Scrum Master Time Delivery

Djamy Diawara

Norristown, PA United States

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Summary

Growth-focused Scrum Master with a record of success in leveraging agile frameworks and practices to maximize value in software development environments. Over the past 5 years, I have served as a coach and facilitator to my teams, ensuring that they have everything needed to deliver value incrementally and consistently, achieving a 95% on-time delivery rate, leading teams through more than 50 sprint cycles, ensuring we consistently meet our sprint goals and improve our velocity by an average of 10% per sprint. Ensured that the development process remained transparent and visible to all stakeholders with my exceptional written and verbal communication skills. My results-driven approach to Scrum Master Leadership has led to measurable improvements in performance, product quality, employee engagement, and stakeholders’ satisfactiontransparent and visible to all.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Tools: ●Office 365 ●JIRA ●Azure Devops ●Zoom ●Confluence ●SharePoint ●WebEx ●Skype ●Mural ●Smartsheet ●Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan)

Skills: ●Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) ●Risk Management ● Conflict resolution ●Process Improvement ● Scrum Metrics ●Coaching & Mentoring ●Agile Methodologies Expertise ● Facilitation and Collaboration Skills ●Sprint Planning and Execution ●Backlog Management Proficiency ● Cross-Functional Team Management ● Communication and Presentation Skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master / Meridian Bank - Pennsylvania, United States 02/2022 - Current

Led over 15 Sprint Retrospective meetings, gathering insights from the team and implementing process improvements that increased productivity and efficiency by 25%.

Conducted more than 100 Daily Stand-Up meetings, ensuring clear communication and alignment among team members and stakeholders.

Utilized Jira to create and maintain relevant information radiators for tracking and reporting on team metrics such as velocity, team agile maturity, lead and cycle time, throughput, and team happiness.

Increased my team velocity from 10 to 25 user story points by mentoring and coaching my team on agile best practices.

Continuously refined the team's backlog in order to create a minimum of 2 sprints worth of work defined.

Scrum Master / Accenture - Pennsylvania, United States 05/2020 - 01/2022

Facilitated communication and collaboration between the development team, product owner, and stakeholders

Led a team of onshore and offshore software developers through the full software development lifecycle.

Facilitated more than 100 retrospectives, resulting in actionable improvement plans that have led to a 20% increase in team happiness scores.

Guided and coached a team of 25 members on the importance of the 5 values of agile, to boost collaboration, and increase the chances of successful project completion thereby increasing customer satisfaction.

Oversaw the entire scrum process, ensured that the pillars of scrum, namely transparency, inspection, and adaptation, were utilized to ensure continuous improvement and visibility.

Participated in Scrum of Scrums in order to create alignment, visibility and mange dependencies.

Scrum Master / Bank of America - Pennsylvania, United States 05/2018 - 04/2020

Supported 2 teams simultaneously: One Scrum and the other Kanban

Helped the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the product and the team's Definition of Ready & Done.

Track and report on team metrics such as velocity, burn-down charts, and sprint progress

Worked with the team to identify and remove roadblocks or impediments in order to ensure continuous success and onetime delivery of the project.

Coached and supported the product owner on properly prioritizing and writing user stories using the MoSCoW technique in order to maximize value and ensure customer satisfaction.

Regulatory Compliance Analyst / SunTrust - Pennsylvania, United States 06/2016 - 05/2018

Prepared financial data, reports, and illustrations for both new and existing clients

Collected, analyzed, verified, and scrutinized extensive volumes of documentation to coordinate compliance audits and risk assessments.

Maintained a keen awareness of regulatory developments, trends, and, changes, interpreted new rules and regulations to help refine policies and create control processes to ensure ongoing compliance in an ever-changing regulatory environment.

Exercised care and due diligence in coordinating reviews, and maintaining effective risk management as per internal policies and regulatory frameworks.

Compiled information, and filed detailed regulatory and compliance reports.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATE

Master in Business Administration (MBA) West Chester University – West Chester, PA

Bachelor in Business Administration Metro State University – Minneapolis, MN Professional Scrum Master (PSMI) Scrum.org

SAFe® Scrum Master Scale Agile

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