Scrum Master Product Owner

Morenike Joy Monteils, CSM, CSPO

Telephone: 281-***-****

E-mail: ************@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/morenike-joy-monteils-106095239/

Key Skills and Knowledge

Education:

• University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Bachelor of Arts, Modern European Languages.

Certification:

• Certified Scrum Product Owner, (CSPO)

• Certified Scrum Master, (CSM)

Hard Skills:

• Software Development Life Cycle

• Backlog Refinement

• Jira, Azure DevOps and Confluence

• Story mapping

• Agile best practices

• Retrospectives

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Team Building

• Capacity Planning

Soft Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, critical thinking skills, diligence, fastidious attention to details and people skills.

• Management Skills

• Strong Coaching experience

• Customer centricity

• Leadership Skills

• Servant leadership

• Agile Scrum experience

Process/Methodologies:

Agile Methodology

Waterfall Methodology

Reference

Provided on request

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

As a Scrum Master who understands the clear vision for my servant leader role, I:

a) Help build an environment where continuous deployment/improvement of the development process is the focus.

b) Ensure product quality expectations are defined, and known across the team, this helps my team move through iterative development, software development processes and procedures with a goal to deliver outstanding software as fast as possible to our customers.

c) Guide my teams through discussion & collaboration, using all aspects scrums framework and tools like Azure DevOps (ADO), or Jira to manage the Wiki, Boards, Backlogs, Sprints and Delivery Plans to create efficiencies for your team and their daily activities

d) Resolve and remove any blockers or impediment by collaborating closely with my teams and all impacted stakeholders.

In summation, I am an experienced Agile scrum master that has demonstrated the ability to motivate, coach and inspire teams across diverse domains to deliver high quality SDLC projects, while reducing waste through lean applications. As an agile scrum master in my current job, my key role is relevant to the definition, development, implementation, and ongoing improvement of Agile practices (with an emphasis on SCRUM) teams for the organization I am with. I perform grooming/story pointing, sprint planning, retrospective, and daily activities related to stand-ups and velocity/sprint burn down as related to the SDLC process; I maintain relevant metrics that help the team see and understand their progress during a sprint while using Azure DevOps (ADO) and have demonstrated exceptional communication/interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills.

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

• Certified Scrum Master with multiple years of diversified experience in Agile Software Development with dynamic, firsthand management of software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations in a Agile environment.

• Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog refinement to keep product backlog relevant & prioritized, removing impediments, and ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories were refined and succinct prior to the sprints.

• Strong collaboration skills with stakeholders at different level.

• Helped teams to remove impediments that were beyond their self-organizing capabilities and shielded them from external distractions.

• Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team improve their average velocity; Performed Scrum Master activities and agile coaching for the team.

• Assessed scrum maturity of teams and organization and coached teams to higher levels of maturity, at the pace that is sustainable and comfortable.

Professional Experience:

Dovina Technologies 03/26/2018 – to date

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities.

• Identifies and removes blockers to enhance productivity and efficiency of team.

• Facilitates scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, demos, grooming, retrospectives, and planning)

• Shields teams from external interferences and ensure that they have the capacity to deliver their committed goals.

• Enables the scrum team to meet sprint goals by understanding and removing any blockers.

• Monitors and manages dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are resolved.

• Tracks and communicates team velocity, sprint/release progress, resource availability.

• Successfully uses Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitates user stories workshop. Documents User Stories and facilitates Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.

• Utilizes Jira and Confluence for uploading and managing backlog items, requirements, defects, reporting and for future tickets.

• Uses JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking, and manage sprints. Also creates Scrum and Azure DevOps boards, status reports and burn down charts.

• Partners with other scrum experts on our programs’ team, to ensure our ways of working were consistent across teams.

Spa Group 12/01/2016 – 02/20/2018

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities.

• Proficiently organize and facilitate daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint, and release planning.

• Collaborate closely with product owner on backlog refinement to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.

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

• Conducting meetings for Agile projects requirements sessions with stakeholders and able to articulate and create the requirements in User Story format.

• Work on creating business, functional, use cases, technical requirements artifacts. Involved in understanding business problems and transform these into EPICs/Feature and User Stories.

• Identify and remove team impediments beyond their capability to enhance productivity and efficiency.

• Provide initiative-taking coaching to the team and recommend continuous improvement of processes and tools to optimize team productivity, quality, and time-to-market.

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