Scrum Master
Resume:
RENALDO WALKER
***************@*****.***
Professional Accomplishments:
● Analytical planner adept at delivering infrastructure and software projects by using and implementing waterfall and agile hybrid delivery methodologies.
● Expert in leading teams in all phases of implementation, contributing to the release and sprint planning, maintaining high quality, timely deliveries, and applying cutting-edge IT solutions.
● Successfully implemented Scrum methodology across several organizations and developed an agile mindset across all team members.
● Built productive relationships with teams, expert in providing feedback to management at all levels regarding agile practices and transformations within their teams. Education:
Prince George’s Community College
● Mobile Application development - Fall 2019
Certifications:
Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance
SaFe Scrum Master- Scaled Agile
Professional Experience:
Scrum Master 2015- Present
Gallaudet University IT Department - Washington, DC Duties & Responsibilities:
● Assisted in the cross-collaboration efforts with outside business units to plan and organize project timelines in MS Planner to create reports, track progress, and manage requirements.
● Empowered team through servant leadership to become self-organizing and encourage emergent leadership.
● Facilitated discussion,decision making and conflict resolution across 20+ cross-functional teams.
● Coached new team members to understand the Scrum Framework and SDLC through lunch and learn activities and on the job support.
● Worked closely with Project Managers to ensure timely requirement completion as defined by Executive Order 14028 to build trust and increase transparency through effective communication.
● Removing impediments and blockers to keep the team moving forward.
● Implemented Agile through a waterfall-agile methodology to assist in transformation.
● Spearheaded productivity improvement through tracking, mentoring, and resolving impediments to team metrics.
● Led two teams of 16 software engineers to develop online tools that integrate content to drive more engagement for customers to reach a bigger audience
● Update and monitor project budgets, actuals and variances; Reduce project costs by 20% be re-evaluating our PC deployment vendors.
● Provide excellent communication on status to project team, IT management, sponsors and vendors as appropriate.
● Supported Product Owner by managing product backlog within JIRA, ensuring all tickets had full requirements, definition of done, labels and proper linkage to epics.
● Facilitated scrum ceremonies, such as sprint reviews, sprint planning, and daily scrums, to outdated projects to increase work efficiency.
Junior Scrum Master
2013-2015
United Healthcare - Washington, DC
Duties and Responsibilities:
● Participated in PI planning efforts for scrum teams to include Pre-PI Planning activities, user Story preparation, coordination between other scrum teams, participation in Scrum of Scrums, and complete planning of all planned work for each quarter.
● Led team of 10 software engineers to develop an online tool for health care professionals to improve patient outcomes and help support better clinical decision making.
● Oversaw three consecutive release cycles of United Healthcare app, decreasing bugs. Each cycle was submitted with 100% functionality less than eight months from the other.
● Responsible for release train management: dependencies, challenges and risks.
● Organized and facilitated the optimization of backlogs and scrum ceremonies for 5+ teams.
● Coached 25+ team members and stakeholders in preparation for goal attainment, events, and scrum ceremonies
(Sprint planning, Daily Standups, Sprint review, Sprint retrospectives, Backlog grooming).
● Plan, schedule, estimate, coordinate, manage, and deliver infrastructure projects and software projects within our waterfall and agile hybrid delivery methodologies. Implemented Patient Enrollment management in all locations in the Eastern United States.
● Created a communication channel in Confluence and Jira to inform leadership, engineers, and product managers of project risks.
● Managed a feasible, detailed plan to ensure medium to large-scale projects are executed on time, on budget, and in scope.
● Championed weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated, ready-for-work and maintained.
● Facilitated sprint ceremonies, managing backlog creation and refinement efforts, and coaching teams to adopt best Agile practices & zero-defect culture by ensuring development teams follow quality coding & testing best practice.
● Actively assisted teams with removing impediments, monitored sprint progress during daily stand ups.
● Monitored and identified potential risks that can cause constraints to time cost and scope.
● Supported Product Owner by managing product backlog within JIRA, ensuring all tickets had full requirements, definition of done, labels and proper linkage to epics.
● Provided high level KPI metrics for scrum teams and produced modernized milestone deliverable reports to Senior Leadership.
Skillsets, Software Skills, Trainings:
● Scrum, Waterfall, Agile
Methodologies
● SAFe PI Planning
● Jira, Kanban, Confluence
● Agile Team Coaching &
Training
● Meeting Facilitation
● Incident/ Problem Management
● Process Improvement
● Sprint Planning
● Risk Management
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