Ameline Kaptoum

Massachusetts, United States 774-***-**** adv8u9@r.postjobfree.com

Professional summary

Highly motivated certified scrum master with 7+ years of experience that leverages agile principles to transform teams to be more efficient and increase value in project delivery. Experienced with a proven history of building superior performance teams in a collaborative environment working on various SDLC projects. Skilled in managing multiple distributed on-site and offshore agile teams working together to deliver a functional and stable product to customers, and increasing team productivity. I have successfully maximized individuals’ potential by building knowledge, skills and shaping perspective. Excellent communication skills, risk management as well as conflict resolution using servant leadership.

Tools/skills

●Jira, Confluence, Kanban, Miro

●AWS, Rally, Azure DevOps, Trello

●MS Office suite (excel, visio, powerpoint, word)

●Zoom, skype, slack, teams

●SQL, HTML, CSS, JAVA

Experience

Scrum master

Signify Health Dallas, Tx June 2017- Present

●Lead teams in the delivery of software products Using Scrum ceremonies: Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint retrospective, Sprint review

●Introduced Kanban into the agile process as a response to rapidly changing business requirement priorities

●facilitated cross functional teams and collaboration with other scrum masters on train to identify dependencies and knowledge share

●Tracked key metrics via burn-down and team velocity and reporting progress to our stakeholders to encourage transparency, and constant process inspection

●Worked closely with product owners for planning, product development and technology groups to define, plan, and prioritized user stories for delivery releases

●Created trainings and workshops to help development teams understand agile and its values to build trust and increase overall productivity

●reviewed and provided feedback on drafted user stories and epics to ensure alignment readiness for sprints

●provided coaching and guidance for teams ensuring they were constantly adhering to agile best principles and practices

Scrum master

US Bank NY, NY May 2015- may 2017

●Implemented story mapping and coached product owners in story mapping, backlog refining, story pointing, and prioritizing using story to improve project deliverables.

●Identified and removed any impediments/distractions that interfered with the team’s ability against their commitments

●Documented teams progress and communicated to clients and stakeholders to keep track of agile health ensure team is delivering optimal value

●Optimized scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance

●Led community of best practices discussions with other scrum masters for company to adopt agile principles in their other software development teams

●Organized and oversaw team goals and facilitated, daily stand ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, backlog grooming, and sprint retrospectives

●Established working agreements among teams that foster a respectful working environment and increase team overall output

Agile Project Coordinator

Robert Half, Westborough, MA March 2012 - March 2015

●Assisted with planning, executing and controlling projects through the project development lifecycle

●Monitoring and controlling all projects aspects and provided corrective actions to appropriate stakeholders

●Documentation of project management deliverables required by the project and defining scope of work to team

●Scheduled, participated and document project meetings on all levels, write up minutes and action items to be approved by Program Manager

●Proactively monitored and controlled ll project aspects and suggests corrective actions to appropriate stakeholders

●Managed communication between clients and teams, to ensure SOW is properly understood and defined

●Eliminated schedule constraints through drafting critical paths and participated in hiring process for additional resources

●Facilitated cross communication with third party vendor and venting them through our staffing process and aligning them with project values

Education

University of Yaounde

Bachelors of science- Business administration

Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

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