Scrum Master Senior
Resume:
KUJA ADOLF
Sr. SCRUM MASTER, PSM*
adolfkuja87@gmail
DALLAS, TX 75126
An experienced, value-driven Certified SAFe Scrum Master with 6 years of experience in Agile Scrum/Kanban processes and implementation. Fully committed to serving, coaching, guiding, and leading Scrum teams in timely and incremental delivery of value. Have a passion for excellence in scrum mastery and the removal of impediments. Very skilled in coordinating software development life cycle
(SDLC) projects with both co-located and offshore teams. Experienced at using several agile project management tools like Jira/Confluence, Azure Devops, and Rally. Demonstrate a tremendous collaboration with product owners in building effective partnerships with clients to gather requirements and solve complex business issues. Data driven team leader with fast learning abilities, with exceptional interpersonal, presentation and communication skills. Has successfully transformed a siloed team to become, self-organizing, cross-functional, and high performing in regularly delivering top-notch customer services and products on time. WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Scrum Master
Evolent Health - Dallas, Texas
April 2022 - Current
• Facilitates all aspects of the Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning sessions, backlog refinement sessions, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives for project members to increase collaboration and transparency.
• Facilitating and coaching two teams simultaneously to higher levels of maturity by improving their processes and ensuring their adherence to the scrum framework to deliver innovative solutions to different industrial products.
• Use Agile methods and processes to coach Product Owners on management of the product release schedule, including assignment of resources, planning of deliverables, and setting of milestones.
• Reports project status on a regular basis to management, project teams and clients through internal and external status reports
• Coach agile teams to become self-managing and self-organizing and provides them with the tools and resources to do so.
• Identify and help teams remove impediments, so the teams can meet their sprint goals.
• Proactively manages project risks, issues, and appropriately escalates them to the relevant quarters.
• Fosters transparency and visibility by using information radiators; ensuring that the teams progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders.
• Supports and partners with the Product Owners in managing and maintaining a healthy refined product backlog.
• Continuously work with Agile teams while looking for ways to improve software delivery.
• Ensures that all team members adhere to scrum properly throughout the SDLC processes so that codes meet business requirements, company standards, regulations, and quality assurance expectations.
• Creates a trustworthy and a psychologically safe environment for the Agile teams where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving.
• Ensure that all user stories are 100% ordered, well defined, and ready to be worked upon by the team members.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum (SoS) meetings to ensure cross-team collaboration and coordination of release plans and integration of testing activities. Scrum Master
Capital One – Irving, TX
03/2019 - 02/2022
• Championed Agile transformation and recommended various frameworks for various teams and projects to both Scrum and Kanban teams.
• Worked with project teams to live agile values and principles during their transformation into scrum teams.
• Ran agile learning sessions to build an agile mindset across the organization.
• Taught and coached the teams towards estimation and decomposing user stories.
• Fostered team building by coaching teams to break away from the silo mindset.
• Collaborated with Product owner towards planning sprints and managing impediments.
• Facilitated effective backlog refinement sessions to ensure teams get an in-depth understanding of story requirements.
• Tracked scope changes and mentored teams towards relentless improvement.
• Identified, addressed, and communicated project risks, dependencies, and impediments to teammates.
• Ensured the team's “Definition of Done, D0D” is well defined on the story, sprint, and release levels.
• Facilitated productivity through discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Shielded teams from external interferences while removing obstacles and impediment and managing risks.
• Assisted with internal and external communication and improving transparency.
• Built a trust and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem solving.
• Assessed the Scrum maturity of teams and coached the teams to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the teams.
• Coached a continuous improvement mindset and recommended adjustments to established delivery practices.
Scrum Master
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bayview – Baltimore, MD
02/2017 - 03/2019
• Developed process improvement procedures to improve operational efficiency.
• Led and coached Scrum teams responsible for developing software products and automated tools for financial services.
• Evangelized Agile Methodology throughout the organization to improve communication between IT, Engineering, Product Management, and Business, providing transparency and obtaining great business value.
• Increased team velocity by 15% within the first 3 months of Agile adoption by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily standups, etc.)
• Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 15% and the quality of deliverable by 30%
• Analyzed current process standards and metrics to provide solutions for improvements.
• Performed data gathering, root cause analysis and performance trend to develop appropriate process control changes.
• Collaborated with Subject Matter Experts to develop process improvement reports, adverse trends and appropriate recommendations and conclusions.
• Informed respective teams on process improvement and re-engineering strategies.
• Worked closely with the project manager to create comprehensive action plans concerning resources, time frames and the overall project road map. SKILLS/TOOLS
Servant Leadership, Agile and Waterfall Methodologies, Scrum, Coaching, Customer Service, Agile Project Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Scaled Agile Framework, Team player and Team builder with strong interpersonal skills, Excellent oral, written and collaboration skills, Kanban, Story point estimation, Jira, Confluence, Rally, Azure DevOps, IdeaBoardz, EasyRetro, Business Agility and requirement gathering, Process improvement, Microsoft Office ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
● Finding creative ways to solve problems and answer business impactful questions.
● Have the vision and organizational abilities to run successful events and projects.
● A self-starter who can work independently and lead group initiatives.
● Levelheaded in time pressured and stressful environment.
● Excellent Planner and Coordinator, Conflict Resolution, Active Listening Task Prioritization,
● Excellent Communication Skills, Continual Improvement Coaching/Facilitation,
● Excellent Time Management, Dedicated Team Player EDUCATION
Master of Science: Environmental Science (10/2010 -12/2013) Bachelor of Science: Environmental Science (10/2005 – 12/2008) CERTICATIONS
SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 SSM Certified, Scaled Agile Inc Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)
CompTIA Security +
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