Scrum Master Project Manager
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Sharifah Nakamate
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Silver Spring, MD
SCRUM BACKGROUND AGILE SPECIALIST CLIENT CUSTOMER SERVICE
Servant leadership Relationship Building Problem Solving Business Development
Dedicated and imaginative, Professional Scrum Master, PSM with more than seven years of successfully managing and delivering large software development projects while building and facilitating self-organizing teams. I have a strong background in coaching my team to success using the agile principles and values.I have excellent communication and critical thinking skills, problem solving, decision-making, task prioritization, and being a great team player.
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS
Servant leader and team player with excellent communication, project planning, leadership and entrepreneurial skills, in addition to expert partnership with senior management and cross functional teams to provide value.
Skilled in driving organization wide Agile adoption such as; facilitating time boxed Scrum ceremonies, fostering self-management l, and removing impediments.
Experience working as a scrum master, project manager in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Requirements, Elicitation and documentation, waterfall and Agile Methodologies, Distributed (Remote) and co-located Teams.
Management Tools: Rally, JIRA, MS Project, Confluence, ADO.
Expertise: Agile Principles, mentoring, technical and business requirement documentation.
Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban, lean, waterfall and XP)
SKILLS
Scrum Framework Team Building Team Leadership Coaching Business Development Public Speaking Community Outreach People Management Process Improvement Youth Mentoring Statistical Analysis Research Strategic Marketing & Sales Customer Relationship Management Problem Solving Project Management Campaigning Branding Budget Management Social Media Management Digital Marketing Market Research
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BlueCross BlueShield of Remote, November 2019- present
Scrum Master
-Work directly with teams to continuously foster agile transformation
-Successfully facilitated all scrum ceremonies.
-Worked Directly with Product owner to make sure that the backlog is prioritized
-Collaborates with other Scrum masters across the release train to make sure work in in sync
-Collaborates with the Release train engineer during and after PI planning to make sure teams understand PI goals.
Neiman Marcus Silver Spring, MD October 2017 to October 2019
Scrum Master
-Successfully facilitated the transition of teams from Waterfall to Agile.
-Served as Scrum master for 3 agile teams on different mobile development applications for both IOS and Android projects.
-Managed the marketing e commerce and analysis of financial performance and key metrics including project span, ROI, income with Pay-pe click, Google analytics, BigCommerce, Excel sheets.
-Led the design and implementation of pair programming, Scrum and Kanban board as management tools to track overall project.
-Used JIRA, JAVA and later migrated to Rally as management tools to maintain product and sprint backlogs to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking, status, reports and burn down charts.
-Conducting Iteration planning meetings (IPMS), Daily stand-ups, Review/demo (technical and business), Retrospective meetings (Iteration/Sprint, Release)
-Helped built a network of Scrum masters, Product Owners and technical Leads within the Scrum team to resolve complex infrastructure issues and maximize product development opportunities.
-Published Agile reports such as Burndown Chart, Burnup Chart, Velocity Chart, and Sprint Report to Stakeholders and senior management.
-Eradicating impediments and obstacles as well as driving continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution and building skills and capabilities. Facilitate user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers.
-Acted as Scrum Master on Vision application which was custom web based software application developed on Salesforce (Force.com PaaS platform) utilizing Salesforce Lightning and Salesforce Community Cloud. Salesforce was used to effectively bring the customers’, employees and executives’ vision to life. The Salesforce app had multiple complex features including Service Verification, Dispatch and Managed Accounts page.
SCRUM MASTER- BANK OF AMERICA, CHARLOTTE, NC OCTOBER 2016 TO SEPTEMBER 2017
- Introduced and Facilitated team’s Agile Scrum Ceremonies [ Iteration Planning, Daily Scrums,
Retrospectives, and System demonstrations] for scrum teams.
- Educated and reinforced the SAFe Agile framework to team members when needed .
- Assisted with Internal and External communications, improving transparency, and radiating information
from team level to management level.
- Provided coaching on dependencies management, risks mitigation, and issue from scrum team to the
agile Release Train.
- Directing and coaching teams during the PI planning protecting team’s interest, relating dependencies
and risk with the ART.
- Provided training and worked closely with Product Owners in product backlog refinement and
continuous delivery of features.
PROJECT MANAGER- NIKE Remote March 2016-September 2016
Project Manager
-Demonstrated robust analytical thinking skills with the ability to identify, debug and resolve project issues through MS project, Excel, MS office, word document.
-Compile and produce monthly, quarterly, and annual reports using historical data for clients in investment management and distribution management industries.
-Develop graphic representation of complex business processes and user (stakeholder) requirements reflecting how the product/service will be designed, developed, and defined.
-Collaborated with QA teams to design and develop test plans, test cases to perform user acceptance testing (UAT), functional testing and regression testing
EDUCATION
Makerere University Kampala, Uganda 2013-2015
(Bachelor of Catering and Hotel Management [ BCHM ] (with highest honors (GPA 3.6)
Licenses & Certifications
-Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
-Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
-Agile Scrum Master (ASM)
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY
Agile (5 + years) Project management Scrum Master (3 years) JIRA (2 years) Kanban (1 year)ADO Waterfall
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English
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