Appolonia Wirsiy, Scrum Master

Minneapolis, MN, United States, 763-***-****, adszmy@r.postjobfree.com PROFILE Professional Scrum Master with over 5+years of professional knowledge and experience in coaching and helping teams to have a smooth transition into agile. Very passionate about coaching, mentoring, and building agile teams with a focus on driving and optimizing teams to deliver value. Have successfully transitioned two teams from Waterfall to high-performing cross-functional, Agile scrum teams. Extensive knowledge of Agile and Waterfall software development life cycles; as well as all aspects of change and configuration management responsible for maintaining cloud computing systems

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Nov 2021 — Present Scrum Master, Bio-techne Minnetonka, MN

• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching multiple Scrum teams.

• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments, and fostering self-management.

• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, proven records of keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments. Feb 2019 — Oct 2021 Scrum master, PeopleNet Minneapolis-St, MN

• Organizing and facilitating regular Scrum meetings, including daily stand-ups, sprint and release planning sessions, retrospectives, demonstrations, and other project planning and issue resolution meetings as required

• Working with product owners to maintain the backlog

• Improving transparency on team progress through burndown charts, velocity reporting, and sprint and release progress

• Identifying and removing/preventing impediments and distractions

• Working with multiple Scrum teams and a Kanban team as a coach

• Acting as Scrum Master for a remote team in Brazil

• Finding and implementing organizational improvements concerning Scrum Jun 2017 — Sep 2018 Business Analyst/Scrum Master, Amway Grand Rapids, MI

• Project 1:

To develop a new application for organizing the unstructured data into structured format using BI/BOBJ ELT tools. It helps the development teams to produce graphical reports that are helpful for the management in decision-making.

• Project 2:

Enhanced the existing CRM system with additional features and integrate the newly created dashboard in tableau into MS Dynamics CRM system that would help all the stake holders and strategic management in taking the right decisions to increase the ROI. EDUCATION Master’s degree in Marketing

Bachelors in Computer Sciences

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Agile Coach

SKILLS Problem Solving Expert

Jira/Confluence Experienced

Strong Interpersonal Skills Skillful

Process Improvement &

Management

Experienced

Agile Values & Principles Experienced

Stakeholder Engagement &

Partnership

Skillful

Strategic Planning & Tactical

Execution

Experienced

Conflict Resolution Experienced

Attention to Details Experienced

Story Pointing/Relative Sizing Experienced

Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC)

Experienced

Performance Enhancement &

Leadership

Experienced

Team Mentoring Experienced

Verbal & Written

Communication Skill

Experienced

Backlog Refinement Experienced

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