Scrum Master Product Owner

Willibrod Abongwa

SCRUM MASTER

Tel: 781-***-**** *********.*******@*****.***

“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change"

Scrum, Strategic planning, Process Improvement, Dependency & Risk Management, Continuous Improvement, Agile Coaching, Agile Maturity, Change Agent

6+ years of experience, expert in agile methodology and known ability to produce high-quality deliverables.

Solutions-driven Scrum Master managing cross-functional teams, bringing transparency and facilitating events - Sprint Planning, Story Pointing, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Retrospectives.

Ability to influence, persuade, lead and motivate the team in order to achieve goals and objectives, excellent interpersonal skills, capable of developing effective relationships and engaging with people in an effective way to deliver outcomes.

Collaborative leader, proven ability to lead and develop teams, who works extremely well in dedicated and matrix team environment and cross functionally.

Stakeholder Engagement

User Stories and Process

Mapping

Documentation

Process improvement

Project Scheduling

Team Management

Risk/Change Management

Cross Functional

Supervision

Sprint Planning/Tasking

Daily stand-ups

Sprint Review

Sprint Retrospective

Technology Summary

SDLC Methodology

Agile Management Tools

Microsoft Tools

Software Tools

Scrum

JIRA, GUS, Confluence, Slack, FigJam, StoryPlan, Miro, Ideaboardz, Story Mapper

PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams

React JavaScript, Application Programming Interface, GitHub

Experience

Instrument 2021– 2022 Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Lead Scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices.

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies.

Plan and track sprint progress closely and help the team to focus on commitments & delivery.

Ensure Sprint board is up to date.

Enforce DoR and DoD.

Create working agreement.

INVEST criteria is met for all the user stories in backlog.

Ensure user stories are properly groomed and pointed.

Help team remove blockers.

Help team track dependencies.

Monitor team Velocity and Burndown charts, and interpret the information into actionable improvements.

Mentor other Scrum Masters and effectively introduce process improvement opportunities. RCN Corporation 2018 – 2020 Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Led Scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices.

Regularly monitored Team Maturity Metrics, and interpreted the information into actionable improvements.

Mentored other Scrum Masters and actively introduced process improvement opportunities.

Led scrum teams in self-organization.

Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies.

Helped teams track and remove impediments and dependencies.

Helped scrum team achieve higher levels of performance.

Coached the product owner in keeping a healthy backlog.

Ensured Sprint goals and release goals are clearly defined and communicated.

Fostered an environment of collaboration and growth. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria USA 2016 – 2018 Scrum Master Responsibilities:

Mentored and coached teams on Agile methodology and Scrum values and process.

Worked closely with the Product Owner in defining the product goal & roadmap, and participated in longer term roadmap planning.

Worked effectively within the Scrum Team to remove impediments and track them in Jira.

Guided the team through continuous improvement process and best practices.

Facilitated scrum master community of practices.

Ensured conducive environment which fostered self-organizing and self-managing team.

Facilitated program increment and all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Product Backlog Grooming.

Empowered team commitment to program increment and sprint delivery.

Monitored effectiveness of scrum team processes and performance, and collaborated with teams on changes and improvements.

Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to the teams.

Reflected and radiated the metrics like burndown chart progress, quality, and velocity continuously to the team.

Helped Product Owner to prioritize and maintain a healthy work backlog.

Ensured INVEST criteria was met for all the user stories in backlog. EDUCATION

BA, Business administration University of Buea

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Professional Scrum Master I

Certified Lean Practitioner

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