JULIUS FORCHID

adt6l9@r.postjobfree.com

945-***-****

Frisco, TX 75035

SKILLS

• Agile Scrum & Waterfall

• Lean

• Kanban

• XP (Extreme Programming)

• SAFe

• Jira/ Confluence

• Rally

• Scrum of Scrums

• Team Leadership,

• Training, True Leadership,

• Meeting facilitation

• Public Speaking

• PI Planning

• DevOps Principles

• Workflow analysis

• Conflict resolution

• Planning Meetings

• Cloud/AWS Principles

• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• External Communication

• Release Planning

• Collaborative Teamwork

• Off-shore Coordination

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Successful Scrum Master with 7+ years of experience at small and large organizations, and over 3+years as a Project Coordinator. Accomplished leader, with a successful record of delivering large-scale Software, Mobile Application, 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 Agile/Scrum rules, removing impediments, and fostering self- management and continuous improvement. Communicating effectively and leading high performing teams. Excellent skills in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows in Jira.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Bank Of America – Scrum Master

Dallas, Texas Sep. 2021 – Current

• Work with team to create and update team working agreement, the definition of ready (DOR), and definition of done (DOD).

• Communicate the status of progress and impediments to internal and external stakeholders

• Facilitate cross-team coordination, tracking and following up with external dependencies

• Proven ability to navigate complex situations through organizational landscape and with multiple stakeholders

• Experience with other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD

• Assist PO and Team in effective road mapping and planning for the product and development teams.

• Create a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery including pair- programming and cross-functional training.

• Identification of any roadblocks to the team and initiative-taking to resolve these impediments.

• Help teams surface and track issues related to product view with a focus on impact to customer experience.

• Work beyond team boundaries to improve efficiency, flow of work, and value delivered.

• Heavy use of JIRA for reports and dashboards to enhance visibility into team progress.

EDUCATION

University of Dschang

Master’s in project management

University of Yaounde II

Bachelor’s degree in Business

Admin/Management

LANGUAGES

• English

• French

CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• SAFe Certified

• PMP

UBER - Scrum Master

Boston Office, MA Sept. 2019 – Sep. 2021

• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.

• Facilitated with the development team to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment and enhance quick feedback from customers and improve features as project progresses.

• Utilized Jira to configure teams task board, track teams progress, burnup/down charts, calculate velocity.

• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown (using Jira).

• Assisted and supported the Product Owner and Team to continually improve the business value delivery to their product.

• Supported a self-organized team and coached the team on self- organization practices.

• Removed impediments and guiding the team to remove impediments both within the team and with external groups.

• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving.

• Assisted with internal and external communication for the team and improving transparency.

• Supported and educated the Product Owner and team, especially with respect to reviewing and maintaining the product backlog.

• Provided support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.

Bank of North Carolina - Scrum Master

Charlotte, NC Sept. 2017 – Aug. 2019

• Providing hands-on management and coaching of scrum teams in all aspects of scrum (facilitating daily stand-up meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, calculating velocity, limiting work in progress, etc.)

• In-depth experience mentoring teams/individuals on agile values, design thinking, customer value, product management, etc.

• Strong experience on driving agile transformations from design to implementation

• Working knowledge and experience with several Agile methodologies SCRUM, XP, Kanban, and SAFe

• Strong working knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test driven development, continuous integration, DevOps

• Managing new product features and enhancements in terms of scope, quality, and schedule within sprint cycles

• Working effectively with management and team members to clarify needs and plan delivery of major product changes, future versions, and new products

• Proactively managing sprint-level risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, ensuring that they are identified, coordinated, mitigated, or escalated as necessary

• Track and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all working teams and management.

• Facilitate stakeholders’ questions and answers.

Sam’s Club/Walmart - Scrum Master

Bentonville Oct. 2015 – Sept. 2017.

Scrum Master for two teams:

• Develop user stories and prioritize them in Jira.

• Coach the team using full SCRUM. (Planning Meetings, Stand- ups, Refinement Sessions, Sprint Reviews/Demo’s and Retrospectives)

• Generate process reports; maintain relevant metrics that will allow teams and management to evaluate how the project is progressing

• Ensure the applications are of high quality and tested appropriately.

• Assist with writing procedures and training plant employees on the new applications.

• Facilitated PI planning meetings along with program management and RTE to make teams understand PI objectives necessary for the release.

Ag Leader Technology – Project Coordinator/Business Analyst Ames Iowa Feb. 2012 – Sept. 2015

• Gathered stakeholder and Business requirements through open- ended discussions, brainstorming Sessions, structured walk- through, and prototyping.

• Documented the user requirements, analyzed & prioritized them, and converted them as system requirements.

• Created and prioritized user stories and Sorted user stories into releases and scheduled for Iterations.

• Organized daily meetings to aid and track product development.

• Coordinated with multiple teams and integration architects in performing Root Cause Analysis for Issues regarding speed and stability.

• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Test Manager for User Acceptance Testing.

• Involved in performing the SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) of new systems.

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