Therese Atanga

Phone: 240-***-**** Email: adu4jl@r.postjobfree.com

Silver Spring, Maryland 20785

PROFESSIONA L SUMMARY

Certified Professional Scrum Master with an in-depth knowledge and experience of software development life cycle within multiple domains such as Finance, insurance, and healthcare. Great insight in knowledge and experience in Agile methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and XP

Experience in coaching and mentoring multiple cross-functional Agile Teams and Stakeholders to effectively adopt and implement Agile values, principles, and practices within a fast-paced business environment

Oversee the design, implementation, and validation of product during the project life cycle

Ensure that Goals, Product domain and Scope is understood by everyone on the Agile Team and help the PO and the Team understand the need for a clear and concise product backlog

Define the project schedule with the Teams, coordinate the planning and delivery processes while focusing on timely delivery of high-value products for the assigned projects

Coordinate all the scrum ceremonies and collaborate with the PO in managing the Backlog Items. Ensure that the User Stories meet the definition of READY (DoR)

Prepare and distribute progress reports, (Burn down chart and Velocity chart) to upper management and stakeholders for effective business decisions whenever it is necessary

Identify, track, and coordinate with the management of project risk, dependencies and impediments while correcting any deviation from the scope plan

Coordinate the teams as they implement various Agile techniques; TDD, ATDD, Unit Testing, Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Pair Programming

Experience with software Management tools as, Jira, Confluence, Teams, and Outlook

SKILLS

Agile/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe

Team leader/Facilitator

Coaching and Mentoring

Communication and Planning

Backlog Management

Attention to Detail

Deadline Driven

Performance Monitoring

Risk Assessment

Conflict Resolution

Documentation and Report

Jira/Confluence

Strategic planning

WORK EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/ Agile Lead May 2021 -Present

Amazon Inc, Washington DC

Responsible for managing and facilitating a cross-functional distributed team

Work in collaboration with the PO to make sure that the requirements gathered from the business are well defined to the team and ensure that the team understands all that is expected of them

Facilitate all the scrum ceremonies and ensure that the team deliver value to the customer at the end of every iteration

Coach and encourage the team to fully implement Agile principles, practices, and value in their method of operation and functionality

Work in collaboration with PO and team to ensure that every release meets the customer’s request

Keep an update of Scrum Metrics

Resolve conflict among team members and ensure that team members work in continuous collaboration

Coach the team to a level of maturity where they become self-organized and self-managing

Represent my team members in Scrum of Scrum meetings where we discuss the progress of various teams with the Release Train Engineer and work on the resolution of any inter-team dependencies, impediments and risk identified

Participate in PI Planning sessions and collaborate with my team and the PO during Team Breakout to finalize the Team’s PI objectives, review the Program Backlog, identify, and track dependencies, estimate team capacity, and participate in the vote of confidence

Scrum Master August 2019 – Dec 2020

CVS Health Washington, DC

Managed two cross-functional and distributed scrum team and ensured that there was effective communication and collaboration amongst them

Led all the scrum ceremonies and ensured that they were ran appropriately following the Agile Principles

Coordinated the Story Writing and Estimation Sessions with the Product Owners and Development Teams and made sure that Epics are decomposed into task or User Stories which can be completed in the Sprint.

Ensured that the User Stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR); stories have epic labels, stories have been assigned, stories have been estimated, stories have description and acceptance criteria stated

Made sure that the Definition of Done (DoD) is stated for all the user stories

Guided in determining the team capacity and velocity and coordinated work break down structure and corresponding activities

Resolved impediments and maintained developers focus on their tasks

Consistently monitored the user stories in the backlog to identify dependencies, risk, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plan.

Tracked and reported team progress and velocity utilizing burn up and burn down chart and the velocity chart

Met quality standard by ensuring TDD (Test driven development) was adopted during the sprints.

HR/Scrum Master March 2014– April 2018

Metropol – Tech Consulting Inc Laurel, MD

Coached two Cross Functional teams and followed up with the implementation of Agile Principles and Practices (Agile Ceremonies).

Worked with the Agile coach, to facilitate the transition of these two teams from (Traditional) Waterfall to Agile Development methodology

Worked with the Product Owner to properly groom, prioritize, and maintain the Product Backlog and aided in determining suitable commitment of the backlog items in sprints

Coordinated the Scrum events; Backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings

Coordinated the Story Writing and Estimation Sessions with the Product Owners and Development Teams making sure that Epics are decomposed into User Stories that can fit in the Sprint.

Ensured that the User Stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD)

Guided in determining the team capacity and velocity and coordinated work break down structure and corresponding activities

Ensured that milestones are reached, and deadlines are met throughout the project lifecycle

Identified and mitigated team risk, dependencies, and impediments (Backlog issues, Critical defects) on daily bases

Oversee the Development Teams application of the following techniques in developing and testing of the product increment; TDD, ATDD, Continuous integration, Continuous testing, Pairing, Automated testing techniques

Updated team metrics and communicated to upper management and stakeholders

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATION

BSC computer Sciences – University of Buea, Cameroon

PSM1 / CSM/ SAFe

SPOC

Human Resource Development Diploma – PAID – WA (Buea)

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