Scrum Master Project Manager
Resume:
Binwi Mfonyam
Laurel, MD *****
********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Certified Scrum Master with 8 years of Agile experience working with Co-located, Distributed and Off-shore teams. I am comfortable with virtual platforms such as ZOOM, Google Hangout and Skype for Business. I am passionate about empowering people and building high functioning teams who work efficiently together towards achieving team goals. Experienced in transforming organizations from waterfall into healthy growing agile environments with proven record of successfully meeting project deadlines and delivering high quality on-time software. JIRA has been my tool of choice but also possess a great working knowledge of Rally and RTC. I have also worked with other Agile frameworks such as KANBAN, XP, SAFe and SCRUMBAN.
SUMMARY:
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with over 7 years of experience in facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Retrospectives and Stakeholder Meetings.
Excellent experience with several Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, XP and SAFe.
Mentored and coached the team in understanding and the use of the Kanban framework.
Updated the Kanban board regularly, so all completed stories are moved accordingly, and time cycles are shortened.
Successfully implemented the use of Kanban for projects with high dependencies leading to quicker releases.
Used different tools like MS Project, MS Office (Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
Proven ability at driving and motivating the adoption of scrum rules, removing impediments, fostering self-management, and empowering my team.
Strong aptitude for technology with an ability to absorb complex technical concepts and communicate them to non-technical audience.
Facilitated Scrum of Scrums meetings following the Agile Methodology.
Facilitated the transition from Waterfall methodology into Agile.
Excellent technical command to work with Agile project management tool like JIRA.
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS:
Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University – IL, USA in 2014
Master of Science in Psychology from University of Phoenix – AZ, USA in 2009
Bachelor of Arts in History / Political Science from University of Buea – Cameroon in 1998
Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Lincoln Financial – Remote
Senior Scrum Master
Aug 2019 to Dec 2022
Serving as scrum master for multiple teams simultaneously on a project based on improving and maintaining a web-based application. The project goal is to make the application more user friendly for end users and as a return provide value to the business.
Facilitate all scrum ceremonies (daily scrum, sprint planning, retrospective, sprint review, and backlog grooming).
Proficiently organize and facilitate Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Sprint and Release Planning. Conduct Sprint Retrospective and follow up on action items for continuous improvement.
Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
Worked with Product Owner and Project team to clearly define Product Roadmap, review and update changes as well as ensuring top 5 Epics are groomed in readiness for PI Planning Meeting.
Encourage team to be self-organized and grow cross functionally.
Facilitate and deliver Agile training to development teams via coaching and mentoring.
Drive successful transformation of existing organizations from Waterfall to Agile.
Build relationship with Product Owners and other stakeholders to facilitate team’s interaction with them and improve internal and external communication to provide transparency and disseminate information.
Protect the team from outside distraction and interruption and removed team’s impediments on a daily basis to allow team maximize productivity and deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
Use different tools like MS Project, MS Office (Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint).
Facilitate scrum of scrums as the main resource of resolving impediments and dependencies.
Motivate the Scrum team to work towards continuous improvement and deliver shippable product that delivered business value in every sprint.
Expert knowledge in Jira and Confluence for agile Project Management
Work with product owner to support short- and long-term release planning.
Assist the development and implementation of KANBAN.
Strong Knowledge with Agile methodologies; Scrum, Kanban, Safe, etc.
Focus on making sure WIP was limited, so there is a good flow of new work being picked up and completed.
Strong aptitude for technology with an ability to absorb complex technical concepts and communicate them to non-technical audience.
Work together with team to agree on definition of ready/done and made sure we continuously met it.
GlaxoSmithKlein - Winston-Salem, NC
Scrum Master
May 2017 to Aug 2019
Served as a Scrum Master in facilitating the transition from Waterfall into Agile methodology. Worked with the scrum team to facilitate, educate, and coach team on the scrum framework. Project was application based and data driven, with overall goals to bring in value through improving business efficiency and user interaction. We ran 2-week sprints and released into productions quarterly. Used Jira and Confluence as SDLC Management tools and Skype for Business with Co-located and Distributed teams.
