Scrum Master Time Delivery

Location:

Dallas, TX

Posted:

January 20, 2023

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Richard Kinga

Address: Dallas Texas

Phone: 469-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Devoted servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching multiple Scrum teams. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments, and fostering self-management. 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. Result oriented and skilled at working quickly and efficiently to complete all projects on time, able to perform multiple task simultaneously, strong organizational and interpersonal skills, profound ability to follow and accomplish instructions in less time, skilled in climbing to maintain upper storage.

● Scrum Master with 9 years of experience leading and setting up to multiple Teams with Scrum and Kanban Framework simultaneously.

● Extensive experience providing direction and coaching Scrum Masters on Agile and leadership skills.

● Transformation of client from Waterfall/Non-Agile Methodology to Agile Scrum Framework, Framework, Kanban

● Results oriented project manager with 4 years of experience, who partners with across enterprise to deliver to deliver on time, within budget projects that meet or exceed the business objectives.

● Identifies, quantifies, and monitors risks throughout project execution

● Worked closely with Product Managers/ Product Owners in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

● Designed and developed project metrics reporting templates based on the Agile Framework used.

● Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams to articulated project goals & scope, translating business needs into technical terms.

● Mentoring of teams to adopt continues Improvements practices

● Concentrates energies on pulling together individuals to form a cohesive team

U S Bank Winsconsin

October 2020 to date

Sr Agile / Sr Scrum Master.

●Worked with run teams to determine ETA's for missed datelines.

●Worked with the ER release team to manage milestones

●Acted as initial point of contact for BL requests/escalations

●Hosted Nexus calls and updated teams on business line decisions and changing requirements.

●Organised Go no Go meetings prior to our releases.

●Documented the Release notes and seent them to C level management before our install call.

●Balanced TFS items marked for releases and the release tracker.

●Created testing suites for TOS testing and UAT and shared the testing environment.

●Gave daily updates on the Code testing and regression testing peogress.

●Gathered control counts from TOS and reported to both run teams and the business line for better decisions on scope and story point count.

Wells Fargo Charlotte, NC August 2019 to September 2020

Sr. Agile /Sr. Scrum Master

● Leading and managing large, complex enterprise-level projects up to $5 Million, consisting of multiple agile teams.

My teams used SAFe to synchronize and ensure dependency free PI planning and release during our deployments.

● Serving to define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviation from plans; and perform delivering planning for assigned projects.

Within the SAFe we innitiated corresponding programme increments accross the entrrprise that helped to harmonize strategic business decisuons.

● Facilitates scrum ceremonies; backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews (demo) and retrospectives.

● Enacting change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 25% and the quality of deliverables by 35%

● Empowering teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality

● Protecting teams from over-commitment, managing backlog, prioritizing resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 15 major initiatives

● Managing the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment

● Coordinating and managing code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups

● Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress

● Mentoring and coaching 3 teams, two collocated and one distributed in their scrum adoption

Bank of America Charlotte, NC September 2018 to August 2019

Scrum Master

● 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.

● 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 of 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 continues 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%

GENPACT, RICHARDSON Dallas, TX August 2016 till July 2018

Scrum Master

● Experienced in different SDLC models such as Waterfall, Agile specifically Scrum, RUP.

● Gathered user requirements, wrote user stories, and customized User Manual.

● Wrote Project Management Plan, Risk Management Plan, Functional Requirements, and Quality Assurance Plan.

● Defined application problem by conferring with clients, evaluating procedures and processes.

● Controlled solution by establishing specifications and coordinating production with programmers.

● Actively managed data integrity by creating tracking documents, engaging with users’ specifications, developing strategies for mass data loading inside Apex Data Loader & CRM Fusion Demand Tools, with continuously monitoring and maintaining log files.

● Created project schedules and dashboard

● Creating numerous artifacts for different SDLC methodologies like Business Requirements

Poly America, Grand Prairie, Texas: Oct 2013-August 2016

Scrum Master

● Successfully directed all phases of IT project implementations with on-site and virtual multidisciplinary, cross-functional team members.

● Monitored project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.

● Produced stage plans, highlight reports, risk logs, requests for change.

● Provided strategic direction during the implementation stages.

● Managed client expectations by ensuring the delivery of the highest quality service

● Acted on client feedback.

● Monitored staff & team performance.

● Engaged in creating a system that eliminated errors during quoting, enhancing the customer experience.

● Conducted detailed process analysis to understand how business practices are supported by technology.

● Maintained monthly publication of the CIO Dashboard to ensure visualizations are consistent with the CIO Dashboard guidelines.

● Planned, executed, and finalized projects according to strict deadlines, delivering projects on time and within budget.

● Responsible for providing written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates.

Blue Apron, Texas: Oct 2012-August 2013