Scrum Master Product Owner

AFONG C. FRU-WEZIEH

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/afong-fru-wezieh-310107140 ABOUT ME

An Accomplished Scrum Master with over +7 years of diligent experience in the field of IT, with specialty in software development, healthcare, and finance industries. A servant-leader with military experience, capable of delivering large-scale software and projects on time by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching multiple Scrum teams. Also leading multiple teams on various projects through SDLC using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and SAFe. capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

Professional Summary

• Over 7 years of overall IT experience as a Scrum Master

• Hands on experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Strong sense of servant-leadership, listening, observing, and challenging teams to facilitate continuous improvement and delivery of high value products.

• Building a community of Agile champions, practitioners and enthusiasts that promotes learning by sharing and collaborating.

• Embracing the role of Scrum Master/Trainer by removing impediments, maximizing the value created by the team and getting things done, whilst always remembering the positive effect of enjoyment/fun in the working environment.

• Dedicated coaching and mentoring, focused on guiding teams and helping unlock their full potential to be the best version of themselves.

• True embodiment of the Agile values & principles and ability to influence real organizational change, resulting in ‘being’ Agile rather than ‘doing’ Agile.

• A professional individual with a strong work ethic and the desire to exceed expectations in all aspects of professional endeavor.

• A servant leader with experience working closely with Product Owners in product backlog grooming, prioritization, story estimation, management and continues delivery of features.

• Professional/SAFe Scrum master with 7 years of experience as a coach, servant leader, mentor, facilitator, and teacher.

• Successfully guided three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development and Frameworks.

• Coached Kanban team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and limit WIP.

• Completed plans for long term goals using Microsoft Project.

• Experience utilizing Agile project management tools like JIRA and Confluence.

• Working knowledge on other agile methodologies such as Kanban and Lean.

• Encouraged and implemented process improvements by creating team–building opportunities.

• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies (Sprint planning, Daily standup, sprint review/demo, sprint retro, backlog refinement) with excellent conflict resolution skills. Technical Skills:

• Scrum

• Agile methodology

• Planning and implementation

• Coaching and Mentoring

• Business Analysis

• Project Management

• Wealth Management/Insurance

• Excellent problem-solving abilities

• Workflow analysis

• Release Planning/QA tools

• Microsoft Project

• Kanban

• JIRA, RALLY

• SAFe

• TFS/DevOps

• MS Office: Excel, Word, Visio,

Outlook, SDLC

Work History

SCRUM MASTER Nov. 2019 – Present

Oracle Corporation, Minneapolis MN

• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality allowing teams to full own commitments of finishing sprint backlog items within the time box.

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

• Protected team from over-commitment, planning sprints according to team’s capacity

• Introduced and facilitated team’s Agile Scrum Ceremonies (Iteration planning, Daily Scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software and System demonstrations) for scrum teams

• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the Scrum framework in the organization through Scrum huddles and forming communities of practice.

• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information from team level to management level.

• Provided coaching on dependencies management, risks mitigation and issues from scrum team to the ART.

• Provided training and worked closely with Product Owners in product backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features.

• Coached teams to adopt continuous integration and pair programing for knowledge sharing and building quality codes

• Directed and coached development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.

• Developed and managed a visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.

• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good Agile practices

SCRUM MASTER Nov 2017 – May. 2019

Verizon/Infosys

• Transitioned 2 teams from traditional waterfall to SAFe.

• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality allowing teams to fully own commitments of finishing sprint backlog items within the time box.

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

• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information from team level to management level.

• Provided coaching on dependencies management, risks mitigation and issues from scrum team to the ART.

• Provided training and worked closely with Product Owners in product backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features.

• Coached teams to adopt continuous integration and pair programing for knowledge sharing and building quality codes

• Directed and coached development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.

• Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.

• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good Agile practices

• Generated and posted end of Iteration review reports for team Deliverables and Agile Methodology adoption

• Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 25% and the quality of deliverables by 40%

• Attended PI planning sessions and worked with the RTE to coordinate and train the teams on new plans.

Scrum Master March 2015 – Jan 2017

CERNER CORPORATION, KANSAS CITY, MO

Served as a Scrum Master in facilitating the transition from Waterfall into Agile methodology with Cerner Corp. Worked with the scrum team to facilitate, educate, and coach team on the scrum framework. Project was application-based and data-driven, with overall goals to bring in value through improving business efficiency and user interaction. We ran 2-week sprints and released into productions quarterly. Used Jira and Confluence as SDLC Management tools and Skype for Business with Co-located and Distributed teams. Conducted daily scrum, sprint planning, product backlog, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings.

● Provided all support to the scrum team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.

● Ensured work was done without, dictating, or assigning the work and without coercion.

● Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.

● Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.

● Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.

● Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

● Tracked data from the sprint process and report regularly, to facilitate understanding of where we were and what could be improved.

● Coached and educated product owner, stakeholders, and development team on scrum best practices.

● Tracked scrum metrics such as burn-down chart, velocity, and capacity to maintain transparency.

● Facilitated the creation of team norms.

Education:

BBA: Accounting, 2013

University of Buea – Cameroon.

BBA: Computer Information Systems/Information Security, 2020 University of Louisiana Monroe- USA

Certification/Licenses:

1. Professional Scrum Master (PSM), certified

2. SAFe Advanced 5.1 Scrum Master SSM, certified

3. Certified Scrum Master (CSM), certified

4. Insurance Life, Variable Life, and Variable Annuities, licensed 5. Securities Representative (Series 6), licensed

6. Registered Securities Principal (Series 26), licensed

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