MN

Sept 2018 – Jan/2020

Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices.

Collaborate with product owner to prioritize the product backlog items and maintain a healthy product backlog.

Managing and coordinating all Agile Scrum activities: sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospectives, story pointing, burndown monitoring, release monitoring, continuous improvement

Removing roadblocks or finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Supporting and educating the business owners and product owner maintaining the product backlog

Manage the Budget as per the Sprint progress

Senior Project Coordinator

Oct 2016 – Sept 2018

Cummins Inc. Power System Business Unit – Shoreview, MN

Identified and removed organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency

Trained new team members and transition teams to agile framework with Scrum ensuring team skill levels

Monitored and managed dependencies on other teams & external projects to resolved potential issues

Participated in iteration planning to create acceptance criteria and tests that define “done” for features

Supported the product owner with grooming and maintaining product backlog and working with the team

Facilitated daily stand up and weekly projects status update meeting with the Scrum Team to access projects health, target end date and next steps, increasing the delivery of IT projects within timeline

Created artifacts including vulnerability management executive summary deck, quarterly achievement on vulnerability and maintenance, release strategy, maintenance calendar, and command center document

Created SharePoint site and custom forms using SharePoint Designer for the entry of maintenance events, projects, and Scrum Engagement forms to Scrum Teams to do validation and testing for impacted Apps

Experienced using Jira for workflow management and communicating Sprint Metrics including burnup and bur

Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting

Contributed to product roadmap planning, project scheduling and release management, ensuring timely completion of potentially shippable increment product within a sprint

Performed diverse financial and project control activities including making sure forecasts were within resource level and proper management for cost and schedule

Maintained and updated the project schedule as tasks, milestones, and deliverables were being completed to provide visibility to management.

EDUCATION

University College of Technology BUEA (Cameroon)

Bachelor’s Degree in marketing and Distribution Management

CERTIFICATIONS

PSM I: Professional Scrum Master

Membership/Affiliation

Member of a Minnesota Professional Scrum Masters Meetup Group

Member of a local Agile Leadership Network

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