Scrum Master
Resume:
JANA MANUELA YAK
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Cell: 404-***-****
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Work Authorization: United States Citizen
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Professional Summary
Certified Scrum Master with over 5 years agile experience and a proven track record of delivering high-quality software, on time and within budget. Seeking a position in a fast-paced company. Passionate about agile style of working and team-work driven development. Carries excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong decision-making skills and the ability to multi-task. Advanced in all aspects of Microsoft Office Suite.
Career Highlights
Over 5 years as a Scrum Master utilizing Agile methodologies
Strong technical command of project management tools; Visual Studio, Jira, Asana and Rally.
Knowledge of multiple Agile frameworks; SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming.
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio).
Efficient Agilist who has helped get teams on the Agile Train April 2022 to Date
Scrum Master
FORD
Location: Remote
Work on multiple and simultaneous projects in a highly complex environment.
Ensures all scrum events: Daily scrum, sprint planning, review and retrospective are run and facilitated accordingly.
Assist product owners with backlog grooming and potential sprint visualization.
Coach team members through the agile process and assisting with the agile transition.
Maintain an open and healthy communication channel between team members and also with production owner and stakeholders.
Develop techniques to improve the efficiency of the development team such as the use of planning poker during backlog refinement and story estimation
Work with Product Owners to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
Manage project development from initiation to closure
Complete work breakdown structure to estimate effort required for each task
Act as a mediator between stakeholders and team members
Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders
Determine if external consultants or contractors will be required to complete projects.
Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
Conducted refinement meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.
Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
Worked with product owners to prioritize and validate User Stories
Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
Communicated the progress to senior management thru Burn down Charts'. Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team thru the project management processes.
Quality Assurance ensure that all applicable change requirements are satisfied, Acts as the primary point of contact and integration for the project.
Encouraged self-organization, meaning that the team itself should remove issues wherever possible
Performed quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementations for multiple Users.
Responsible for managing and overseeing clinical patient units
Coordinated and participated in the development of the performance evaluation Program
Lenovo 2019 to 2022
ScrumMaster
Location: Remote
Organize and facilitate SCRUM ceremonies: daily standups, sprint planning and reviews.
Recognize, raise, and remove impediments proactively that prevents your team from achieving their goals
Manage LENOVO requirements, epics/stories, source code and tests in Confluence, Jira.
Lead the scrum team in moderate to high complexity work streams.
Oversee scrum process and coach the teams on how to use scrum and agile practices and methodology.
Motivate the team to perform and ensure team members are collectively responsible for all aspects of the committed work (analysis, development, testing, documentation, etc.).
Identify, address, and communicate project risks, dependencies, and team impediments.
Facilitate productivity through discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
Assist with internal and external communication, and improving transparency’
Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem solving.
Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team.
Establish and maintain strong working relationships with all stakeholders, including customers.
Work together with the client to develop user stories and establish acceptance criteria.
Estimate or story point the requirements for the request work by the client.
Other duties as assigned.
Act as a mediator between stakeholders and team members
Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders
Determine if external consultants or contractors will be required to complete projects.
Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
Conducted refinement meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings. STARTEK 2016 to 2019
Scrum Master
Location: Remote
• Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams
• Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.
• Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company lots of money
• Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.
• Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.
• Facilitate monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.
• Provided executives with analysis and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies.
• Partnered with developers to automate manual processes, saving time and money while decreasing errors.
• Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.
• Performed quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementations for multiple Users.
• Used the project management tool Rally for tracking work progress and to generate reports.
EDUCATION
2019-DATE. GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY ONLINE
Bachelor’s degree in information technology management 2009 – 2011 University of Buea . Dschang, Cameroon Bachelor of Science Business Administration and Management 2007 – 2009. Institute of technology. Douala, CAMEROON Associate in Business Administration
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