Diamond Yarsiah

Certified Scrum Master

Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Email: adv7mt@r.postjobfree.com Tel: 612- 275- 4189

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/diamond-yarsiah-3117b21b3

Professional Summary

Experienced in agile, project management and coaching an agile scrum master in large-scale production environments across multiple platforms and integrating multiple business areas/systems. 6+ years of technology-based project delivery experience at fortune 100 and 200 companies. 4+ years of experience as an agile scrum master working and coaching with an Agile team to deliver high value software solutions that contributed to the success of our technology initiatives in an agile environment. Provides overall guidance for the team to adhere to Agile principles and practices. 5+ years of experience in software development life cycle (SDLC) and DevOps.

Technical Skills

Industry Experience: Information Technology, Education, Credentialing, Aviation

Soft Skills: Agile Delivery Approach, Waterfall Methodologies, Project and Time Management, Goal Setting, Problem Solving, Removing Impediments, Excellent Communicator, Facilitation Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Leadership, Written, and Verbal Communication, Collaboration, innovation, Coaching., product owner, project management.

Technical Skills: Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Smartsheet, Zoom, SharePoint, JotForm, Teams, CRM, Software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Certification: Certified Scrum Master, Certified SaFe4 Scrum Masters.

Education: Normandale Technical College

Associate (Computer Science)

Agile Scrum Master, 03/2019 - Current

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC – CHICAGO, IL

●Working with limited direction from the Program Leads, lead a matrixed team of system design engineers, system build engineers and infrastructure technologists to success.

● deliver multiple concurrent infrastructure changes in a large-scale enterprise environment.

●Meet customer and project objectives by Developing and leading project execution. functions which included: planning, tracking, reporting, reviews, quality management and communications, risks, and issues within the construct of the Agile delivery framework Predict.

●Understand and document customer needs and develop solutions to manage project schedules(sprints) and resources.

●Resolves conflicts and removes impediments to facilitate sprint progress.

●Collaborate with product owners to prioritise the product backlog items and maintain a healthy product backlog.

●Provides overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices

●Arranges, facilitates, and schedules meetings, demos, and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use.

●This includes sprint team backlog grooming, estimating, and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

●Works with stakeholders and team members to continuously improve.

●Drives quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilising feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity.

●Facilitates team transparency by escalating impediments and shares progress by the team to the appropriate channels.

●Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.

Agile Scrum Master, 02/2017 - 02/2019

ESSENTIA HEALTH – MN

●Guiding the team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices.

●Collaborate with product owners to prioritise the product backlog items and maintain a healthy product backlog.

●Managing and coordinating all Agile Scrum activities: sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospectives, story pointing, burndown monitoring, release monitoring, continuous improvement.

●Removing roadblocks or finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

●Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information Supporting and educating the business owners and product owner maintaining the product backlog Manage the Budget as per the Sprint progress.

● Performed high-level testing in coordination with the detailed testing by quality assurance teams.

● Helped teams adhere to the best engineering practices and the Definition of Done and Ready.

● Helped to mitigate distractions and increase the team's focus.

● Worked with teams to handle impediments promptly.

●Facilitated all scrum ceremonies like daily stand-up, sprint planning, retrospective, reviews, and backlog refinement.

●Collaborated with the product owner, development team, and other essential roles to identify risks and resolve ambiguities

●Participated in program planning (PI).

●Supported Product Owner to maintain and prioritise Product Backlog to deliver business values to stakeholders.

● Facilitated the documentation of the working agreement, the definition of ready, and the definition of done for the scrum team.

● Helped team track and resolve impediments by finding the right personnel to resolve them, escalate when necessary, and protect the team from external interference.

Agile Scrum Master, 01/2016 to 02/2017

HUB INTERNATIONAL – Chicago, IL

●Assessed Scrum maturity of team and organised and coached team to higher levels of development. Assisted with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency.

●Guided and coached Scrum team and organised Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.

●Supported team using servant leadership style and leading by example.

●Removed obstacles by finding the right personnel to advance tasks and projects.

●Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.

●Guide teams in self-organisation; encouraging and motivating the team to focus on iteration goals.

●Successfully coached teams in agile method and business operations

●Managed dependencies between scrum teams by collaborating with other project managers and scrum masters.

●Facilitated project ceremonies including planning, prioritisation, regular review, and update

●Managed project space and backlog.

●Build trust with PMO and other divisions within the organisation.

●Track team progress using burndown chart, burn-up charts, and team velocity.

●Navigated complex relationships with internal stakeholders, clients, and project team to clarify expectations and mitigate risk across the entire project life cycle.

● Facilitated the documentation of the working agreement, the definition of ready, and the definition of done for the team.

●Helped team track and resolve impediments by finding the right personnel to fix them and escalate when necessary and protect the team from external interference

●Helped to mitigate distraction and increase the team’s focus

●Worked with team to remove impediments promptly

●Orchestrated project team activities and outside communication to ensure seamless flow of work, in compliance with governance standards, and achievement of project deliverables.

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