Scrum Master Cybersecurity Analyst

Irene Baaba Hanson

Laurel, MD

E-mail:**********@*****.*** Tel: 240-***-****

US Citizen Eligible for US Gov’t Clearance

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced agile practitioner with 8+ years of IT experience, with the last 7 years as a scrum master within various agile SDLC projects. Promote agile best practices in a content-driven development environment. Proven to be valuable in multiple industries with excellent skills in coaching and mentoring teams within different domains. Possess strengths in process orientation, team coordination, and innovative thinking. Other strengths include excellent communication, team building, project risk management, time management, presentation, and in-depth technical analysis skills.

SKILLS

● Kanban Methodology

● Data collection

● Problem solving

● SDLC

● Test Driven Development

● MS OFFICE Suite: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access

● Waterfall-to-Agile Migration

● Servant Leadership

● Team building & mentoring

● Conflict Resolution

● Tools: Jira/Confluence/AWS/ Azure DevOps/ Wrike/Trello

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master 07/2019 to Present

Medtronic- Washington DC

●Worked as a scrum master for Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure (CRHF) RD teams developing various medical technologies and telehealth applications for cardiac patients across the world.

●Facilitated all sprint ceremonies such as backlog refinement with POs and SMEs, sprint planning, daily standup calls, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives to continuously inspect and adapt our scrum processes

●Guided teams in the adoption of Agile software development practices (writing user stories, release schedules and integration planning, story estimation, velocity, and capacity planning)

●Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies

●Prepared and communicated sprint progress using burndown charts and team's velocity

●Maintained transparency throughout project delivery via daily scrums, weekly meetings, status reporting, action items and meeting minutes

Scrum Master 06/2016 to 05/2019

Robert Half – Berwyn, PA

●Responsible for facilitating all scrum ceremonies like; daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives

● Introduced agile games such as poker planning and affinity grouping to help them become better at estimating effort for completing work

● Collaborated with other scrum masters and project managers to ensure high quality integrated

deliverables

● Worked with other agile teams and other scrum masters to identify cross-team dependencies

and manage inter-team tasks

●Guided and coached Scrum teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products and services to our customers.

●Created, managed, and ensured accuracy of team reporting, including epic management and forecasting, sprint burndowns, Etc.

Cybersecurity Analyst /Scrum Master 02/2014 to 05/2016

Renowned Systems, LLC – Dumfries, VA

●Worked with the agile operations team to help evangelize agile practices to the remainder of the company

●Created and maintained team reporting such as sprint review decks, roadmaps, dashboards, burndown charts, control charts, Kanban metrics and various other reports

●Led the application with Agile practices for teams, including planning and guidance for daily

stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings and provide

summaries of teamwork at internal reviews and demos.

●Ensured proper system categorization using NIST 800-60 and FIPS 199; implemented appropriate security controls for information system based on NIST 800-53 rev 4 vol II and FIPS 200.

●Collected evidence, interviewed personnel, and examined records to evaluate effectiveness of controls. Preparing System Security Plans (SSP), Security Assessment Reports (SAR), Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&M) to obtain ATO using RMF

Certification

CompTIA Security +

Certified Scrum Master 1 (CSM)

●Scrum Alliance

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

●Scaledagileframework.com

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Cemtral University ~ Ghana

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