Scrum Master Project Manager

Mogos Russom (PSM)

Certified Scrum Master & Project Management Professional

Mobile Number: +1-571-***-****, Email : **********@*****.***

• Self-motivated Scrum Master & Project Management professional with significant experience that spans over 13 years coupled with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

• Demonstrated a strong leadership skill in my previous roles and exceeded both client and company expectations.

• Demonstrated successes in training, mentoring and developing top-performing teams. Extensive background managing timelines, resolving problems, and coaching team members on Agile methodologies.

• Ability to communicate with various types of people and personalities which has aided in cultivating professional relationships, diffusing situations, and having positive interactions with colleagues/ team.

• Proven track record of managing cross-functional teams to develop a winning product or service while coaching the team on Scrum and SAFe framework and values to achieve high-level performance. Areas of Expertise:

Project Management Project Planning, Process Improvement, Software Development Life Cycle, Technical Support, Strategic Planning, Contract Management Agile, Scrum and SAFe Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile Methodologies Tools and Technologies Jira, Confluence, AWS, Mural, SharePoint, Salesforce Leadership / People

Management

Team Leadership, Team Building, Performance Management Professional Experience:

Scrum Master 03/2021 – 10/2022

Canoo Inc

• Working with the Agile team to lead the development of roadmaps, planning, and manage team backlog. Interacting closely with Product Owner on backlog grooming and requirements validation. Assisting the scrum team in their planning, sprint execution and the sprint delivery.

• Proactively identifying the issues and risks in the project. Handling the impediments and escalating the risk to the right stakeholder.

• Tracking and communicating the team’s velocity and sprint progress to all the stakeholders and managing the dependencies.

• Facilitating sprint planning, daily scrum events, sprint t reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other scrum-related events.

• Identifying project resource needs, coordinate with resource management lead to identify assigned resources, defining project team member roles and responsibilities, and ensuring healthy team dynamics by leading, coaching and motivating team members to meet project goals and commitments.

• Coach teams on the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, accountability, transparency, and self-organization. Accountable for process documentation and continuously evaluates team processes for maximum output and value through the application of scrum knowledge and selected tools like Jira and/or Confluence.

Scrum Master 03/2019 - 02/2021

Facebook Inc Via Q Analysts

• Led teams across broad technical, financial, and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget, and with the desired results.

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• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures.

• Played a Scrum Master for multiple teams, providing a learning environment to maximize team efficiency and overall business value

• Presided over all scrum-related rituals and ceremonies (daily stand up, iteration planning, iteration review, etc.) while maintaining all scrum artifacts (Iteration backlog, Program Increment, etc.)

• Challenged, coached, guided, and developed the organization using Agile and lean principles, experimenting with processes and tools that encourage continuous improvement

• Facilitated the team's progress toward team goals, continuously engaged in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.

• Set up daily and iteration goals for the team in the context of current Program Increment (PI) Objectives

• Managed backlog creation, refinement, and prioritization

• Liaise between architects, developers, testers, and UX/UI designers. Foster better communication between the disciplines.

Scrum Master 09/2018 - 03/2019

Microsoft Inc Via Q Analysts

• Servant leaders focused on maximizing the throughput of multiple delivery teams and helping them become more effective by ensuring adherence to an agile framework (scrum, Kanban, etc.) and the application of appropriate principles and practices

• Cultivated a collaborative environment that included training, mentoring, and developing top-performing teams while displayed servant leadership behaviors.

• Communicated with management and outside stakeholders, protecting the team from scope expansion and items out of their control.

• Set the teams to focus on daily and iteration goals in the context of current Program Increment (PI) Objectives

• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level. Lead the scrum and development teams in self- organization

Scrum Master 01/2015 - 09/2018

Personalis Inc.

• Orchestrated scrum ceremonies which included daily stand-up meetings, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos, and sprint retrospectives.

• Trained and developed the scrum team to become self-organized, cross-functional, and highly efficient team that delivered high-quality products.

• In charge of documenting and executing the team's continuous improvement plan, based on retrospectives.

• Clarified deliverables and assignments and removed impediment

• Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of project framework and to the successful organizational transition to Agile

Project Manager 11/2008 - 10/2014

Delta Information Systems

• Presided over senior-level project management duties including risk management, data analysis, and project planning

• Analyzed and tracked data to provide the project manager with a detailed analysis of potential risk, status update, and projections

• Participated in project design meetings and propose improvement if necessary

• Evaluated potential problems and technical hitches and develop solutions

• Planed and managed team goals, project schedules, and new information 3

• Supervised current projects and coordinate all team members to keep workflow on track

• Communicated with clients to identify and define project requirements, scope, and objectives Education & Professional Development:

• Masters of Business administration and Management University of the District of Columbia

• Bachelor of Arts Law. LL. B

University of Asmara

Certifications:

• Professional Scrum Master Certificate (PSM I)

• SAFe Agilist Certification (Preparing to complete this in 2 months)

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