Scrum Master Senior
Resume:
Neil Salahu-Din Atlanta, GA
neil.salahudin44@gmail.
com
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
6+ years as a Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Leadership trainer & developer with Product Owner experience. Accustomed to working with small start-ups to larger companies providing strategic oversight. Committed to accuracy, with dependable time management skills and reliable decision-making ability. Delivered Agile leadership training on adaptive leadership and business agility. Normally facilitating all Scrum ceremonies and refinement meetings with global cross-functional and offshore teams. Experience in tactical project management, Agile Coaching, transparent communication with senior management and C-Suite Executives. Proficient in product development, user story refinement, release planning, and resource management using collaboration tools. MkCode, Frisco, TX — Senior Scrum Master
February 2021 - February 2023
● Lead Agile Scrum team with Product Manager, Dev team, Design, and Business Analysts
● Managing Release Planning for the PMO and Product Team
● Delivered regular project updates on milestones and weekly reports to CTO and leaders across the company.
● Facilitator of all Scrum ceremonies, helping remove impediments, and ensure sprints are released efficiently.
● Managing UX design sprint cadence, ensuring design requirements are being met, and collaborating with the product team.suring design requirements are being met, and
InstaCare Technologies, Princeton, NJ — Agile Product Manager September 2019 - December 2020
● Lead facilitator in transition from Waterfall to Agile SDLC across the entire organization.
● Head facilitator for Android and iOS Mobile App projects, SDK modeling and configurations per client requirements.
● Removing impediments and requiring effective communication to consistently refocus the team.
● Facilitated Release planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Technical SKILLS:
Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, Kanban,
Miro, Mural, XP, Lean, JIRA.
Confluence, Aha, Trello, Mingle,
Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams,
Microsoft Suite, Google Suite,
Google Analytics, Project Planning,
Project Management, Zoom,
RingCentral, SDLC, Daily
Scrum/Standup, Demo, Sprint
Retrospective, Scrum Ceremonies,
User Story Development.
Education:
Scrum Alliance: Certified Scrum
Master (CSM)
B.A. Sociology Morehouse
College.
Retrospective meetings.
Spice on Wheels, San Jose, CA — Scrum Master/Product Owner SEPTEMBER 2017 - FEBRUARY 2019
● Led Agile Scrum team ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
● Facilitated Sprint Refinement with the Product Owner grooming the product backlog; collaborated with the stakeholders and developers to ensure that user stories are relevant, concise, and as per stakeholders’ requirements and facilitated the story points’ estimation before sprint planning.
● Facilitated a bi-weekly sprint cadence using Jira.
● Supported Engineering team across multiple domains as POC for development, testing, and release.
● Coached teams to focus on Minimum Viable Product (MVP) when delivering intent within each sprint.
● Presented bi-weekly project status updates to Leadership providing insight on feature releases and impediments
● Utilized Sprint Burndown Charts to guide upcoming sprint capacity planning preventing dev team burnout and ensuring adequate dev work sprint assignment
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