Scrum Master Project Manager

ETTA NKWELLE-SONE

SENIOR AGILE COACH

832-***-**** *********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/etta-sone Houston, TX

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A Highly trained Scrum Master/ IT Project Manager with 7+ years’ experience. A Professional Scrum Master with definitive leadership qualities and strong critical thinking and decision-making skills. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background in communicating effectively and leader of high performing teams. Expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and stakeholders.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Agile Scrum Metrics Scrum Methodology Conflict resolutions Mentoring PI planning Mentoring Coaching

Technical Team Leadership IT Project Management SAFE Scrum of Scrums Kanban Jira Technical Presentations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Agile Coach Oracle, remote July 2020 to Present

•Coordinate the Roadmap, scope & objectives, approach, initiatives, problem statements, timeline, key stakeholders & resources, and development team involved in IAM Automation Program.

•Negotiate, analyze, and prepare orders agreements, subcontracts, and cost control budgets.

•Schedule and execute all stages of enterprise software, hardware, and system implementation. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards, and cost targets.

•Promote the adoption of Scrum/ Agile approaches for the outlining and delivering key objectives and influencing stakeholders; discuss release strategy, keep track of the product backlog, and set spring objectives

•Coached 3 teams to a higher level of maturity by improving their processes and ensuring they adhered to the scrum framework

•Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined, and ready to be worked on by the team

•Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across 4 cross functional teams

•Identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation, and implement risk reduction action plans during all phases of software projects

•Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity

•Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process

•Facilitated Scrum framework - sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives

•Coached Scrum team to be self - organized to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint

•Deliver large-scale, complex projects through the SDLC with a focus on technology transformation, interact with Product Owners/ Teams to assess difficulties and track critical program performance metrics

Senior Scrum Master/ Project Manager Clinton Health Initiative, Remote Jun 2017 to Jun 2020

•Create project plans to fit stakeholder and customer needs and deliver within budget on desired

outcomes; full accountability for project results’

•Define project roles and responsibilities in close collaboration with the customer, including project scope and objectives to ensure a cross-functional understanding amongst project members.

•Coordinates and facilitates Scrum meetings, such as Daily stand-up, Sprint planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and provides meeting notes between out IT security and the vendor.

•Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation, and implement risk reduction action plans.

•Responsible for building, pruning, and maintaining the team backlog which consists of user stories, bugs, and enhancement requests. Validate that all stories meet the acceptance criteria

•Led daily scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.

•Managed multiple internal and outside scrum teams, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.

•Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.

•Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency.

•Effectively plan and lead PI planning and Scrum of Scrums for inter team dependencies to minimize risk

Scrum Master Clinton Health Initiative, Remote Jan 2015 to Jun 2017

•Resolving impediments, conducted stand-ups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and created tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.

•Performing gap analysis to compare all elements of existing “as is” with desired “to be” processes.

•Daily interaction, frequent communication, and iteration with remote, and off-shore team members to disseminate our platform capabilities to the individual solution and development teams served. Delivered weekly key status updates to key stakeholders.

•Develop and maintain appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance to evaluate future investment. Assist in creating OKRs, KPIs and actively measure performance across a suite of products.

•Utilizing use case, workflow, activity, and sequence diagrams to define functional requirements for the development team.

•Participating proactively in developing and maintaining teams engineering best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, test automation, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment.

•Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.

•Preventing distractions by identifying and removing impediments.

•Instructing and modelling core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.

•Taking responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master network especially regarding items necessary for product release

•Facilitating bi-weekly scrum of scrums (SOS) and driving conversations on cross team risks and dependencies.

•Working with the system infrastructure team to coordinate quarterly releases, working to ensure all systems

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Bachelor of Science in Educational Psychology University Of Buea Southwest Region, Cameroon

Professional Scrum Master Training Scrum.org Online

SAFe Training Scaled Agile, Inc Online

CERTIFICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL SCRUM MASTER I (PSM I)

SAFe SCRUM MASTER (SSM)

SAFe PRACTITIONER

REFERENCES

References upon request.

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