PERPETUA M, KAH YUNGA

Coppell, Tx Phone: 214-***-**** Email: adu3de@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

A goal and detailed oriented certified professional scrum master with over 6 years in information technology, and extensive hands-on experience coaching and mentoring front and back-end developers as well as QA testers to reach highest performance by helping them in removing impediments in a timely manner. Educate and reinforce scrum framework and agile methodology and leading teams through all phases of software development. Proven track record of empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality. Experience working with different agile project management tools like, JIRA/Confluence and Azure DevOps. Excellent communicator with the ability to adapt to new and dynamic environments. Certification

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1)

Tools:

Azure DevOps Jira/Confluence MS Excel, MS Outlook, Google Apps, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Word, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence, SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Waterfall Skills

• Servant leader • Team building

• Sprint planning • Retrospective meetings

• SDLC • Agile/Scrum Coaching

• Detailed oriented • Team player

• Project management • Confluence

• problem-solving • Jira

Work Experience

Scrum Master

Crescita LLC February 2021 – PRESENT

• I have successfully transitioned my team from waterfall to agile and constantly educating them on Agile and scrum best practices. Ensure effective communication and coordination for and during sprint planning

• Schedule and facilitate all scrum ceremonies like the sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review and sprint retrospective. Use techniques such as asking questions which helps the teams to frame or reframe the issue so that they can develop their own solutions. Make teams stronger, by helping them to make decisions and find their own voice.

• Proactively remove or escalate roadblocks to allow team progress. Help team stay focused on tasks needed to be done in each iteration by removing any distractions or roadblocks that can hinder team progress.

• Serve as a coach for team and the product owner by making sure that team understands Agile processes, team members knows their specific roles and are dedicated to the project. Making sure that team is self-manage.

• Teaching scrum practices and principles; Help new members understand the scope and vision of the product and ensure work does not slow down. Make sure that teams follows scrum practices and rules while working, teaching them how to stay self-organized and focused, which increases productivity.

• Keeps all parties on tract and informed; hosting daily standup meetings to get updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks, and ensure that the project is on track. Host regular sessions to share updates with product stakeholders about how the project is progressing. Make sure that, teams are meeting deadlines with the desire outcome. Track progress via burn up and burn down charts and communicate team velocity sprint/release progress.

• Introduced planning poker and the Fibonacci sequence for estimating user stories during backlog refinement meeting.

• Assist the Product Owner during backlog grooming and making sure stories has clear definitions and acceptance criteria and are estimated.

• Take responsibilities for managing dependencies between the Scrum team and others, collaborating within the scrum network especially about items necessary for product release.

• Demonstrate sense of urgency and responsiveness to complete work and solve problems, with a strong drive to persevere when faced with ambiguity.

• Maintains relevant metrics to help my team monitor their performance. Scrum Master

Frontier Communications March 2018 - January 2021

• Managed projects within the IT Security domain leading project teams on day-to-day activities during the team transition from Waterfall to agile/scrum framework.

• Expert in supporting Product owners in writing user stories and prioritizing product backlog items.

• Remarkable history of motivating and improving agile teams to reach highest performance potential by removing impediments as well as implementing best practices and tools

• Facilitate sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings.

• Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution.

• Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

• Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

• Served as Scrum Master for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery with some support from coach.

• Actively participated scrum of scrum meetings with program manager.

• Encouraged self-organization, meaning that the team itself should remove issues wherever possible

• Worked together with development team and product owner in backlog grooming and making sure product backlog is in good shape.

• Effectively tracked and communicated sprint/release progress to senior leadership. Assistant Project Manager

TGCI (The Global Citizen Initiative) January 2017- February 2018

• Problem-Solving: Demonstrates an ability to recognize problems. Works with team members to determine, prioritize, and implement viable solutions. Presents conflicts to the manager of PMO for assistance with resolution in a timely manner. Revises project plans to meet changing needs in collaboration with stakeholders.

• Organization: Collects, creates, and archives project documentation for easy recall. Incorporates effective time management strategies to ensure personal and project team work remains on track.

• Leadership: Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills and advocates for project team to encourage progress, drive success, and remove barriers. Work cohesively with personnel in all areas of the organization.

• Engagement: Schedules, facilitates, and documents project meetings. Work closely with stakeholders, vendors, and PMO team to drive project planning and execution efforts.

• Communication: Illustrates project needs, progress, and barriers through a variety of means including but not limited to meeting notes, routine reporting, regular team discussions, and project team meetings.

• Growth Mindset: Pursues opportunities for improvement in the field of Project Management as well as opportunities for personal growth including but not limited to self- study, higher education, research, and certification. Education

- 2015-2016 Bachelor degree in Project Management, University of Dschang, CAMEROON

- 2013-2015 Associate Degree (HND) Project Management - General Technical Specialty in Siantou Higher Institute of Business and Technological Sciences CAMEROON

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