Conducted daily scrum, sprint planning, product backlog, sprint review and sprint
retrospective meetings.
Provided all support to the scrum team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
Ensured work was done without, dictating, or assigning the work and without coercion.
Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.
Maintain excellent communication skills in working with both technical and non-technical team members.
Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.
Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.
Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Extensively worked on Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies.
Tracked data from the sprint process and report regularly, to facilitate understanding of where we were and what could be improved.
Worked on MS Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
Coached and educated product owner, stakeholders, and development team on scrum best practices.
Tracked scrum metrics such as burn-down chart, velocity, and capacity to maintain transparency.
Facilitated the creation of team norms.
Linac Health Care System – Washington, DC
Scrum Master
Jun 2016 to May 2017
Spearheaded Agile/ Scrum implementation plan to move Xerox from Waterfall to Scrum to further the organization's streamlined approach to software development
Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos.
Track and communicate team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint/release progress.
Empower the team to self-organize.
Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
Co-ordinate with Stakeholders and product owner for meeting sprint objectives.
Build positive working relationship between stakeholders and project managers.
Maintain accurate source of project records for project approvals.
Maintain and establish data quality, completeness, and monthly metrics for leadership review.
Extensively worked on Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies.
Co-ordinate multiple project review meetings across different project milestones.
Enable process standards and best practices for effective project execution.
Articulate business user needs to software development teams - user stories.
Ensured the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of working product.
Maintain excellent communication skills in working with both technical and non-technical team members.
Leveraged Burndown and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improvement estimations.
Encouraged collaboration of discipline in the development team to increase intensity in early stages of sprints to maximize the speed of the team
Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owners’ priorities.
Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
Utilized JIRA, SharePoint, excel, and PowerPoint to manage agile projects from planning to release.
Utilized office tools like MS Excel, Word, and MS PowerPoint.
Collaborated with scrum team to develop user stories and story points using planning poker
Facilitated project planning, resource estimation, kick-off, and sprint 0 before sprint 1
Appreciation from Stakeholders for managing and contributing to project from different angles
VA Department of Corrections - Richmond, VA
Scrum Master
Dec 2014 to Jun 2016
Identified and removed impediments to teams working progress
Coached team on practicing agile principles throughout the development lifecycle
Ensured the development teams were practicing Agile principles.
Maintained Project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.
Able to effectively communicate complex technical issues to non-technical end users.
Resolved numerous setbacks in projects by executing response strategies and escalating to appropriate team members when necessary
Worked on various methodologies like waterfall, Agile-Kanban.
Effective in creative solutions based on qualitative and quantitative feedback from employees across all levels of the organization
Utilized Agile (Scrum) methodology for development process using JIRA and Confluence.
Successful in marketing strategies and influencing to increase adoption of programs
Updating and reviewing project plan with project team members
Collaborate with the Project Manager to define the goal, objective, scope, and the deliverables for the project.
Used tool such as MS Office (Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Visio).
Executed project management elements such as developing milestones, scope control, action plans, gap analyses, and writing business cases as well as Return on Investment (ROI).
Turning Point Youth & Family - Richmond, VA
Scrum Master/ Program Manager
Jan 2010 to Nov 2014
Work with Program Director to review program status.
Meet bi-weekly with program counselors to provide Clinical supervision.
Review client files to ensure proper and complete documentation of actions and services.
Implemented Agile methodologies, including Kanban using Scrum framework.
Prepare written diagnostic assessments, assessing clients from multiple perspectives, including family functioning, psychological/emotional, social, academic, medical, behavioural, substance abuse, skills, strengths, and treatment history.
Maintained communication with diverse customers to translate technical information into non-technical.
Utilized Agile (Scrum) methodology for development process using JIRA and Confluence
Prepare written Individualized Service Plans, incorporating input from clients involved in service, identifying problem areas, needs, strategies, and service objectives. Provide direct clinical services to clients, including individual, family, couple, and group therapy, issue specific and educational groups.
Used tools such as MS Office Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Vision.
Respond to crisis situations.
Participate in treatment team meetings as necessary. Prepare written discharge summary and plan.
Contact this candidate