FRANKLEEN KPERU

SCRUM MASTER

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

+1-463-***-****

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WORK EXPERIENCE

February 2019-Current

SCRUM MASTER

Maxin Systems

Columbia, Maryland, United States

* Managed 2 scrum team on a Data warehouse and digital transformation project for our financial department to support vendors

* Helped in coordinating the backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and documenting all feedbacks and impediments for improvement

* Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.

* Mentor and coach teams in the Agile mindset and maintaining productivity dashboards containing metrics like Epic and release burn-down chart and velocity that helps the team and to see how they are doing

* Worked closely with the Business Analyst and Product Owner in Backlog management by recommending a backlog prioritization dates to prepare for every upcoming sprints to improve continuous delivery of products

* Innovated new processes and workflows that realized 60% improvement in efficiency of delivery team.

* Increased team efficiency by 80% by inspiring motivation, spins and changes for quality and timeliness

* Educate the development team Agile/scrum methodology and Agile framework and actively using JIRA to manage the scrum artifacts and team performance

* Ensure effective communication across team and facilitate cross-functional meetings utilizing appropriate tools and information. Report effectively to provide transparency on the team's progress

* Support and coach multiple Scrum teams on Agile principles and methodologies and guide teams on how to get the most out of self-organization

* Build a high-performing team and focus on team dynamics that help the team manage opportunities and team processes that allows them to make adjustments on their tasks in progress in every sprint when necessary with little direction

* Helped in improving Knowledge with widely successful Agile techniques: ensuring that we change user stories to appropriate issue types such as subtasks, enablers and bugs every sprint to avoid load of work and confusion

* Worked with team as a collaborative leader and responding to team concern with good justification in a go- forward manner

* Communicating with scrum team and business unit to align the team to the same goal and to make sure we are meeting sprint goals and release dates

* Assess the team's workflow and coach them to higher levels of Scrum Maturity. Push them at the right pace so the whole team can enjoy a happy and a healthy work environment.

* Coordinate with other teams at the Scrum of Scrums (SOS) meeting, and maintaining all information and distribution to the team

* Participate in ART activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt

* Work with Team to summarize PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency September 2017-November 2018

SCRUM MASTER

CTS Financials

Chicago, Illinois, United States

* Managed scrum teams on the development of data warehouse, and cloud technologies within an agile environment.

* Helps in Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style, and providing suitable process for teams based on the scrum framework, and to follow Agile principles and industry standard

* Ensured that every member of the team is participating in the grooming session and sprint planning to better understand the complexity of the user stories before is marked as ready

* Guide the team's operations by facilitating ceremonies like sprint planning, Daily standup, retrospectives, and introducing Agile principles into daily activities to ensure smooth functioning and team delivery

* Responsible for understanding the development team's environment and making sure work is tracked from the development, code review, testing and sign-off perspective

* Guides the scrum team follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint

* Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

* Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution to promote team co-operation

* Consistently use JIRA to track team productivity and prepare notes to the meeting to ask questions about tasks in progress and possible roadblocks that could impact our sprint and releases and use team justification for decision making

* Maintaining and updating the team's process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and transparent communications to partners.

* Identifies skills and competencies of scrum team members and makes adjustments accordingly to promote development and highly effective teams

* Act as servant leaders to the team in ensuring that the highest priority needs of the team are met, impediments are removed, and the team can operate in a high-performing environment

* Responsible for applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling the gaps using Burn- down techniques

* Lead teams through retrospectives which drive the meaningful discussion to help the team continuously improve

* Helped in utilizing all Agile approach and Agile/Scrum: and KANBAN

* Encouraging Agile behaviors, reinforcing practices, norms, ceremonies, and supporting the overall team performance and efficiency

January 2014-April 2017

BUSINESS ANALYST (SCA)

Logo-heads Limited

United States

* Elicit Operate Risk Management Framework using NIST SP 800 - 37 as Confidential guide and FIPS 199 as Confidential guide to categorize information systems

* Elicit and confirm requirements and functionality gaps using interviews, documents analysis, requirements derivation, site visits, use cases, user stories, business analysis, tasks and workflow analysis

* Assist client agencies to define and document current business processes and lead efforts to analyze, design, and document requirements for "to be" business processes and procedures.

* Collects, enters and analyzes data for reporting purposes for multiple business units and use it to justify client's proposal

* Manage rate database for projects, review financial audits and propose new digital solutions to support payables, purchases, sales and continuous auditing for craft mark's financial department

* Formulate daily/weekly work plans that include requirements gathering with a keen focus on resolving system errors through user activities and admin with proposed changes that enables monitoring of transactions with the aim of identifying suspicious activities and exceptions

* First point of contact for fielding inquiries regarding system implementation, client policy/procedures, and technical questions.

* Facilitate several requirement sessions with the business and application team to discuss several system's scenarios and boundaries to make sure all requirements are well implemented through different requirement phases(waterfall)

* Work in close collaboration with team members in a fast-paced deliverable driven environment to facilitate accurate documentation and translation of business requirements for IT solutions.

* Serve as a liaison between the business users and IT organizations in the development of new IT system requirements.

* Take charge of researching information; obtaining documents; maintaining direct communication; coordinating various business and technical requirements; and handling requirements scope throughout the project life cycle using waterfall and Agile Development methodology.

* Analyzed and develop processes and technical requirements specifications for system enhancement and system's API integration

* Worked with project team on the improvement of business processes and accountable for the complete lifecycle of infrastructure systems, supports and deployment (Agile).

* Support the product owner to document Epic, features and user stories for proper UI, business logic and backend integration and also ensured that user stories align with business values and have story points.

* Accountable for ensuring user stories have proper acceptance criteria using a Given, When, Then Format and also lead effort on system testing and UAT.

EDUCATION

-Current

Bachelor of Art

AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY

United States

AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY: Bachelor of Art (philosophy)

• Art (philosophy

SKILLS

Agile Confluence JIRA Scrum Data Warehouse EPIC Life Cycle SDLC USE Cases Rally UAT User Interface UI Deployment Database NIST API MS Project Share Point Sharepoint Microsoft Project Microsoft Sharepoint Business Analysis Business Requirements Requirements Gathering Workflow Workflow Analysis Audit Auditing Audits Financial Audits Financials Payables Adjustments Liaison Metrics Continuous Improvement Operations Trading Risk Management Documentation Documenting Technical Requirements System Testing Mentor Root Cause Analysis Kanban Excel Microsoft Office Microsoft Powerpoint Powerpoint CERTIFICATIONS

Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

Certified SAFe Scrum Master

Certified Scrum Master(CSM)

Certified Scrum Master

LANGUAGES

English - Intermediate Spanish - Intermediate

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