Irvine Ginti

Phone: 302-***-**** Email: adt12h@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Certified Scrum master offering 10years’ experience of proven track record delivering high quality software on time. Improving processes and complexproduct deliveries by implementing agile environments. Hands on training teamsand supporting product owners to remove impediments. Multiple results achievedthrough excellent communication and facilitation skills, strong coaching,

mentoring and motivation skills, conflict resolution skills, and excellentunderstanding of Software development Lifecycle, (SDLC). Passionate about agilemethodologies; Scrum, Kanban and XP with experience using several Agileproject management tools like JIRA/Confluence and Rally. Poses a history ofworking with co-located, distributed and offshore teams using different virtual

platform such as Google hangouts, WebEx, Zoom, Go Meeting and Skype forBusiness. Servant-leader with excellent and soft skills, results and result oriented.,flexible, responsive to change and life-long learner.

Skills

Project management (Waterfall & Agile)

Strong communication skills

Scrum

KanBan

SAFe

Servant Leader

Quality Assurance

Agile Coaching

DeVops

Linux

Project documentation

JIRA

Automation

TFS

Work History

Agile Scrum Master, 07/2019 to Current

Prudential Financial – Newark, NJ

Leveraging some of the virtual tools to collaborate and facilitate remote meetings and general scrum events.

Researched emerging technologies and current agile trends to always stay knowledgeable in methods that could increase performance of my teams

Work hand-in-hand with Release Train Engineer (RTE) to coordinate PI Planning and help my teams to identify and map dependencies and risks to the various teams, stories and sprints

Worked closely with stakeholders, business analysts, product owners and software developers to turn user data into actionable user stories that influence product and service direction.

Acted as a Change Agent for the teams, assessing their maturity as I help them learn and adopt new trends of agile/scrum.

Captured and authored user stories that accurately reflect business requirements.

Led scrum ceremonies such as sprint reviews, daily scrums, sprint Retrospectives and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.

Worked closely with stakeholders, business analysts, product owners and software developers to turn user data into actionable user stories that influence productand service direction.

Facilitated the process for ‘just-in-time’ story creations and acceptance criteria by working closely with the PO and team to break down backlog items into user stories for implementations.

Collaborated at a strategic level with the Product Owners to order and create requirements and feature backlog that aligns to the future vision of the product.

Researched emerging technologies and current agile trends to always stay knowledgeable in methods that could increase performance in my teams.

Gathered and interpreted data from multiple channels including document analysis, use cases, business analyst, workflow analyst, social and vendor reports to provide insight and assessment.

Followed Internal compliancerisk management, policy and procedure for effective implementation of projects

Coordinated and synchronized project plan, activities and dependencies with parallel projects.

Scrum Master, 05/2016 to 07/2019

Signify Health – Dallas, TX

Facilitating the Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

Removing any impediments that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint goals (internal to the team as well as external, dealing with all cross functional teams as appropriate).

Supporting the Product Owner with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog thus maximizing the value of the team's work

Assessing the Scrum maturity of my teams and coaching team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

Always making sure my teams start sprints withthe right objectives, committing to achievable goals with necessary acceptance criteria and proper understanding of the Definition of Done

Coaching 2 scrum teams during daily standup meetings to understand the scope of the work, assess optimism on meeting sprint goals and to understand their shared accountabilities towards delivering committed work

Guiding the teams on how to get the most out of self-organization

Ensuring all team members are adhering to scrum values and agile best practices.

Introducing agile games such as poker planning and affinity grouping to help them become better at estimating effort for completing work

Scrum Master, 02/2014 to 04/2016

GEICO – Chevy Chase, MD

Established and organized high-performing development teams with onshore and offshore resources.

Conducted grooming meetings, Daily standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Used Burn-down and velocity charts to monitor project progress and radiate information to stakeholders and program managers

Identified risks and impediments such as blockers, issues, critical defects, resolve/mitigated them daily

Shielded my teams from external interference and distractions for optimal productivity and success in meeting sprint goals and deliverables

Worked with other scrum masters to Coordinate and synchronize project plans, activities, and dependencies of parallel projects, making sure work was continuously in sync.

Used consensus building approach to create strong team commitment to the project and each other.

Helped set-up and managed Kanban board configuration for one of the teams, enforcing WIP limits and making sure team members understood workflow.

IT PROJECT Manager/Scrum Master, 11/2012 to 01/2014

Choice Hotels – Rockville, MD

Responsible for the integration of a custom-made solution (BOLT) to integrate with billing and web systems (ICOMS, Hyperion and Kibana) from a newly acquired company

Responsible for facilitating Scrum ceremonies and ensuring teams are adhering to agile principles and doing scrum right

Coached development teams in self-organization and self-management, helping them remove blockers to work progress when required.

Engaged with Choice Hotels IT SMEs to make sure LOEs are prepared and communicated as defined in WOTL (Work Order Tracking Log)

Managed project plans, budgets, schedules, requirements, and technical documents

Worked with product owners to manage requirement gatherings and prioritization

Tracked project metrics to judge project progress while managing risk, stakeholder communication plan, vendors, in-house and outsourced resources.

Provided status reports to stakeholders as well as buy in on new enhancements to the work product

Education

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science, 2010

University of Buea - Cameroon

Associate of Science: Computer Support Tech, 2012

TESST College of Technology - Beltsville, MD

Certifications

ProfessionalScrum Master 1 (PSM 1)

Certified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) – SAFe 5

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

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