PAUL N. NAMONGO

Tel: 703-***-****)

Email: adw53o@r.postjobfree.com

JOB OBJECTIVE

Highly motivated and detailed oriented Certified Scrum Master with over 5 years of experienced. Having a background of high profile and high-pressure releases. A fully committed servant leader, serving and guiding my teams in their efforts to delivering valuable products to meet the expectations of the stakeholders. Experts at driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum rules, removing impediments and coaching my teams to be self-organized and attainment to higher levels of maturity. A proven record of high-quality software delivery and a tracking of driving and influencing change with effective communication in all levels of organization. excellent team builder with strong interpersonal skills with good knowledge of software development practices.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

•A committed team player with excellent facilitation and conflict resolution skills.

•Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and have an excellent knowledge of several agile frame works like SCRUM also in KANBAN and SAFe.

•Committed lean-agile thinker focused on continuous improvement with high degree of metric.

•Result driven servant leader with skills in delivering projects by effectively and efficiently collaborating, facilitating, coaching and counseling multiple scrum teams.

•Proven ability at driving and motivating the adoption and enforcing the scrum rules, removing impediments, fostering self-management and empowering my team.

•Excellent technical command to work with Agile project management tool like JIRA

•Strong ability/knowledge to work with both experienced and new agile teams.

•Ability to work with Co-Located, Distributed, and Off-Shore teams

•Ability to Facilitate multiple teams simultaneously

•Strong Problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills and a superb ability to multi-task

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sherwin Williams

Scrum Master, MN, Feb 2019 – present

•Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily QA activities to be productive and growing in ability

•Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings

•Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution

•Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

•Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining a healthy product backlog.

•Active participating in establishing and provide Vision of the team and gain consensus based on acceptance criteria.

•Encouraged self-organization, meaning that the team itself should remove issues wherever possible.

Prudential Insurance

Scrum Master, Dallas, TX, Jun 2017 – Feb 2019

•Acted as facilitator between the scrum team and the product owner/user experience team

•Fostered better communication between the disciplines and acted as a liaison to assigned project manager. Also assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency and radiated information.

•Mentored the groups towards development at a pace that is economical and agreeable for the team and the company

•Worked with distributed teams both onshore and offshore – Costa Rica, India and Denver

•Implemented cross functional team structure and limited it to 10 people with varied skills for easy communication and interaction

•Created close feedback loops for the team to get immediate feedback

•Advocated and built dash boards to bring transparency and to shorten the feedback loop

•Implemented daily code checking by developers and supported it by writing smaller user stories which can be completed in a day. I also implemented blue/green deployments.

•Assisted the product owner in creation and grooming of product backlog

•Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings and software demonstration

•Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlog

•Tracked and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management

Bank of The West,

Scrum Master/ Business Analyst, Arizona, Nov 2015 – Jun 2017

•Help the Product Owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.

•Collaborate with team members to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution.

•Facilitate Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings.

•Motivate the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals

•Participated in Scrum of Scrum to provide updates on progress, impediments and collaboration with other teams.

•Communicate stories for the upcoming sprint to the backlog owner and stakeholders

•Represent the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

•Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management.

•PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

•Masters Degree in Health Services Administration

•Bachelor Degree in Arts and Social Sciences

•Licenses and Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

•Agile/Project Management Tools

Jira/Confluence, Rally, Microsoft office suite, SharePoint and PowerPoint SDLC

•Specialties

Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Coaching, Training, Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Agile Release Process, Facilitation and Team Building

•OPM PUBLIC TRUST

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