NOREEN SESE, PSM, Safe *

Phone: 971-***-****

Email: advxl8@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Enthusiastic Professional Scrum Master with an MBA, with over 4+ years of expertise. Eager to contribute to a team's success through hard work, collaboration, attention to detail, active listening, and excellent communication skills. Great team lead who coaches and builds strong relationships within the scrum team, assist the team in figuring out ways to create a product efficiently with an increase in value. Constantly strive to ensure a smooth flow of the Agile process so that quality features are produced, and value is opti- mized within the said iteration. Curious and motivated to learn, grow, and excel in a di- verse cultural environment.

Skills

• Agile Values & Principle

• Conflict resolution

• Story Pointing/Relative

Sizing

• Stakeholder Engage-

ment

• Backlog Refinement

• Team Mentoring

• Software Develop-

ment Life Cycle

(SDLC)

• Waterfall Methodol-

ogy

• Team Coaching

• Scrum/Kanban/Ex-

treme Programming

• Cross-functional

Teams

• Risk Management

• Process Optimization

• Team Empowerment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CloudBaker\66Degree, Illinois Chicago

April/2019- Present

Scrum Master

● Served as a servant leader, facilitator, and mentor for my team.

● Coached and guided Scrum team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and value.

● Guided and coach multiple Scrum teams with different team sizes, different cul- tures, distributed, co-located.

● Coordinated with vendors to develop the vision and strategy of the infrastructure, service support, and business applications ensuring they were aligned with the corporate goals and strategies.

● Facilitated daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, backlog grooming / refine- ment and retrospective meetings.

● Ensured observance of DoD (definition of done)

● Assisted team in making progress towards their goals Encouraged without coer- cion, dictating, or assigning work.

● Facilitate Daily Scrums, Sprint/Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, Iteration Ret- rospective, and the Requirements Mapping sessions

● Removed all impediments or guide the team to remove impediments.

● Collaborated with the Product Owner to groom the product backlog and made sure team understood what they were working on

● Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and the organization.

● Develop reports to summarize project status, team metrics, lessons learned. KeyBank Portland, Oregon

Scrum master

January/2017–March/2019

Encouraging the team towards continuous improvement to ensure a shippable product of high value for business at the end of the sprint.

● Resolved conflicts and escalated issues to management when necessary to guar- antee timely resolution.

● Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, product re- views, iteration retrospectives, and release planning.

● Identifide and analyzed project risks and managed mitigation process with project the team and stakeholders.

● Tracked and communicated team progress to both the customer and the team.

● Endured the development teams are practicing the core Agile principles of collab- oration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

● Assisted teams with making appropriate commitments through user story selection and task definition.

● Identifide and removed impediments and distractions that interfered with the team’s goals.

● Promote and lead an open, transparent, and respectful team environment.

● Apply knowledge of agile and scrum to help teams on their journey to continuous improvement

● Maintained a team that was cross functional and self-organizing.

● Helped to improve the productivity/velocity of the teams.

● Created an environment of team spirit and enthusiasm around what is being deliv- ered.

● Assisted the Product Owner in the development of User Stories

• Tracked and communicated project’s progress from schedule, cost and risk per- spective to the project team and project stakeholder PROJECT TRACKING TOO

SDLC Tools: JIRA/Confluence, TDD, BDD, DevOps, CI/CD, Safe, Kanban, Rally. Microsoft Office Suite: Power Point, Word, Outlook, Excel, Access. Virtual Communication Tools: Skype, Zoom, Google Hangout, Slack EDUCATION

Master’s In Business Administration: University of The West OF Scotland Bachelor’s degree in English Law: University of Yaoundé 2 CERTIFICATIONS

• Professional Scrum Master I (PSM1)

• Certified Safe 5 Scrum Master (SSM)

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